Well.. that makes sense. But then why would it work when sitting on one server, and not on the other? It's the same code (I've double and triple checked),...
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Reaus@...
tkflick
Jul 11, 2012 7:33 pm
I checked the QA servers and they both have the latest patches. I double checked the date / version # on jscript.dll and I have the latest version of that as...
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Jos de Jong
wjosdejong
Jul 11, 2012 6:59 pm
To figure out what is going wrong, just do some debugging of your application - nothing special JSON related... - inspect the contents of...
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Brian Tompkins
iffdev
Jul 11, 2012 6:28 pm
Actually IE8 does, it is IE7 that doesn’t. But make sure you have the "ECMAScript, fifth edition" patch to be fully compliant ...
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 11, 2012 6:10 pm
Hey Tim, IE8 doesn't have built-in JSON support, since it doesn't support ES5. You should include Douglas's json2.js ( ...
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Reaus@...
tkflick
Jul 11, 2012 6:07 pm
I'm trying to implement a JSON call to simulate AJAX on a certain page where an AJAX panel isn't a viable option. I want call my .aspx page when a State is...
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 11, 2012 4:04 pm
How many times do these things have to be made clear? - JSON is a subset of ECMAScript 3, not just JavaScript - JSON used to have comments, but they were...
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Dennis Gearon
gearond...
Jul 11, 2012 3:54 pm
For this to be practical, there would have to be a version of JSMin for all languages, and maybe a nice shebang at the top (or at least a note to the meat ...
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 11, 2012 11:30 am
Yeah, that's my idea. I think, actually, you could do this with existing JSON parsers by asking them to preserve key ordering. ... [Non-text portions of this...
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Jos de Jong
wjosdejong
Jul 11, 2012 11:29 am
I think we are mixing up two things: - *Using JSON for data serialization/deserialization*. That is what JSON is meant for. Whitespaces and comments are...
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Jos de Jong
wjosdejong
Jul 11, 2012 11:11 am
That is an interesting idea. It sounds more like a configuration-file-editor than a parser. Parsers normally ignore whitespaces and comments as being no part...
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 11, 2012 10:54 am
As mentioned *countless* times, comments were removed from the JSON spec. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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EJ Campbell
ec109695
Jul 11, 2012 4:20 am
Given that YAML is a superset of JSON, you could standardize on YAML but encourage folks to make it look like JSON. -EJ...
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Tatu Saloranta
cowtowncoder
Jul 11, 2012 4:01 am
... What a great idea -- instead of having comments in where they belong, format spec, add a non-standard pre-processor. I really miss C coding. I am not...
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Dennis Gearon
gearond...
Jul 11, 2012 2:10 am
WOW! My mailbox doubled in volume in 4 hrs from this normally quiet mail list. I think this concept has stirred a hornets nest. I'll read this idea near the...
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douglascrockford
douglascrock...
Jul 11, 2012 12:38 am
... I'll say this one more time: If you want comments, then pipe JSMin in front of your JSON parser. You don't need a new standard....
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 10, 2012 11:57 pm
JSON had them, Crockford removed them because people used them for parsing directives which was problematic as it fragmented the standard and stopped there...
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Tatu Saloranta
cowtowncoder
Jul 10, 2012 11:56 pm
... If it is "JSON with comments", could call it json-c or jsonc, if "json-with-comments" is too long? Similar to how json-p (json with padding) is called;...
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Ben Atkin
vote_zaphod_...
Jul 10, 2012 11:35 pm
I wanted to pick something that didn't sound too much like JSON or too little like JSON. Too much like JSON and you get breakage. Too little like JSON and...
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 10, 2012 11:16 pm
Ah, I see. Well, I'd suggest changing the name to something more geared towards configuration... ECL, perhaps? ... -- Andrew Faulds (AJF) http://ajf.me/ ...
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Ben Atkin
vote_zaphod_...
Jul 10, 2012 11:12 pm
Thanks; I realize that, and also that since I'm the one making a file format I should be more accepting of criticism. But I don't mean to be whining. I see...
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 10, 2012 11:01 pm
I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just saying that whining that a fixed standard, which is designed for something different to what you want, does not do...
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Ben Atkin
vote_zaphod_...
Jul 10, 2012 10:42 pm
Don't tell me what to do....
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 10, 2012 10:41 pm
Don't complain that JSON isn't what you want it to be. There are plenty of alternative formats, use one of them, instead. ... -- Andrew Faulds (AJF) ...
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Ben Atkin
vote_zaphod_...
Jul 10, 2012 10:39 pm
Which format should I use, then? XML? http://www.coderanch.com/t/128908/XML/Preserve-comments-XSL But I like JSON! Also these configs are going to get turned...
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 10, 2012 10:30 pm
You don't want JSON, then. JSON isn't designed to update an existing file, it deserialises and serialises. ... -- Andrew Faulds (AJF) http://ajf.me/ [Non-text...
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Ben Atkin
vote_zaphod_...
Jul 10, 2012 10:18 pm
Thanks for pointing that out. That reminds me - another thing I want is to be able to automatically change something in an eon file without stripping out...
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 10, 2012 10:14 pm
JSMin isn't a full-blown filter, it relies on valid JS/JSON being passed in. pass in "b + ++a" and you'll get "b+++a" out. ... -- Andrew Faulds (AJF) ...
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Ben Atkin
vote_zaphod_...
Jul 10, 2012 10:12 pm
I agree filtering makes sense, but why run it through a full-blown filter when all I want is to support comments? I think this is a nice efficient and simple...
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Andrew Faulds
ajfweb@...
Jul 10, 2012 9:32 pm
I meant that you can't really nest things (although theoretically you could put an INI file as a string, but it's unwieldy) ... -- Andrew Faulds (AJF) ...
