This is a big step. I am very happy about it. After all an RFC will be a good weapon in XML-JSON battles :-) Thank you for all your work....
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Jan 18, 2006 11:04 pm
A couple of comments: * There is a typo in the 2nd sentence of section 6, " ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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MPCM
mpcmtechnolo...
Jan 18, 2006 11:10 pm
I'll second Robet's comments, minus the xml battles. This is a wonderful news and a step in the right direction. I'm so grateful of the day I stumbled onto...
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Jan 18, 2006 11:13 pm
Oops! Let's try that again... * In section 2.5 on numbers, there is the statement "Leading zeros are not allowed as that could lead to confusion". I don't...
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Mark S. Miller
capsecure
Jan 19, 2006 1:34 am
... I suggest adding to section 4 Generators: A JSON generator SHOULD output a space after a <name-separator> (a colon) or a <value-separator> (a comma). From...
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Mark S. Miller
capsecure
Jan 19, 2006 1:45 am
... I'd guess: because JSON is a subset of several other languages, and some of these other languages interpret leading zeros to indicate an octal number. ...
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Robert Cerny
robert_cerny
Jan 19, 2006 3:05 pm
One suggestion: It would help, if Generators and Parsers across implementations would use the same names for doing the same thing. A name recommendation, would...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 19, 2006 5:05 pm
... (a colon) ... that the ... would be ... The significance of spaces is YAML's problem. They need to develop a transition plan away from it. JSON's position...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 19, 2006 5:21 pm
... are not ... In JavaScript, leading zero means octal. If JSON allowed leading zeros that do not indicate octal, then it would not be a subset of JavaScript....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 19, 2006 5:25 pm
... How would that help?...
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Josh Sled
joshsled
Jan 19, 2006 5:35 pm
... [Sorry to reply to this rather than the original, but I never received it. :/] In Section 5 you assert that the MIME media type is "text/json" ... is that...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 19, 2006 5:44 pm
... My intention is to have IANA bless "text/json". They first want to see an IETF RFC. The first step in creating an RFC is the submission of an Internet...
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Jan 19, 2006 6:03 pm
... IMHO, this would be a better - and more honest - explanation than just saying it's confusing. -- Martin Cooper Leading zeros are subject to confusion. The...
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Robert Cerny
robert_cerny
Jan 19, 2006 11:39 pm
... It would help developers, in particular those, who use JSON in many languages. More likley that the first guess is right, less time searching docs. Even on...
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Andrew Durdin
adurdin
Jan 20, 2006 5:42 am
... A few comments: 1. Is there any reason you're specifying characters in two different styles? For example, in 2.0 you've got: <begin-object>; = %x7B...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 22, 2006 12:48 am
... There was an n**2 problem with the regexp. The latest version of json.js should be much happier with large texts....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 24, 2006 6:24 pm
Erlang has joined the list of programming languages with JSON support. See http://www.erlang-projects.org/Public/news/ejson/view...
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mhyk14
Jan 28, 2006 2:46 am
Hi, I'm trying out JSON and I find it really easy to produce and manipulate. But I have some concerns regarding FireFox's Javascript Console. I'm using 1.5...
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Jan 28, 2006 5:01 am
... Well there seems to be a funky '^' after the array, which wouldn't be valid if it's part of what you're sending back. -- Martin Cooper I also get errors...
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Gordon Mohr (@ Bitzi)
gojomo
Jan 28, 2006 5:49 am
... There's also the strange "&q uot;", though perhaps that's an artifact of something else. - Gordon...
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mhyk14
Jan 28, 2006 7:26 am
Thanks for the replies. Here's another error message from FireFox's Javascript Console: Error: syntax error Source File:...
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Michal Migurski
michal_migurski
Jan 28, 2006 3:46 pm
... The JSON string looks fine. Could it be that you are just evaluating it directly in the browser, without adding any context such as "var foo = [...];" ? ...
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Mike D
mhyk14
Jan 28, 2006 4:10 pm
well, here's the line that grabs the json string: var jsonObj = JSON.parse(http.responseText); fyi: Im using the JSON Parser from json.org Do you think I/we...
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Jim Washington
jimcburg
Jan 28, 2006 4:35 pm
... What content-type are you sending with your JSON? Is there a charset involved? I've found that similar "I can't parse this" issues are sometimes resolved...
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Mike D
mhyk14
Jan 29, 2006 12:49 am
lol I give up. I tried using several charsets along with text/plain, text/javascript, application/x-javascript, application/javascript and...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Feb 1, 2006 7:32 pm
JSON is limited to a few primitive types that serve quite well when it's enough to communicate all type information via documentation. For example, a date is...
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Michal Migurski
michal_migurski
Feb 1, 2006 8:11 pm
... JSON-RPC defines a pattern called class hinting, see section 3 of http://json-rpc.org/specs.xhtml. It's close... sort of. ... michal migurski- contact info...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Feb 1, 2006 10:44 pm
I guess I should have mentioned that I was aware of class hinting from JSON-RPC. Although fine in principle, I find the method slightly intrusive, verbose and...
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Stefan Gössner
stefangoessner
Feb 2, 2006 11:36 pm
Hello group, greetings from Dortmund, Germany. I am using JSON for a while now, mainly for sending data from my web server to the client. I like it a lot more...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Feb 3, 2006 2:01 am
Thank you everyone on your comments on the Internet Draft. I am preparing a revision. I have encorporated most of your suggestions. The current state can be...
