JSON and JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #26)

While at TXJS — Adam and Wynn caught up with Douglas Crockford, author of both JavaScript: The Good Parts and the JSON spec, and a global namespace unto himself.

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Featuring:

• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• JSON - (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format, easy for humans to read and write.
• The JSON Saga - how JSON came about
• JSON.parse, JSON.stringify - Parse and and generate JSON in a standard way
• YAML - YAML Ain’t Markup Language
• Douglas says we should scrap HTML5 and start over and address XSS instead
• ECMAScript 5 - Version 5 of the international JavaScript standard
• JSONP - Current hack to do XSS with JSON
• The JSON logo

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