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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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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