I’ve been thinking more and more about JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) lately. If you aren’t familiar with JSON here’s some reading:
- Introducing JSON
- JSON (Wikipedia)
- JSON for the masses (Dustin Diaz)
Unless I see a serious counter argument, I’m ready to jump on the replace XML with JSON boat. Other proposed ideas based on JSON include JSONRequest (a safer version of XMLHttpRequest) and JSON-RPC (like XML-RPC without the XML).
This leads me to my next thought, should the existing feed formats (RSS & ATOM) be replaced with JSON? I’m not 100% sure that this is the right thing, but I’m giving it serious consideration.