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JSON, An Alternative to XML in AJAX

Posted by Robert on the 18th of July, 2006 at 6:49 PM GMT0. Permalink.
Tags: Ajax, Geek, JavaScript, JSON

I admit it. I like Ajax. Sure it's a dumb buzzword. But, as you'll recall, in How To Make an Ajax Chat Room, I said something like, It just turns out XML is slightly more usable for complex stuff and that synchronous requests defeat the point. Though Ajat have many uses. The point I was trying to make is that sometimes sending text back instead of XML is nice. For example, I can send back a 1 if the action was successful. But sometimes that isn't enough. Sometimes, text and XML are both the wrong tools for the job. That's where JSON comes in.

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