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Re: The Structured Clone Wars

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:29:11 -0400
Message-ID: <4E205CC7.5040902@mit.edu>
To: public-script-coord@w3.org 
On 7/15/11 11:22 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
> If you didn't want to be bothered with inventing a serialization format
> solely for specification purposes you could accomplish the same thing by
> specify structured clone as if it was a transformation to/from JSON format

No, you couldn't, because structured clone can represent cyclic object 
graphs and JSON cannot, last I checked.

-Boris
Received on Friday, 15 July 2011 15:29:39 UTC

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