Re: Why JSON?

In addition, because you can request Javascript SCRIPTs in HTML from
third-party domains, an HTML page can combine JSON objects from
different sources in any JS-compatible browser (with a little bit of
extra manipulation to notify the calling page that the JSON object has
been loaded.)

http://ajaxian.com/archives/jsonp-json-with-padding

Ideally, the browser security model will evolve to be a bit more
consistent regarding third-party data access, though great care is
required, of course. In the meantime, JSON and JSONP are the only way.

-Ben

Richard Newman wrote:
> Because RDF/XML, SPARQL-XML, and turtle are great, but nothing beats
> 
> var mine = eval ("(" + input + ")");
> 
> in Javascript.
> 
> That's a big deal.
> 
> Also, a JSON serialiser is trivial to write.
>