Re: JSON imports?

One benefit is that browsers can start downloading it asap, instead of waiting util the fetch code is executed (which could itself be in a separate file).

> On Apr 18, 2015, at 8:41 AM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@chromium.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Glen Huang <curvedmark@gmail.com <mailto:curvedmark@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Basic feature like this shouldn't rely on a custom solution. However, it does mean that if browsers implement this, it's easily polyfillable.
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> What does this get you over fetch() ? Imports run scripts and enforce ordering an deduplication. Importing JSON doesn't really make much sense.
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>> On Apr 17, 2015, at 9:23 PM, Wilson Page <wilsonpage@me.com <mailto:wilsonpage@me.com>> wrote:
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>> Sounds like something you could write yourself with a custom-elements. Yay extensible web :)
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>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Matthew Robb <matthewwrobb@gmail.com <mailto:matthewwrobb@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> I like the idea of this. It reminds me of polymer's core-ajax component.
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>> On Apr 16, 2015 11:39 PM, "Glen Huang" <curvedmark@gmail.com <mailto:curvedmark@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Inspired by HTML imports, can we add JSON imports too?
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>> ```html
>> <script type="application/json" src="foo.json" id="foo"></script>
>> <script type="application/json" id="bar">
>> { "foo": "bar" }
>> </script>
>> ```
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>> ```js
>> document.getElementById("foo").json // or whatever
>> document.getElementById("bar").json
>> ```
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