- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:57:33 -0700
Adam Barth wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote: >> On Jun 14, 2008, at 1:08 AM, Adam Barth wrote: >>> HTML 5 should expose a native JSON parser for web content. >> Native JSON parsing is being considered for the next versions of ECMAScript >> (the 3.1 and 4 versions). It seems like a better fit there than in HTML5. If >> it ends up not being added to ECMAScript, I would propose it as a standalone >> spec for the W3C Web Apps WG. > > Is JSON serialization/deserialization still being considered there? > The most recent message I could find on es4-discuss is > <https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es4-discuss/2008-March/002397.html>, > which states that JSON serialization was removed (but might reappear). > > I'm certainly not an expert at this process, but is a whole spec > needed? It seems like <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt> contains > most of the details. Maybe there tricky issues with non-tree object > structures? We're likely going to add a JSON parser in the next firefox release (after 3). The last I heard too was that JSON was out from ECMAScript, but I admit I'm not very actively following the development there. / Jonas
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