Items tagged : json

From the JSON.org website:

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate.

Sometimes AJAX is a little cumbersome to deal with when you're doing lightweght stuff and dealing with full-blown XML and dom parsing can be a bit tedious. Especially if all you really need to do is parse a data structure and modify some client-side state because of it. JSON is an excellent mechanism for formalising that non-XML data.