Comments on Carrer Blog: Initiative - provide JSON and JSONP RSS Feeds

JSON may seem to be fat free, but what does happen...

2011-11-11T03:37:16.219+01:00

JSON may seem to be fat free, but what does happen when you use it for real, mildly complicated, data ?

Some month ago I got to play a little bit with Google's Analytics Data Export API.

I got pretty shocked when I found out the XML output for the same data was slightly smaller than JSON's.

Your mileage may vary, JSON is more readable and, although less powerful, more than sufficent for the majority of the tasks.

@Peter Thanks for the link, it is unfortunate that...

2011-10-10T17:42:21.055+02:00

@Peter Thanks for the link, it is unfortunate that nothing was done. I needs so little to be done Blogger, Tumbler, WordPress and others to write small script that will extract the data into JSON format.

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/02/10/faqRssInJs...

2011-10-10T16:43:37.884+02:00

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/02/10/faqRssInJson.html

@Andy: Actually in my case I'm using RSS more ...

2011-10-10T11:43:59.281+02:00

@Andy: Actually in my case I'm using RSS more and more. Many sad that RSS will die with the raise of Twitter and Facebook. But I think RSS has something special that others don't. RSS is anti-social. RSS is not your friend but your utility. RSS has no filings it will not be upset if you don't follow back. I think the main problem with RSS is that almost everyone is using Google Reader that if I'm not mistaken is still has limited API's.

The idea behind this initiative is simple give the programers format that they actually prefer and help all the people who are building web apps.

I think it is a great idea but I really can't ...

2011-10-10T09:10:39.878+02:00

I think it is a great idea but I really can't see it catching on.

RSS is dying a slow death and really isn't much interest in experimenting with the format unforuntatly