Comments on: Yahoo! JSON API

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:19:34 +0000

Found another great example here: http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2006/07/11/Yahoo_2100_-Web-Services-Request-and-AjaxPro-JSON-Parser-_2D00_-I-love-it_2100_.aspx

By: John Resig

John Resig — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow… This is huge! This is definitely the next stage of Javascript web application development.

I noticed that if you don’t include a callback, Yahoo returns a proper JSON object (as it should) – a smart move.

By: Kent Brewster

Kent Brewster — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a working example: SpiffY!Search.

By: Chris Purcell

Chris Purcell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Perhaps we should collectively redefine Ajax to mean “Asynchronous Javascript And eXtensibility”? Then mashup-friendliness could be considered baked-in to the definition, and XML dropped (at last).

By: Rich Manalang

Rich Manalang — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now all we need is a general purpose XML to JSON webservice!

By: grumpY!

grumpY! — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i’m pleased this cute hack came out of my employer, nice to see someone thinking over there. BUT the javascript security features exist for a reason. yes its trivial to set up a middleware proxy, but at least there was an ISP keeping logs on the traffic that passed through it. maybe this is a long-term good, maybe it will force browser vendors and standards groups to apply a real security model to all in-browser scripting.

in the meantime, i use noscript for firefox and recommend you do the same. globally enabling javascript now seems as insane to me as using telnet and rsh.

By: Atli Thorbjornsson

Atli Thorbjornsson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am using this approach, talking to a service that can run for 30-40 seconds and returns json progressively so to speak. Wondering whether anyone has an idea on how to make the function calls happen progressively. Right now everything happens at the end once the service is done. The output looks something like this:

doStuff([1,2,3]);
(…4-5 second wait)
doStuff([4,5,6]);
(…4-5 second wait)
doMoreStuff([]);
done();

Obviously I could pack this into an HTML document with enclosing script tags, HTML is rendered progressively so that works fine but that eliminates any chance of access from another domain :) Was hoping to be able to do that without providing a “proxy” on the other domain