JSON: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Use It

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39 pointsjmonegro4 comments

Hmmm: 28 up-mods at this point, but no comments. I'm novice at JS, and wondering if the author (Lengstorf)'s take on JSON usage agrees with the more experienced developers here.

In particular: any expansion on his minimal discussion about security issues? Thanks in advance.

I could explain, or I could direct you to this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/559600/is-getting-json-da...

Thanks. The link is a good answer. I'm gathering, then that the concern is just that the need for sanitizing the input code was not dealt with in the OP?

It's not horrible but it is way too shallow. This is the site where I got my head around json. http://www.JSON.org/js.html

Also, though I'm a huge fan of jquery, this guy's writeup is too specific to that library. In this instance, the nice convenience methods in jquery obfuscate some stuff that you need to know, like how jsonp actually works.

Really read through the site I linked so as to get a good foundation, then this type of low-depth article will be more(or less) useful.

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