While at TXJS — Adam and Wynn caught up with Douglas Crockford, author of both JavaScript: The Good Parts and the JSON spec, and a global namespace unto himself.
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<li><a href="http://json.org">JSON</a> - (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format, easy for humans to read and write.</li>
<li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockford-json">The JSON Saga</a> - how JSON came about</li>
<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_native_JSON">JSON.parse, JSON.stringify</a> - Parse and and generate JSON in a standard way</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yaml.org/">YAML</a> - YAML Ain’t Markup Language</li>
<li>Douglas says we should scrap <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html">HTML5</a> and start over and address <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting">XSS</a> instead</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript">ECMAScript 5</a> - Version 5 of the international JavaScript standard</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP">JSONP</a> - Current hack to do XSS with JSON</li>
<li><a href="http://www.json.org/img/json160.gif">The JSON logo</a></li>
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