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>> XML had a chance with an open-minded crowd of people eager to embrace >> it. By and large, we utterly failed to convince them. Once other >> options emerged, they ran there. > > I think that story is different. Javascript in browser doesn't have > usable XML API (DOM is simply ... DOM), but evaluating JSON with eval() > at that time was very easy (do you still remember E4X?). Also given the > browser security model you are unable to fetch cross-site XML resources, > but you can do the same with JSON-P. So with JSON it was possible to > walk around limitations in browser, nothing more. With better XML API in > browser and more reasonable security model situation between JSON/XML in > Web front-end development could be very different. That is essentially it - processing xml using javascript in the browser was hard, processing json was easier. It's all about the apis. If only there was a simple api for xml... that was actually simple :) I'm sure the list could come up with a new one. -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com
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