Initiative - provide JSON and JSONP RSS Feeds

Monday, October 10, 2011 { 6 Comments }

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JSON has won against XML. Because is lighter and simpler Many web services are giving priority to JSON over XML. But the all the blogs are still stuck with XML RSS.So why give JSON and JSONP RSS support?- JSON is Fat-Free Alternative to XML (save some bandwidth).- JSON has been chosen like primary format in almost all major public web services. JSONP is easiest and fastest way to directly connect the browser with the web service.- Growing need of building native web apps who can connect directly with the data source... and probably many other reasons.This initiative comes from my personal frustration … every time I want to build some web app who needs to talk with RSS and JavaScript I need to use some public proxy like YQL or some other server side XML to JSON solution. JavaScript and the browsers had grown much in the last couple of years, we could start using the browser JavaScript engine speed for some heavy lifting. Implementing JSON and JSONP like an alternative to XML(RSS) is very easy process.I think if some of the major blog players like Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, Posterous provide JSON RSS support everyone else will follow.That doesn't mean that we should kill XML RSS it means just providing alternative JSON support.If you agree with me help me spread the word. Thanks!