> But why reinvent the wheel in JSON when there is already an XML description?

To be honest I haven't dug into the Android XML definitions very much
because it locks me into only Android and requires the slightly more
verbose XML syntax.

If I develop a custom JSON syntax that facilitates common UI widgets
(button, textfield, dropdown, etc), then I just need to write the
custom implementation per platform.  This also allows me to insulate
myself from the "I changed it for the sake of changing it" Google
developers that don't always have their sights set on keeping things
consistent for us "consumers" - though the same could happen with my
API usage approach (i.e. the API parms could change just as much as
the XML structure and subsequently require me to change my code just
as much).

I guess at the end of the day I am somewhat just testing the waters to
see what I can create and then hopefully submit something back to the
community to use.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/



On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not to my knwoledge...
>
> But why reinvent the wheel in JSON when there is already an XML description?
>

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