On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote:
On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Dean Landolt wrote:
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Oliver Hunt <[email protected]>
wrote:
But that's the rub -- the JSON spec cannot be changed. It
(intentionally) has no version number. ECMA could superset it -- ES-
JSON, if you will -- which could specifically allow \t, but this
could not strictly be considered JSON, and would break in many JSON
parsers in the wild.
Perhaps there's value in ECMA taking on such a task (they're in a
unique position to get real traction behind a superset of JSON, and
we all have a wishlist of JSON extensions). But it certainly
wouldn't be JSON.
I just looked through a few of the json parsers listed on json.org,
and of the sample I looked at all accept tab characters. Which
parsers don't?
Browser native implementations are a recent development and are
subject to ES5, not just RFC 4627, so comparing to non-browser libs is
a bit of an apples and oranges comparison (or pears and asian pears
perhaps).
As far as I can tell, all the major browsers accept tabs, as do many
other json parsers, at brief inspection it seems that the defacto
(vs. actual) JSON spec allows tabs.
The language in the ES5 spec (vs 4627) is pretty clear with regards to
conformance, and there are plenty of other violations in every browser
implementation that still need to be ironed out, so labeling the
status quo as defacto seems premature. It seems to me that each
vendor has holes to patch in their implementation and it just so
happens they all have this one.
And regarding js library abstractions, I disagree that there is enough
stability in the JSON implementations to state that major libraries
*rely* on the parsing of tabs. I think "tolerate" is closer to the
truth. I certainly do not rely on native implementations continuing
not to conform to a spec that, relatively speaking, is fresh out of
the gate. I would rather see the implementations get cleaned up and
follow spec than agree this early to disregard it.
L
--Oliver
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