On 31/10/2014 23:11, Budgie wrote:
Also I see references to JSON. OK, JavaScript Object Notation but what does it mean to me and where does it fit in with GiP and BBC. I thought, in my ignorance, that JavaScript was going the way of the brown ball. Certainly I get grave warnings when it is used or fails to work on the web management interface of my L2 managed switch.
If you know enough to understand what JavaScript is, then you will know that at present it is tied inextricably to intelligent web sites. It is by several leagues the chosen way to write dynamic web sites (those sites that can modify the contents of the display without reference back to the web server. You're right that JavaScript isn't well-liked, but at present it is the only option. However, its data literals are quite adequate, and something similar is used by languages like Perl and Python. So that standard has been extracted and named JSON independently of the language itself, and pretty much every language has a module or library available that will read and write such data. It is also a subset of the YAML data specification language, which has no ties at all to any languages, much like XML, so if your program will read or write YAML then it will also read JSON. I hope that helps, Rob --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
