Because we made that mistake with the API, and now we're stuck with a bunch of deadweight formats that do nothing other than increase maintenance costs. If your first preference as a client developer is for JSON, it's really not that hard for you to go get a library to receive it in XML instead, or vice versa. That's the whole point of a standardised format.
--HM On 1 March 2013 13:48, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see that the RFC is considering multiple formats, why not support > all of them? We could make the client request the format they like, > either XML or JSON, that would be a matter of dispatcher how it > produce the output data. > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Daniel Friesen > <dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote: > > We actually have an open RFC on this topic: > > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Structured_data_push_notification_support_for_recent_changes > > > > -- > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
