Tag Archives: json

Dispelling Some Confusion Over SproutCore

June 17, 2008 – 12:21 am

While SproutCore uses Ruby to generate static HTML and JavaScript files, you are not tied to Ruby or Rails in production. SproutCore runs in the browser, your production system can use whatever backend you want, as long as it sends JSON to the browser. When I was using an early version of SproutCore to build [...]

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Representation, Again

June 15, 2008 – 11:26 am

I mean, XML is better if you have more text and fewer tags. And JSON is better if you have more tags and less text. Argh! I mean, come on, it’s that easy. But you know, there’s a big debate about it. [Steve Yegge, via Simon Wilison] I’ve been asking that question in interviews, and [...]

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