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RISON, a compact JSON specially suited for URIs

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I was looking for a way to efficiently pass data between cross-domain iframes using the location hash trick. The first thing that I checked was JSON but the payload gets huge when url encoded, then I tried with base64 encoding which helps but not very much. Finally I found RISON which in short is nothing more than a reformulation of JSON's control characters to make them more URI friendly.Read more

doing AJAX? you'll need transactions!

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n an embarrassing attempt to bring some more visits to this blog I’ll start to post about buzzwords. After some months of fighting against it I’ve finally understood that there is no point in teaching people that AJAX, Web 2.0 and the like are just silly buzzwords about quite old technologies. So from now on I’ll get into the bandwagon and start using those buzzwords.

Getting into the stuff that matters, lets start with the basics.Read more