On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Evan Gilbert <uid...@google.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <e...@hueniverse.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'll add something to the draft and we'll discuss it. There is enough
>> consensus on a single JSON response format.
>
> Responses that are returned via a browser URL should
> be application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

I'm not sure I understand here, could you explain in more detail?

> These parameters are standard to parse
> in any HTTP handling library

Any HTTP handling library will claim to support it, but I doubt very
many non-browser libraries match the HTML5 spec. Don't you find the
requirements there to be complex relative to JSON?

> and JSON only adds complexity and external
> library requirements.

Anything in a browser won't care either way. And won't other HTTP
clients likely end up talking to a JSON API anyway?

>
>  But if we support both JSON and application/x-www-form-urlencoded

That is design-by-committee. Let's not do that.

-- 

Robert Sayre

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
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