How do you plan to encode binary data in your JSON-based protocol? Base64? This will only increase the overhead. While the human readability of JSON is nice, i

How do you plan to encode binary data in your JSON-based protocol? Base64? This will only increase the overhead. While the human readability of JSON is nice, it has some serious flaws when the goal is to handle arbitrary data. I have yet to decide what kind of protocol to use in my own vis editor[1], hence why I'm asking. [1] https://github.com/martanne/vis https://github.com/martanne/vis