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Ah yes, the new more powerful standard. Agreed by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc, etc, etc, etc. Standards are for lowest common denominator and almost
by einarvollset 17y ago
Ah yes, the new more powerful standard. Agreed by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Standards are for lowest common denominator and almost by design are never, ever simple enough - see e.g. SOAP vs REST, XML vs JSON (Dave Winer be damned).
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoI'm not sure what your point is. REST [1] has beaten SOAP as the de facto API standard, and JSON has beaten XML as the de facto standard for portable data structure. [1] Notwithstanding: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304244 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304244
- kree10 17y agoI think the point is the "winners" have something in common and this is no accident. XML and SOAP came out of "let's invent new formats and protocols"-type standardization, while REST and JSON were products of (essentially) one guy looking at a simple, existing, well-known concept (HTTP and js object literals, respectively) and putting a new frame around it.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoI understand what you're saying and broadly agree with you; though I'd point out that Roy Fielding, the guy who articulated REST, was one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification.