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Apple's plist format might be the weirdest abuse of XML as far as I can tell. The SOAP envelopes and shit like that were horrible but plist is plain weird. Eve
by eknkc 7y ago
Apple's plist format might be the weirdest abuse of XML as far as I can tell. The SOAP envelopes and shit like that were horrible but plist is plain weird.
Everyone abused XML some way or another. JSON is not that "abusable" I'd say.
- amaccuish 7y agoPLIST is pretty flexible though, the underlying storage can be XML, binary or even JSON now.
- cellularmitosis 7y agoImplementing a binary plist encoding on you REST endpoints is actually pretty great for iOS devices.