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> JSON is JavaScript native, while XML is not Yet we have XMLHttpRequest to thank for the last 20 years of the web.

• jaywalk 6y ago
  It is pretty ironic, although XHR does predate JSON.
  • tantalor 6y ago
    Crockford says JSON existed since JS was formalized. He says he discovered it in 1999 but it was in use Netscape as early as 1996.