Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Wed, 01 Feb 2006

JSON and Sandvox Pagelets

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Yesterday Buzz introduced me to JSON, a cool way for Javascript to load remote data.

This technology, it turns out, will come in handy for Sandvox pagelets, because websites can load up interesting live data from a third-party information source without needing to go through Karelia's server as an intermediary (as our RSS pagelet does, using MagpieRSS to convert RSS/Atom to HTML).

I've recently put together a cool new pagelet which uses JSON; we'll probably make it available soon. I'm hoping to create some more JSON-based pagelets, or see others created once our SDK is released.

One thing that's really cool is that Yahoo! is going JSON for many of their services. Alas, the one that I was hoping to access was their stock quote service. They provide CSV feeds of stock data but no JSON yet. Anybody know how to give them a nudge in the right direction here? :-)