JSONRequest extension for Firefox
14 September 2007Recently Collin Jackson developed a Firefox extension that implements the JSONRequest API. This is really exciting to see momentum for JSONRequest API. This comes almost at the same time as I released CrossSafe. This is excellent timing, with CrossSafe and this, we now have a native solution as well as a pure JS partial implementation of the JSONRequest. This is a great combination, because you can take advantage of secure cross domains requests through JSONRequest by including CrossSafe, and it will automatically defer to native JSONRequest (like this) when available, otherwise it will do itself. Collin is still working at some timing issues with the load of the JSONRequest, but we should a have demo of using JSONRequest that works both with CrossSafe and the FF extension.
2 Responses to “JSONRequest extension for Firefox”
September 15th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Kris,
This is great - but what about IE? A large group of web users still use Internet Explorer, and I would love to provide them with JSONrequest
Ric
September 15th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Ric,
This is why CrossSafe and this extension are a great combination. CrossSafe does provide JSONRequest on IE (as well Opera, FF, and Safari), when a native implementation is not available. If you are wanting a native implementation (without the limitations of CrossSafe) for IE… Well, I would love to see that as well. However, if and when this comes to IE, it will surely be a long time before native implementations are distributed enough to count on.