From 76b8a3a36eb0b339c39d545ff186294ba7eb7ecc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Neth Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:35:13 -0500 Subject: Added a more info link and extra explanation Added link to json.org Included information about using JSON text as data. --- json.html.markdown | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/json.html.markdown b/json.html.markdown index 140aa366..cde7bc40 100644 --- a/json.html.markdown +++ b/json.html.markdown @@ -20,10 +20,16 @@ Supporting browsers are: Firefox 3.5+, Internet Explorer 8.0+, Chrome 1.0+, Oper File extension for JSON files is ".json" and the MIME type for JSON text is "application/json". +Many programming languages have support for serializing (encoding) and unserializing (decoding) JSON data into native data structures. Javascript has implicit support for manipulating JSON text as data. + +More information can be found at http://www.json.org/ + JSON is built on two structures: * A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array. * An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence. +An object with various name/value pairs. + ```json { "key": "value", -- cgit v1.2.3