Because we made that mistake with the API, and now we're stuck with a bunch
of deadweight formats that do nothing other than increase maintenance
costs. If your first preference as a client developer is for JSON, it's
really not that hard for you to go get a library to receive it in XML
instead, or vice versa. That's the whole point of a standardised format.
--HM
On 1 March 2013 13:48, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I see that the RFC is considering multiple formats,
why not support
all of them? We could make the client request the format they like,
either XML or JSON, that would be a matter of dispatcher how it
produce the output data.
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Daniel Friesen
<daniel(a)nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote:
We actually have an open RFC on this topic:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Structured_data_push_no…
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://danielfriesen.name/]
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