[[ Adding the JSON WG to this thread ]] On Nov 11, 2013, at 11:01 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To improve JSON interoperability the IETF should not define a more > restricted version of JSON than defined by Ecma-404. > > Parsers exist that can parse "42" today and parsers that cannot parse > "42" today can be meaningfully upgraded to do so too. This would not > break those parsers, unless they depend on parsing 42 as an error, > which is a far more unlikely scenario than parsing it as 42 given > precedence. > > (Worth pondering about: what to do about a leading BOM, which > XMLHttpRequest and browsers allow, but neither IETF nor Ecma-404 > allow.) > > > -- > http://annevankesteren.nl/ >