Fun fact: React elements are plain JS objects that are nearly
JSON-compatible. The only reason why they aren't is because of the presence
of a `$$typeof: Symbol.for("react.element")` property on React elements, to
prevent people from using non-array object results of
`JSON.parse(jsonString)` directly as a child. The rationale for this is
explained in this blog post by React's creator:
https://overreacted.io/why-do-react-elements-have-typeof-property/I would say that we live in a JSON-centric world for APIs, SGML/XML-centric for UIs. (I wish XHTML efforts actually stuck, to be honest. `<script src="..." />` is one reason XML would've been better than SGML IMHO.) On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 01:47 Ed Saleh <med...@outlook.com> wrote: > Thanks for reply. Didn't know that it existed before! > I don't think we can say that we live in a JSON centric world when things > like React show up and revolutionize web development. I think JSON has its > uses and XML has its uses. UI shouldn't been ever seperated from controller > since one can't exist without the other. > ------------------------------ > *From:* es-discuss <es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org> on behalf of Sanford > Whiteman <swhitemanlistens-softw...@figureone.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 14, 2019 1:37:46 AM > *To:* es-discuss@mozilla.org > *Subject:* Re: Proposal: native XML object support. > > > let foo = <input type="button" value = "Ok"\> > > This is a retread of E4X (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML > ) > so I can't imagine it would be resuscitated in a (for better or worse) > JSON-centric > world. > > —— Sandy > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- ----- Isiah Meadows cont...@isiahmeadows.com www.isiahmeadows.com
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