I fully agree with your points about real openness, I think this “file over app philosophy” is the way to go for every self hosted app – make it possible get the data out of there.
What I did not quite understand is why using XML is slower? Why is that – are parsers just slower in general? I do not have a lot of experience with XML, but I always thought it pretty much doesn’t matter whether you send your data via JSON or XML. And how does your JSON structure solve the problem of “content heavyness”?
Good blog post, thanks for sharing.
I fully agree with your points about real openness, I think this “file over app philosophy” is the way to go for every self hosted app – make it possible get the data out of there.
What I did not quite understand is why using XML is slower? Why is that – are parsers just slower in general? I do not have a lot of experience with XML, but I always thought it pretty much doesn’t matter whether you send your data via JSON or XML. And how does your JSON structure solve the problem of “content heavyness”?