JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is used with JavaScript, of course. It will be familiar to Web developers that use it for client/server communication. YAML stands for YAML Ain’t Markup Language.

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

In this article, we describe an approach based on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) that, in the spirit of Web 2.0, makes it easy to build mashup applications without the cross-domain and cross ...

For one thing, "native support" doesn't the mean same thing as introducing a new native JSON type, as was done for XML. As a refresher, JSON -- standing for JavaScript Object Notation -- uses text ...