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0 pointscraigching12y ago0 comments

Just curious, but how do you envision hyperlinks working in JSON? And what's a use case for this? Generally I imagine putting "next" sorts of links in a JSON document is the way I resolve this, but I could imagine wanting to put a link directly on the text that would take you to more detail about the text. Is that the use-case? I guess I haven't needed that or I haven't known I've needed it because it isn't there :p

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icebraining12y ago

I'd copy it from the RDF world:

  {
    'author': {
      'name': 'Jack',
      'homepage': <http://jackshome.com/>,
    }
  }

As for the use case, the easiest to conceive is JSON-reading search engines. Think about what we could do with all that structured data ;)

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