Getting Data From a Server
As mentioned in the earlier sidebar, “Getting Your Data,” Ajax limits from where you can read data. After all, you don’t want everyone in the world reading any file you have, right? But there are some cases where a company may want people to read files and then be able to create their own content on their own sites. For instance, Flickr (as seen in the previous examples) lets your server get their XML files and what you do next is only up to your imagination.
But sometimes you don’t have that kind of access to a server—so Flickr has made files available in another format: JavaScript Object Notation, known as JSON (pronounced like the name Jason). The neat trick here is in the HTML file, Script 13.10; the JavaScript ...
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