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by gambler 3515 days ago
> Is it really not worth spending the extra five minutes it takes to set things up in a way that is reusable and standard?

HTML is standard. Even more importantly it has rich and standard semantics. Your homebrew protocol based on JSON is not and does not. You write an interpreter for it every single time without even realizing it.

The thing you cooked up in 10 minutes does not follow the principles of progressive enhancement. This immediately closes up lots of doors.