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by dylan604 319 days ago
JSON + compression (++speed --size ==win)

your server can do this natively for live data. your browser can decompress natively. and ++human-readable. if you're one of those that doesn't want the user to read the data, then maybe CBOR is attractive??? but why would you send data down the wire that you don't want the user to see? isn't the point of sending the data to the client is so the client can display that data?
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gethly 319 days ago
That is true. Basic content encoding works very well with json but that still means there is the compression step, which would not be necessary with CBOR as it is already a binary payload. It would allow faster response and delivery times natively. Of course, we are talking few ms, but I say why leave those ms on the floor?

I guess i'm just shouting at the clouds :D

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8n4vidtmkvmk 319 days ago
It's still not attractive to hide data from the user. Unless it's encrypted, the user can read it.
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dylan604 319 days ago
i think i'm using a different meaning of "seeing". to the user, it won't be plain text that is human readable. unencrypted CBOR byte data might as well be encrypted to the end user.
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