12966 2011-06-16 06:22:35 +0000 Why the { items: [item, ...] } when the object has only one property? 2011-08-04 05:05:29 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML Microdata (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#json P3 blocker --- 1 contributor ian ian mike philipj public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 49671 0 contributor 2011-06-16 06:22:35 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#json Comment: Why the { items: [item, ...] } when the object has only property? Posted from: 81.234.240.242 User agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; Edition Next; en) Presto/2.8.158 Version/11.50 49672 1 philipj 2011-06-16 06:25:33 +0000 Looking at the algorithm in isolation, there appears to be no good reason why an object with a property 'items' holds the array of items, instead of just serializing the array directly. If the reason is for future extensibility or that the object-ness is somehow, a note stating this would be appreciated. 50820 2 ian 2011-07-07 23:31:53 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 50821 3 contributor 2011-07-07 23:32:51 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6283. Check-in comment: explain about json extensibility http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6282&to=6283 52938 4 mike 2011-08-04 05:05:29 +0000 mass-move component to LC1