Re: [Json] Regarding JSON text sequence ambiguities (Re: serializing sequences of JSON values)

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Fri, 14 March 2014 00:29 UTC

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* Manger, James wrote:
>How about
>  application/jsons
>it is a bit shorter than application/json-text-sequence; and we can use 
>+jsons as a media type extension if required.

Single character differences are not a very good pattern and this one
may also have the wrong connotations (e.g., is 'jsons' to 'json' as
'https' is to 'http').
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