Unlike FTP, HTTP provides strong authentication and encryption, as well as caching and proxy support — and because WebDAV works over HTTP, WebDAV gets all of that for free. SSH would be another option, but SSH is a bit more limited in terms of moving files around, and it has nowhere near the quality of client support and tools available. [...]
James Clark, technical lead for the World Wide Web Consortium’s XML activity, published a blog post today about the perceived competition between JSON and XML. Twitter and Foursquare both recently dropped support for XML, opting to use JSON exclusively. Clark doesn’t see XML going away, but sees it less and less as a Web technology. “I think the Web community has spoken,” Clark concludes. “And it’s clear that what it wants is HTML5, JavaScript and JSON.” Clark cites a few particular reasons why JSON is winning the hearts and minds of web developers.
Read more here: http://blog.jclark.com/2010/11/xml-vs-web_24.html
Web APIs change the way content and services are consumed and manipulated. Web developers can take advantage of 1000s of APIs to add more content or functionality to their site. We’ve compiled a list of 10 most useful APIs you can consider using for your web site or application.
Read more about this here: http://www.hotscripts.com/blog/10-apis-web-applications/
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