[OSM-talk] OpenLayers and Proxy (was :Relation/Routes and Hikes in open Country)

[Tom Hughes]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Someone talked to me about this at the LinuxTag. He was adamant that our 
> API should support JSON (in addition to XML) as a return data format. He 
> said that a JSON message would be valid JavaScript and thus it could be 
> loaded <script>-like into a JavaScript app, circumventing the 
> same-origin policy that applies to XmlHttpRequest.

That seems to assume that people should be trying to pull API data 
directly into mashups, but that isn't really something we are currently
able to support from a load point of view.

Tom

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