Web Data Render (WDR)

what kind of sorcery is this...

I love this! You could use this to syndicate blog posts, sort of like RSS, except each entry is JSON and could be viewed as it's own page rendered by it's own renderer (carried…

I love this. I read through the page source before reading the content of the blog fully to work out what it does. Really simple idea, but clever!

> For example, this is a valid JSON and web page This is a nice project, but it isn't valid HTML. https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwebdatarender.com%2F

For those like me who needed a little help... I do not fully understand the browser rendering process (someone who does please chime in), but what I gather about how this is…

It's a neat trick using the Browser's Quirks Mode to load JSON that can bootstrap a framework, I'm not sure I really understand the benefit though. In order to actually get to…

I'm confused about: > The JSON must contain only pure information without any concern about design or markup. All the design and markup required to render the page must be inside…

From what I can see, your JSON still contains "style" information in the form of Markdown. So this doesn't really separate information from design. If we're going to accept…

IE11 doesn't render anything. Console errors: HTML1527: DOCTYPE expected. Consider adding a valid HTML5 doctype: "<!DOCTYPE html>". webdatarender.com (2,0) HTML1513: Extra…

It doesn't work on my Chrome 87.0.4280.88 MacOS. It works on Safari though.

This is an interesting technical hack, but I have to ask what problem this is aiming to address?

I think someone just re-invented XSLT.

Or you could... you know.. do type negotiation per-request based on the Accept header, and serve the rendered markup sans JSON bullshit to clients requesting markup, and the JSON…

Hey! Yes, however now I notice that this is only when running locally. I took your page, replaced script and css with absolute links, and loaded locally as file://

For those like me who needed a little help... I do not fully understand the browser rendering process (someone who does please chime in), but what I gather about how this is…

The json.org description of an "object" is: > An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs. But this site seems to be assuming that the key/value pairs are parsed in their…

Relying on the order of keys in an object seems like a bad idea.

This is a really cool hack. > The JSON must contain only pure information without any concern about design or markup. Wellll.. I mean the json has markdown syntax in it. That's a…

I think someone just re-invented XSLT.

Isn't Reddit like this, in a way? You can append ".json" at the end and get the data for a page. Others can build their own UI on top of this, if they don't prefer the first…

You know, I once had a resume powered by JSON. It was rendered to a PDF (and HTML) but the syntax was backed by JSON. This was years back and I shudder to even recall the idea. I…