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Asked: 2026-06-11T21:16:35+00:00

I’m a fairly well versed programmer, so learning new technologies shouldn’t be that big

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I’m a fairly well versed programmer, so learning new technologies shouldn’t be that big of an issue. That being said I’m currently attempting to make a card game in HTML5 using canvas/javascript etc.

The current question that I have is what to use to store instances of the cards. I was thinking about using XML to store the card data, but I’d like to limit the amount of work the browser has to do so the game runs more smoothly, I’ve heard JSON is a good alternative, but I’m just looking for suggestions. Thanks!

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    JSON is better in my opinion.
    You can serialize objects to JSON at server side and send JSON string to client (browser), then your client will be able to parse JSON string into regular JavaScript object using JSON.parse.
    In this way you’ll not need to walk through XML to find particular nodes, but will just work with data in more convenient way using native JavaScript objects/arrays.
    Also in most cases JSON will be more compact than XML so this can save bandwidth and speed-up data loading.
    Also the data types stuff may be important here – JSON represents datatypes correctly (integers, booleans, floats, strings) and XML is storing them as strings so you’ll need some additional attributes to set datatype during serialization and determine it during deserialization.

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