Question

This is how I’ve been handling my ajax until now:

@header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=".get_option('blog_charset'));

and the js:

$.ajax(....
  ...
  success: function(response){
    var obj = eval('('+response+')'); 
    if(obj.somedata == ....)
  ...

And now I want to use application/json as content type so the javascript changes to:

$.ajax(....
  ...
  success: function(response){
    if(response.somedata == ....)
  ...

Looks better 🙂
But I’m curious to know if this will work in all browsers? So far it tested OK in FF, Opera and IE 8.

Answer 1

yes. JSON is not so much browser-dependent/specific as it is Javascript-specific, so assuming you have a browser (any browser) that has a full implementation of javascript, then it will support JSON. see here