jQuery 1.4.x and JSON

If you’ve recently updated to jQuery 1.4.x on your projects you will need to ensure all your $.getJSON functions still working, because of the changes in the way how jQuery handles incorrectly formatted JSON – now it will just silently die, without giving you a chance to understand what was wrong with the data it received.

To ensure JSON you’re getting/generating use one of many JSON validators like JSONLint

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