[edbrowse-dev] json what to do

[edbrowse-dev] json what to do

[Karl Dahlke]

I know almost nothing about json so bear with me.

Open your Bibles please to

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/

Don't browse, just look at the html.

,s/></>\n</g

To make it readable.

Ok, the last script in the head section

<script type="application/ld+json">

What is that? I'm sure it's there for a reason. We need to know what to do with it.
I gathered it up into a string and passed it to JSON.parse() in duktape and it parses just fine.
That returns the corresponding javascript object.
All good, but what am I suppose to do with this object?
If I just feed this string to JSON.parse, that object gets thrown away. It all gets thrown away.
Unless I store it somewhere, but where?
The script doesn't specify a variable for me to put it in.
Do I put it under some property under the script object?
Any help appreciated.

Karl Dahlke

Re: [edbrowse-dev] json what to do

[Dominique Martinet]

Karl Dahlke wrote on Sun, May 06, 2018:
> <script type="application/ld+json">
> 
> What is that? I'm sure it's there for a reason. We need to know what to do with it.

I don't think we need to do anything with it, it apparently is for
search engines

Here's a link to what google has to say about such "structured data":
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data

Basically it tells them how the site is structured, for the ibm websites
it has a "SearchAction" that lets ibm pick how google should search
within the site, if I understand that correctly...

I don't know if actual scripts in the page should be able to access it
but that seems fairly useless for browsers, I think we're safe to ignore
it

-- 
Dominique