JSON file type?

Perhaps we could add some RISC OS extensions to LOLcode

I HAZ WINDOW ? :)

> And what, pray tell, did you submit as the icon?
I didn’t :)

I did not know that was an option. <looks sceptical as if wondering what the world is coming to>

Any good?

Well, like much of the early 70s, you had to be there daddio. But it was very popular at the time. Like gonorrhoea.

Serious point though: Sometimes it’s possible to capture the essence of a concept graphically. And sometimes it isn’t. JSON is a tough one. It belongs to the same world as XML and CSV (yes really), and should probably look textual in some sense. Crockford’s icon is prominent but has not been adopted at the OS level. TLAs on ‘paper’ icons aren’t even trying.

Unless you put the type as text on the icon is going to be hard to tell an xml icon from a json one I guess.

I guess it’s like picking icons for sprite, gif, jpeg, tiff, png … they are all bitmap graphics formats, but their icons have little to show that. Gif used to be a drawing of a house IIRC, jpeg was an eye…

Well, like much of the early 70s, you had to be there daddio.

Cough. It was filmed and began broadcast in ’69.

My mom, who went to Woodstock (yes, that Woodstock) would tell me that the 70s were when it all started to go wrong. The chicken in every pot (50s) led to the summer of love (60s) but by then things started to go wrong so I was born into a world with an oil crisis and a toilet paper shortage. The unions walking en mass for any and every reason under the sun, was it a three day week or a four? Then along came Maggie to break the unions and break the newspapers (something needed nowadays), but unfortunately she broke everything else too.

I guess in every generation “you had to be there”. I mean, I can remember the girl across from where I lived dressing up in neon green and blue and pink and yellow at the same time and that was just how things were. I don’t think anybody would be caught dead dressed like that now, save for a 40-50 year old doing retro fancy dress.

Just wondering… What the hell would anybody have to say about the 90s? Did anything even happen in the 90s? The only thing I can think of is the rise of the personal computer, the internet, and satellite television, but all of these were evolutions of what came before (like BSB when D2-MAC was a thing, and internet from arpa, etc).

jpeg was an eye…

Wasn’t that from FYEO?

I did not know that was an option.

I “cheated” a bit; I didn’t submit a formal request but rather just asked ROOL whether we could have a JSON type.

Wasn’t that from FYEO?

That’s the one.

I didn’t submit a formal request but rather just asked ROOL whether we could have a JSON type

It’s total and complete

It was filmed and began broadcast in ’69.

It is true. I am old.

I recall the Acorn Developer day brief for RISC OS 3.60. The guy (I don’t recall who was introducing) announced “This is the main focus for RISC OS 3.60” and up popped the giant eye icon on the projector! Obviously we’d all been using JPEGs before that, but forget the word “JPEG”, RO3.60 was all about that “eye” :)

Nemo – that Anarchy icon should definitely be the “unknown filetype” icon in at least one theme ;)

Edited to be more anarchic.

mean, I can remember the girl across from where I lived dressing up in neon green and blue and pink and yellow at the same time and that was just how things were. I don’t think anybody would be caught dead dressed like that now, save for a 40-50 year old doing retro fancy dress.

There speaks someone who hasn’t seen the inside of a UK store for many years.
Be it Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsburys budget clothing or various ladies wear sources on the high street they have clothes for all ages, from rug-rat upward, that come in eye-wateringly¹ bright variety and mix.
To be honest the Halloween costumes I’ve seen in recent days are far tamer shades than the PINK stuff that assaulted my eyes when passing the clothing in Tesco a number of months back.

¹ Literally, close by my eyes were watering with the combo of bright lights above and the PINKness which was visible several aisles away reflecting off ceiling surfaces…

Nemo – that Anarchy icon should definitely be the “unknown filetype” icon in at least one theme ;)

I’d just love a setup that used that as the official icon for unknown filetype. Definitely “thinking outside the box.” :)

Did somebody actually make a json icon and is it available somewhere? I would like to use json in a program and if there is an icon I would like to use it – otherwise I need to do it myself.

I certainly didn’t, but of course I can’t speak for anyone else.