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by 22 othersFjax: Just say no
I'm not normally given to debunking crazy technology ideas - mainly because there are so many out there that it would be a full-time job - but this thing is so obviously broken I thought it best to try and nip it in the bud.
Consuming Amazon's Web API Directly with Javascript (via JSON and XSLT)
(via)Amazon.com's Web API is a cool piece of architecture, but one of its big limitations is the difficulty involved in getting Amazon's data straight to the browser.
Well, here's how to fix that problem (for Amazon.com's API at least), using Amazon's free XSLT transformation service, the JSON output format, and a bit of plain old javascript. The examples below show you how to use javascript (and a bit of XSL) to place live Amazon.com data - direct from Amazon's servers - on any web page.