Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, offers native JSON parsing and serialization. This new native JSON functionality enables Internet Explorer 8 aware AJAX applications to run both faster and safer!

What’s JSON? For those of you that are not die hard AJAX developers, allow me to provide a bit of background. JSON is a simple human readable data interchange format often used by AJAX applications when transmitting data between the server and the web application. For example, imagine that you select a contact name from your favorite web mail client so that you can see the contact information.

{
          "firstName": "cyra",
           "lastName": "richardson",
           "address": {
                "streetAddress": "1 Microsoft way",
                 "city": "Redmond",
                 "state": "WA",
                 "postalCode": 98052
          },

           "phoneNumbers": [
                "425-777-7777",
                 "206-777-7777"
           ]
     }

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