disclaimer: I am not a client-side developer, and I don’t write javascript. However I am committed to supplying useful APIs of all kinds, and JSONP falls into this category
Early in the development of the new Joind.In API, someone else started consuming the service to populate the javascript widgets they were making*. Since these scripts are intended to be used on many external pages, and they retrieve data from the joind.in API, cross-domain issues were a problem. Continue reading