When did that happen? There is a JSON standard, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt, but I have yet to find a parser that follows it, including Crockford's original "reference implementation". As a result, there's no point in developing a conformant parser, as no one would use it. They're off chasing date formats, capitalized keywords, functions (!!) blissfully unaware or willfully heedless of the impact on interoperability.