jQuery 1.4 and native JSON support

I was reading a post by Yehuda Katz (http://www.twitter.com/wycats), and saw how jQuery 1.4 now uses native JSON support, which is available in a lot of more current browsers (IE8, FF 3.5, Chrome 2), and when JSON support is not available, it falls back on its previous JSON parsing.

In a video by Paul Irish (http://www.twitter.com/paul_irish), he states that jQuery 1.4 will now validate the JSON (if native JSON support is not available) and throw errors if the JSON response is not valid JSON, just as native JSON parse would throw errors.

Both of these things are awesome. I am pretty excited about that.

I have been guilty of using malformed JSON simply because I could get away with it.

Now, a great standard is being pushed to the forefront!

I am going to be taking it a step further and ensure that all the JSON I use throughout my apps are valid JSON (even objects I'm passing to jQuery functions).

I'm doing this for a few reasons. One reason is consistency. I like having consistent organization and standards in my applications. This is a must at my job because different members of the team may have to go in and edit my code. If I have a consistent style of programming, they'll be able to easily go in and make changes.

Another reason is, it's just good practice. If I do ALL my JSON in valid JSON format, then I won't even have to go "oh, this is an AJAX call, my response should be valid JSON", I'll just be doing ALL my JSON in valid format, and not have to worry about it.

What are your thoughts about this?