difference between $.getJSON and $.get

Question

Is there really a difference in these two calls? If you use getJSON, you still have to declare format=json in the url...

And you can do the same in

Answer 1

I think the documentation explains it quite clearly!

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.get#urldatacallbacktype

Load a remote page using an HTTP GET request.

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.getJSON#urldatacallback

Load JSON data using an HTTP GET request.

Remember, these are just abstractions of the .ajax method