Using jQuery.getJSON in Chrome Extension

Question

I need to do a cross-domain request in a chrome extension. I know I can it via message passing but I\'d rather stick to just jQuery idioms (so my javascript can also work as

Answer 1

The syntax is a little off. There's no need for the callback( bit. This works flawlessly. Tested in the javascript console of Chrome on this StackOverflow page (which includes jQuery):

$.getJSON("http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=cat&tagmode=any&format=json&jsoncallback=?", function(data) {
  console.log(data);
});