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by c-smile 3650 days ago
I participated in HTML5 specification work group at W3C as Invited Expert. We had such a proposal to add SQL storage to HTML5. But it was pretty much unanimous opinion that adding specification of any SQL flavor to the HTML spec would be too much.
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niftich 3650 days ago
Yeah, basically it would've had to specify all of SQL, or to say "do what SQLite does", and neither option was very palatable to all the parties. Some browsers [1] did implement WebSQL before it was formally abandoned, though.

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=sql-storage

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c-smile 3650 days ago
Some browsers can use Open Source libraries, some simply cannot , for whatever reasons. Yet formally we need at least two independent implementations of the same thing in order the spec to get Recommendation status.

So each UA (a.k.a. browser) has to implement any SQL spec from scratch adding its own SQL flavor.

In fact I am pretty sure that it is possible to add some basic SQL features by JS on top of IndexedDB. It should be such things already I think.

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