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by henryprecheur 5685 days ago
I think that's a great news. HTML5 adds lots of complexity in the browser, and yet don't address most of the fundamental problems of HTML: security, complexity. Web SQL was another step in the wrong direction.

Local storage wont go away. I hope Web SQL will be replaced by something "better" and more straightforward, A simple key-value database would be great.

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> A simple key-value database would be great.

That's exactly it:

http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/

IndexedDB is anything but simple.
A NoSQL win