[firethief]

> For better or worse, the web has always been driven by specifications, rather than implementations.

What? The specifications document what browsers already do. Have you seen the HTML5 spec? It's mostly formalization of error-recovery, showing how to interpret previously technically-broken documents in the way modern browsers have converged on. It's not what anyone would design, but there's no one driving.

[goto11]

Sure, but the requirement is there should be at least two independent implementations (as there is for the error recovery in the HTML5 spec). This was never going to happen with SQLite.