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by waterside81 1953 days ago
Anybody have insight into why WebSQL was chosen in the first place? I don't think I've even heard of it prior to this article.
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[author] Power Editor was originally written by a brilliant engineer named Vladimir Kolesnikov (yes, all by one engineer), and he was solving a very specific problem of letting customers scale their ad spend. So he chose a technology that let them download all of their ad account locally to disk, do all their work, then upload it again.

WebSQL was flexible, fast and easy to work with. It's a real shame it was deprecated to be honest