[jlongster]

Yeah, it adds to the absurdity of all of this.

Although I do empathize with browers vendors. I worked at Mozilla at the time and was aware that this is a lot of things to think about when integrating something onto the web. I get why it happened, but practically speaking maybe it should have won. It's not like Chrome seems to care much about cross-browser standards these days.

I'm hopeful for a storage layer like this though: https://web.dev/storage-foundation/

It might actually be a better outcome if we get a storage layer with close to native performance, and then you can compile and db/lib/etc and it gets to use it.

[7952]

I think offset based file access could be really powerful just based on what people are achieving in the browser with things like Flat buffers, proto buffers and even http range queries.