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by TazeTSchnitzel
4823 days ago
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Indeed. It's a shame WebSQL died, though, since I would have loved to have had SQLite in the browser. Maybe the solution would have been to specify a similar, new, SQL database for the web? I would have liked that more than IndexedDB. |
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That would certainly have been a solution, but I think one of the reasons WebSQL went with "use SQLite" as a shortcut was that it was a lot easier. If you specify a reasonably-implementable subset of SQL, you are stuck with that, and you can't piggyback on SQLite maintenance.
I think the decision to abandon WebSQL for IndexedDB rather than expand the spec into something where independent implementations were feasible was probably based on the cost/benefit perceived with having to maintain a separate, browser-specific RDBMS implementation.