[cageface]

It was Mozilla's insistence on IndexedDB that tipped the balance. WebSQL was already well supported in Chrome and Safari and if Mozilla hadn't inexplicably come down on Microsoft's side we would have a reasonable client-side database solution today.

Lest this particular piece of villainy be forgotten: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...

[froaway]

It takes a special kind of myopia to call a decision inexplicable, and then to link to a very explicit description of their reasons for that decision.

[cageface]

Refuted by almost every single comment on the post, yes.

[fpgeek]

There's a difference between inexplicable and an explanation you disagree with.

[Yoric]

Unfortunately, WebSQL had simply _no_ specifications. That's not good for a standard, and that's why IndexedDB won in the end.