- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:24:48 -0700
- To: Ryan Fugger <arv@ryanfugger.com>
- CC: public-webapps@w3.org
On 4/4/11 10:15 AM, Ryan Fugger wrote: >> That's not the only reason. Mozilla laid out others ten months ago: >> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis-and-the-road-to-indexeddb/ > > Mozilla's plan appears to be to implement IndexedDB on top of SQLite, This is not a plan so much as a current stopgap. > Why not just expose the thing and let developers worry about whether > what they're using is standard or not, and suffer the consequences > later, if in fact there are any? Because due to the incentive structure here the entities making the bad decisions are not the ones who end up having to suffer the consequences. It's a typical case of externalizing the negatives. > It seems to me that the proper role for standards > is to step in and help clear things up when they get messy Often it's too late by then. -Boris
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