- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:28:12 -0400
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- CC: Benjamin Poulain <benjamin.poulain@nokia.com>, ext Nathan Kitchen <w3c@nathankitchen.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
On 3/31/11 12:06 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > This is painful to read. WebSQL development died because SQLite, the > most widely-deployed database software in the world, was too good? That > sounds like a catastrophic failure of the W3C process. No, it actually sounds like a success; it prevented a "specification" being created which would have been tied to a particular implementation, no matter how "widely-deployed". For comparison, IE6 was very widely deployed circa 2002. And yet specifying CSS, say, by saying "just do exactly what IE6 does" would not have been a good idea. Neither is defining WebSQL to do exactly what some particular version of SQLite does, and no one stepped up to define it better. -Boris
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