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. -BorisReceived on Thursday, 31 March 2011 16:28:49 UTC
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