Mail List Etiquette [Was: WebSQL] Any future plans, or has IndexedDB replaced WebSQL?] from Arthur Barstow on 2011-03-31 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2011)

From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:37:26 -0400
To: ext Joran Greef <joran@ronomon.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4D94D7F6.4000102@nokia.com>

>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Glenn Maynard
> Hear.
>
> I am starting to think that Mozilla will step up and provide an embedding of SQLite, even if it has to only think of it as such. It will have to.
>
> People would rather use a working database than something crippled albeit "specced" (see LocalStorage or IndexedDB).
>
> It was things like XHR in all their unspecced glory that brought the web to where it is today.

Joran - as one of the moderators of public-webapps, I find your comments 
above offensive to those that work on the specs you mention.

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-Regards, Art Barstow

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