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joshkel 6 days ago

I assume you're referring to Web SQL? As I understand it, the argument against isn't just "there's only 1 implementation," it's "there's no standard and there's only 1 implementation," so the standard would have to devolve to "whatever that 1 implementation does."

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...

rasz 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

From what I remember main argument was 'developer aesthetics', and then we got unusable without wrappers nonsensical IndexedDB.

x0x0 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Ignoring, obviously, all parallels to chrome itself...