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Firefox argued that WebSQL was a terrible idea that shouldn't become a standard, and the other vendors eventually agreed, including some that were already shipp
by gcp 10y ago
Firefox argued that WebSQL was a terrible idea that shouldn't become a standard, and the other vendors eventually agreed, including some that were already shipping it.
- paulddraper 10y agoRight. "[Firefox] developers apparently being extreme zealots for [IndexedDB] and essentially refusing to implement [WebSQL] for years"
- gcp 10y agoNo, that is actually a serious mischaracterization, to be point of being actually malicious. The point wasn't that it had to be IndexedDB, the point was that it couldn't be WebSQL as long as the latter relied on specific SQLite implementation details. Given that nobody wanted to fix the WebSQL proposals (they had already been deployed, and some apps relied on them, making it impossible - good job there) there was no choice but to move to another proposal (IndexedDB). If you do not understand why tying standards to specific implementations is a bad idea, I feel sorry for you. Good for us, the rest of the industry is - most of the time - smarter than that.