No, 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

No, 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.