Funnily enough: the WebSQL standardization effort was abandoned _because_ all implementors were basing theirs on sqlite (citation: https://www.w3.org/TR/webdata

Funnily enough: the WebSQL standardization effort was abandoned _because_ all implementors were basing theirs on sqlite (citation: https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/ https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/). By convention, standards efforts (except for the one Microsoft bought from I$O for their office format) require two competing implementations, in order to demonstrate that the standard isn't entirely dependent on one provider.