> WebSQL got deprecated by FireFox because of secuirty issues years ago ( albeit is still somewhat supported in Chrome ). Major technical corrections on this:

> WebSQL got deprecated by FireFox because of secuirty issues years ago ( albeit is still somewhat supported in Chrome ). Major technical corrections on this: WebSQL was never implemented by Firefox. It was an experimental thing that Chrome and Safari shipped, but Firefox refused to because it was the wrong direction since it was certain to in the future cause either major compatibility or functionality problems. The Chrome and Safari developers agreed with this assessment, and so the draft was discontinued, and the two implementations deprecated. Safari finally removed its three years ago, and Chrome has begun the process of removing its this year. There were no security issues whatsoever—it’s just that what had been made was unsuitable for standardisation, and no one was willing to do the work that would be required to make it suitable for standardisation perhaps because there was no consensus that it would still be a good idea in that form. All up, the WebSQL story is pretty much “it seemed like a good idea at the time because people want the result, and we implemented and shipped it because it was really easy, but then we stepped back and thought things through and realised the entire approach was a mistake”.