>jQuery was super popular in the 2000s. Say all of the browsers had decided to bundle it like WebSQL bundled SQLite. This ignores the fact that SQL already has

>jQuery was super popular in the 2000s. Say all of the browsers had decided to bundle it like WebSQL bundled SQLite. This ignores the fact that SQL already has standards with multiple implementations and is very well established. It's not a recent-ish JS library. It's not new tech. It's an almost 50 year old tech predating the internet. Standardizing on a basic standard subset using the current SQL standards would have been enough for nearly all apps, and would have allowed alternate implementations without any real SQLite path dependency since SQL already has standards and well trotted paths for implementing them (at least a basic subset). [EDIT: I don't wish to spam the comments. If you wish to reply to this, please use the other thread you also replied to? I should have done it myself, sorry about that.]