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Firefox fought against WebSQL. Firefox then re-implemented indexedDB with SQLite on their own browser. Firefox has now largely faded into obscurity.

• Moomoomoo309 3y ago
  Tbf, the WebSQL standard was not well-written from how I've heard that story told. It was bug-for-bug exactly standardized to a particular version of SQLite, which is not a good way to write a standard.
  • LAC-Tech 3y ago
    The important thing is - Firefox has been slowly dying for a decade and SQLite has taken over the world.
    • veidelis 3y ago
      Firefox is nowhere near dead on my devices!
• neftaly 3y ago
  The issue was that a specific library would be pinned at a specific version for the rest of the history of the web. As good as SQLite is, I hope to hell we're not still stuck using it to handle mining operations in the oort cloud in 200 years.
  • josephg 3y ago
    This is why wasm is great. Webpages can just ship whatever version of SQLite they want. And/or eventually migrate to something better.