On Apr 23, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Doug Schepers wrote:
Jonas and others seem to support broadening the scope, and I've also
been reading various posts in the blogosphere that also question
whether
SQL is the right choice (I see a lot of support for JSON-based
approaches). At the very least, I think this group should discuss
this
more before committing to any one solution. I note that Ian was
already
open to an early spec revision on the same lines, so I hope this
isn't
controversial.
If there is something that is more useful for Web authors as a whole
than
SQL, and if the browser vendors are willing to implement it, then
the spec
should use that, yes.
(I don't know of anything that fits that criteria though. Most of the
proposals so far have been things that are useful in specific
scenarios,
but aren't really generic solutions.)
If this is acceptable to the WG as a whole, I would ask that a
message
similar to the above be put in a prominent place in the spec. This
seems like the soundest way forward.
The draft got published today, so it's too late to change the high-
profile
version of the spec. Rather than add this message, I'd like to just
come
to some sort of conclusion on the issue. What are the various
proposals
that exist to solve this problem other than SQL, and how willing are
the
browser vendors to implement those solutions?
I don't want to discredit the standardization efforts for SQL in
WebStorage. Yet, this spec is just in its FPWD. Won't we be better off
coming to a conclusion on the issue of the set of storage solutions
and access techniques for the same soon after the WD is published?
By tomorrow, I commit to send a concrete proposal for solving storage
needs (besides SQL) that I believe browser vendors would be able to
(and hopefully willing to) implement. I am giving my current draft a
thorough read before I send it off to the WG.
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