On 4/1/2011 9:39 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
How, exactly, does it make all the difference? I sure hope you aren't suggesting that the spec say "do what this code does."IE6 is closed-source software written for a single platform. SQLite is in the public domain, works for all major operating systems and lots of minor ones, and is already used (I think?) by every major browser except IE. That makes all the difference. There's some benefit to having multiple interoperable implementations even if the reference implementation is public-domain, but enormously less than when the only implementations are controlled by particular parties.
So if the only objection to WebSQL is "there's no way we're going to get a formal spec or two interoperable implementations", I'd really encourage objectors to step back and ask themselves why they *want* a formal spec and two interoperable implementations. Those requirements are not axiomatic, they're means to obtain practical ends like allowing competitions and avoiding user lock-in. How many of those ends are really contrary to using SQLite as a de facto standard, and do the remaining ones really outweigh the practical advantages?
That's not the only reason. Mozilla laid out others ten months ago: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis-and-the-road-to-indexeddb/ Cheers, Shawn
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