On 4/4/11 10:15 AM, Ryan Fugger wrote:
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/
Mozilla's plan appears to be to implement IndexedDB on top of SQLite,
This is not a plan so much as a current stopgap.
> Why not just expose the thing and let developers worry about whether
> what they're using is standard or not, and suffer the consequences
> later, if in fact there are any?
Because due to the incentive structure here the entities making the bad
decisions are not the ones who end up having to suffer the consequences.
It's a typical case of externalizing the negatives.
It seems to me that the proper role for standards
is to step in and help clear things up when they get messy
Often it's too late by then.
-Boris
