It is noteworthy, however, that this spec won't make it into the standard; so 
browser vendors are basically free to drop it anytime. (yea that's sad.)

/Eno

On 07.03.2011, at 03:56, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:

> 
> On 7 Mar 2011, at 2:49am, Matt Young wrote:
> 
>> Trying to understand it.  How do I specifically open sqlite from a jquery
>> widget.
>> Or best simple example.
> 
> jquery is just a JavaScript library.  JavaScript can't open a file on your 
> hard disk.  Because if JavaScript could open a file on your hard disk, anyone 
> who wrote a web site you visited could grab a copy of one of your files.
> 
> However, HTML5 does have facilities in for using SQL:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/
> 
> and as it turns out, everyone who implemented this implemented it by building 
> SQLite into their JavaScript engine.  It just uses private databases rather 
> than allowing you to specify a directory path.
> 
> Simon.
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