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Re:W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database by pornel on Friday November 19, 2010 @05:09AM (#1920993)
Because there is only one implementation, no matter how good it is, websites would end up relying on every bug and quirk in SQLite.

SQLite isn't quite SQL. It has weakly dynamically typed columns (will happily store strings in INT column), and ROWID/auto increment is icky (magic behavior with special-casing for backwards compatibility).

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Re:W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database by sid0 on Friday November 19, 2010 @10:44AM (#1921675)
Exactly. All proposed web standards require at least two implementations to become actual web standards. That was never going to happen with Web SQL.
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