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Re:W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database by Groxx on Friday November 19, 2010 @05:27PM (#1923064)
Hardly. An API can exist entirely without implementation, and pulling an API from an implementation doesn't need to expose any details of the implementation. That's kind of the point of an API - it's an abstraction. And what are the specs, if not APIs?

Not standardizing on an implementation: makes sense. Refusing to standardize on an API until there are two+ implementations: ?

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Re:W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database by wmf on Friday November 19, 2010 @06:43PM (#1923287)
Refusing to standardize on an API until there are two+ implementations: ?

There are good reasons for this, like uncovering undocumented-but-essential behavior. I think if you are going to standardize an API you should have two implementations, but I also think it's reasonable to standardize a single implementation as long as it is licensed so that everyone can use it (e.g. SQLite).

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