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506 points whatever3 | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 17:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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parhamn ◴[15 Oct 24 20:10 UTC] No.41852607[source]▶
WebSQL should've just been Sqlite and the whole offline-first (and general app storage) ecosystem would've been so much nicer.

Is there any hope of that happening? Instead of abstracting and over specifying sqlite, can the spec just specify a version of the SQLite API browsers should support and roll the version periodically?

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1. simonw ◴[15 Oct 24 20:41 UTC] No.41852879[source]▶
I for one am glad WebSQL didn't establish itself.

Now we get the most recent version of SQLite when we need it as a 410KB compressd WASM blob, as opposed to being stuck on browser-mandated versions of SQLite that might even be a decade old at this point.

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2. xyc ◴[16 Oct 24 00:47 UTC] No.41854591[source]▶
They are not mutually exclusive though. WebSQL doesn't prevent anyone from loading a WASM blob. And while moving slowly, the browsers does deprecate old stuff and update implementation.