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0 pointsj-pb6y ago0 comments

Just use the SQLite implementation and documentation everywhere. SQLite is arguably the most well tested piece of software on the planet.

It would have been the only piece of every browser that 'just works'.

But hey having a "spec" on top to all the available documentation is super necessary so that some bloke on twitter can put it into their bio.

Even HTML doesn't have specs anymore, because they don't matter. They are a means to get all browsers to be compatible not the goal.

And Safari and Chrome still ship with WebSQL, so I don't think that "security issue" is actually there.

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detaro6y ago

I'm not sure where you get the idea that HTML does not have a specification? It has a very extensive one.

j-pbOP6y ago

Its not a specification though, its a "living standard" a.k.a. we document the stuff we build as we go.

detaro6y ago

A living standard is a form of specification. You can use it to implement a tool consuming HTML the same way the browsers do from scratch, and the browsers use the process to align their independent implementations.

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0 pointsj-pb6y ago0 comments

Just use the SQLite implementation and documentation everywhere. SQLite is arguably the most well tested piece of software on the planet.

It would have been the only piece of every browser that 'just works'.

But hey having a "spec" on top to all the available documentation is super necessary so that some bloke on twitter can put it into their bio.

Even HTML doesn't have specs anymore, because they don't matter. They are a means to get all browsers to be compatible not the goal.

And Safari and Chrome still ship with WebSQL, so I don't think that "security issue" is actually there.

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detaro6y ago

I'm not sure where you get the idea that HTML does not have a specification? It has a very extensive one.

j-pbOP6y ago

Its not a specification though, its a "living standard" a.k.a. we document the stuff we build as we go.

detaro6y ago

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