How to Get Firefox to Support WebSQL?

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zlaer
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How to Get Firefox to Support WebSQL?

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How can I get ff to support WebSQL?
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Re: How to Get Firefox to Support WebSQL?

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Re: How to Get Firefox to Support WebSQL?

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What is WebSQL & why should FF support it?

(dated) Implement WebSQL as a WebExtensions interface
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Re: How to Get Firefox to Support WebSQL?

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See
Bug 1247329 - Implement WebSQL as a WebExtensions interface

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
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Re: How to Get Firefox to Support WebSQL?

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Andy McKay

Comment 15 • 4 years ago

I've been trying to give every bug a priority following the new Bugzilla triage guidelines and P5 seems the most appropriate.

A group of contributors discussed this bug and followed up on this bug as a result. We outlined some thinking onto the wiki page. We did not close this bug for the simple reason: we don't believe that everyone on our team knows everything and we could have been wrong earlier this year when we started on the WebExtensions project and spent a few minutes reviewing this bug.

I'll repeat those comments here:

* Concerns about WebSQL as not a successful standard.
* No overwhelming reason to support this.
* There are already many libraries that exist outside of WebExtensions wrap around IndexedDB and give developers access to sane APIs. Local forage is one example.
* Concerns about maintenance of such an API.

After 9 months no-one else has commented on wanting this API and multiple people have suggested that it would be a bad idea.

Perhaps just marking this a WONTFIX would be more appropriate at this point.
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Re: How to Get Firefox to Support WebSQL?

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Mozilla Corporation were one of the major voices behind the break-up of negotiations and deprecation of the standard, while at the same time being the main proponents behind an 'alternative storage' standard, IndexedDB.
Web SQL Database
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database
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Re: How to Get Firefox to Support WebSQL?

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dickvl wrote:See
Bug 1247329 - Implement WebSQL as a WebExtensions interface
Wow I see. Appreciate the help dude!
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