Hi, I'm from Mexico and I have an android app created with the Sencha Touch framework and I use WebSQL for now everything is going great. My question is, will I also be affected by these changes? El jueves, 9 de febrero de 2023 a las 10:23:14 UTC-6, Randy Lauen escribió:
> Hi Ben, > > I think that's what I'll experiment with first. I was hoping someone else > had traveled this road already and had some advice. My tentative plan for > migrating is to copy the WebSQL data to SQLite, but keep both > implementations running side by side for a while. If anything goes wrong, > users could switch back to WebSQL, at least for a while. I'm at the very > early stages of figuring out the new SQLite API, though, so there's a long > way to go. > > I don't know of any other extensions using WebSQL. The name of my > extension is History Trends Unlimited (Thomas asked about this earlier in > the thread). I created it 10 years ago, even though WebSQL was already > deprecated at that point. I figured the extension would eventually die when > WebSQL was removed; I'm very happy that there's a path forward now. Many > thanks to all those involved. > > --Randy > > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 6:05 PM Ben Morss <mo...@google.com> wrote: > >> *Carl*, the signs are promising for other browsers to implement all the >> APIs needed to run SQLite-over-Wasm. I'm optimistic! >> >> *Randy*, how hard would it be to implement something that read user data >> from Web SQL and wrote it into a parallel table structure in SQLite? Both >> of these will coexist in Chromium for some time. >> >> Let us know how this goes, if you could. I'd also like to be aware of >> other extensions out there that might be using Web SQL and could have >> missed our announcements.... >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 6:13 PM Carl Turechek <carltu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> One more question is whether that will work on all browsers.. that could >>> at least be considered as an improvement. Also, I'm subbed to this convo >>> and haven't seen any notifications anywhere... Is it supposed to email me? >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 6:50:35 AM UTC-5 tste...@google.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Randy, >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:51 PM Randy Lauen <randy...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Speaking of nontrivial examples, I have a Chrome extension that relies >>>>> heavily on WebSQL. On my desktop, the WebSQL database for my extension is >>>>> almost 400 MB. I know some users have a database over 1 GB. I'm very >>>>> excited about using Wasm SQLite, since I can (hopefully) configure SQLite >>>>> the way I want, instead of being stuck with the configuration used by >>>>> Chrome. >>>> >>>> >>>> Very exciting. Do you mind sharing the name of the extension? >>>> >>>> >>>>> What I'm not looking forward to, though, is the transition. Do you >>>>> have any advice on migrating data from WebSQL to Wasm SQLite? My best >>>>> guess >>>>> so far is to have users use my extension's import/export mechanism to >>>>> export all of their WebSQL data to a file and then import it back into >>>>> Wasm >>>>> SQLite. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Asking users to manually export their database file from Web SQL via >>>> your extension's export feature and then importing to SQLite is probably >>>> the easiest way, yes. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Also, with WebSQL, I can locate the SQLite database on disk within >>>>> Chrome's profile directory. Will that be possible with Wasm SQLite/OPFS? >>>>> >>>> >>>> As a developer, you can use the OPFS Explorer extension ( >>>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/opfs-explorer/acndjpgkpaclldomagafnognkcgjignd) >>>> >>>> to do so. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Finally, between manifest v3 and WebSQL deprecation, my extension will >>>>> need a lot of changes this year. If it's possible to stagger the >>>>> deadlines >>>>> for those, so I don't have to tackle both at the same time, then that >>>>> gets >>>>> my vote! >>>>> >>>> >>>> The manifest v3 deadline is unrelated to this deprecation deadline. You >>>> can express your concerns about the extensions deadline on their forum: >>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Tom >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/3bdcd5d9-61ab-4f4f-927d-c64e8227a829n%40chromium.org.
