SQLite is already part of OS X - it's part of CoreData, which got introduced in Tiger, the current OS X release. SQlite is quite robust for its intended purpose and very portable, hence, you will see more and more frameworks take advantage of it down the road.
On 10/22/07, Kontra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Malouf: > > > > Kontra, how does this compare to Gears? > > > Google Gears is a plug-in approach and thus doesn't need to wait for > HTML5. > There are pros and cons associated with plug-ins in general. > > Do we have to wait for HTML 5 to be implemented? > > > While HTML5 is not obviously ready yet, the major players in client-side > storage, Apple, Firefox, Google and Adobe, all use SQLite. (One that's not > using it at this point is Microsoft.) I suspect Apple went ahead with > implementing this feature of HTML5 because it would like to bring data > persistence to Safari in iPhone as soon as practicable. Whether Apple will > actually deploy local storage in Safari before HTML5 is finalized is a > matter of speculation. I wouldn't bet against it. I expect to hear about > this more by next summer, about when we'll get acquainted with iPhone 2.0. > > > -- > Kontra > http://counternotions.com > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > -- -------------------------------------------------- www.flyingyogi.com -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
