Although formally, this is an FPWD, in reality this is the third FPWD
for this content already. While implementable, Oracle is concerned
about two aspects of this draft that have never changed materially
since the original publication of the said content in HTML5 WDs:
1. Complex programming model that will make usage prone to making more
mistakes than usual for database programming
2. Inadequate effort by the editor to ascertain the suitability of
this spec to be implemented independently by multiple parties
We agree with Jonas and Laxmi that this is neither a great direction
to pursue nor is FPWD itself going to bring about much progress.
Nevertheless, we, too, support publication of the WebDatabase draft as
FPWD.
We are also very pleased to announce that following up on our previous
strawman proposal [1], we have drafted a new Database API [2] that
does not rely on SQL or SQLite. It is still in a relatively early
state and will undergo some more changes before we pursue wider
publication.
However, we welcome any and all feedback on our draft proposal.
Nikunj
[1] http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected]
[2] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebSimpleDatabase/
On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
I support a FPWD since I'm all for drafts of any kind being published.
However, I'm still unconvinced that this draft is heading the right
way for the web. My concern is two-fold:
1. It doesn't define enough to allow multiple interoperable
implementations. This is because the SQL dialect is not defined.
2. SQL doesn't seem very web-friendly. For example the ability to
store serializable JS objects and index on a property of that JS
object seems hard to fit with SQL.
The problem is even greater when the two are combined. Once the SQL
dialect is defined, it's quite possible that UAs won't be able to use
a SQL library like sqlite, but instead have to more or less build
their own SQL implementation. This makes the cost extremely high, and
the result not something that even that closely matches what
developers want.
/ Jonas
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Arthur
Barstow<[email protected]> wrote:
This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to publish the First Public
Working Draft
(FPWD) of the Web Database spec:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/
Note that at one point in time, the Web Database spec's
functionality was
included in the Web Storage spec.
As with all of our CfCs, positive response is preferred and
encouraged and
silence will be assumed to be assent. The deadline for comments is
September
7.
-Regards, Art Barstow
Nikunj
http://o-micron.blogspot.com
