On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:00:21 +0100, Marcos Caceres <w...@marcosc.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Shane Harrelson wrote:
Not to beat a dead horse, but would
https://code.google.com/p/csharp-sqlite/ count as an independent
implementation of the SQLite SQL syntax?
So no, it would not count (not unless we want to really dilute how a
specification becomes a W3C standard).
To prove that it is possible to independently implement the specification
and get something interoperable, it would in principle be fine. But that
is only one part of the requirements for a standard...
Using an unmaintained project as a ways of advancing as specification
would kinda defeat the point of standardization of browser technology.
In that it fails to change the perception that there is not real interest
in making the particular spec into a standard.
To benefit the web, the only independent implementations that would
actually matter would need to be browser-based.
That's not really true. It is important to get implementations in
browsers, and the fact that currently a number of major browsers have
stated that they are not interested in implementing (or in some cases in
maintaining impementations of) Web SQL is one reason it is not considered
worth further work at this time.
If there were compelling* services based on WebSQL, the question might be
re-examined. The inability to meet a particular bureaucratic
interpretation of "independently implemented interoperable uses" isn't the
reason why work has stopped. It happened because there was no apparent
likelihood of WebSQL becoming a standard that was generally implemented,
and there was an alternative that appeared to have a much higher
probability of being worth working on.
Of course, all these judgements are just that. History has proven them
wrong in the past, and that will continue to happen.
cheers
Chaals
*I mean something that has 10% penetration, or 25% penetration in a few
key markets, not just "a few hundred people agree this is really
fantastic" - although if those people happen to be browser engineers or
standards wonks the reality is that you have a better chance of getting a
real standard to occur)
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