Re: [whatwg] Why SQL? was: Comments on updated SQL API

2007-09-25 Thread Dean Edwards
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: I am not against new things really. It just appears as UA will look like Christmas tree one day. Each member of the family is adding their own stuff. And someone put there SQL engine because it happens to lie on the shelf nearby and granddad decide that his old canvas will

Re: [whatwg] Why SQL? was: Comments on updated SQL API

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Fedoniouk
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Web App developers are used to using SQL to access storage on the server. Web apps that add offline support are likely to want to store data on the client with a similar structure to data on the server. If some form of object persistence is desired, it could be implem

Re: [whatwg] Why SQL? was: Comments on updated SQL API

2007-09-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > > > > > > I have a question: why SQL was chosen as client side storage for Web > > > Applications? > > > > Because it's what most app developers are already used to -- the M in > > the widely used traditional LAMP stack is SQL. > > "most app deve

Re: [whatwg] Why SQL? was: Comments on updated SQL API

2007-09-25 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:45 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: I have a question: why SQL was chosen as client side storage for Web Applications? Because it's what most app developers are already used to -- the M in the widely use

Re: [whatwg] Why SQL? was: Comments on updated SQL API

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew Fedoniouk
Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: I have a question: why SQL was chosen as client side storage for Web Applications? Because it's what most app developers are already used to -- the M in the widely used traditional LAMP stack is SQL. "most app devel

Re: [whatwg] Why SQL? was: Comments on updated SQL API

2007-09-24 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > > I have a question: why SQL was chosen as client side storage for Web > Applications? Because it's what most app developers are already used to -- the M in the widely used traditional LAMP stack is SQL. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E