Web SQL Database is a deprecated web browser API specification for storing data in

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s that can be queried using SQL variant. The API is supported by

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, Opera,

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, and the Android Browser, albeit support is slowly being phased out. Web SQL was deprecated and removed for third-party contexts in Chromium 97. Web SQL access in insecure contexts is deprecated as of Chromium 105 at which time a warning message will be shown in the Chrome DevTools Issue panel. The W3C Web Applications Working Group ceased working on the specification in November 2010, citing a lack of independent implementations (i.e. using database system other than SQLite as the backend) as the reason the specification could not move forward to become a W3C Recommendation.

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was one of the major voices behind the break-up of negotiations and deprecation of the standard, while at the same time being the main proponents behind an 'alternative storage' standard,

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. Mozilla's argument against it becoming a standard was because it would codify the quirks of SQLite.

References

External links

W3C Web SQL Database Working Draft

Web SQL database
at Info-Q
SQL storage
at Can-I-Use Database APIs World Wide Web Consortium standards {{Web-stub

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