> The argument that WebSQL was tailored to a specific SQLite version is nonsense.
No, the idea that WebSQLDB was not tailored to a specific SQLite version is nonsense. See Section 5 of the last version of the WebSQLDB spec [0]:
User agents must implement the SQL dialect supported by Sqlite 3.6.19.
> SQLite supports the official SQL92 standard
SQLite version 3.6.19 does not support all of, or only, the SQL92 standard. WebSQLDB did not mandate support for the SQL92 standard, or any other standard version of SQL, it specified the dialect supported by SQLite 3.6.19.
Everyone knows the "Web SQL Database W3C recommendation" document should be re-evaluated, better formulated and improved. Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, stated that the dialect won't change (removing syntax) in SQLite v3 during the WebSQL W3C standardization in the mailing list.
About 95% of all mobile devices already support WebSQL (iOS & Android & WindowsPhone (via official Microsoft sponsored extension)). And all desktop Chrome, Safari, Opera support WebSQL too. The only missing browsers are IE 11 and Firefox/FirefoxOS.
> Everyone knows the "Web SQL Database W3C recommendation" document should be re-evaluated, better formulated and improved.
Everyone does not know this. Some people believe this, other people believe it should die in a fire. But whatever one things about the current state of the abandoned WebSQLDB spec, that is what WebSQLDB is, and you can't talk about -- honestly, at least -- it and pretend that it specifies SQL-92 as the required SQL dialect when, in fact, it specifies "the SQL dialect supported by SQLite 3.6.19".
You are essentially arguing that WebSQLDB should not have been abandoned based on the content of an imaginary WebSQLDB spec that never existed. If WebSQLDB had specified a (explicit, well-defined, use-case appropriate, single-user subset of) SQL-92 that would be different than what it actually specified, and the discussion would be different.
No, the idea that WebSQLDB was not tailored to a specific SQLite version is nonsense. See Section 5 of the last version of the WebSQLDB spec [0]:
User agents must implement the SQL dialect supported by Sqlite 3.6.19.
> SQLite supports the official SQL92 standard
SQLite version 3.6.19 does not support all of, or only, the SQL92 standard. WebSQLDB did not mandate support for the SQL92 standard, or any other standard version of SQL, it specified the dialect supported by SQLite 3.6.19.
[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/#databases