Enable webSQL for packaged apps?

[Timothy Clancy]

I'm sure this has been beaten to death, but can we take a look at enabling webSQL for packaged apps?  I know it's not an official standard, but it's already part of Chrome, why not expose the API?

IndexedDB is a disaster and simply does not fit any non-trivial use case for a database driven application.  If Mozilla and MS want to destroy SQL DBs on the Web then I guess we just have to deal with it.  But chrome apps can be so much more...  Just give us the API and set us free from the convoluted NoSQL nonsense!!

At this point I'm just looping through a large JSON datastore that gets stashed with the FIlesystem API.  Painfully slow.

As a side note, why doesn't Google go bash some heads at the W3C and get webSQL back on track?  Donate a few devs to whip up a spec and implementation.  There's gotta be a few PhDs floating around with some extra time on their hands :)  I've been developing for the web for almost 15 years now, and I've never seen such a step back as with IndexedDB, but I digress.

We don't need to be standards compliant with packaged apps.  Make the webSQL api available please!

Cheers,

Tim

[Dave Furey]

I agree with Tim. Please add the ability to use WebSQL with Chrome packaged apps. That would make it much easier for me to port existing code over to the Chrome platform. 

Thanks.

[Joe Marini]

Please feel free to file a request at crbug.com.

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Dave Furey <dave....@gmail.com> wrote:

I agree with Tim. Please add the ability to use WebSQL with Chrome packaged apps. That would make it much easier for me to port existing code over to the Chrome platform. 

Thanks.

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[Renato Mangini]

IndexedDB is indeed hard to use. I would also love to see a better, easier and more powerful solution for non-trivial structured data in the client - not sure if WebSQL is the best solution, though. Something along the lines of a local cached, cloud-sync'ed structured storage would be better IMO. A local SQL wouldn't fit into a multi-device world.

Please, fill a feature request and get people to vote it up. Count with my vote :-)

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[g...@nsbasic.com]

Issue opened. Let's all vote and comment on it!

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=339579