[dovetaildb-discuss] Wacky idea: running entirely client-side?

[Matt Kangas]

Hey Phil, I have a wacky, utterly impractical question for you. :)

Have you considered running DovetailDB *within* a web browser, as a
client-side storage engine? Perhaps as an alternative to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOM_storage
http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/

The webdatabase spec says "This specification has reached an impasse".
So far the only syntax proposed is tied to SQLite's implementation.
But one might ask, is SQL the right interface for a browser storage
standard at all?

http://blog.vlad1.com/2009/04/06/html5-web-storage-and-sql/
http://jchrisa.net/drl/_design/sofa/_show/post/Fixing-HTML-5-Storage

One clever response:

http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=580
http://mikeal.github.com/browsercouch/ (latest maintained version)

This fellow hacked together a prototype JavaScript implementation of
CouchDB, which he dubbed BrowserCouch. "It’s intended to work across
all browsers, gracefully upgrading its functionality when support for
features like Web Workers and DOM Storage are detected."

Ian Hickson, author of the html5/webdatabase spec commented on these
posts:

> "I encourage you to post this to the public-webapps list (or to the WHATWG list). I expect I’ll be reverse-engineering SQLite and speccing that, if nothing better is picked first. As it is, people are starting to use the database feature in actual Web apps (e.g. mobile GMail, iirc)." [1]

> "Please do send your findings to the working group. It would be great to discuss something concrete; right now, the only concrete proposal is the SQL stuff, which is why we’re using it at the moment. If people can be convinced by your proposal, maybe we’ll use that instead!" [2]

[1] http://blog.vlad1.com/2009/04/06/html5-web-storage-and-sql/#comment-3298
[2] http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=580#comment-1851

Why should we let them have all the fun? Why not DovetailDB instead?

:)

--Matt

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