The decision to not standardize WebSQL as proposed was correct -- because it wasn&#x27;t a specification of behavior for which independent implementations were going to happen. It was, effectively even if not in principle, a mandate of a particular implementation.<p>That&#x27;s not to say a web-platform relational API (even one based on SQL) standard would be a bad thing -- I think it would be a good thing. And its not to say that using SQLite as a key part of the stack in an implementation of such a standard would be a bad thing, either. But &quot;behave exactly as version <i>n</i> of SQLite behaves&quot; is not appropriate for a Web API standard, any more than &quot;behave exactly as version <i>n</i> of Internet Explorer&quot; would be.