HTML5 Interoperability
Brian Hogan: I am getting really, really tired of Mozilla screwing up the HTML5 specification. First it’s video, and now "we’re never supporting Web SQL"
By video, I’m assuming that Brian is referring to the fact that Mozilla does not plan to implement H.264. The story on H.264 is still a bit complicated. I’ll also add that the full story on video includes WebM, Ogg Theora, and even Flash and Silverlight, at least as fallbacks.
With respect to Web SQL, what would be needed is for somebody to define an interoperable dialect of SQL which would be support multiple interoperable implementations. Statements like User agents must implement the SQL dialect supported by Sqlite 3.6.19 will never fly. Additionally, not everybody agrees that stringifying SQL statements is JavaScript is desirable.