They did start that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database
The problem was that "sql" is big, so first they would have to agree on a specific set of instructions for a full RDBMS which is pretty much as much work as a browser itself
So they proposed to just use sqlite, which was almost fine except now a standard would only be properly implemented by a single implementation. This is worse than the current web.
rakoo
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2026-04-03 06:40:03 UTC
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