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Of course that spec will also have to specify the format are supported just like WebSQL had to specify the SQL flavor used ... Oh wait, that was the excuse not to make WebSQL a standard... img or audio or video never specs never needed to specify which format these tags should support, but it was a problem with WebSQL? I'd rather have WebSQL than a <model> tag...

Also, let's continue with the hypocrisy. If indexedDB is good enough so people "just have to implement a RDBMS on top of it", so is WebGL which had poor support on Safari until very recently...



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