[nafey]

I believe it's a missed opportunity not to bundle sqlite in major browsers. I understand that making SQLite part of the browser spec introduces all sorts of complications [1] down the line. But nevertheless, it would have proved to be quite a nifty tool.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...

[simonw]

I'm so glad they didn't. We would all be stuck on some 14 year old baseline version of SQLite at this point.

SQLite as WASM is a much better solution IMO.

[compressedgas]

They already did that. It was called WebSQL. It was removed I think in favor of IndexedDB.

[slightwinder]

[..] Web SQL Database was a prior API developed by Apple.[12] But Firefox refused to add support for it and argued against it becoming a standard because it would codify the quirks of SQLite.[13][14] It was thus deprecated in favor of IndexedDB.[..]

Mozilla again.. The real joke is, Firefox is now the only(?) browser using sqlite out-of-the-box for internal databases.