daihozen

I've been having a lot of fun building a realistic-looking demo app that is meant to showcase the features of a coming product. A big challenge in such cases is obviously dynamic data, since hard-coded data won't cut it. It needs to behave like a web app, providing the illusion of a server-side database, but without a server-side database. HTML5 provides built-in client-side persistence features called sessionStorage and localStorage, but when the data requirements are complex, as in my application, these just aren't adequate. What I need is a client-side database like SQLite. As it turns out, different browsers have taken different routes to providing client-side databases, and it made my head hurt to read about Web SQL and SQLite and which browser incorporated which database and which browser abandoned which database. Finally, I found a JavaScript library called HTML5SQL.js that promised to abstract all those implementation issues from me, giving me a standard API to work