Response to My Article on Sybase's Embedded Mobile Databases and HTML5
I received feedback on my article, " What Does HTML5 Mean for Sybase's Embedded Mobile Database Business? " from Sybase's Tom Lee this week. Comments don't show up well on this blogging platform so I wanted to publish it here so you could be sure to read it. Please add your comments as well! Tom Slee: Kevin - interesting comments, but I have a few disagreements. I'm speaking as part of the Sybase mobile and embedded database team, but opinions are my own. HTML5 is now, as you know, a much bigger spec than just the local database. It includes a lot of video and other UI enhancements (canvas and so on). What's more, the Web SQL Database that you are referring to is no longer part of the HTML5 spec (although it is still present in mobile browsers, still supported, and has a bright future - just not as part of a formal spec.) See http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/ So I think the changing face of HTML5 leads to a couple of confusions in your article.