The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standardization efforts around Web SQL suspended. The technology is browser applications to access local data store. Web SQL Database SQLite database built into the browser to the. Programmers can then write SQL data and by reading. A major advantage of the tools to obtain information in the cache memory is to be taken. They can be called even if the computer is not connected to a network - one of the main problems of many web apps.

The W3C recommends that programmers now on the specifications page to Web SQL, the standard does not use further. "Caution. This specification is not developed and the Web Applications Working Group does not intend to maintain it too, "is there to read.
This web was launched SQL promising: Apple, Google and Opera use it in different browsers, only Microsoft and Mozilla share the competition Indexed DB. Indexed DB is however not fully developed as a Web SQL. Not all browsers use the technology one before. The standardization is still ongoing. The decision of the W3C, as a body which is responsible for the standardization of Web technologies like HTML does not necessarily mean the end for Web SQL. It is still part of multiple browsers, including the mobile version of Safari in IOS.