Versioning was never really an issue. It's worth pointing out that Richard Hipp committed to creating and maintaining a flag in SQLite that would force SQLite to use whatever subset of SQL the WebSQL people settled on for their API. That would have of course worked independently of the SQLite version. (He also offered to write the SQL part of the spec.)
I thought the reasons given for not moving forward with standardizing WebSQL and using a SQLite implementation were (and undoubtedly still are) very, very stupid so I'm not the right person to represent them here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15670808
I thought the reasons given for not moving forward with standardizing WebSQL and using a SQLite implementation were (and undoubtedly still are) very, very stupid so I'm not the right person to represent them here.