Microsoft was also a dissenting voice against WebSQL. It was a team effort (because this is about standards), not just Mozilla's "fault".
SQLite is not a standard, and it would have been an IE6-level mistake to bake SQLite quirks and bugs into the web standard for the rest of time. (It doesn't matter that SQLite is open source, it's still a central source of failure that the web doesn't necessarily need in every browser for the rest of time.)
SQLite is not a standard, and it would have been an IE6-level mistake to bake SQLite quirks and bugs into the web standard for the rest of time. (It doesn't matter that SQLite is open source, it's still a central source of failure that the web doesn't necessarily need in every browser for the rest of time.)