Doesn't appear it was deprecated for the usage that I propose.
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2202...
>Byte-level storage
Would be cool.
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https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
> From article: we think developer aesthetics are an important consideration...we were resolved that using strings representing SQL commands lacked the elegance of a “web native” JavaScript API, and started looking at alternatives.
Seems a bit short-sighted considering SQL is super popular today on the backend.