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Ehhhhh I'll give them a pass on this. Almost nobody is using it because browser support was never that great and it's being deprecated.

We should focus on reducing browser feature creep. There's hundreds of features and most of them are barely used or legacy

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Uhh, IndexedDB is not deprecated and every browser supports it: https://caniuse.com/?search=indexeddb

I wonder if it ever made sense for the browser to provide this facility over exposing a sandbox where the app can store arbitrary data and provide its own version of sqlite for js/wasm. At least this way your own bundled db won't be broken by browser bugs.

By the same logic, did it ever make sense for the browser to provide JS, instead of wasm + well-defined DOM API?

And I think the answer is that, no, it did not. And I suspect that we'll end up in a wasm-first world eventually anyway, just with a lengthy and inconvenient detour. But it's worth remembering that IndexedDB predates wasm by several years.

You need a way to make sure whatever WASM database you bundle with your front-end app actually persists data somewhere in a transactional way. You cannot do that if you do not have a transactional data store as a WebAPI at first place. Local storage isn't.

I think you're thinking of websql https://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/

You're right. Fuck I'm old

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