back to article IndexedDB pulls away from less-loved web storage options

The Indexed Database API 2.0 has arrived in draft form, promising a variety of improvements in the way developers of web applications can store data in browsers. IndexedDB is a JavaScript-based object-oriented database within modern browsers. It began taking shape in 2011 and, after years in draft form, it met with W3C …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    IndexedDB has an abortion of an API.

    The designers were a bunch of shitters who targeted it at library writers, rather than developers, with the theory that they'd abstract it for us mere monkeys.

    Obviously THAT didn't happen, so now we're stuck with it until it gets totally replaced.

    Post-promise APIs like cache are really nice, so it's definitely possible if you start from scratch.

    1. Brewster's Angle Grinder Silver badge

      await new API();

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