Could you please elaborate or give us some links Thomas?
Are you talking about this http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis-and-the-road-to-indexeddb/ ?
>Nothing to fear... Actualy there was something VERY much closer to local cursors planned and already working in some browsers for HTML5: WebSQL to utilize SQLite. But that was killed by Oracle, which provided the code for alternative store implementation based on one of their bought up OS products and argued heavily against standardizing a relational table/column-based on only SQLIte and code already working across browsers based on GEARS to be maintained further. I am so glad Oracle protected me from the folly of trying to use local cursors based on SQLite that I mention that and the ridiculous Java/Android trial with a persistance similar to Craig warning about Google. Read up on the arguments leading Firefox dev to turn his back on WebSQL and to hail more modern object stores. Until you have read up that stuff, you have no idea where the satire is and what it does encompass...