Yes, my beef with MS is that they went along with Oracle arguing not to implement that feature and preferred to stall further development of WebSQL when it was still active in the standard.

>Local storage is something different and is still there from what I understand
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>>WebSQL also is in the HTML standard but was put on hold - Oracle leaning with arguments and code offered by Oracle employee on Mozilla and MS neither implemtening support via SQLite nor taking the effort to bundle one their smaller DB's and implement a wrapper to access it. The vendors of the 2 biggest selling DB backends IMO were only too happy to put that effort on hold via very flimsy argument.