title: What happened to HTML 5 web databases?
body: <p>I checked out the site at <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/</a> and I saw a huge banner there that said </p>
  
  <p>"Beware. This specification is no longer in active maintenance and the Web Applications Working Group does not intend to maintain it further."</p>
  
  <p>What's that supposed to mean? I was thinking of implementing something using this feature. But I don't want to implement something in it if its not going to be standardized(eventually).</p>
  
  <p>Do you suggest that I go ahead working on it? If not, is there an alternative that would be standardized? Or is it just another spec that has been scrapped?</p>