<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 24, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><blockquote type="cite">The database name is - and should remain - a technical detail that is <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">internal to the implementation of a web application. I propose we <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">provide an optional way for an openDatabase() call to include a <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">DatabaseDescription, which is meant to be a human-readable name or <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">description of the database. This would make policy prompts regarding <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the database (creation, increasing the size) as well as the management <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">UI potentially more meaningful and clear to the user.<br></blockquote><br>Done.<br></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Great! But, I think an editorial mistake in the updated spec page -</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; ">"The <dfn id="opendatabase" title="dom-opendatabase" style=""><code style="font-variant: normal; color: rgb(255, 69, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">openDatabase()</span></font></code></dfn> method returns a <code style="font-variant: normal; color: rgb(255, 69, 0); "><a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-sql.html#database0" style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: inherit; background-position: initial initial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;">Database</span></span></font></a></code> object. The method takes four arguments: a database name, a database version, a display name, and an estimated size, in bytes, of the data that will be stored in the database."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;">Second "database name" should be "database description", or even "user friendly database description"</span></div></div><br></body></html>