<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Name and version is not just used for UI, it is used to specify what database to open and to prevent schema conflicts. But I assume you are talking about the "display name". Just because an implementation wont present the display name in UI, other implementations will. Letting authors optionally leave out the display name will just give a bad experience is user agents that do show them. User agents that don't plan to show the display name could just ignore the argument.</div><br><div><html>On Apr 10, 2008, at 4:36 AM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Is there any reason not to make name and version of the openDatabase()<br>method in the SQL storage spec optional<br>(<a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-sql.html)?">http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-sql.html)?</a><br>In some implementations, there may not be an opportunity to offer a UI<br>where these parameters will be used.<br></span></blockquote><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">— Timothy Hatcher</span></span></font></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>