webDB; : first version at a WG Note

webDB; : first version at a WG Note

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-  </style><link href="http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/W3C-ED" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><div class="head">
-   <p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" height="48" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" width="72"></a></p>
-   <h1>Web SQL Database</h1>
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-1-november-2010">Editor's Draft 1 November 2010</h2>
-   <p style="background: black; color: white; font: 900 2em serif; padding: 0.5em 1em; border: dotted yellow 0.5em; text-align: center">Beware. This specification is no longer in active maintenance.</p>
-   <dl><dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
-    <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/</a></dd>
-    <dt>Latest Editor's Draft:</dt>
-    <dd><a class="latest-link" href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/">http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/</a></dd>
+</style><link href="http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/W3C-WG-NOTE" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><div class="head">
+<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" height="48" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" width="72"></a></p>
+<h1>Web SQL Database</h1>
+<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-1-november-2010">W3C Working Group Note 18 November 2010</h2>
+<!--
+<p style="background: black; color: white; font: 900 2em serif; padding: 0.5em 1em; border: dotted yellow 0.5em; text-align: center">Beware. This specification is no longer in active maintenance.</p>
+-->
+<dl>
+<dt>This Version:</dt>
+<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-webdatabase-20101118/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-webdatabase-20101118/</a></dd>
+<dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
+<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/</a></dd>
+<dt>Latest Editor's Draft:</dt>
+<dd><a class="latest-link" href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/">http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/</a></dd>
 <!-- ZZZ: add the new version after it has shipped-->
-    <dt>Previous Versions:</dt>
-    <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20090423/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20090423/</a> <!-- yes, storage, not db -->
-    <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webdatabase-20091029/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webdatabase-20091029/</a></dd>
+<dt>Previous Versions:</dt>
+<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webdatabase-20091222/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webdatabase-20091222/</a>
+<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20090423/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webstorage-20090423/</a> <!-- yes, storage, not db -->
+<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webdatabase-20091029/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webdatabase-20091029/</a></dd>
 <!-- :ZZZ -->
-    <dt>Editors:</dt>
-    <dd><a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">Ian Hickson</a>, Google, Inc.</dd>
-   </dl><p class="copyright"><a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a>
-   &copy; 2010 <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><abbr title="World Wide
-   Web Consortium">W3C</abbr></a><sup>&reg;</sup> (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><abbr title="Massachusetts
-   Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr></a>, <a href="http://www.ercim.org/"><abbr title="European Research
-   Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</abbr></a>, <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio</a>), All Rights Reserved. W3C
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-   and <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents">document
-   use</a> rules apply.</p>
+<dt>Editors:</dt>
+<dd><a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">Ian Hickson</a>, Google, Inc.</dd>
+</dl>
+<p class="copyright"><a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a>
+&copy; 2010 <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><abbr title="World Wide
+Web Consortium">W3C</abbr></a><sup>&reg;</sup> (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><abbr title="Massachusetts
+Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr></a>, <a href="http://www.ercim.org/"><abbr title="European Research
+Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</abbr></a>, <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio</a>), All Rights Reserved. W3C
+<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Legal_Disclaimer">liability</a>,
+<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#W3C_Trademarks">trademark</a>
+and <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents">document
+use</a> rules apply.</p>
 
 
-  </div><hr class="top"><h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="abstract">Abstract</h2><p>This specification defines an API for storing data in databases
-  that can be queried using a variant of SQL.<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="status-of-this-document">Status of This document</h2><!-- intro boilerplate (required) --><p><em>This section describes the status of this document at the
-  time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this
-  document. A list of current W3C publications and the most recently
-  formally published revision of this technical report can be found in
-  the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">W3C technical reports index</a>
-  at http://www.w3.org/TR/.</em></p><!-- where to send feedback (required) --><p>If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send
-  them to <a href="mailto:public-webapps@w3.org">public-webapps@w3.org</a>
-  (<a href="mailto:public-webapps-request@w3.org?subject=subscribe">subscribe</a>,
-  <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/">archives</a>)
+</div><hr class="top"><h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="abstract">Abstract</h2><p>This specification defines an API for storing data in databases
+that can be queried using a variant of SQL.
 
-  <!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST -->  
-  or <a href="mailto:whatwg@whatwg.org">whatwg@whatwg.org</a> (<a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org">subscribe</a>,
-  <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/">archives</a>),
-  <!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING SENTENCE TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST -->
+<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="status-of-this-document">Status of This document</h2>
+<!-- intro boilerplate (required) -->
 
-  or submit them using <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?assigned_to=ian%40hixie.ch&amp;blocked=&amp;bug_file_loc=http%3A%2F%2F&amp;bug_severity=normal&amp;bug_status=NEW&amp;comment=&amp;component=Web%20Database%20%28editor%3A%20Ian%20Hickson%29&amp;contenttypeentry=&amp;contenttypemethod=autodetect&amp;contenttypeselection=text%2Fplain&amp;data=&amp;dependson=&amp;description=&amp;form_name=enter_bug&amp;keywords=&amp;maketemplate=Remember%20values%20as%20bookmarkable%20template&amp;op_sys=All&amp;priority=P5&amp;product=WebAppsWG&amp;qa_contact=member-webapi-cvs%40w3.org&amp;rep_platform=All&amp;short_desc=&amp;target_milestone=---&amp;version=unspecified">our
-  public bug database</a>.
+<p><em>This section describes the status of this document at the
+time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this
+document. A list of current W3C publications and the most recently
+formally published revision of this technical report can be found in
+the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">W3C technical reports index</a>
+at http://www.w3.org/TR/.</em></p>
 
-  All feedback is welcome.</p><!-- stability (required) --><p>Implementors should be aware that this specification is not
-  stable. <strong>Implementors who are not taking part in the
-  discussions are likely to find the specification changing out from
-  under them in incompatible ways.</strong> Vendors interested in
-  implementing this specification before it eventually reaches the
-  Candidate Recommendation stage should join the aforementioned
-  mailing lists and take part in the discussions.<p class="XXX">This specification has reached an impasse: all
-  interested implementors have used the same SQL backend (Sqlite), but
-  we need multiple independent implementations to proceed along a
-  standardisation path. Until another implementor is interested in
-  implementing this spec, the description of the SQL dialect has been
-  left as simply a reference to Sqlite, which isn't acceptable for a
-  standard. Should you be an implementor interested in implementing an
-  independent SQL backend, please contact the editor so that he can
-  write a specification for the dialect, thus allowing this
-  specification to move forward.</p><!-- version history or list of changes (required) --><p>The latest stable version of the editor's draft of this
-  specification is always available on <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/Overview.html">the W3C CVS
-  server</a>. Change tracking for this document is available at the
-  following location:<ul><li>CVS log: <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/webdatabase/Overview.html">http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/webdatabase/Overview.html</a></li>
-  </ul><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- relationship to other work (required) --><p>This specification is automatically generated from the
-  corresponding section in the HTML5 specification's source document,
-  as hosted in the <a href="http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps/">WHATWG
-  Subversion repository</a>. Detailed change history for all of HTML5,
-  including the parts that form this specification, can be found at
-  the following locations:</p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING LIST TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><ul><li>Twitter messages (non-editorial changes only): <a href="http://twitter.com/WHATWG">http://twitter.com/WHATWG</a></li>
-   <li>Interactive Web interface: <a href="http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker">http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker</a></li>
+<p>
+This document is the 18 November 2010 Working Group Note of Web SQL Database.
+
+Publication as a Working Group Note does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.
+
+The W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/">Web Applications
+Working Group</a> is the W3C working group responsible for this document.
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="XXX">This document was on the W3C Recommendation track 
+but specification work has stopped. 
+The specification reached an impasse: all
+interested implementors have used the same SQL backend (Sqlite), but
+we need multiple independent implementations to proceed along a
+standardisation path. Until another implementor is interested in
+implementing this spec, the description of the SQL dialect has been
+left as simply a reference to Sqlite, which isn't acceptable for a
+standard. Should you be an implementor interested in implementing an
+independent SQL backend, please contact the editor so that he can
+write a specification for the dialect, thus allowing this
+specification to move forward.</p>
+
+<!-- stability (required) -->
+<p>Implementors should be aware that this specification is not
+stable. <strong>Implementors who are not taking part in the
+discussions are likely to find the specification changing out from
+under them in incompatible ways.</strong> Vendors interested in
+implementing this specification 
+
+<!--before it eventually reaches the
+Candidate Recommendation stage
+-->
+should join the aforementioned
+mailing lists and take part in the discussions.</p>
+
+<!-- where to send feedback (required) -->
+<p>If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send
+them to <a href="mailto:public-webapps@w3.org">public-webapps@w3.org</a>
+(<a href="mailto:public-webapps-request@w3.org?subject=subscribe">subscribe</a>,
+<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/">archives</a>)
+
+<!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST -->  
+or <a href="mailto:whatwg@whatwg.org">whatwg@whatwg.org</a> (<a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org">subscribe</a>,
+<a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/">archives</a>),
+<!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING SENTENCE TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST -->
+
+or submit them using <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?assigned_to=ian%40hixie.ch&amp;blocked=&amp;bug_file_loc=http%3A%2F%2F&amp;bug_severity=normal&amp;bug_status=NEW&amp;comment=&amp;component=Web%20Database%20%28editor%3A%20Ian%20Hickson%29&amp;contenttypeentry=&amp;contenttypemethod=autodetect&amp;contenttypeselection=text%2Fplain&amp;data=&amp;dependson=&amp;description=&amp;form_name=enter_bug&amp;keywords=&amp;maketemplate=Remember%20values%20as%20bookmarkable%20template&amp;op_sys=All&amp;priority=P5&amp;product=WebAppsWG&amp;qa_contact=member-webapi-cvs%40w3.org&amp;rep_platform=All&amp;short_desc=&amp;target_milestone=---&amp;version=unspecified">our
+public bug database</a>.
+
+All feedback is welcome.</p>
+
+<!-- version history or list of changes (required) --><p>The latest stable version of the editor's draft of this
+specification is always available on <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/Overview.html">the W3C CVS
+server</a>. Change tracking for this document is available at the
+following location:<ul><li>CVS log: <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/webdatabase/Overview.html">http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/webdatabase/Overview.html</a></li>
+</ul><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- relationship to other work (required) --><p>This specification is automatically generated from the
+corresponding section in the HTML5 specification's source document,
+as hosted in the <a href="http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps/">WHATWG
+Subversion repository</a>. Detailed change history for all of HTML5,
+including the parts that form this specification, can be found at
+the following locations:</p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING LIST TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><ul><li>Twitter messages (non-editorial changes only): <a href="http://twitter.com/WHATWG">http://twitter.com/WHATWG</a></li>
+<li>Interactive Web interface: <a href="http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker">http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker</a></li>
    <li>Commit-Watchers mailing list: <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/commit-watchers-whatwg.org">http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/commit-watchers-whatwg.org</a></li>
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-  </ul><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING LIST TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- status of document, group responsible (required) --><p>The W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/">Web Applications
-  Working Group</a> is the W3C working group responsible for this
-  specification's progress along the W3C Recommendation track.
-  This specification is the 1 November 2010 Editor's Draft.
-  </p><!-- required patent boilerplate --><p>This document was produced by a group operating under the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5
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