Re: Please don't call your API "simple"

On Sep 29, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:

> There already is a "WebDatabase" API which is SQL based.  That  
> sounds way to close to "WebDB" for my comfort.
>
> Maybe WebDatabase should be WebSQLDatabase or WebSQLDB

I have suggested this before [1], but fighting about names seems to be  
a lost cause in this WG.

>
> And WebSimpleDB should be WebTreeDatabase or WebTreeDB?

An ordinary developer would not notice anything tree-like in this spec  
and so it will not help anyone to call this TreeDB.

>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Simon Raboczi <raboczi@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Please don't call your web database API "simple".  It's a  
> meaningless noise word unless there's some other non-simple web  
> database API to compare it to.  It doesn't even serve to produce a  
> pronounceable acronym like SAX or SOAP.  "WebDB API" would be fine.
>
>

Nikunj
http://o-micron.blogspot.com

[1] http://www.w3.org/mid/D34DA34B-3ED7-4D65-9ECB-C9A7BFF3110F@oracle.com