- From: Frederick Hirsch <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:34:14 -0500
- To: ext Michael Nordman <michaeln@google.com>
- Cc: Frederick Hirsch <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>, "Nikunj R. Mehta" <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com>, Michael Smith <mike@w3.org>, Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@chromium.org>, public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
how about "Indexed Sequential Web Database", losing the acronym, even if familiar to those who work with databases? (not web-indexed, however...) regards, Frederick Frederick Hirsch Nokia On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:11 PM, ext Michael Nordman wrote: > Web-Indexed-Storage > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Nikunj R. Mehta <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com > > wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Michael(tm) Smith wrote: > > Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@chromium.org>, 2009-11-30 14:46 -0800: > > I agree with Mike, but I'd also note that "Web Key-Value Database" > could > easily be confused with WebStorage given that it also uses a Key-Value > model. > > True but we know the distinction is that Web Storage does not use > a database. > > > Do we make naming decisions considering just us WG members as its > audience or that of the general public? I think the general public > is well within its rights to treat Web Storage as a persistence > technology that seems to be like "Key-Value" database. > > I want to emphasize here that I think "key-value" in the title > misses the subtlety - it is the use of index sequential access that > is at the heart of WebSimpleDB, and not key-value storage. > > > Nikunj > http://o-micron.blogspot.com > > > > >
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