  In this paper, we prove uniform error bounds for proper orthogonal
decomposition (POD) reduced order modeling (ROM) of Burgers equation,
considering difference quotients (DQs), introduced in [26]. In particular, we
study the behavior of the DQ ROM error bounds by considering $L^2(\Omega)$ and
$H^1_0(\Omega)$ POD spaces and $l^{\infty}(L^2)$ and natural-norm errors. We
present some meaningful numerical tests checking the behavior of error bounds.
Based on our numerical results, DQ ROM errors are several orders of magnitude
smaller than noDQ ones (in which the POD is constructed in a standard way,
i.e., without the DQ approach) in terms of the energy kept by the ROM basis.
Further, noDQ ROM errors have an optimal behavior, while DQ ROM errors, where
the DQ is added to the POD process, demonstrate an optimality/super-optimality
behavior. It is conjectured that this possibly occurs because the DQ inner
products allow the time dependency in the ROM spaces to make an impact.
