I'm no Lawyer but what are the legal ramifications of a user having the
wrong year set on the client. If the client's clock were set to 1900
then wouldn't the Copyright notice then be invalid?
That is one of the ramifications of not Using PHP or ASP.
Stephen
Bob Schwartz wrote:
Lachlan,
I'm going to take your much appreciated response one bit at a time.
By doing as you suggested, I lose the point of having used the JS in
the first place.
(For the purposes of this discussion, let's assume that having the
copyright notices reflect the current year is a desired thing).
With the JS all copyright notices are automaticaly updated when the
year changes, with your method I would have to go back to each site
and manualy change them.
This is sort of the contrary to one of the reasons for seperating
structure from presentation in the "why CSS is good" argument.
Bob
This one all alone on the page, with no linked JS in the <head>:
<div id="copy">
<script type="text/javascript">
var d=new Date();
yr=d.getFullYear();
if (yr!=2003)
document.write("© "+yr);
</script> Cedar Tree Books
</div>
<p id="copy">© 2005 Cedar Tree Books</p>
No script (or entity reference) required.
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