2009/6/5 Jeff Walden jwalden+wha...@mit.edu:
Do you seriously believe any client in an industry where he has to step
carefully enough to worry about typographical formatting of legal notices is
fool enough to follow a not-even-recommendation in the HTML5 specification
over what his lawyer
Responding to Kristof Zelechovski.
I have a copy of the Constitution of the United States on my web site.
That is a legal text. It also qualifies as legalese, a derogatory term.
If I were to change it to HTML 5, the current spec encourages
me to place the entire Constitution in small elements.
While I actually defended the recommendation to use the SMALL element for
legal text, and I am still ready to do it, it is worth noting that the text
of section 4.6.6. does not contain such a recommendation. It merely states
that out of possible uses of the SMALL element, the legal use is the
Do you seriously believe any client in an industry where he has to step
carefully enough to worry about typographical formatting of legal notices is
fool enough to follow a not-even-recommendation in the HTML5 specification over
what his lawyer tells him is the correct thing to do?
Jeff
