On 6/4/2009 5:10 PM, Jeff Walden wrote:
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
My intention was to encourage the HTML 5 specification to not contain
any content that could be construed as legal advice. That is not a
comment about the professionalism of any web designer, or of the
industry. It is just a very bad idea for a technical document to issue
anything that could be construed as legal advice, and poor advice at that.
If anyone took my words as any criticism of anyone, please understand
that they were not meant that way.
Responding to Kristof Zelechovski:
What is "encouragement" or "legalese" is of course subjective. The
examples in my previous message were meant to illustrate what the HTML 5
spec seems to invite. By listing those examples I meant to encourage
that the HTML 5 spec be changed to remove any mention of legal texts,
legalese, warranties, disclaimers, and so on.
I stand by all the points that I have made here on this topic.
Andrew Hagen
contact2...@awhlink.com