How to Create Clicable, but Obfuscated mailto: Links on Your Site
by ostapk
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0 comments | Monday, February 5, 2007
A recently launched onPHP5.com site has published a tutorial on how to create working mailto: links in a way that spam bots would not be able to collect them.
Almost every website owner uses images to hide real (textual) representations of emails from spam bots - only human can read them from the image [...] This approach, while strong, leaves your pages without very convenient functionality, though. Your visitors are no more able to click on the mailto: links and send emails from the comforts of their mail clients. Moreover, they are unable to copy and paste the address. And, visitors nowadays are demanding enough comfort while browsing so that they can ignore the address and save themselves from retyping it from screen. And now imagine how many potential clients are lost if your Contact Us page obfuscates your email address with an image?
The full story is located here.
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