Input Junkie - February 20th, 2008
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01:00 am
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Protecting an email link
http://innerpeace.org/escrambler.shtml
is JavaScript which is supposed to protect email links from being harvested for spam. I've used it on the home page at my cafepress shop. The page for escrambler says that a few browsers won't be able to deal with the JavaScript, but they're a vanishingly small percentage. Is that true? Was there any other reason not to use escrambler? On the other side, is it just the thing anyone needs?
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08:43 pm
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Email address, JavaScript, the noscript tag, spam
Thanks for the advice. You guys have convinced me that I need to accommodate non-JavaScript browsing. It doesn't matter how few browsers can't use JavaScript if a good many geeky people (a large part of my customer base) turn off their JavaScript.
I've beaten the noscript tag problem into submission. It turns out that the JavaScript has to be on for me to update the html on my cafepress page, but off if I want to see whether my noscript is working.
On the other hand, I don't know whether I've protected myself from any spammers at all. Is it only the gungho spammers who go after the source code, with the casual slobs contenting themselves with the visible pages? I bet there's no way to obfuscate the email address in a mailto tag, but I'd be delighted if I'm wrong.
The reason I'm using my gmail address is that I'm hoping gmail spam blocking is at least fairly good.
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