Hi all,
I have a question/concern (and one that Tantek flagged up during his
presentation at @media last week) with regards to e-mail addresses,
and the fact that publishing them on the web can open them up to abuse.
Currently, I display my e-mail address on my personal site (http://
www.lloydyweb.com/) by means of using name(at)domain.com notation,
and then having a little piece of javascript that finds all <span>s
with a class 'email' and converts them into the correct link. So:
<span class="email">paul.lloyd(at)fourtwo.net</span>
becomes:
<a class="email"
href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>
I understand that for hCard, the e-mail actually needs to be an
unaltered e-mail address, so this would not be possible. Or is it
okay given that the browser *renders* it correctly?
Looking at other methods of encoding an e-mail address, I have seen
some sites where they encode the characters (including the mailto:):
#46;co.uk.... etc
Would this method also not be allowed in the hCard spec?
So my question is has anyone thought of ways to get around this
problem? One solution would be to perhaps define a standard notation
(such as name(at)example.com) and then parsers such as
feeds.technorati.com/contacts/ could convert this into the correct
format before saving out as a vCard? But then again, maybe not!
I'd love to get some thoughts (even better answers!) on this issue.
It seems a shame that I can display my e-mail on my site, but not
have it included within my hCard markup. Or have I missed something?
Regards,
Paul Lloyd
http://www.lloydyweb.com
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