On 5 Jan 2009, at 12:05, Martin McEvoy wrote: >> It looks to me like the wiki is being spammed by a bot or bots [...] > >> I stopped it by changing the form names to to something gibberish, >> nothing standard "wpTextbox1" would be come "ZifG5ut" nonsense >> basically, a good Idea is to change the form names regularly, then >> you can encode the submit, preview and show pages buttons in Java >> script and insert them using a function
This seems like a contrary thing to do for an organization that advocates POSHness. Shouldn't form names be semantically meaningful, like any other markup? And Javascrippling a form excludes anyone who intentionally disables scripting for security, never mind those folks who need to browse with a text-based browser for accessibility issues (I know of no text-based Javascript browsers). I'm not saying that form obfuscation isn't effective to combat spam, but that's not our dogfood. --Bob. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
