Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Or Golan
On 10/19/07, Michael MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not much good for someone using a device without sound I'm guessing that a person who uses a screen reader has sound on his device. I'm not saying use only sound, but more like using a gif that has your email in it, and when you click on it

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender

2007-10-19 Thread Abdulrahman Al-Otaiba
Designer, I'd advise you to use some comprehensive PHP mailing libraries (classes): * PHPMailer (http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/) * Swift mailer (http://www.swiftmailer.org/) Regards, on 10/19/2007 01:43 PM Designer said the following: Ray Leventhal wrote: Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

[WSG] Javascript focus()...cursor at start of space-filled field in IE, but at end of space-filled in Firefox

2007-10-19 Thread Simon Cockayne
Hi /* It's Friday - hurrah! */ PROBLEM: Javascript focus()...puts cursor at START of space-filled field in IE 6, but at END of space-filled in Firefox 2. Any way (without changing the field value to be ) to get the cursor to appear at the start of the field in Firefox? !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender

2007-10-19 Thread Designer
Ray Leventhal wrote: Patrick H. Lauke wrote: my approach is usually not to put the email address on there and instead provide a contact form, one major annoyance of contact forms for me: as a sender, i don't have a copy of the email in my email client's sent items folder. depending on the

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Chris Knowles
Taking a slightly different approach, any bot visiting your site knows your domain name so at that point they don't need to find any addresses to send to or from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, they'll likely assume that things like [EMAIL PROTECTED] exist without you ever publishing an address so

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread James Jeffery
I was just about to post an idea, then i thought, it dont matter what you do if a spam bot gets your email address, which they always do, your going to get spam anyway. So its best to just control it on your end. In the real world businesses in prime locations get bombarded with junk mail, so

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender

2007-10-19 Thread Anders Nawroth
Mike at Green-Beast.com skrev: That said, even though people are the most difficult to control, they don't seem to be the real problem. The problem seems to be with 'bots so that's the form's main focus. You're right, bots are the real problem to focus on. /anders

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender

2007-10-19 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Hello Anders, Is there any way to protect this from being used as a way to send out spam? You can't really know that people enter their own emailaddress ... A person could use it to send the copy to someone else, but then again people are the most difficult to control. I do offer an IP

RE: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Thanks for that Nick, I changed the example domain. If you do want to test it though you would need to copy the code, change it to you own domain and email addresses, and put it on your own server. Best Regards, Kepler -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Anders Nawroth
Hi! Chris Knowles skrev: Plus you're still putting the email address in the source code albeit a modified version. If this became a popular way to handle mailtos a harvester is sure to be written to pattern match http://.../com/... or http://.../com/au/... or whatever at some stage and attempt

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Chris Knowles
Andrew Maben wrote: On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Dejan Kozina wrote: Anybody (Mac Linux browsers...) wants to take a ride? The thing is up there at http://www.kozina.com/mailtest/ . Let us know of your results. worked for me: MacOS 10.4.9/Safari 2.0.4 Andrew I noticed this

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Chris Knowles
Andrew Maben wrote: On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Dejan Kozina wrote: Anybody (Mac Linux browsers...) wants to take a ride? The thing is up there at http://www.kozina.com/mailtest/ . Let us know of your results. worked for me: MacOS 10.4.9/Safari 2.0.4 Not mac or linux but... win xp,

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender

2007-10-19 Thread Designer
Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Good point, Patrick. I'll certainly consider offering a checkbox as a UI option for 'send me a copy of the contents of this form'. I'd certainly be interested if this could be done in php by assigning the user's mail address as a string, then posting to it.

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Andrew Maben
On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Dejan Kozina wrote: Anybody (Mac Linux browsers...) wants to take a ride? The thing is up there at http://www.kozina.com/mailtest/ . Let us know of your results. worked for me: MacOS 10.4.9/Safari 2.0.4 Andrew

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On 10/19/07, Chris Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed this page also uses entity encoding. This is a solution I have used myself but the more I think about it the more I realise realise how ineffective it is really. take the following PHP code: // some page fetching function $html

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 19 Oct 2007, at 04:59, Kepler Gelotte wrote: I created a test page that demonstrates the technique. I tested it with my email but changed it to a dummy domain so I won't get flooded with emails. Kepler, mydomain.com isn't a dummy domain:

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Abdulrahman Al-Otaiba
djn, I tested on Kubuntu 7.04 using the following browsers: * Konqueror 3.5.6, correct behavior, opens the default mail application with the email in the TO field * Firefox 2.0.0.6, incorrect, goes to a 302 Found page with a matilto link to the email specifies. Regards, on

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender

2007-10-19 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Good point, Patrick. I'll certainly consider offering a checkbox as a UI option for 'send me a copy of the contents of this form'. I'd certainly be interested if this could be done in php by assigning the user's mail address as a string, then posting to it. Anyone done that? I offer that

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender

2007-10-19 Thread Anders Nawroth
Hi! Mike at Green-Beast.com skrev: I offer that in my contact form. It's a config option. The contact form owner can enable/disable offering a get-a-copy option to his/her visitors. Is there any way to protect this from being used as a way to send out spam? You can't really know that people