Re: Hiding email addresses in an accessible way from David Woolley on 2003-08-18 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from July to September 2003)

From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:56:50 +0100 (BST)
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Message-Id: <200308181856.h7IIuo900584@djwhome.demon.co.uk>

> Also, any idea why encoding part of the mailto: works the way that you have done it (m&#97;ilto:) and not by using m%6Dilto: ?

& entities are handled by the HTML handler.
% encoding is handled by the URL scheme handler, and obviously cannot be
  interpreted until you have established the scheme.

Not all schemes need honour % encoding.

Received on Monday, 18 August 2003 15:13:28 UTC