- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:26:05 +0100
- To: "'wai-ig list'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> I personally take the entity-encoded example a step further and > URL-encode parts of the email link as well. An example: > > <a href="mailto:username%40hostname%2ecom">username<abbr > title=" at ">@</abbr>hostname<abbr title=" dot ">.</abbr>com</a> > > I have no idea how "smart" email harvesters are these days, but it > probably isn't worth the effort for them to decode this kind of address > considering how many plain-text emails are available. I can assure you that there are some very smart ones out there. The above will be processed correctly by those, and also by simpler ones built around HTML-processing libraries.
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