[microformats-discuss] hCard and spam

[brian suda]

After you posted the first message, i check X2V to see what would
happen. Even with your 'encoding' which is just the decimal value of the
character, the XSLT transformation function i am using (the one built
into PHP) converts all of your decimal escape sequence to the actual
letter. So X2V will actually extract your obfuscated email address just
fine. I would double check to make sure, but it works fine on my end.

http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/

-brian

Robert Bachmann wrote:

>Ryan King wrote:
>  
>
>>On Jul 19, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Robert Bachmann wrote:
>> [...]
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>>
>>>one could write:
>>>
>>> <a class="e&#109;ail"
>>>href="&#109;ailto:rbach&#064;rbach.priv.at">rbach&#064;rbach.priv.at</ a>
>>>      
>>>
>>This is out of scope for hCard. You don't need hCard to do this, nor 
>>should it be required in hCard.
>>
>>    
>>
>I am agreed, it's out of scope.
>Don't get me wrong this is neither a criticism on hCard nor is it a
>proposal for changing the hCard specification.
>
>I just wanted to make sure that the people here are aware of the
>downside of "mailto:" and the possible(*) workaround.
>As "mailto:" is used with hCard, hCard automatically "inherits" this
>disadvantage.
>
>If someone writes a tutorial on the topic "how to use/implement hCards
>on your website", perhaps this should be also mentioned.
>
>Robert
>
>(*) This workaround will not work for ever. I suppose that sooner or
>later email address collector programs will know how to deal with
>character entities.
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>