Jul 19 2008
E-Mail Hyperlink Scrambling
I don’t know why I haven’t heard/thought of this before, but as I was working on the Contact page I wanted to scramble our e-mail addresses so that the creepy crawlies of the Internet could not understand them. I had done this several times before with something to the effect of
me _REMOVEME_ (at) Matt (I really hate spammers) Faus (.d.o.t.) com
, but this is far from optimum for a few reasons 1) it looks awful, and 2) it’s very hard for even humans to parse (especially the not-so-technically-inclined as are a big part of my audience).
So, I searched around a bit and found this wonderful idea. It converts the actual text to the ASCII escaped format. This way your browser sees it and displays it perfectly, but if you look at the source code, it’s all &234; codes. If you’re interested take a look at the source on the Contacts page.