On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Grega LeskovÅek <legrega@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I tried this:
> <?php echo "<span
> class=\"safety\">sss>a/<moc.liamg@xxxxxxxxxxx<\"moc.liamg@xxxxxxxxxxx:otliam\"=ferh
> a></span>";
> ?>
> and css:
> .safety { direction:rtl; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; }
> for the address jocplus.doo@xxxxxxxxx
> but I haven't managed it to display properly
> Could someone please direct me, I believe if I put the
> <a class="safety" href="mailto:jocplus.doo@xxxxxxxxx";>vicaversa</a>...
> it does not really protect the email address, because in mailto: it
> has to be as defined jocplus.doo@xxxxxxxxx
> Thanks,
> -- When the sun rises I receive and when it sets I forgive ->
> http://moj.skavt.net/gleskovs/
> Always in Heart, Grega LeskovÅek
>
>
>
>
> 2010/6/15 Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:02 -0400, HallMarc Websites wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 10:52 AM
>>> To: Dotan Cohen
>>> Cc: HallMarc Websites; David Mehler; php-general
>>> Subject: Re: protecting email addresses on a web site
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 17:50 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>
>>> > On 14 June 2010 15:36, HallMarc Websites <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> > > Another is a CSS solution where you type the email address backwards and
>>> > > then use the CSS style declaration:
>>> > > style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: bidi-override;"
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> > How does that work with screen readers? How about copy-paste?
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think there's an accessible way of doing this. Anything that
>>> allows a screen reader to speak the email address would also be
>>> susceptible to spammers email scrapers.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ash
>>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Copy-n-paste just gives you the email address backwards; screen readers,
>>> because we are using logical ordering and it is stored in memory the way we
>>> expect to read it, will read it correctly.
>>>
>>> I was not aware that email harvesters used screen readers. Do you have some
>>> documentation I could read to get up to speed on this?
>>>
>>> Marc Hall
>>> HallMarc Websites
>>> So many spammers, so few bullets...
>>>
>>>
>>> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature
>>> database 5199 (20100615) __________
>>>
>>> The message was checked by ESET Smart Security.
>>>
>>> http://www.eset.com
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I didn't say the harvesters used screen readers. I'm saying that if
>> something is in plain text that a screen reader can understand, what's
>> to stop an email address harvester? It's not worth their time to analyse
>> every image (think about where Google is with image searching right now,
>> and they have a lot more resources at their disposal) but it is easy
>> enough to read text in a web page. At a push, it's possible to believe
>> that some might be using rendered CSS to see how an email is rendered.
>>
>> Thing is, it's nigh on impossible to hide an email address. Use it once
>> on a mailing list like this and it's there for the whole world to see on
>> archive listings. I even though that my email wouldn't be found in
>> a .pdf CV I'd made, but thanks to Google it is now!
>>
>> Basically, it might not be worth the effort to hide email addresses, and
>> instead see about setting up spam filtering at the server level. You
>> don't have to download and filter it your end, and it saves on
>> bandwidth.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ash
>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>
Why not just make a simple contact form and never show the address?
--
Bastien
Cat, the other other white meat
--
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
