What is the current acceptable way to show an email address on a website without getting it spoofed?
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By the way ... I assume by "spoofed" you mean read and abused by bots, etc. If you mean something else then please clarify your question.
If you can avoid it then don't even put the email on the site. Contact forms are a great alternative. I do know there are case where you just must show it though and that is why the methods I mentioneds above are so nice. ;)
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by: b0lsc0ttPosted on 2008-04-11 at 09:38:27ID: 21335804
A common way is to use clientside script like Javascript to "translate" an obfuscated email address. In many cases bots don't seem to go to the trouble to run scripts and so the email address looks like garbage.
There are lots of ways to do this. A simple example just has it in parts and then puts it together with Javascript. Another may encode it in hex or some other format to make the characters themselves hard to read.
I can help you work on a method if you want but I would suggest you take a look at a few of the results of a Google search (http://www.google.com/sea
Let me know if you have a question or how I can help. I am not giving the search as a quick answer but as a step to help. It is worth the look.
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