email obfuscation on mediawiki (was: Re: update the feature plan!)

[Michael Pyne]

On Friday 23 January 2009, Dominik Haumann wrote:
> On Thursday 22 January 2009, Andre Gemünd wrote:
> > Dominik Haumann schrieb:
> > > 2. obfuscate (html entities, is it mailto:<...> or can the mailto
> > > itself even be obfuscated?
> >
> > Yes, the mailto can also be encoded. Doesn't matter though, because it's
> > constant.
> > I just wanted to add that obfuscating could be done easily by a
> > mediawiki filter such as
> >
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailObfuscator (uses the ascii
> > code method)
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailAddressImage (replace
> > address with Image)
> > http://www.mcmilk.de/wiki/Wiki_EmailTag (image as well)
> >
> > Greetings
> > André
>
> All three look good. CCing danimo, as he's our admin guy :)
> I'd prefer the obfuscation and make the names clickable instead
> additionally showing the addresses as an image. Needs less space and still
> all infos are available.

I'd recommend against image-based methods based on accessibility concerns.  I 
think the ASCII-encoding method is a fine compromise.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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