On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Ted Drake wrote:
If a spider could read the alt attribute, don't you think they
could read the href attribute?
Alt="[email protected]" or href="mailto:[email protected]";
It doesn't matter where you put the valid email address, the
spiders will find it. However, messing with images will just make
it more difficult on the user.
Ah, but that's just it, Ted...in the technique I've seen you do NOT
put a valid email address on your page, at least not in the code sense..
you put a graphic which requires the interpretive powers of a human
brain to recognize it as *a* way of conveying the idea that that is
the email address.
picture a jpg which, when you look at it, you see "bob at domain dot
com"
spelled out in type. but of course, since it's a jpg, it's all raster
pixels.
my question could be: when it comes to the alt text for such a
graphic, how coy do we want to be?
cs
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