Probably someone thinking it might be a quick way to foil the spam bots.
Search is your friend “I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.”
That's the only reason I can think they would do it, but I don't think it works. I have a JS I use that re-assembles a "pre-disintegrated" mailto: on the fly.
But not the first example. Is it to ensure compliance of some sort ? Or maybe because a subject could be included i.e. me@wherever.com?Subject=Apostrophe's, spaces and punctuation cause problems.
Or maybe because a subject could be included i.e. me@wherever.com?Subject=Apostrophe's, spaces and punctuation cause problems.
That would be the only reason I could see for running the link through the urlencode function.
Bill Parrott Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com) Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)
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Posted - 23 January 2008 : 12:49:25
