Spun

Every time I have to publish a clickable email address on a web page I wind up Googling Javascript tools that obscure the mailto: link and telltale user@example.com format so that spam bots can’t easily pick up the address and tsunami the user with junk.

There are plenty of tools out there, but none that do all that I wanted: namely, encode the ‘mailto’ bit and display a live preview of the link. So I’ve gone ahead and thrown one together of my own.

Go ahead and give it a whirl, it’s got exciting iframe cross-scripting going on for the preview. *

* For now it’s Firefox-only while I work out the IE and Safari compatibility issues. Tested and works now on Internet Explorer 6 with SP 2 on Windows, Safari on Panther and Firefox Windows and Mac.