Re: use of HTML in AddressModifyCode

On May 27, 2002 at 13:42, "John R. LoVerso" wrote:

> > > I particularly like this one, as it's non-linear:
> > >
> > >   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
> > >   <tr><td>user</td><td>&#64;</td>
> > >   I can be reached at
> > >   <td>example.com</td></tr></table>
> Perhaps I wasn't clear enough;  the above _visually_ renders into
>
>       I can be reached at user(_at_)example(_dot_)com
>
> Look at the HTML: the text is non-linear; this is not something that a
> simple pattern matcher is going to find.
True.

Note, the markup you have is invalid.  It should be:

I can be reached at
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td>user</td><td>&#64;</td>
<td>example.com</td></tr></table>.

It still screws up any mailto: linking of addresses and spaces are
rendered around the "@" on some browsers (at least the text-based
ones like w3m, links, and lynx).

Also, the table introduces breaks in the flow of text where breaks
are not intended to be.

--ewh