Subj : Javascript email hiding problem
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Stian Lund <stian.REMOVE.lund@operamail.com>
Date : Tue Oct 21 2003 11:13 pm

Hello,
On my website, I'm using a javascript routine to hide my proper email 
address from the evil spambots. This page displays properly in MSIE 6 and 
Opera 7.21, but renders totally wrong in Mozilla 1.5. Im using windows 
2000 sp4.

Here's the page:
http://stian.freeshell.org/contact.php

I'm a total newbie to javascript, and there's probably something minor 
I've overlooked, like escaping the quote marks or something. It looks to 
me like Mozilla doesn't understand the last two lines, and thinks they 
are 'outside' the script somehow, but this is only a guess...

The script looks like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
<!--
   var first = 'ma';
   var second = 'il';
   var third = 'to:';
   var address = '&#115;&#116;&#105;&#097;&#110;';
   var domain = '&#102;&#114;&#101;&#101;&#115;&#104;&#101;&#108;&#108;&#
46;&#111;&#114;&#103;';
   document.write('<a href=\"');
   document.write(first+second+third);
   document.write(address);
   document.write('&#64;');
   document.write(domain);
   document.write('\">');
   document.write(address+'&#64;'+domain+'</a>');
// -->
//]]>
</script>

Of course, the domain var is on only one line.

Hope anyone can spot what I'm doing wrong here...

Thanks in advance,
Stian Lund

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