Re: mailto:

I prefer the first method myself - it looks tidier.
However, if a visitor doesn't have their email set up properly they will
need to type in the address, so the second way would obviously be necessary
for them to get the address.

howardm
howardm(at)achilles.net
www.achilles.net/~howardm/tsmonk.html



----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Antonio <santonio(at)delanet.com>
To: HTML Writers' Guild <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 1:34 PM
Subject: mailto:


> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a very basic question about 'mailto:' links that I've been
wondering
> about for some time and am now just getting around to inquiring.  It is
> common practice for me to create a 'mailto:' link with the link being the
> content of the sentence and not the address itself.  On many websites I
see
> that the address is the link.  For example:
>
> Questions or comments should be directed to the <a
> href="mailto:webmaster(at)domain.com">webmaster</a>
>
> vs.
>
> Questions or comments should be directed to the <a
> href="mailto:webmaster(at)domain.com">webmaster(at)domain.com</a>
>
> My question is, are there any disadvantages to doing it as I show in the
> first example?  Which is better practice and why?  I think I know the
> answer, but I'd like to know what you all think.
>
> TIA,
> Steve
>
>

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