mailto-fixer
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mailto: links are outdated. mailtoFixer.js fixes that.Mailto links are a simple and effective way to send an email, but users feel frustrated when they click a mailto link and it opens their default email client, which they never wanted. mailtofixer.js fixes that.
mailtoFixer.js in your web page by pasting this code snippet into the <head> section of your HTML:...
mailto: link in your page is automatically upgraded: when a user clicks on it, it opens a nice modal that gives users the choice to do what they actually want and expect.
screenshotIn addition to the above, mailtoFixer.js also gives you the option to obfuscate your email to protect you from spam.
Spammers often use parsers to look for email addresses in your pages' HTML. To avoid that, gives you the option to use a different syntax for obfuscating your email address.
How to obfuscate your email address? Instead of using this:
<a href="mailto:john@gmail.com">This is a mailto link</a>
Just use this equivalent syntax:
<a href="#" data-mailtofixer-username="john" data-mailtofixer-domain="gmail.com">This is an obfuscated mailto link</a>
"But is this actually enough to protect me from spam?" You're right, a spammer could easily find your email address by evaluating the JavaScript in your page or by detecting this syntax. But most spammers are lazy: they don't evaluate JavaScript and are just looking for plain email addresses. This should be enough to protect you from the vast majority of spammers.
Feel free to open a pull request to add more features!
[] Support default subject and body for Gmail and Outlook. [] Adding dark mode. [] Add support for other email providers? [] Nicer UI?
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
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A library for better mailto links.
The npm package mailto-fixer receives a total of 4 weekly downloads. As such, mailto-fixer popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that mailto-fixer demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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