Icon request: icon-at email

[jiangshilin]

Like this

Thanks!

[gossi]

👍 for the at icon to obfuscate emails, very much appreciated.

[davegandy]

Best use case for actually including at @ symbol. icon-smile already works (as does your browser's find in page functionality. :) )

[tagliala]

@gossi

are there best practices or new techniques for email obfuscation? I'm interested in this matter and all articles I found are from 2009

The icon will "uglify" things, 'cause @ is different from font-family to font-family.

I'm using something like

address<span class="email-provider">example</span><span class="email-domain">com</span>

.email-provider:before {
  content: '@'
}

.email-domain:before {
  content: '.'
}

http://jsfiddle.net/tagliala/8UuhA/

Of course you can't create a direct link and cut & paste doesn't work. there are javascript tecnhiques too

[gossi]

@tagliala unfortunately I don't know what are current bestpractices to obfuscate emails. However I really like your approach, although it is not copyable, clicking can as you describe, made possible with javascript. Would like to hear some best practices or links, too.

[tagliala]

I read this articles like this one http://superuser.com/questions/235937/does-e-mail-address-obfuscation-actually-work, but I'm against obfuscation because this approach have impacts on users and accessibility...

[sirNemanjapro]

I've found that obfuscating icons is not that smart after all, because there are a lot of people that just want to click on the text/link so it would open their email client. With obfuscation, you cant really achieve that.

[andrewmacleod]

+1 for an icon-at "@" icon.

[vicary]

+1 for @ icon.

IMO it will not uglify things when an interface is designed in a way that clearly separates words and icons. For instance, it wouldn't matter when a developer don't mind using the character "X" for close button, and vise versa.

[vict-shevchenko]

Hello, icon '@' will be super nice to have. Thanks you!

[cerealcable]

+1

[thotzl]

+1

[zararsiz]

as well for an "at-sign"

[aliemre]

+1 It has wide use. There should be among the icons.

[hype2]

+1

[pwnall]

+1

[pwnall]

It would be nice if this mapped to the '@' symbol, as @davegandy mentions. I want an icon instead of using '@' in a font so I don't have to hunt for a font that matches the Font Awesome style. Thank you!

[vuchl]

+1

[nalaka526]

+1

[fengkaijia]

I think you can simply use the @ character instead of an icon.

[screening4ashes]

👍 I would also like the @ symbol as part of Font Awesome. I am currently considering using it as an icon to denote "age", although, I am open to other suggestions. The calendar is better suited to dates, like birthday, not to the specific enumeration, and the gift could be used for age, but is not a perfect fit, plus a person may want to use that icon for birthday, and not use the same icon for two different pieces of information.

(on a side note: I was also thinking and infinity symbol might be good for age, but I noticed fs-infinity is also absent from Font Awesome. I realize it is quite bad for fixed width, still, I think it would be nice to have. I'll go check if someone started that thread also, meanwhile this post is primarily a +1 for the @ symbol!)

@fengkaijia The same could be said of fa-plus, fa-minus, fa-times, fa-info, fa-font, fa-bold, fa-italic, fa-usd, and most of the currency symbols which are available in many utf-8 fonts already or as html entities. There is however a use for having special unified icons of all these symbols readily available as: - + i A B I $ and so on. When you want to use a symbol, or letter, as an icon for an interface element, and you are already using a unified icon-set, then you don't really want to go fiddling with fonts and CSS to get the right size and alignment for the missing symbol (in this case: @). Clearly there is a great interest in having this specific symbol added.

[fracz]

+1

[MClaass]

+1

[davegandy]

Added to 4.2.0-wip. Closing.

[ghost]

Style of fa-at is not cool. I expected something better.

[tagliala]

@atilkan please open a new issue

[ghost]

ok thanks.