[oinksoft]

Probably a silly question, but what's the deal with this?

  <button ...
   onclick="location.href='mailto:[e-mail]?Subject=Code%20Read%20%5BSmall%5D'">
    Small
  </button>

Not a huge deal but I think it's good to show where a link goes on mouseover, especially a mailto: link (some mail clients take a while to start) ... it'd seem you want <a> here.

[jashkenas]

Just started with a bit of CSS that worked better for a button is all. You're right that a real link would be better. I'll change it.

The idea is to perhaps eventually sell these directly on the page, via Stripe, in a more explicit fashion. But for starters at least, I think we'll work together on setting the scope of the "read", and keep things bespoke.

[joshmcmillan]

Could be spam prevention?

[oinksoft]

If that were the aim, and he's content to rely on JS, why not set the href attribute at runtime?

In any case I'd think a small contact form a worthy investment, as I doubt he's charging pennies.

[aviraldg]

Maybe because of the fact that bots usually scan the href attribute, but not the onclick attribute?

[flebron]

I would think any self respecting bot would notice "Hey, there's a valid email address on the page source code :D".

[dangoor]

If someone has coded up a "self respecting bot" then I think we've lost all hope against the spam harvesters (unless, of course, that bot's notion of self respect includes the recognition that spam is annoying to innocent people :)

[kaoD]

I tried clicking and it did nothing. That's bad advertising.