From 2c50f4265e403dfabc50bc30f4bb9e20fe2670b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo <rick@rmendes.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 09:40:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: don't obfuscate email in href/value attributes

HTML entities in href and value attributes don't decode properly -
browsers treat them as literal strings. Only obfuscate display text.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 _includes/components/blog-sidebar.njk | 2 +-
 _includes/components/h-card.njk       | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/_includes/components/blog-sidebar.njk b/_includes/components/blog-sidebar.njk
index cb1c902..8844a20 100644
--- a/_includes/components/blog-sidebar.njk
+++ b/_includes/components/blog-sidebar.njk
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   </div>
   {# Hidden but present for microformat completeness #}
   <p class="p-note hidden">{{ site.author.bio }}</p>
-  {% if site.author.email %}<data class="u-email hidden" value="{{ site.author.email | obfuscateEmail }}"></data>{% endif %}
+  {% if site.author.email %}<data class="u-email hidden" value="{{ site.author.email }}"></data>{% endif %}
   {% if site.author.org %}<data class="p-org hidden" value="{{ site.author.org }}"></data>{% endif %}
 </div>
 
diff --git a/_includes/components/h-card.njk b/_includes/components/h-card.njk
index 1d4df40..32a5ca6 100644
--- a/_includes/components/h-card.njk
+++ b/_includes/components/h-card.njk
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
   {# Email and PGP Key #}
   <div class="mt-2 flex flex-wrap gap-3 text-sm">
     {% if site.author.email %}
-    {# Email obfuscated as HTML entities to deter spam harvesters while keeping valid for microformat parsers #}
-    <a href="{{ site.author.email | obfuscateEmail('href') }}" class="u-email text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400 hover:underline" itemprop="email">
+    {# Display text obfuscated to deter spam harvesters; href kept plain for browser compatibility #}
+    <a href="mailto:{{ site.author.email }}" class="u-email text-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400 hover:underline" itemprop="email">
       ✉️ {{ site.author.email | obfuscateEmail }}
     </a>
     {% endif %}