Not only is it a pain for users, but also for web application developers. I recently had to explicitly check for and strip out the Skype phone number highlighti

Not only is it a pain for users, but also for web application developers. I recently had to explicitly check for and strip out the Skype phone number highlighting code in the back-end of a simple database app. Just look at the astonishing number of odd places that the highlighting codes have ended up on the web: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=begin_of_the_skype_highlighting http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=begin_of_the_skype_highligh...