Re: OT: Mobile Phone "mailto:"
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2008
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 69926
interpreted = N
texte = Hi I rightly or wrongly always assumed this was down to coding in the browser to look for possible phone numbers. The iPhone and my old Treo just turned any occurrence of a reasonable string of numbers into a link. I'm not aware of a tag to do it. Just my 2 cents. Cheers ======================================== Steve Craig - Asylum Interactive Ltd Tel +44 1330 860550 Fax +44 1330 860880 ======================================== http://www.asylumweb.com Email: steve@asylumweb.com Skype: s.craig - iChat: steve.craig ======================================== On 20 Mar 2008, at 18:10, Dan Strong wrote: > Is anybody aware of a command or tag that will make a cell phone > call a number upon clicking a link, similar to the way
launches your mail client? > > I'm returning results from a site of mine to mobile phones/handhelds > and one of the results is a phone number so it just makes sense for > someone to be able to click the number and automatically dial it, > rather than remember the number and dial it manually or copy/paste/ > dial it. > > Ideally it would be like: (212) > 555-1212 > > Does something like this exist? I'm googling, but not really sure > what to search for so not really getting helpful results. > > Thanks in advance. > -Dan > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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Hi I rightly or wrongly always assumed this was down to coding in the browser to look for possible phone numbers. The iPhone and my old Treo just turned any occurrence of a reasonable string of numbers into a link. I'm not aware of a tag to do it. Just my 2 cents. Cheers ======================================== Steve Craig - Asylum Interactive Ltd Tel +44 1330 860550 Fax +44 1330 860880 ======================================== http://www.asylumweb.com Email: steve@asylumweb.com Skype: s.craig - iChat: steve.craig ======================================== On 20 Mar 2008, at 18:10, Dan Strong wrote: > Is anybody aware of a command or tag that will make a cell phone > call a number upon clicking a link, similar to the way launches your mail client? > > I'm returning results from a site of mine to mobile phones/handhelds > and one of the results is a phone number so it just makes sense for > someone to be able to click the number and automatically dial it, > rather than remember the number and dial it manually or copy/paste/ > dial it. > > Ideally it would be like: (212) > 555-1212 > > Does something like this exist? I'm googling, but not really sure > what to search for so not really getting helpful results. > > Thanks in advance. > -Dan > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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