Re: OT: Mobile Phone "mailto:"
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interpreted = N
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(212) 555-1212 I've put together several .mobi websites. What you will find is that the href="tel:" will not work in all cell phones. Some cell phones will ignore it, some will issue an error that the website is trying to make a phone call and ask for approval, some will just work. From my minimal testing (since I don't own one) the iPhone is a normal web browser and it probably will not understand the tel: tag. Actually on my .mobi sites, the iPhone registers as a normal browser and not a wap browser. MAKE SURE you remove all non numeric characters in the href="tel:" Matt Perosi Psi Prime, Inc. New Jersey 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
href="mailto:some@emailaddress.com"> 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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Here's the tag you are looking for: (212) 555-1212 I've put together several .mobi websites. What you will find is that the href="tel:" will not work in all cell phones. Some cell phones will ignore it, some will issue an error that the website is trying to make a phone call and ask for approval, some will just work. From my minimal testing (since I don't own one) the iPhone is a normal web browser and it probably will not understand the tel: tag. Actually on my .mobi sites, the iPhone registers as a normal browser and not a wap browser. MAKE SURE you remove all non numeric characters in the href="tel:" Matt Perosi Psi Prime, Inc. New Jersey 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 href="mailto:some@emailaddress.com"> 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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