Re: OT: Mobile Phone "mailto:"
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numero = 69931
interpreted = N
texte = Cool. I'll give it a try. Thx. -dan On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:50:01 -0400 Matthew A Perosi
wrote: > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Cool. I'll give it a try. Thx. -dan On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:50:01 -0400 Matthew A Perosi wrote: > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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