[thelist] Getting iPhone to dial-on-click

Will willthemoor at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 20:13:49 CST 2011


Reading this on my iPhone and both the numbers below render as links. Not sure of the how/why. 



On Jan 31, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Frank Marion <lists at frankmarion.com> wrote:

> It was my understanding that the iPhone should automatically parse out telephone numbers and make them click-and-dial sort of deal, but I'm having a hard time getting that to happen.
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> The phone number as-is does not work, yet is in (555) 555-5555 format.
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> The tel://+1-555-555-5555 formatted link doesn't seem to work. And even if THIS one did, I'd like it to dial locally as well, since the website is local to a specific area, meaning not needing to dial 1 first.
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> How to I get an iPhone to recognize and autodial a phone number from a website's page?
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> Thanks.
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