[thelist] Getting iPhone to dial-on-click

Will willthemoor at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 23:29:31 CST 2011


On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:04 PM, Frank Marion <lists at frankmarion.com> wrote:

> On 2011-02-01, at 3:26 PM, Will wrote:
>> Just downloaded the html via firefox and when I serve it locally, two things
>> happen (on both the simulator and my phone).
>> 
>> 1. Phone number links work fine.
>> 
>> 2. Content doesn't autoscale to fit the screen width like the live site
>> does. I couldn't find any CSS/JS/Meta tag in the source to force it - how
>> are you doing it?
> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply and sorry for the delay.
> 
> Thanks for letting me know that the phone number works now. As far as the width goes, it's a CSS thing. My emulator shows that it rotates, but now I have my doubts. Thanks for pointing that out.

Phone number worked for me locally but not on your .mobi site. Setting the width of the body to 320px or whatever in CSS doesn't actually trigger the zoom (though I think width:100% will, effectively). I'm pretty sure that's another .mobi + iOS oddity. Try the same CSS/HTML on a non .mobi domain. 


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