[thelist] Getting iPhone to dial-on-click
Rick Alexander
tralexan at comcast.net
Mon Jan 31 16:48:34 CST 2011
Frank,
I have this working at http://iphone.tsdeaf.org/phone.html. Works fine
for all I have asked to try it. There are no tags for the phone numbers
in the html.
The difference I see right away is in how the number is formatted. Mine
are 555-555-5555, no parentheses.
--rick
On 1/31/2011 5:29 PM, Frank Marion 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.
>
> The phone number as-is does not work, yet is in (555) 555-5555 format.
>
> 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.
>
> How to I get an iPhone to recognize and autodial a phone number from a
> website's page?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Frank Marion
> lists [_at_] frankmarion.com
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