my question is analogous to the "mailto:email#email.com" type of link but is more specifically:
if a phone number exists on a page and is viewed by a user on an iphone (phone number will appear as link), is there a way for that link to automatically (upon user clicking) ask the user if they want to add that number to the contact, and then auto fill certain details?
this seems a bit too amorphous to be obviously possible, but you never know.
Nope. Phone numbers will be recognized by Mobile Safari automatically, and be "forced" to be seen as telephone numbers by doing something like this:
555-1212
But you can't control the phone's behavior when the user taps the link. (Cool feature idea though. :) )
It think it's not necessary to use a tel: as a href protocol prefix. I am not sure if something like this validates or is somehow standard. There is also a skype href hack: href="skype:asdasdasd".
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iOs also detects telephone numbers in text automagically. They just need the right format. See also here for formats: http://hjacob.com/blog/2009/07/making-a-phone-number-clickable-for-iphone-users/
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In the PWA, I would like to give a feature where it will show user's mobile number and after tapping on call button within PWA, actual mobile call should get triggered.
I couldn't find any reference or documentation for this. Please let me know how to achieve this action ?
If you want to link a phone number, it's really similar to linking a regular website:
+1 (555) 555-1234
This works for websites in general, there is nothing special about it being in a PWA.
If you want even more information about telephone links, this article is pretty good: https://css-tricks.com/the-current-state-of-telephone-links/
It's from 2016 so browser support is even better. There's a bunch of info in there about SEO and country codes as well.
I'm having an issue where I have a number displayed on my webpage that is NOT a phone number (it's a simple confirmation number without a link, just text on a page) is being converted in to a clickable link to call the number for ios users on mobile devices. It's basically treating it as though I have made the number a link with a tel: protocol, even though it has no such markup. has anyone else seen this, and is there any way to fix it?
I know that I have seen something like this in somewhere...But no remember where.
Does somebody know what are the features of a smartphone(iphone, android, blackberry) that I can access from a Web Browser?
In some place I had see a list of links that can access different features of the phones(too many).
I mean, I know some things like:
Link Text
Link Text
Link Text
but, is it there something like:
Link Text ???? OR
Link Text ????
Thank for your answers!!
For iOS, it all works via a system called URL Schemes. Checkout this website which even builds the right link for you in HTML.
I'm adding social media buttons to my website. Facebook like, Twitter tweet etc buttons were very easy.
However I also need an email the page (or rather a link to the page) button. I have trawled the internet but cannot find a simple and good implementation.
Ideally I'd like to be able to copy some reliable code, and have the button look in the same style as the ones on this page: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6920023/testbuttons.html
If anyone has done this before I would be very glad to hear from you :)
Thanks in advance.
Why not just use the AddThis service? You simply register, provide them with your website url and then select the social media / link mechanisms you would like to use on your site. At the end they provide you with a block of HTML code to drop into your site and low and behold, the buttons and appearance you selected will be present. You can also select mechanism such as pain old email when setting it up.
An example of it in place;
Here's the link: http://www.addthis.com/
As far as i know, you will have to use Mailto: apart from doing some deep Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail API integration. That's about as good as your going to get.
You can dynamically fill out subject, body, cc fields etc using javascript/php (or whatever you are using)
Don't know on how to ask this in another way, so here it goes!
This is what I want;
When you view the details of a contact, you have the option of direct calling the phonenumber, send an email or lookup someones address within the Maps App of the iPhone.
I am also creating an App which shows some detailed information about a location.
The information shown in the detailed view:
Phonenumber (when choosing this it needs to call the number)
Emailaddress (when choosing this it needs to open the emailapp)
Address (When choosing this it needs to open the default MapApp of the iPhone)
Do I achieve this with actions which are available (somewhere)? If so, can anyone point me in the right direction?
I would help me alot!
With kind regards,
Douwe
iOS uses url schemes to allow communication between apps. You'd need to implement openURL:"yourformattedurlhere" in your button clicks with a properly formed URL to send data to the appropriate app.
You can check Apple's URL Scheme Reference for the details on the formatting.