(keitai-l) Re: Knock! Knock! P2101V users!

From: Ben Hutchings <ben_at_decadentplace.org.uk>
Date: 10/08/01
Message-ID: <20011008152501.A5530@zzumbouk.i.decadentplace.org.uk>
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:21:30AM -0700, DC wrote:
> I don't think the 'tel' tag is designed for video calls, just voice. 

There is no 'tel' tag, but there is a 'tel' scheme.  A video call is still a
voice call too - it's not a completely different medium.

> the phone has two buttons for different call initiation procedures and isn't
> able to detect what its calling and switch automatically (eg from voice to
> 64k circuit switched video mode).

So if you try to make a video call, does the call simply fail if the called
number doesn't support video calls?  If so, that's a serious UI flaw, in my
opinion.

> one way to resolve this would be to implement a new tag for video calls...

That's a stupid way to do things.  It would be better to add a parameter to
URLs (e.g. tel:...;vnd.nttdcomo.video=1).  Unfortunately this might confuse
old phones that have a very limited knowledge of the 'tel' URL scheme, so
maybe it would be necessary.

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Received on Mon Oct 8 17:13:42 2001