(keitai-l) Re: Japanese phone numbers

From: Renfield Kuroda <Renfield.Kuroda_at_msdw.com>
Date: 01/26/01
Message-ID: <3A714C21.10C1DB8B@msdw.com>
It happens in on my N502i, N501i, and NM502i if I remember correctly (I'm in
London now so can't verify).

r e n


Nick May wrote:

> keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
> >There's a couple of things we need to remember:
> >* As far as I've tested, i-mode phones automatically highlight phone
> >numbers (or
> >any string of single-byte ascii numbers in a web page) for click-dialing,
> >whether or not there is a tel: link
>
> I have not seen this on any of my phones and it definitely does NOT happen
> on my F209i (the only one I have to hand to test with). YMMV of course...
> Can you post a url of something that does this on your phone so that we
> can test it?
>
> >
> >* Lauren's code would automatically insert tel: links around phone
> >numbers in
> >the web page, not add them magically to a page.
>
> Er - well - yes.....  Though I hear tell there be some powerful magic in
> that google enjun.... I don't think anyone believes that google is
> intending splashing linked telephone numbers at random through the
> text.... (Not as daft an idea as it sounds though - didn't Deja Vu have a
> biz model at one time that involved hotlinking product references in
> usenet posts to the product home page? Well  of course it IS a daft idea,
> but that doesn't mean that some bright spark of an MBA is not at this very
> moment patenting it....)
>
> >So if the page didn't already
> >contain a phone number, there'd be no link, and if it did, it'd probably
> >get
> >highlighted automatically anyway
>
> This last is very much in need of confirmation. It is definitely not a
> behaviour common to all phones. I am curious to know which phones - and
> which browsers DO this....
>
> Nick
>
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Received on Fri Jan 26 11:59:09 2001