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Pretty unusable on mobile - my phone keeps trying to either start a phone call to the “number” of the byte sequence I clicked on, or it tells me (repeatedly) th
by monkpit 6y ago
Pretty unusable on mobile - my phone keeps trying to either start a phone call to the “number” of the byte sequence I clicked on, or it tells me (repeatedly) that the site has been blocked from making calls, after I have canceled out a few times.
- rezonant 6y agoMust be an iPhone thing. No problem on Pixel 3XL
- saagarjha 6y agoYeah, iOS will try to automatically detect phone numbers in web views. It can be annoying sometimes if the web page author doesn’t take that into consideration.
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- Log1x 6y ago<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
- BuildTheRobots 6y agoAnd yet in some crazy parallel universe, content authors choose to tag telephone numbers as such to make them clickable, rather than having to tell a browser not to incorrectly interpret text.
- saagarjha 6y agoA crazy parallel universe where iPhone came before the web and could shape it from its inception, surely.
- BuildTheRobots 6y agoRFC-5341 defines "the tel URI for telephone numbers" and is dated December 2004. The first iPhone was released June 2007, so there was already a way of marking phone numbers well before day one.
- tjoff 6y agoSurely apple is to blame for it though.
- NikolaNovak 6y agoInteresting. On Firefox on PC I only have one page; Cracking the Code lets me hover over bytes but I expected something more of HN link. What VSTs are? How they reverse engineered? Other uses of either technique? This is literally a translation for specific obscure file format ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- akully 6y agothanks for letting me know. weird about the phone calls. I'll check this out on mobile
- akully 6y agook fixed
- akully 6y agofixed