While searching for ways to make a cell phone call a phone number on a web page I found there is no official standard. The most common seems to use the anchor tag with href=”tel:9999999999″. It does work from my blackberry web browser. It can also work with an image of the phone number.<\/p>\n
Within one of the forums a user asked about phone number spamming. Much like href=”mailto: the phone numbers could be crawled and used for a spammers phone list using bots. Another user suggested encoding the phonenumber with HTML ascii equivalent characters and even pointed to this site<\/a> which has an online encoder. I tried it and used it for the telephone number and it still works. The spammers may be able to figure this out in a while but it should at least slow them down.<\/p>\n While searching for ways to make a cell phone call a phone number on a web page I found there is no official standard. The most common seems to use the anchor tag with href=”tel:9999999999″. It does work from my … Continue reading
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