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	dchky	2011-07-17 , 05:01
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Originally Posted by bennypr0fane

Hello,
Is it possible to enable dialling a linked phone number directly from MicroB (or any other browser in Maemo)?
I.e. the phone number is displayed on the page as a link, I click that link, the phone app starts itself, the number is dialled?
Thanks, Ben

I'm not sure how relevant this is with PR1.3 but previously you had to modify home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js adding the following two lines:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.warn-external.sip", false);
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.warn-external.tel", false);

Restart the browser and it should allow you to click phone numbers where appropriate, dialing immediately.

I'm guessing that the phone number has to be enclosed within href='tel:<number>' or the S60 variant href='wtai://wp/mc;<number>' before it works though. I'd imagine most web designers don't do this at the moment, I know I never have, but I'll start today :-)

Last edited by dchky; 2011-07-17 at 05:03.

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