iPhone 3.0 telephone hyperlinks can't be cancelled?

Question

I just noticed that since the upgrade to 3.0 the meta-tag:

<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />

Stopped working in my application. I'm using a UIWebView and everything worked before the upgrade. Any ideas? Anyone else having this problem?

Answer 1

Having the same problem. Links show up on simulator and phone. No google luck (except finding this page!).

Answer 2

Have you tried setting the UIDataDetectorType for the UIWebView?

webView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeLink;

UIDataDetectorTypes:

Defines the types of information that can be detected in text-based content.

Types:

• UIDataDetectorTypePhoneNumber;
• UIDataDetectorTypeLink;
• UIDataDetectorTypeNone;
• UIDataDetectorTypeAll;