Specify clickable phone-number

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Specify clickable phone-number

With mailto: exisits a widely available possibility to specify an email address that opens the email-client if executed.

Does exist somethin similar for phone-numbers, so that if it's used in a html-link or in a .net Process.Start-call, a mobile or a pc with a modem will call the specified number?

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Per RFC2806, tel: - but it may not be as widely supported.

MSalters 2010-08-18 07:42:54

+1 Thanks for the answer. I have tested it on my dev-machine (modem) but sadly it has not worked neither in IE nor in .net. I will check later if it works for mobiles. Maybe in the future, the support will be broader.

HCL 2010-08-18 08:02:03

Actually, the question isn't whether IE or .Net supports it, but whether there's any application at all that supports it. Applications that can't handle a URL (such as `mailto:` outside a mail program) are supposed to `ShellExecute()` it, and IE does. But if there is no Shell handler for `tel:`, such URLs cannot be handled at all.

MSalters 2010-08-18 08:37:04

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