hello august, thanks for the information. i have checked this on various strings, sometimes it fits, sometimes not, depending on the content and the number of characters within the string. obviously this is a feature, not a bug ;-) i am fine with it since other devices behave in the same way.
regards timex On Sep 22, 3:54 am, August Trometer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're building a website that uses a continuous string of number > for something (like an account number), Apple recommends you do the > following: > > 123<span>45678</span>9 > > Or something to that effect. > > The software on the iPhone/iPod touch tries to auto-detect phone > numbers. By adding the <span>, you throw that detection off. > > August > > On Sep 20, 2007, at 2:59 AM, Timex wrote: > > > > > hi, > > > i need a solution to disable the iPhone to call a number if there are > > numeric values inside a text. > > > here's an example: "My personal account number is 123 4567890." > > > as a result, the iPhone interprets the string "123 4567890" as a > > telephone number, makes it a link that can be called. > > > i was thinking about adding some additional characters to the string > > (like "123 4567890") to avoid this behaviour, but that doesn't > > help me out. > > > i guess there are some elaborate ways to achieve the desired goal. > > didn't find anything in the archive. > > > suggestions welome! > > > kind regards > > timex --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
