[monkpit]

Pretty unusable on mobile - my phone keeps trying to either start a phone call to the “number” of the byte sequence I clicked on, or it tells me (repeatedly) that the site has been blocked from making calls, after I have canceled out a few times.

[NikolaNovak]

Interesting. On Firefox on PC I only have one page; Cracking the Code lets me hover over bytes but I expected something more of HN link. What VSTs are? How they reverse engineered? Other uses of either technique?

This is literally a translation for specific obscure file format ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[rezonant]

Must be an iPhone thing. No problem on Pixel 3XL

[saagarjha]

Yeah, iOS will try to automatically detect phone numbers in web views. It can be annoying sometimes if the web page author doesn’t take that into consideration.

[Log1x]

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

[BuildTheRobots]

And yet in some crazy parallel universe, content authors choose to tag telephone numbers as such to make them clickable, rather than having to tell a browser not to incorrectly interpret text.

[saagarjha]

A crazy parallel universe where iPhone came before the web and could shape it from its inception, surely.

[BuildTheRobots]

RFC-5341 defines "the tel URI for telephone numbers" and is dated December 2004. The first iPhone was released June 2007, so there was already a way of marking phone numbers well before day one.

[tjoff]

Surely apple is to blame for it though.

[akully]

thanks for letting me know. weird about the phone calls. I'll check this out on mobile

[akully]

ok fixed

[akully]

fixed