[losingthefight]

I completely disagree that Apple is not at fault here. It should always prompt, end of story. More importantly though is that the devs at FB, Google, etc, likely saw how it worked in mobile Safari and, wrongly, assumed it would work the same in a webview. Why have the inconsistency in an a tag?

[kennywinker]

There are legit reasons to want to dial without a dialog. Apps like launch center pro, or a 3rd party contacts app. I agree the default should be prompt, but an option to disable that is definitely beneficial to users most of the time.

[igorgue]

I agree, most people wouldn't here because t h i s i s h a c k e r n e w s.