Re: sms: URIs

iirc we discussed this point at length in the context of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 and concluded that as Francois says support for it is not sufficiently consistent for it to be recommended. However, that was a long time ago, now.

Jo
On 15 Jul 2010, at 13:22, Francois Daoust wrote:

> Hi Erik,
> 
> Thanks for the comment. I registered it in our last call comments tracker under the ID LC-2407. The Mobile Web Best Practices working group should discuss your suggestion next week. We'll keep you updated on the group's decision.
> 
> Speaking personally, I'd say it's reasonable to mention the SMS scheme. I note that support for the scheme seems to vary though. Latest versions of Android (unless it's just a bug in the emulator) think it is part of the phone number. Some other browsers ignore the body altogether, and some ignore the phone number as well.
> 
> Francois.
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/14/2010 07:29 PM, Erik Wilde wrote:
>> hello.
>> 
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-mwabp-20100713/#bp-interaction-uri-schemes
>> recommends to use tel: URIs for telephone numbers. tel: is definitely
>> more widely known, but there also is a URI scheme for SMS, defined by
>> RFC 5724. mentioning it might be useful for those mobile web app authors
>> who like to better support SMS-based messaging in their apps.
>> 
>> kind regards,
>> 
>> erik wilde tel:+1-510-6432253 - fax:+1-510-6425814
>> dret@berkeley.edu - http://dret.net/netdret
>> UC Berkeley - School of Information (ISchool)
>> 
>> 
> 

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