[uf-discuss] tel scheme for hcard? - RFC 2806

Dougal Campbell dougal at gunters.org
Thu Nov 10 14:33:30 PST 2005


brian suda wrote:
> <a href="tapi://123456789" class="tel"><span
> class="value">+123.456.7890</span> <abbr class="type"
> title="cell">(mobile)</abbr></a>
> 
> while you COULD extract the machine readable data from the href, hcard
> really wants the human readable format anyway. So what would be the
> reason for using the machine data?

Because browsers and other apps that will actually use the tapi: or tel: 
URI will want the machine-readable portion? That's part of semantics, 
too, isn't it?

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Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org>
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