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On macOs, support special data detection like phone numbers and show contetual action like calling one

bric3
Strollin' around
‎02-11-2025 06:05 AM
Status: New idea

macOs has a text "kind" detection, especially for phone numbers. Which makes it very practical to be use.

Unfortunately on macOs firefox do not have this capability, and this would be very practical to just invoke these OS native contextual actions. Just taking into actions the accessibility.

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Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎02-11-2025 07:43 AM
‎02-11-2025 07:43 AM

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culi
Strollin' around
‎02-15-2025 09:17 AM
‎02-15-2025 09:17 AM

This is something that ultimately depends on the website. Typically, the way you embed a phone number on a website is with an anchor tag like <a href="tel:123-456-7890">(123) 456-7890</a>

However, Safari goes an extra step and tries to automatically detect any text that's formatted like a phone number and treat it as if they website authors had added the href.

Many website authors dislike this behavior by Apple and specifically disable it by adding this to their <head>.

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

bric3
Strollin' around
‎02-19-2025 12:24 AM
‎02-19-2025 12:24 AM

This is something that ultimately depends on the website.

Today I learned. I thought this was only triggered by text selection, there is indeed the following :

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

I don' know if Apple did anything wrong here, because meta is by definition extensible and it's used for social media purpose like these:

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="website"/>

Regardless, I still think phone, or other format detection mechanisms are practical user facing features.

 

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