(keitai-l) Re: Knock! Knock! P2101V users!

From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings_at_roundpoint.com>
Date: 10/08/01
Message-ID: <20011008160534.B5530@zzumbouk.i.decadentplace.org.uk>
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:41:42PM +0900, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 03:25:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:21:30AM -0700, DC wrote:
<snip>
> > > one way to resolve this would be to implement a new tag for video calls...
> > 
> > That's a stupid way to do things.  It would be better to add a parameter to
> > URLs (e.g. tel:...;vnd.nttdcomo.video=1).  Unfortunately this might confuse
> > old phones that have a very limited knowledge of the 'tel' URL scheme, so
> > maybe it would be necessary.
> 
> DoCoMo already has added new parameters, but not for video. They basically
> added the telbook parameter which makes it handy for someone to add you
> to their telephone book without having to type in your name etc.

Those are extra attributes for the A tag.  I was thinking of adding a
parameter to URLs.

> It's still limited but there...

Seems to me that the handset should use the link's content as a suggested
name.

> 	http://www.nttdocomo.com/i/tag/tel.html
> 
> The notes on this page and my testing confirm that...
> * Terminals that do not support this function will only recognize the HREF
>   attribute and will function with the PHONE TO and MAIL TO functions.

Yuck, what a hack.  Why don't they just support vcards instead of trying to
kluge all this into HTML?

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Received on Mon Oct 8 17:54:03 2001