1119484 - "Call" button on Google Maps just opens up a blank page. (e.g. for Mountain View Public Library) (Yelp works correctly)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STR:
 1. Visit https://maps.google.com in Firefox OS Browser, on a phone.

 1. Get to the Google Maps page for some business with a phone number, e.g.:
     - Type "Mozilla" into the maps search field
     - Tap the result in the dropdown menu for Mozilla on East Evelyn 
     - Tap the bottom bar that says "Mozilla [4.5 stars] [43 reviews]"

 2. You should see buttons for "CALL" and "WEBSITE". Tap the "CALL" one.

ACTUAL RESULTS: A blank browser-window opens up. No indication of what the phone number is anywhere.

EXPECTED RESULTS: Dialer should be opened with phone number entered.


This basically breaks the use-case of using Google Maps to find a business's phone number, because they don't actually display the phone number in their mobile UI -- they just have the "CALL" button.

I'm not sure what component this belongs in. Starting out in Firefox OS | General.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I'm using a Flame device, on the Firefox OS 2.1 channel.

Git commit info: 2015-01-08 07:34:23  ed2e2787

Comment 2

[Gregor Wagner [:gwagner]]

doug, should this work?

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #1)
> I'm using a Flame device, on the Firefox OS 2.1 channel.

FWIW: I've repro'd this on a Flame with a mid-december Firefox OS 2.2 Nightly, too. So, not a 2.1-specific issue.

Also: in Yelp's webapp, this *works correctly*. (When you tap a "call" button in Yelp, the dialer is launched, and the number is pre-entered.)

I used "Mountain View Public Library" for testing Yelp.  I tried the library in Google Maps as well, just to double-check that this is still broken there -- it is.

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

One more data point: Google Maps' call button apparently works correctly in Firefox on Android. (AaronMT was good enough to test this for me)

So, that means Google's not relying on anything webkit-specific for this, or anything like that.  There seems to be a FxOS-specific problem with handling this.

Comment 5

[Doug Sherk (:drs) (inactive)]

Here are the formats of the links that each website provides:
Yelp -- tel:+123
Google Maps -- tel://+123

Thus it looks to me like an issue with associations. I'm not sure who would know more about this, or where it's configured.

I'm bringing in Fabrice because I have some vague inkling that he would either know about this, or whom to ask.

Comment 6

[[:fabrice] Fabrice Desré]

The url used by Google is not conform to the rfc 2806 [1] that is implemented by the tel: uri parser [2]. That means that we end up throwing when creating the channel at http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/b2g/components/TelProtocolHandler.js#51

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2806.txt
[2] https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/b2g/components/TelURIParser.jsm

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on