934609 - [B2G] [Browser]: Plain text phone numbers do not respond when tapped

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Kreinbring [:CKreinbring]]

Description:
Tapping phone numbers that are in plain text do not launch the Dialer app.

Repro Steps:
1) Update Buri to Build ID: 20131030004003
2) Launch the Browser app and navigate to a page with phone numbers in plain text (eg becu.org then tap Contact Us).
3) Tap the phone numbers on the page and observe the app's reaction.

Actual:
Nothing happens.

Expected:
The Dialer app launches with the number that was selected shown in the display area.

Environmental Variables
Device: Buri 1.2 mozilla RIL
Build ID: 20131030004003
Gecko: http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g26_v1_2/rev/4fbe1b01ed63
Gaia: a788ea1a3e04716938bd41a559c36a831cf1190b
Platform Version: 26.0a2

Notes:
Repro frequency: 100%
Link to failed test case: https://moztrap.mozilla.org/manage/cases/?filter-id=7774
Android devices can launch the Dialer from tapping phone numbers regardless of whether the phone number is configured to launch the Dialer when selected.

Comment 1

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Sarah mentions this already exists on 1.1.

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Actually, this deals with the text itself being recognized as a phone number, which is more likely on the gecko side.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Both test cases involved here are rendering phone numbers in a paragraph tag, which will not recognize the phone number as a clickable entity that can be opened in the dialer. As such, this is not valid.

Comment 4

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Talked more w/Naoki about this - this is actually supported implicitly on IPhone to detect phone numbers by default in web content even without tel:, which makes this is a compatibility issue. We're losing out on compatibility here, so we should investigate if there's value to implement this.

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on