Implementing the quick call functionality
HTML5 allows developers to tell the browser to launch an application to make a phone call in the same way you would do for an e-mail. This recipe will show you how to do this with a jQuery Mobile button so that when users click on this button, their default call application will open with a prepopulated telephone number.
Getting ready
Within the chapter10 folder, create recipe-4.html for use within this recipe.
How to do it…
To allow users to be able to click on a button to make a phone call without having to copy and paste a number into their call application, perform the following simple steps:
Re-using the mobile website template, add the following HTML code into
recipe-4.html:<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Chapter 10 :: jQuery Mobile Template</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery-mobile/jquery.mobile.min.css" />...
