Calls to numbers written on the site

Today I was thinking about how to simplify a rather familiar action: call the phone that is written on the site. And such an idea came to mind - why not make it so that when you hover the mouse cursor over a phone number, a pop-up hint with a QR code can be displayed, which you can immediately read using the phone and immediately call without rewriting the number manually.



Moreover, it is possible to record in such a QR code not only a number, but also various supporting information - such as an e-mail address, the name of a person, and so on - everything that allows you to record a vCard. Thus, the user can either call immediately or write the number to the address book in order to be able to call later. The contact will be immediately recorded in the address book with all the additional information that will be needed in order to find it later.


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I think that such a pop-up hint with a QR code can be added in all basic cases: a user's phone in a social network (the name and so on can be taken from his own information for recording in vCard), a telephone for communication on the company's website (in the section “Contact with us ", either at the top or at the bottom of the page), phone numbers on reference sites (phone numbers of cafes, shops, other organizations) and so on.

The implementation of this will not take a lot of time (there are many ready-made libraries, for example, for Python there is pyqrnative and the pyqrcode QR code generator based on it), and this may well increase the usability of the site.

PS After the post was posted I wrote to me in the mail gorynych_zmey . It turns out that he is engaged in the implementation of this, so if there is a wish to join, then now you know who to contact.

I read your article on Habré. Unfortunately, I still haven’t been able to get an invite there, so I’m not answering with comments, but writing. The idea that the phone on the site should be “manipulable” (that is, with the ability to do something about it), was born to me a long time ago. But I decided to go a little further and offer the user a choice of what to do with the phone found on the site. Except how to show it with a barcode - I also see it as an option to add it to Google Contacts (the Android phone synchronizes with Google contacts, and the recorded contact appears in the phone for half a minute), in the Exchange notebook (for corporate users) , send VCard via SMS, etc. Pre-alpha service (in fact, not yet brought to a demonstrable kind of prototype) is available here . From the worker so far, just showing the QR code as the simplest, now I am working on adding a contact to Google Contacts. If the development of the topic is interesting, and there is a desire to have a hand in the creation of this service (and I see in it a not weak prospect to change the idea of ​​Internet users about interacting with contact information) - I will be glad to offer to combine efforts and make the service together.