Prevent internet explorer 10 mobile from creating phone and address links

Question

Is there a way to prevent IE 10 mobile from creating phone and address links. Something similar to: <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">.

Answer 1

Dirty solution: show text as a real-time rendered image. Something similar is used to avoid email harvesters from getting contact information.

For php you could try the GD Library.

This example is from PHP.net page:

<?php
// Set the content-type
header('Content-Type: image/png');

// Create the image
$im = imagecreatetruecolor(400, 30);

// Create some colors
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 128, 128, 128);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 399, 29, $white);

// The text to draw
$text = 'Testing...';
// Replace path by your own font path
$font = 'arial.ttf';

// Add some shadow to the text
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 11, 21, $grey, $font, $text);

// Add the text
imagettftext($im, 20, 0, 10, 20, $black, $font, $text);

// Using imagepng() results in clearer text compared with imagejpeg()
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

This will output:
_{(source: php.net)}

Of course a lot of resources are being wasted.