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TelephonyCall.onalerting

In This Article
  1. Syntax
  2. Examples
  3. Specifications
  4. Browser compatibility
  5. See also

This API is available on Firefox OS for internal applications only.

The onalerting event handler of the TelephonyCall interface is a reference to a function to be called to handle the Telephony API's alerting event.

The event handler is called with a CallEvent as its only parameter.

Syntax

myCall.onalerting = function() { ... };

Examples

// Telephony object
var tel = navigator.mozTelephony;
// Place a call
tel.dial("123456789").then(function(call) {
  call.number;
  call.onalerting = function() {
    // respond to alerting
  }
});

Specifications

Specification Status Comment
Web Telephony Draft Draft.

Browser compatibility

For obvious reasons, support is primarily expected on mobile browsers.

  • Desktop
  • Mobile
Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari
Basic support No support No support No support No support No support
Feature Android Firefox Mobile (Gecko) Firefox OS (Gecko) IE Mobile Opera Mobile Safari Mobile
Basic support No support 12.0 (12.0) 1.0.1 No support No support No support

See also

  • Using the Web Telephony API
  • TelephonyCall
  • Telephony
  • CallEvent
  • Navigator.mozTelephony

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  • API
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  • DOM Reference
  • Firefox OS
  • Mobile
  • Non-standard
  • onalerting
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  • Réference
  • Référence
  • Telephony
  • TelephonyCall
  • WebAPI
 Contributors to this page: chrisdavidmills, teoli, fscholz, MHasan, kscarfone, Jeremie
 Last updated by: chrisdavidmills, Feb 27, 2017, 2:32:02 AM
See also
  1. Web Telephony API
  2. Archive
  3. Events
    1. incoming
  4. Related pages for Web Telephony API
    1. CallEvent
    2. CallGroup
    3. MMICall
    4. Telephony
    5. TelephonyCall
    6. TelephonyCallGroup