Mobile Safari/ iPhone Mail.app HTML design issues: prevent autolinking and styling auto-links (dates, addresses, etc.)

Question

i am trying to design an HTML e-mail that should also look good when it is read on mobile devices. My biggest problems are with the iPhone (iOS 4): its mostly undocumented \

Answer 1

This question was answered a long while back in this thread How to disable phone number linking in Mobile Safari? but to reiterate for all other SEO visitors like myself....

...according to the Safari Web Content Guide for iPhone: