make calls from your web browser

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Make Calls from Your Web Browser. HACK. Note that skype: won’t work with speed-dial numbers … Examples of how to use skype: from a web browser. skype: URL …

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Chapter 4, Tweak and Tune Skype | 113
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Make Calls from Your Web Browser Hack #43
Configure Internet Explorer so that you can make calls directly from a web
page or from the browser toolbar.
Works with: Windows version of Skype.
There are three ways in which you can make calls directly from within a web
browser. The first method uses the URL prefix skype: (note the missing //, as
this method won’t work if you include //) to control Skype from within a
browser. The second method uses the callto:// URL prefix and can be used in
a number of ways to make calls, including from your browser’s address bar
or from a link embedded in a web page. The third method uses the Skype
Toolbar, which is an add-on application for Internet Explorer (and is available
for Microsoft Outlook as well) that you can download at http://www.
skype.com/products/skypetoolbars/.
skype:
You’re probably familiar with URLs such as http://www.oreilly.com/. Now
Skype has added its own type of URL, which looks like this: skype:echo123….