Question Making the Skype profile button clickable

Hi there,

Most of the other social profile buttons are clickable - why not skype? The format is pretty simple:

Just wondering if there's a reason?

And if not, is it possible to modify with a template override?

G'day, kbrookes, and welcome to Kunena.

Thank you for your question about making the Skype username clickable in Kunena, Joomla or any page on the Internet no matter how the page was developed. While there is certainly general support for most hyperlinks to operate by using your web browser to run the appropriate application (depending, of course, on what is installed on the computer that you are using at the time) there are additional issues involving how to instantiate Skype.

As an example, when you see the hyperlink www.kunena.org your browser uses the HTTP protocol to do what browsers do best ... display a web page. When your browser sees [email protected] your browser will attempt to instantiate whatever mail client application is installed on the computing device that you are using.

It is possible, to run PC commands from from a web browser but the syntax is dependent on the operating system of your computer. In your example you suggested that you could use the syntax "skype:username?call" in the sense that you could create a hyperlink. :side:

Try entering that string of characters into the address of your browser and see what happens. It just doesn't work.

Hi Sozzled,

I completely understand what you're saying - can I direct you to this link, however:

thinksync.com.au/zsocial/email/2013/email-sig-kelsey.html

I'm using that exact syntax with no addition plugins to handle it in my browsers.

In each case it either launches skype, or asks for permission do so via external permissions request.

Admittedly I haven't tested on Linux, but my client's share of Linux-based traffic is pretty low.

While it's not a standard href format, it does actually work

Regards,

Kelsey