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Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / September 2008Messenger online status & hyperlink
Is it possible to display a Messenger user's current online status (online, offline, away, not available) and a hyperlink to send him/her a message? It has been possible to display current online status for an ICQ user number as an image: http://status.icq.com/online.gif?icq=95149395 or to launch an ICQ window for composing the message: http://www.icq.com/people/cmd.php?uin=859710&action=message Skype provides similar services: You can display user's current online status http://mystatus.skype.com/smallicon/theptcompany (he/she has to enable this in the client settings) or start various actions by clinking on hyperlinks: callto://theptcompany skype:theptcompany?chat skype:theptcompany?voicemail skype:theptcompany?userinfo Does Microsoft offer such hyperlinks and online status indicators for Messenger users? If not, is there any 3rd party service available? As far as I know, you can't do the showing whether you're online at the moment, as for starting a chat conversation, you have these commands: msnim:chat?contact= msnim:add?contact= msnim:voice?contact= msnim:video?contact= Just add your email address after the =. These should be put in as hyperlinks in your html code. Scøtt Live Messenger FAQs - http://wlm.scottisafool.co.uk/ > Is it possible to display a Messenger user's current online status (online, > offline, away, not available) and a hyperlink to send him/her a message? [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Does Microsoft offer such hyperlinks and online status indicators for > Messenger users? If not, is there any 3rd party service available? How can I put both add? and chat? in one command? Thank > As far as I know, you can't do the showing whether you're online at the > moment, as for starting a chat conversation, you have these commands: [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Does Microsoft offer such hyperlinks and online status indicators for > > Messenger users? If not, is there any 3rd party service available? Greetings, Yes you can, there's: http://www.onlinestatus.org or other tools like Web2Messenger: http://www.web2messenger.com Microsoft doesn't provide anyway for you to show your status though.  SignatureJonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. -- > Is it possible to display a Messenger user's current online status (online, offline, away, > not available) and a hyperlink to send him/her a message? [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Does Microsoft offer such hyperlinks and online status indicators for Messenger users? If > not, is there any 3rd party service available? The link http://www.onlinestatus.org isnt always reliable as people need to have their computers/servers online 24/7 all the time. I figured if Yahoo / ICQ / AIM does it for their users, why cant MSN? Since it is one of the top 3 IM programs at this time. A reason why many people have had to go out of their way and script up programs that aren't verified by Microsoft having to look up ports via an IP, ect ect. I have a problem using onlinestatus.org since i have a different email address other than hotmail or MSN. I know a few other people who have also registered email accounts other than those domains that i have already mentioned before. Maybe now that Microsoft Live will be introduced in the near future, they can help us who use their products and services, whip up an easier way to show our MSN Msgr Status via a webpage, blog signature or even in their "Member Directory". > Greetings, > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Does Microsoft offer such hyperlinks and online status indicators for Messenger users? If > > not, is there any 3rd party service available? |
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