jacksenechal/Skype-for-Chrome — Issue #4: Microsoft Lync Compatibility
Author: aarodynamics
Created: 2012-01-12 04:34:19+00:00
State: open

This is an awesome extension for Chrome, but unfortunately I don't use Skype. This application almost works with Microsoft Lync though which is the app that I do use for voice calls (along with many other businesses). It would be great if there would be a way of producing a second version of this extension or adding the option in this extension to create the links in a way that MS Lync can interpret. This could be done very simply in two different ways.

1) MS Lync prefers links to be in the form of "tel:+11231231234"
2) but it can also read them in the form of "callto:tel:+11231231234"

You can read more about Lync links here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398376.aspx

I almost though that the "callto:tel:" method would work since you already support "callto:" links, but unfortunately the links weren't normalized from the regex. I think that it is discarding the "tel:" part when I add it in. I guess the simplest way to make this all work would be to allow for someone to add "tel:" in the first part of the normalization.

Please feel free to message me if there is anything I can do to help as far as testing goes.

Thank you!
-Aaron