Messenger 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?ui...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/

wrote:
> 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?ui...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?
>
>

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.

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Associate Expert
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<> wrote in message news:...
> 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?ui...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?
>
>