SkypeWeb is now available
SkypeWeb is now officially available. It is supported in the [latest release of Skype for Windows](http://www.skype.com/products/skype/windows/). To activate SkypeWeb, you need to [turn it on](http://www.skype.com/share/buttons/status.html). You can get your own [Skype button here](http://www.skype.com/go/skypebuttons).
SkypeWeb in short means that you can have a fancy button for your e-mail or web page which goes something like this:
One bit of feedback we've had is that there's currently no "dropdown-style" button available in the [Skype button builder](http://www.skype.com/go/skypebuttons). People are asking what's up with it and why did we take it away? Short answer -- we just didn't make it in time to remake it to the new style with status. It's coming back. Soon. Really. Keep checking the page.
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bernardlan commented Friday, Feb 10
The button for email seems not to work for Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo.
For Gmail and Hotmail, the image is no longer a link to skype. It's just a plain image.
For Yahoo, the image is a link to skype, but it opens a new window to the yahoo inbox.
I was testing it by sending mails with Outlook Express.
mortazavi commented Saturday, Mar 4
This feature is only available on Windows.
When do you expect to release it on other platforms?
I've already placed SkypeWeb on my weblog at blogs.sun.com, but it only shows my status when I'm using Skype 2.0 on Windows and not when using lower versions of Skype on other platforms.
It is important, for a feature like this, to be available on all platforms at the same time. By the way, is there a Solaris version available.
By the way, another minor feature for the presence icon is to have a way to select the background color for the image. As you can see, the current background color does not quite fit my need. I know this leads to various combinatorial and file or attribute management headaches but there must be a way to solve the problem, and the appeal would be tremendous. Right?
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daniel.heffernan commented Sunday, Jan 6
I'm using this on my blog but with the latest version (2.6) on OS X, it often doesn't change to offline when I close Skype. Seems to work correctly about 20% of the time.