Another reason to partner Skype and Firefox (the web browser of choice). Add Skypelinkify and making phone calls for Pizza off web pages just becomes a one click request. Skypelinkify activates SkypeOut calling capability to every phone number on any web page just by clicking. Let's give thanks to the guys at the Questar Developer Blog.

We have been using SugarCRM, and various VOIP solutions, among them Skype for some time, and I have always wanted to be able and click on a phone number I'd see on a web page. I felt so silly when I looked up a phone number on the web, and had to re-key it, or even to copy and paste it to somewhere else. Now, with the help of Marco, we have a neat Greasemonkey script: Skypelinkify. Skypelinkify links to a Skype callto:// URI every likely phone number on the web page. Questar Developer Blog Get the Instructions.

Thanks David for adding the details that made installing it easy. Remember it only works in Firefox, and not IE, since Greasemonkey is FF only.

It is *very* easy to install:
1. Install the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox from here. http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
2. Open the Skypelinkify file from the link http://www.questar.it/blog/developer/skypelinkify.user.js
3. In the browser choose from the Tools menu, 'Install User Script...' Click Ok
4. From now on, any page you go to will have what the script thinks are phone numbers linked to the callto tag.

Note if you want to use this in another country you have to modify the script slightly.

David says: "I changed the file to skypelinkify the US phone numbers, as on my example screen. You only have to manually change the line "const defaultPrefix= '+1';" to the country prefix you want to use."

Cool! It also links all the numbers in a page. Benefits! No more copying and writing down those numbers. Just one more simple way that Skype and developers are making communication easier.