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intranet use / web use
I'm thinking it might make it easy to post your iChat address or the like on a bulletin board. This might especially come in handy when Rendezvous and ipV6 become much more common.
intranet use / web use
Apple's evidently trying to create useful (or use a existing) protcols like http, file, ftp, telnet, webcal, ical, ichat, addressbook... in order to tell the browser how to handle the data (either display or indicate the helper app). They did this with 'webcal' to allow you to subscribe to online iCalendars: it starts iCal and subscribes you to the ".ics" file.
intranet use / web use
It would be nice if these schemas did something besides start up the application. "ichat:somebody" could fire off an IM to somebody. "addressbook:somebody" could search for and bring up that person's card.
intranet use / web use
It seems the apps already do what I was asking for, sort of.
how do you retrieve the user's hex id code?
can anyone provide more insight as to how one can retrieve the "long-and-ugly-hex-id-code"? or is there another way to use to ichat:// protocol to send an ichat IM to a user by clicking on a link, i.e.:
how do you retrieve the user's hex id code?
You should call these "ugly hex id codes" GUIDs (globally unique identifiers). Pretty standard junk if you've ever worked with COM or similar technologies. You can get/set all the info in AddressBook via the ABAddressBook framework, or by AppleScript.. For example:
intranet use / web use
According to this Wikipedia article, to start an iChat or AOL Instant Messenger conversation with "notarealuser", use this URL:
This will specify a message also:
Nifty!
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