I am trying to develop a chrome extension that when you click in the icon a popup window appears just below the icon (just the easiest thing to do). The popup contains some text and a phone number. I want this phone number to be clickable and that when you click on it a Skype call is triggered.
In a normal html page you would do this with something like:
< a href="callto:number" >Call us at number!< /a >
but when I put this code in the popup.html page and load the extension this is not working.
I have opened the popup.html page in a browser tab and the link works but it doesn't from the extension's popup. I have tested other handlers like mailto and it works, but callto doesn't.
I have also tried:
< a href="skype:number?call">Call us!< /a >
and it does not work neither.
Does anybody know why and how should I solve this issue?
thank you very much in advance
These are the files I have created:
manifest.json:
{
"name": "My First Extension",
"version": "1.0",
"manifest_version": 2,
"description": "The first extension that I made.",
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png",
"default_popup": "popup.html"
}
}
And the popup.html:
< html >
< head >
< title >Getting Started Extension's Popup< /title >
< style >
body {
min-width:357px;
overflow-x:hidden;
}
img {
margin:5px;
border:2px solid black;
vertical-align:middle;
width:75px;
height:75px;
}
< /style>
< body>
< a href="callto:echo123">Call us free!< /a >
< a href="skype:echo123?call">Call us free 2!< /a >
< a href="mailto:mymail@gmail.com" target="_newtab">email us!< /a >
< a href="http://www.elpais.es" target="_newtab"> el pais< /a >
< /body >
</html>
