The chrome extension could intercept "click to call" urls (<a href="tel:12345"…) and show the device selection or even call the number on a pre-selected device.
If you right-click the link you already have that option :)
Just to make sure: you mean "right-click -> join -> myDevice -> link -> call" or is there a shortcut? I always use the same device to place calls, so I don't see a reason why tel: links should ever open hangouts, skype etc (instead of using join).
I wrote a small userscript that kinda does what I want (at least on Google Maps), but I thought it would be a nice addition to have a default device.
Thanks anyways, cheers!
Yes, that's what I meant. Unfortunately Chrome extensions can't register to handle protocols like "tel:" so there's no way for Join to handle it directly sorry! Only an installed app can do that.
Is this not basically how the "mailto: for Gmail" extension works?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mailto-for-gmail/dgkkmcknielgdhebimdnfahpipajcpjn?hl=en-GB
Does that extension maybe re-write the page it's on to change the mailto: links to something else?
Not that I can tell. Looking at this page:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_mailto
Hovering over the link still just shows the mailto:<address> but when you click the link it opens a gmail url with the address (and if the mailto link has it, subject etc.) embedded. I can even just type a mailto: link into the address bar directly and it will still load through gmail.
So I'm not sure if generating URL substitution is possible whereas running something on the local installation would not be, but maybe this could be done through joinjoaomgcd.appspot.com?
Based on the below description, does this seem like something that could potentially work?
