yahoo status

[mitt]

If any of you remembers, before Yahoo changed their mail acconts to 100mb storage + other design changes there used to be a function in Yahoo Mail: when you sent an email to another Yahoo account you would get something like "Message sent to someone@yahoo.com" and there was a kind of smilie in front of "someone" telling you if that person was online (on yahoo messenger or not - if the smilie was bright yellow and smiling, the person was online - if it was faded and not smiling, it ment the person was offline.

I did some "view source" :ninja: research and found out that there was a special kind of a hyperlink that was generating that smilie (image) and you could use it within any HTML document even on a server not supporting php/cgi scripts - the code itself was merely an <img src> tag, the rest of the job being done by the yahoo server. I have tried that even after Yahoo Mail was upgraded and the new Yahoo Messenger 6.0 was introduced and it worked fine - unfortunely the harddisk where I kept that code along with other important gigabytes of data suffered a mechanical failure etc etc ...

So, I was wondering if any of you may have/know the code for that "script" ? :whistle:

Thanks in advance

[sesh]

mess.be is down, but in there FAQ they have detail on how to do that with MSN, I think that information also applies to Yahoo!.

Keep a look out for that site and see what happens.

sesh.

[mitt]

Thanks for the tip but I doubt that it would work. The URL was quite specific to Yahoo (like "ymsgr:sendIM?nickname" - which allows you to click a link on a webpage and send an instant message directly to "nickname" even if that person isn't on your messenger list).

[sesh]

ah ok... well what i was talking about.. a different way to put your own status on your site, is through a website like http://www.onlinestatus.org/ which will host an image for you that tells your visitors when your online. But i take it thats not exactly what your after.