Skype link in Email Signature does not work on gmail client

Question

I have an email signature in which all the links work fine in every mail client except the skype one:

<span>Skype:</span> <span><a href="skype:jared.rake?add">Jared.Rake</a></span>

The link works as intended (launches the skype client) on all mail clients except gmail. Any idea why this is so?

• I have the skype client installed on my system.
• When you inspect the span tag(the one that contains the name, I can see the link (<a>) tag, but I cannot see the href attribute.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I already see proper answer but want to make it more clear: You can build simple "http://" link that leads to your link "skype:profile_name?add". And this http:// link will work great in any mail signature. Even in GMail.

But not all shortners will work properly. I tested it with http://is.gd/ and it works great!

So you need to:

1. Go to http://is.gd/
2. shorten your link skype:jared.rake?add and get http:// link
3. use this http:// link in email signature
4. profit! :)