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Hacking GMail (ExtremeTech) by Ben Hammersley

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By Ben Hammersley

Gmail rewrote the principles on how on-line electronic mail features. while, the folk at Google have provided up a platform for a few rather cool programming methods. Ben Hammersley explores a couple of these tips and hacks within the ebook Hacking Gmail. a really enlightening read...

Contents:
Part 1 - commencing to Use Gmail: computing device Integration; Integrating Your present Mail; Gmail strength Tips
Part 2 - Getting inside of Gmail: Skinning Gmail; How Gmail Works; Gmail and Greasemonkey; Gmail Libraries; Checking for Mail; examining Mail; Sending Mail
Part three - Conquering Gmail: facing Labels; Addressing Addresses; development an API from the HTML-Only model of Gmail; Exporting Your Mail; utilizing Gmail to; utilizing GmailFS; lengthy Code Listings; Index

Hammersley has written an wonderful ebook that delves deep into the interior workings of Gmail, and within the technique uncovers loads of performance that may not obvious at the floor. by utilizing Firefox and some strategic plugins, he is capable of dissect the HTML and Javascript used to reveal the Gmail interface. This looking journey exhibits how Ajax grabs info within the heritage in order that reveal updates take place with no journeys again to the server. It additionally uncovers the URLs which are used to get that facts, and he then indicates how these URLs can be utilized for therefore even more. some of the hacks he indicates use Perl and Python libraries for you to use to engage with Gmail with out the Gmail interface. He additionally exhibits how one can use a number of Greasemonkey scripts to totally switch the consumer interface, or "skin", of Gmail to suit your personal personal tastes. it is all rather terrific stuff that you just most likely will not locate from too many different sources.

There's just one "drawback" to this publication, and that is the everchanging "beta-ness" of Gmail. the entire research that Ben's performed may perhaps simply be burnt up by means of an replace to Gmail through Google. in reality, as I variety this, Google has introduced an entire new interface that's being rolled out. you may examine that and imagine this publication is already out of date. i might disagree, despite the fact that. the very fact he was once even *able* to get this publication released with all of the ongoing Gmail alterations is fantastic. yet regardless of all of the alterations, the elemental ideas he uncovers will most probably *not* swap for a very long time. He additionally exhibits you an enticing set of hacking instruments that may serve you good for different initiatives going ahead. To me, these have been definitely worth the cost of admission themselves.

The you learn this booklet, the extra rapid gratification you may get. yet whether you purchase it six months down the line after a Gmail interface switch, you are going to nonetheless examine extra concerning the carrier than you concept possible...

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Half expanded, it looks like Figure 4-2. The figure shows you that the application is made up of a single document (obviously), containing a frameset and some markup. That tiny amount of markup, shown in Figure 4-2 as the NOSCRIPT section, is simply a message that displays only if you’re trying to look at Gmail with JavaScript turned off, telling you that you’re out of luck without JavaScript. The frameset is where it’s at. It contains two frames, the first of which has 12 divs in its body, while the second frame has a large script element, but nothing of note in the body.

From Spam, y means Unmark as spam and move to Inbox. From Trash, y means move to Inbox. From any label, y means Remove the label. Pressing y has no effect if you’re in Sent or All Mail. Chapter 3 — Gmail Power Tips Key Definition Action x Select conversation Automatically checks and selects a conversation so you can archive, apply a label, or choose an action from the drop-down menu to apply to that conversation. s Star a message or conversation Adds a star to or removes a star from a message or conversation.

To make things worse, much of the markup is dynamically created by JavaScript, meaning that just viewing the source won’t help you. ˛ Changing colors Before you can get onto reskinning Gmail, then, you need to deconstruct it, and see how it is put together. Only then can you think about messing around with it. 0), and the extremely popular Web Developer Extension, written by Chris Pederick. These are both highly recommended, and using them will help you to follow along at home with the rest of this section.

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