Hacking Gmail

Chapter 3 — Gmail Power Tips 17 If you’re not using Internet Explorer — and for the sake of this book, at least, I rec- ommend y ...

18 Part I — Starting to Use Gmail The keyboard shortcuts are many and various, and are all good to know about. But they’re also ...

Chapter 3 — Gmail Power Tips 19 Key Definition Action x Select conversation Automatically checks and selects a conversation so y ...

20 Part I — Starting to Use Gmail Moving on from the keyboard shortcuts, the next section shows you how you can avoid them altog ...

Chapter 3 — Gmail Power Tips 21 FIGURE3-6: The first stage in setting up a filter Copy, as shown, the address into the To: box, ...

22 Part I — Starting to Use Gmail FIGURE3-8: A filter, set up FIGURE3-9: Receiving mail from anti-dot fanatic Indeed, as Figure ...

Chapter 3 — Gmail Power Tips 23 FIGURE3-10: The blessing of the wandering dot One final thing about addressing: If you are sendi ...

24 Part I — Starting to Use Gmail It seems that Gmail willallow you to send and receive executable attachments between Gmail acc ...

Chapter 3 — Gmail Power Tips 25 Operator Definition Example(s) filename: Search for an attachment Example: filename:physicshomew ...

26 Part I — Starting to Use Gmail The operators detailed in Table 3-3 are all self-explanatory and can be combined. For example, ...

Getting Inside Gmail S o, by now you should be up to speed with actually using Gmail. It’s time to get a bit dirtier. Time to ge ...

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Skinning Gmail B eing a web-based application, and written by people who understand modern practices, Gmail is skinnable using a ...

30 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail Once you’ve downloaded the applications, you can start. Figure 4-1 shows my own Gmail Inbox wi ...

Chapter 4 — Skinning Gmail 31 FIGURE4-2: What the DOM inspector tells you about the Inbox FIGURE4-3: The first frame’s structure ...

32 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail To see which of these divs is the mother lode, use the Web Developer Extension to Firefox to t ...

Chapter 4 — Skinning Gmail 33 FIGURE4-5: Gmail’s Inbox exposed in the DOM inspector Ferret that bit of information away for the ...

34 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail In the code, the top section of the Inbox is produced by the following HTML, shown in Listing ...

Chapter 4 — Skinning Gmail 35 Create a filter As you can see, the HTML uses tables, divs, and spans, and takes its st ...

36 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail FIGURE4-7: The Gmail navigation menu The code that produces this import part of the page is he ...