Hacking Gmail

112 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail

Listing 6-4(continued)

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//

// ==UserScript==

// @name Mailto Compose In GMail

// @namespace

http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000238.html

// @description Rewrites “mailto:” links to GMail compose

links

// @include *

// @exclude http://gmail.google.com

// ==/UserScript==

(function() {

var processMailtoLinks = function() {

var xpath = “//a[starts-with(@href,’mailto:’)]”;

var res = document.evaluate(xpath, document, null,

XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);

var linkIndex, mailtoLink;

for (linkIndex = 0; linkIndex < res.snapshotLength;

linkIndex++) {

mailtoLink = res.snapshotItem(linkIndex);

//alert(mailtoLink.href);

var m = mailtoLink.href;

var matches =

m.match(/^mailto:([^\?]+)(\?([^?]*))?/);

var emailTo, params, emailCC, emailSubject,

emailBody;

emailTo = matches[1];

//alert(“Found to=” + emailTo);

params = matches[3];

if (params) {

var splitQS = params.split(‘&’);

var paramIndex, param;

for (paramIndex = 0; paramIndex <

splitQS.length; paramIndex++) {

param = splitQS[paramIndex];

nameValue = param.match(/([^=]+)=(.*)/);