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[FINAL] Gmail: The App

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Gmail: The App

gmailhta.jpg

This is just a very simple HTA (HTML Application) I made. Put it in your QuickLaunch or desktop and you can launch Gmail at anytime. It's like launching a real app, like Outlook, only faster. You can download it here: gmail.hta or if you're want to play it safe and build one yourself, here's the code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 ?<head>
 ? ?<title>Gmail</title>
 ? ?<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
 ? ?<object id="pFileObject" classid="clsid:0D43FE01-F093-11CF-8940-00A0C9054228"></object>

 ? ?<hta:application id="oGmail" 
 ? ? ?applicationname="Gmail" 
 ? ? ?minimizebutton="yes"
 ? ? ?maximizebutton="yes"
 ? ? ?icon="http://gmail.google.com/favicon.ico" ?
 ? ? ?windowstate="normal" />
 ? ? ?
 ? ?<base target="contentframe" />

<style type="text/css">
<!-- 
html {
	overflow: hidden;
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

body {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

iframe {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	width:789px;
	height:551px;
	position:absolute;
	left:0px; 
	top:0px;

	overflow:hidden; 

	background-color: transparent;
}
-->
</style>
 ?</head>

 ?<body onload="window.resizeTo(800,580)" scroll="no">

<iframe style="z-index:0;" name="contentframe" id="contentframe" src="https://gmail.google.com/gmail" application="no" />

 ?</body>
</html>

Just copy and paste that code into Notepad, and save as gmail.hta, or whatever you'd like. As long as it has the .hta extension.

READ BEFORE USING: Because of IE's higher security in HTAs, you must set http://gmail.google.com/ as "Always Allow" in Internet Options Privacy tab (Sites button). Otherwise cookies won't work.

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Molgar

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lolz...Did you do this?

For SP2 users, because of IE's higher security, you must set http://gmail.google.com/ as "Always Allow" in Internet Options Privacy tab (Sites button). Otherwise cookies won't work.

I'm not a SP2 user (yet) but also had do that, otherwise it would say cookies are not enabled.

I have every patch available through Windows Update 4 for WXP, though.

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Ryan V

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I'm not a SP2 user (yet) but also had do that, otherwise it would say cookies are not enabled.

I have every patch available through Windows Update 4 for WXP, though.

Whoops, My bad :blush:

I wish there was a way so you could resize the window and have the iframe resize with it, but I can't figure it out.

I think I figured a way to resize it :) Worked for me. If you modify the width and height dimensions you can get it to what you want. Remember to maximize applications windows after launching it.

Good Program man (Y)(Y)

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Restrike

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Hmmm, when I open it, it just opens up Notepad. Bleh.

I had that to at fist yust do open with... then open it with C:\Windows\system32\mshta.exe aka Microsoft ® HTML Application host

I also had the cookies are not enabled thing in sp1 but if you do the same thing as he sad you must do in SP2 its all good

:D

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amradiar

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Hey. Good Job! but.. unforunatly it doesnt work for me. It said the "cookies" thing before but then i added it to "Always Allow" but now it says i need to allow Javascript or something.

EDIT: FORGOT I JUST FORMATTED COMPUTER, SO I DIDNT INSTALL THE NEW JAVA. lol :p

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morganpugh84

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Man this is really cool! So simple yet EXACTLY what I wanted :)

btw I had the cookie error, it is because gmail uses third party cookies that contain user identifiable info just add it to the whitelist and it will work fine :)

(Y) to this app (dunno if you can call it an app actually, either way it is wicked!)

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Thanks for the replies! I just keep it open all the time. Very convenient.

I don't think there's a way to minimize HTA apps to the tray, unless you have a third party app that does that specifically.

And yeah, if you want to change the size of the window, go right ahead! It's all basic HTML, anyone can figure it out.

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