[FINAL] Gmail: The App

June 27, 2004

Gmail: The App

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:

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

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

&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
&lt;!-- 
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;
}
--&gt;
&lt;/style&gt;
 ?&lt;/head&gt;

 ?&lt;body onload="window.resizeTo(800,580)" scroll="no"&gt;

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

 ?&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

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.

Edited June 28, 2004 by GodsHand

June 27, 2004

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

Ah thankies, that did it.

:))

Shoulda thought of that! lol

June 27, 2004

Nice Idea.

but why does not the Icon appear on my computer??

VidER

June 27, 2004

I made a lil installer for it as I was bored :)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/morganrpugh/G...l-installer.exe - 56KB

Hope you don't mind GodsHand?

June 27, 2004

Nice idea. I'll check it out

(Y)

June 27, 2004

it works for me, thank you very much! :yes:

is it possible to create a similar app for hotmail and yahoo too?

June 27, 2004

wheres the installer put it? on the desktop?

June 27, 2004

If you want the HTA to have a Gmail icon like this:

Right click, save as: http://www3.telus.net/public/dallen33/favicon.ico

Then right click the HTA, PROPERTIES > Icon Tab and choose that favicon.ico.

June 27, 2004

or if you're lazy, you can just put a URL shortcut to http://gmail.google.com/gmail on your desktop..

June 27, 2004

gr8 work godhand

oops

sorry , but i found a bug or is it me:-

when i click "invite a friend to join Gmail" link , a new window opens with the gmail login page instead of the gmail invite page.

could u fix it.

thanx.

edit - one more thing , i cant find the icon tab in the *.hta properties.

June 27, 2004

If you want the HTA to have a Gmail icon like this: http://www3.telus.net/public/dallen33/gmailicon1.jpg
Right click, save as: http://www3.telus.net/public/dallen33/favicon.ico

http://www3.telus.net/public/dallen33/gmailicon2.jpg

Then right click the HTA, PROPERTIES > Icon Tab and choose that favicon.ico.

I don't get no Icon tab :cry:

June 27, 2004

Why not just have a link to gmail.google.com? :p

June 27, 2004

wheres the installer put it? on the desktop?

I puts it on the desktop and quick launch just delete what you dont want :)

June 27, 2004

Varsity, who asked you?

Oh, if you don't get the icon tab, you might need to make a shortcut to the HTA. My icon tab might actually be from IconPackager.

June 27, 2004

Woah, just a question.

June 27, 2004

This might be of use as well.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=12&t=178820

It sets up windows to open Gmail if a malto: links is clicked.

(I posted it a while ago, but no-one seemed to notice).

June 27, 2004

Varsity, who asked you?
Oh, if you don't get the icon tab, you might need to make a shortcut to the HTA. My icon tab might actually be from IconPackager.

Ahh k :)

I stuck the icon file in the installer as well so the shortcuts should have the icon :)

June 27, 2004

well i changed icon by following these steps -

open Windows

Explorer, View menu, Folder Options, File Types tab. Look for HTA

under Extensions. Click Advanced button, then click Change Icon. Now

simply choose a desired icon. Then OK all the way out.

btw , the icon will be same for all the *.hta files.

June 27, 2004

READ BEFORE USING: 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 getting the cookies not enabled error as well. Not using sp2 or IE....just firefox

June 27, 2004

Anyway, i think Rokey's gmail icon is perfect for this. LINK HERE

Salutations to GodsHand & Rokey. :p

June 27, 2004

I'm getting the cookies not enabled error as well. Not using sp2 or IE....just firefox

Do as adviced and you'll have no problems.

June 27, 2004

I'm getting the cookies not enabled error as well. Not using sp2 or IE....just firefox

IE is still your default browser. Follow his directions for allowing cookies anyway. It will work.

June 27, 2004

Is there a way to feed the login & password to the link? I have multiple accounts and it would be great to set up a link to automatically login to each acct. Kind of like a command line switch or some value I could add to the .hta?

June 27, 2004

I made an icon for this application. I used the Gmail Image, so no credit goes to me except putting it together, resizing etc. Took me a lil while. Hope you all like it.

Right-click, Save Target As... (to download)

Sample Preview:

I made it using this image from Google:

Edited June 27, 2004 by dannymp3

June 28, 2004

IE is still your default browser. Follow his directions for allowing cookies anyway. It will work.

I'll try it when I get home from work tomorrow....but IE is not my default browser

---

FOOOD also has a nice Gmail set:

June 28, 2004

Whoa... those look really nice. I kinda' like mine more though. It's matches more with the Gmail theme.

I'd definetly use one of those though, if i hadn't made mine.

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