[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 28, 2004

wow, it really works! gj man!

June 28, 2004

good stuff.

June 28, 2004

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.

is this bug fixed? :rolleyes:

June 28, 2004

If anyone wants a more traditional icon

June 28, 2004

awesome work! I love it :D

Thanks for the icons too

June 28, 2004

cool

thanx

June 28, 2004

alright i right clicked and went to properties, i don't have an icon tab...why? and how do i change the icon?

June 28, 2004

everything is ok the very first time i tried it... i got it to load and access my gmail...

i was done so i close it...

when i opened it again... this is what came up...

5 minutes past already and still the same message appears...

June 28, 2004

alright i right clicked and went to properties, i don't have an icon tab...why? and how do i change the icon?

To change the icon, make a shortcut to the .hta file. Then, right click the shortcut and choose "Properties."

In the properties, click the "Shortcut" tab and then click "Change icon." You should know what to do from there.

June 28, 2004

When i click invite a friend it opens a new window with the Gmail login screen... can that be fixed?

June 28, 2004

I had to add https://www.google.com also for it to work, for people who can't change icon I just made a shortcut for the .hta file and changed icon in the shortcut and placed the .hta file hidden.

June 28, 2004

it is a .hta file...all it says is HTML APPLICATIN and it opens with Microsfot HTML applicaiton host...what do i do?

June 28, 2004

hmm I tried to add both:

http://gmail.google.com/

https://gmail.google.com/

to the privacy "per site privacy actions" list as Always Allow and only "google.com" shows up in the list as "always allow"

added these two to both IE and Firefox lists just in case and the "keep password for 2 weeks" feature still doesnt work

June 28, 2004

This is cool, but anyone figure out how to add your login and password to the file, so that you can make more than one of these to check different accounts?

June 28, 2004

everything is ok the very first time i tried it... i got it to load and access my gmail...
i was done so i close it...

when i opened it again... this is what came up...

5 minutes past already and still the same message appears...

did anyone get this message too? the funny thing is "Ooops" at the beginning of the error message

how can i stop this from happening

June 28, 2004

This is a GREAT one!!!! :yes:

Thanks.

Edited June 28, 2004 by f0vela

June 28, 2004

hey everyone. this stuff is GREAT!! well done amigos. a quick, simple and brilliant solution.

now a question. the adding of www.google.com etc to the allowed sites bit, has anyone figured out how to do it using a reg file, a vb script or something else. i want to incorporate this into my unattend windows instalation? any ideas?

danish

June 28, 2004

https://www.neowin.net/forum/uploads/post-12-1088405974.jpg
did anyone get this message too? the funny thing is "Ooops" at the beginning of the error message

how can i stop this from happening

I started getting this error too. It says "Loading..." in the top right screen for a long time, and then that same error comes up. Restarting the program doesn't seem to help. I'm going to delete all cookies and the cache to see if that works. If anyone else has a work-around or solution, please post. :D

June 28, 2004

hey is it possible to make one for hotmail?

June 28, 2004

I can't seem to fix that error. Everytime I try logging into Gmail now, I'm getting an error saying

But the thing is, i"m getting this error in both, regular IE and the Gmail application. I wanna' check my G-Mails!!! :o

June 28, 2004

when i try to open Contacts.... it opens gmail main page... Try to fix ..if possible... thx

June 28, 2004

back / forward mouse buttons dont work.

June 29, 2004

Anyone figure out how to add the login and passwords to the app, so that if you have more than 1 gmail account, you can create more than 1 of these on your desktop, customized with the logins and passwords for each account? That way you can click on whichever one, without be prompted to enter it the login info.

June 30, 2004

I have an intresting problem. I copied the code and savied it as gmail.hta and then i opend it and it looked weird i have a attachment that has the pic, how would i pix that.

June 30, 2004

great work man!!

it works fine :D

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