[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 30, 2004

Is there anyway I can get this app to load using FireFox browser. I disabled Internet Explorer completely by going to "Add/Remove Programs" and disabling is in the "Set Program Access and Defaults." It's still using Internet Explorer to load the Gmail app.

What can I do. I don't wanna' use IE! :(

June 30, 2004

Is there anyway I can get this app to load using FireFox browser. I disabled Internet Explorer completely by going to "Add/Remove Programs" and disabling is in the "Set Program Access and Defaults." It's still using Internet Explorer to load the Gmail app.
What can I do. I don't wanna' use IE! :(

Just add a bookmark to gmail.com..how hard is that :p

Or create a shortcut to firefox to open gmail ( "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://www.gmail.com )

With firefox and cookies enabled it will take you straight to your inbox..well it does for me anyway.

July 1, 2004

this way is cooler though

July 1, 2004

Just add a bookmark to gmail.com..how hard is that :p
Or create a shortcut to firefox to open gmail ( "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://www.gmail.com )

With firefox and cookies enabled it will take you straight to your inbox..well it does for me anyway.

No, I like how the Gmail app works. It doesn't have any too bars, or menu bars, buttons, etc.

I want to use the Gmail app just like how it looks in IE, just using FireFox instead.

July 1, 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.

July 1, 2004

this is awesome thanks alot

July 2, 2004

great idea:) loads very fast

thanks

July 3, 2004

yeah, i would love it if it can be programmed for firefox, instead of IE.

July 3, 2004

(Y) we need the FireFox Version ;)

July 3, 2004

Looks good, I'll probably use it once I have a GMail account.

we need the FireFox Version

:yes:

Edited July 3, 2004 by .::PHPfanatic::.

July 3, 2004

good work

i just tried it.

keep it up :p

July 3, 2004

cool, i like that :)

July 3, 2004

thx.... for the app and fooods icons!...

July 4, 2004

July 6, 2004

,Jul 2 2004, 23:27] (Y) we need the FireFox Version ;)

Here's another vote for that...I hate clicking those links in an email and IE popping up

July 6, 2004

I hate IE from before... and after the Download.Ject.. i hate it more...

Plz a Firefox version would be great

July 6, 2004

Thanks for the simple yet cool HTA app :)

July 6, 2004

neat stuff (Y)

July 6, 2004

I've gone to the extent of disabling IE so a Firefox version would be nice.

July 6, 2004

well verbose... even i have gone to an extent to stop IE being used anywhere... it sucks huge time

July 6, 2004

I disabled IE, but it still uses IE when I launch the Gmail program. Sorry, I gave up on the Gmail program and now use FireFox Extention: Gmail Notifier. The only problem with Gmail Notifier is that I have to login with my Gmail username/password everytime I want to use it. It doesn't log me in automatically. :crazy:

July 6, 2004

well verbose... even i have gone to an extent to stop IE being used anywhere... it sucks huge time

There's a regfile created by cpugeniusmv here that will associate many files with FF. If you change the firefox.exe path to longfilenames, links in Messenger will open with FF too.

July 6, 2004

Nice work.

July 13, 2004

Any way to get XP to skin the controls with this .hta thing?

July 13, 2004

as for auto login am lookin at some stuff mainly the iframe for the login box if u set sent the valus there and make it auto submit on load like trillian did/does for msn it SHOULD work just would have to have the login box html on ur hd and redirect the app to that html instead of the site a theory if it works ill post a file :)

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