Sun 25 Feb 2007
So there’s this little app to access GMail which uses WebKit and runs outside of any particular browser. It’s nice to be able to quickly switch to GMail rather than switching to a browser and then to the right tab. There were a few problems with it though:
- there’s no icon
- it asks you if you want to save when closing it if you’ve composed an email
- it doesn’t support multiple accounts
- it doesn’t support file uploads
Well, I updated it a little bit, fixing the first two problems. I do not know WebKit or Cocoa well enough to know how to fix the latter two, but if anyone wants to offer some advice I may tackle them. So try it out and let me know what you think.
February 27th, 2007 at 21.12
I love the updates you’ve done with it, but I wanted to ask if you noticed something I have. GMail a while back added the ability to “Delete All Spam Now” button when you are in Spam and for some reason when trying to click that link inside the Webmail it doesn’t work. I wish it did. Oh well, minor annoyances. Thanks for continuing the work. Hopefully some code ninjas can figure out the other two issues.
March 1st, 2007 at 10.30
Cool! I did something similar, fixing problems 1-3 and also adding the ability to handle mailto: URLs.
http://willmore.eu/gmailbrowser
March 4th, 2007 at 11.41
I just downloaded Gmail Browser. So far, so good. Thanks! You say you fixed #3 (multiple accounts), but I don’t see how to do it. Also, your fix for #2 is good, but it still puts the little dot in the red circle indicating something’s dirty.
I’d really like a proper multiple-account thing, as currently I have three accounts (personal, junk, and work via Gmail for domains). I’d be willing to help build that out if you’d like.
March 4th, 2007 at 12.23
Sorry, it was a typo. I meant 1,2 and 4. I’m happy to add multiple account support, but it might be a significant effort (needs separate cookies for each account, and a way to keep the UI organised somehow). I’ll keep it in mind (and I’m happy to accept patches).
I should fix the dot thing too. Embarrassingly, I never realised what it meant until I started working on this program.