There have always been many Greasemonkey scripts to tweak your Gmail experience. You spend a lot of time in email, so it makes sense that you would want to optimize your world. It is fantastic that the Web has a way to do that. Google employs the Greasemonkey author, the author of two Greasemonkey books, and the author who put in some of the most widely used userscripts, so it only makes sense that we would put in some effort here. The effort shows in an experimental API to allow for easy monkeying around.
Basically, you can programatically load up a helper object that gives you nice hooks into the Gmail API. The following script demonstrates how to load and reference the gmonkey bindings. It will add a nav box to Gmail that updates with the the current view type:
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JAVASCRIPT:
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window.addEventListener(load, function() {
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if (unsafeWindow.gmonkey) {
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unsafeWindow.gmonkey.load(1.0, function(gmail) {
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function setViewType() {
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var str = ;
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switch (gmail.getActiveViewType()) {
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case l: str = Threadlist; break;
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case cv: str = Conversation; break;
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case co: str = Compose; break;
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case ct: str = Contacts; break;
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case is: str = Settings; break;
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default: str = Unknown;
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}
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module.setContent(str);
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}
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var module = gmail.addNavModule(View Monitor);
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gmail.registerViewChangeCallback(setViewType);
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setViewType();
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});
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}
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}, true);
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This is a nice pattern that I hope other sites fall into. Not only giving APIs to their site in traditional forms, but also letting the experts tweak their wares via gmonkey objects.
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Denis said:Thanks for the info man. Firefox rules!
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