Gina Trapani – Better Gmail: How Google Opened Gmail’s Web Interface to Any Developer Who Cares (And Why You Should)
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 30 2008.
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Session description
Last year, Google released an experimental Greasemonkey API for Gmail: coding hooks that let anyone add CSS and Javascript to Gmail that enhances how it looks and behaves. Why would you want to do this? Why wouldn’t you? Hear how Google’s using Greasemonkey to distribute Gmail development amongst independent web developers–and how those developers are integrating their own product into Gmail — resulting in a Better Gmail for everyone.
About Gina Trapani
Gina Trapani is a web developer and the founding editor of Lifehacker.com, the 2006 Wired Rave Award-winning daily weblog on software and productivity.
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