I'm looking for some advice on what I "should" research for a particular project I've been asked to keep in mind. I've been doing so for roughly 3 days by exploring various Google technologies, but none of them seems quite right.
I need to put together something for gmail that's roughly equivalent to something I've put together for Windows Outlook. I'll explain in brief therefor what I've done for Outlook users, to give you a feel for what I'm looking for. I put together an Outlook C# AddIn that when loaded by Outlook on startup adds a number of clickable tabs, buttons, and other assorted interface elements to the Outlook interface. When you click them the C# code in my Add-In is invoked in various ways to carry out various activities, like archiving the email message that's currently selected in a remote database managed by one of our web applications. It does this by calling a variety of Outlook C# APIs that are available to any loaded AddIn, to extract or manipulate various Outlook "objects". Another thing it does on a button click is bring up a web browser the AddIn creates from a .Net class "webbrowser control" instance, essentially adding chrome to the IE "engine". It also adds what it needs to to the DOM of that web browser to make a large number of Add-In C# functions callable by javascript code that might be running in pages of that browser, essentially giving our web applications a way to "ask" my AddIn to create Outlook contacts, tasks, messages etc on behalf of that application. The gist of it is that the UI I add to the Outlook application can be used to make various web service calls to our applications (based on the state of various Outlook "objects" made visible/manageable by way of the Outlook C# API), and the state of the Outlook application can be manipulated by javascript code running in web application pages that happen to be loaded in the web browser it creates.
I need to support "similar" functionality with respect to the altogether different gmail beast (rather than a Windows application a browser based web app). I feel a bit like I've been spinning in circles the last few days, while investigating. I began by researching gmail Sidebar and Contextual gadgets, to add some roughly equivalent UI of my own to gmail, but found fairly quickly that I can't really get to any gmail APIs using them, only try to shoehorn what I've got into a set of triggered gmail "behaviors" supported by contextual gadgets, which I came to realize isn't really sufficient to support what I want. Eventually I navigated my way to the set of developer pages describing Google Apps Script supported functionally, which seemed for a time like "the way to go" to provide me with hooks into gmail APIs. I played a bit with them, making a web app script to collect the subject lines of all my gmail messages and dump them into a UI also built by the script, just to get an experimental quick feel for how things fit together. The script works, but it seems pretty slow, taking roughly a minute to collect and display just 57 email subject lines. And I can't really figure out how to get any script built UI into the gmail user interface. I tried building a side bar gadget with the URL of my app script referenced (with no HTML or javascript in the content tag body at all). An area is allocated to the gadget ok, but my script UI never appears in it. After playing a bit unsuccessfully to get my script to run in an iframe in a completely different context, just experimenting again to see what I might be able to do, I'm beginning to get the impression that some security related caveat prevents it from building/displaying its interface in either an iframe or a gmail side bar gadget, though perhaps I'm just missing some essential piece of information.
My question is a bit big I know, but "should" I be looking to other Google technologies to build the sort of thing I have in mind, or am I "roughly" following a tenable track. I'm looking for some rough architectural advice I guess, some hints about what maybe I should further explore.
With Google Apps Script you cannot add anything to the Gmail interface. Putting it simply, it will not do what you want.
Now back to your problem, if sidebar and contextual gadgets are not enough for you. The only solution I see where you can really manipulate the page is via an add-on/extension/script installed on the users browser.
This approach is powerful, in the way that you can change the page as you like, but has its shortcomings as well. First, and more obvious, it's somewhat browser dependent and installed locally on a browser. Meaning that if the user switch computers or browsers, he'll need to re-install your add-on.
Also, you're somewhat dependent on gmail's "internal" structure. I say "somewhat" because that depends on how you coded your app. But they may make a change and break your app instantly, without any notice, since gmail's html-css structure is not a "published API".
Well, that's my 2 cents. I hope it helps.
Use JSF and rich faces. this can give u a google gmail like looks and development with this is very easy and fast.
Happy Coding
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I know there are several tools available to find unused CSS on a static web page. But in most real world scenarios I encounter, a lot of the CSS is used after some or the other interaction on the page, maybe a new modal opening up or an options popup etc.
In such scenarios, what would you suggest? How do I keep a tab on my ever-growing render blocking CSS?
The only way I guess one could do that is by running regular unused-css-detector type tools in conjunction with Selenium - test known interactions and see whats left unused. But a big assumption here is that I'd need to know all interactions on my page which could use new CSS. Is there a way to achieve my goal without making this assumption?
In an ideal world, I'd be able to post-back all CSS used by a visitor's browser on my page to my server. Then I'd collect data over a month, aggregate, and get a pretty accurate idea about actual unused CSS.
Any good ideas?
I am the author of a tool that is aiming at doing what you are describing. Everywhere I worked, the CSS is this "append-only" thing that is too risky, too time-consuming to clean up. And even when you try, the ROI is so low that it not worth it.
So I am working on a tool that is very similar to what you are describing. The goal is to bring confidence on what can be removed, and to actually do it automatically by submitting pull requests.
A snippet of JavaScript is running in the browser and sends reports of what is being used to a server. Once enough data is accumulated to build some "confidence score", it can create Pull Request automatically to remove selectors that are actually not used.
It is still very early stage, but you are welcome to try it and give some feedback about it.
https://www.bleachcss.com/
Really simple here but i am trying to generate a link within an email that popups a page but its not working it also is througing a security exception in outlook 365 how does one properly open a popup from email with correct height and width of window.
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Using scripts is totally unsupported in emails.
"Scripting in Emails
The short answer is that scripting is unsupported in emails. This is hardly surprising, given the obvious security risks involved with a script running inside an application that has all that personal information stored in it.
Webmail clients are mostly running the interface in JavaScript and are not keen on your email interfering with that, and desktop client filters often consider JavaScript to be an indicator of spam or phishing emails.
Even in the cases where it might run, there really is little benefit to scripting in emails. Keep your emails as straight HTML and CSS, and avoid the hassle."
Source: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/dev-resources/guides/coding/
You can use target="_blank" instead.
You have to use the a tag this way:
Open page in new window
Hope it helps.
I have what I thought was a simple task to do, that has now snow balled into something else. I wrote a simple python script that would generate simple customer notification over email in plain text using smtplib pretty simple.
Now when trying to make a more rich email, like those that Paypal,Amazon etc send, I run into some problems. Having read a question here and coupled with what I thought was a universal template I got from here I felt armed to complete my task.
However I keep reading about fragmentation and how various email clients don't support all sorts of tags and when I open it on my Hotmail client on Android it looks perfect but when I open the same email on chrome (WIN) on Hotmail it misses some buttons styling. Let me not even get started how it looks on Yahoo mails Android client (I know you are now wondering who cares who still uses Yahoo or Hotmail but a lot of people still do).
Where as Amazon and Paypal emails look consistent in styling across all platforms,clients and email providers. I can't find a simple resource that clearly describes away to make a truly robust way of serving html content on email.
Can someone share a resource of how to do this with python?
Please see if this is helpful to you.
http://mailchimp.com/resources/email-design-guide/
In the same vein as the microservice architecture approach we're currently looking at splitting our legacy marketplace application into multiple, smaller sites. We've already carved off the checkout portion and soon to follow will be the seller portal, user portal and registration pages. Each site will be completely separate and have its own domain, data access etc.
The problem is: how do we maintain consistent site chrome (i.e. header & footer) across multiple websites? For the checkout site that we've already split off we were prepared to drop the site chrome but that's going to be a much less acceptable solution for future projects.
The ideas I've had so far are (assuming we don't want to simply duplicate the header and footer in each site):
Put the necessary HTML in a nuget package and install it in each site that needs it. This should be fairly easy to do but has the disadvantage that any change to the chrome means every site needs to be updated and redeployed. Also, it limits us to .NET for all future sites (maybe not a real concern?).
Serve all our sites through some kind of proxy site that injects the site chrome into the HTML before serving to the client. This way the site chrome is actually its own application and can be deployed independently of anything else. Disadvantage: I haven't really got any idea of how to implement this; I wasn't able to find anyone else trying anything similar on Google. Also, it might be fragile even once it's up and running due to interplay between the chrome app and the content app.
Has anyone else solved this problem before? If so, what approach did you use?
I want to know if a html video is being displayed on a browser, from outside said browser, ideally without any plugins or such.
Motivation - I am trying to add this feature to Caffeine which is a Linux utility which disables the OS screensaver if, say, you are watching a movie.
The flash support was done I believe by detecting the presence of particular files or folders created by the plugin.
Ideally I would like 1 solution, but if I get 2 solutions for Firefox and Chrome, that's good enough.
p.s. Ultimately this would involve python code, but I am not sure if that is sufficient to make this question on-topic, or if this belongs on Superuser or Unix&Linux
This reminds me of something a web browser I was building in VB .Net which needed to detect if there where web pages that had tags like <a href="tel: or <a href="smsI know you said you didn't want a plugin but I would think you could easily right a browser plugin for for just this. In fact not exactly what your looking for but theirs a script monkey script called Hangouts Unlimited which prevents you from getting annoying messages asking if your still awake while in a G+ hangout. I don't know much about python but I would recomennd trying to identify the elements of the tags and when ever it finds such tags to disable the screen saver. Obviously the hangouts unlimited doesn't affect the web browser and that is most likely why you prefer not to have a browser plugin because you need to access system files outside of the browser. But I hope this helps a bit.