Share on FacebookI’m pretty sure it should be possible to write a user script which yamlifies the Gmail editor. This would be a second-best in my book to the unified version, but most Arabic typing types probably could care less about Indic scripts. So the next best thing until someone does that is to have a yamli widget in Gmail itself. This, it turns out, is within reach of even the laziest among us.
There are three simple steps:
- Go to your Gmail settings and enable “Labs.”
- Go to the Labs tab which is now in your Settings, scroll down to the bottom (enabling anything else you like along the way) until you find “Add any Gadget by URL.” Enable this and save changes.
- You now have a “Gadgets” tab in addition to the “Labs” tab. Go to this new tab and add the URL for the yamli iGoogle Gadget:
http://www.yamli.com/google_gadget/
If you are using NoScript (you are using NoScript aren’t you?) you will need to enable $crazylonghash-opensocial.googleusercontent.com, and clicking in the yamli box without doing so will result in clickjacking warnings. I suppose this also means that yamli’s developers have access to your “friend’s list”—i.e. your Gmail contact list. Which might make you wonder if it’s worth it. But who am I to make that decision for you, I’m just the guy who wants to rewrite w3c specifications for my own obscure purposes.