Hacking Gmail

part, you look at how Gmail works and how to make it work
for you.
First, you look at skinning Gmail in Chapter 4. Making Gmail
look different might seem to be a strange thing to do, but it’s
both fun and educational. The knowledge you pick up there, and
in Chapter 5 where you investigate the JavaScript-ybased work-
ings of the application, will enable you to fully understand how
Gmail works. In Chapter 6, you learn how Greasemonkey and
Firefox can be used to radically improve your Gmail experience
and to build your own Greasemonkey scripts.
In Chapter 7, you encounter the various programming language
libraries available for use with Gmail, and you start to use them:
writing scripts to check for and read mail (Chapters 8 and 9), and
to send replies (Chapter 10). By the end of that chapter, you’ll be
writing little mini applications that use Gmail as their remote
processing system. Exciting? Oh yes!