Re: [tlug] Make Web Mail Server that Follows Polysaturated Threads

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 18/01/06, Edward Middleton <edward@example.com> wrote:

> Josh Glover wrote:
>
> > The best solution to the problem, as Jim has pointed out, would be for
> > us to get Google to implement the thread-view algorithm in Gmail.
>
> Or you could just fix it yourself with a greasemonkey script and kill
> this thread ;)  That is what I would do but I don't use gmail.

I actually thought of that, but I doubt that thread display is a
client-side operation. I imagine (have not actually de-obfuscated the
Gmail code to verify this) that "conversation view" is simply a
server-side operation that is invoked with an AJAX call from the
JavaScript.

Has anyone actually looked at the code? I know I saw a Firefox
extension that was designed to de-obfuscate code like Gmail's so that
it could be studied, but I don't remember what it was called.

-Josh