The Pain of Building a Gmail Chrome Extension

And it so happens that Closure code tends to create a ton of extra DOM structure within the JS code, so the 50-level-deep <div> tree isn't much of a surprise, especially with something as complex as the Gmail UI.

I just poked around: there seems to be a 2.0 API.

In the web inspector console on any open gmail page:

  > gmonkey.info("2.0")
  "The "gmonkey" module is not officially supported and is subject 
  to change, we will support previous versions for at least 1-month.  
  Use gmonkey.load(v, callback) to load in the full API where v is 
  the version number of the API you want passed to calback.  Latest 
  set of the bindings is "2.0".  kthxbye"