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cmikec··on Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back
Thanks. And yeah, I really wish it could remember the lists. I'm hoping that someone will know an undocumented parameter we can pass to http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig to select a list. Anyone?
cmikec··on Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back
Good question. It's actually just an illusion. My page simply instructs your computer to connect to Google's servers, and then "wraps" the responses from Google at the page level into frames. I literally cannot see anything at all that you send to Google or receive from Google. In fact, this entire app is 100% client-side, so it never communicates with my server except to download the initial code (ok, fine, and favicon).

There was an old trick years ago where mischievous webmasters would "wrap" a file:// URL in their web page to make it look like their page had access to all the files on your computer. Again, it's just a wrapper. No data is transmitted to or from the server about what's in the wrapper.

cmikec··on Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back
It's cuz I got mad wrappin' skillz.

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Thanks :)

cmikec··on Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back
Yeah, I really thought so. The old one was just too cramped and constraining. Of course, 99% of the code for the UI here is actually still their code, I just put what I'd like to think is a better wrapper around it :)
cmikec··on LearnBoost's Stylus: Expressive, dynamic, robust CSS
If you like this you might like http://coffeekup.org/ as well. With a few tiny modifications, here's coffeekup with Stylus integrated: https://github.com/cmikec/coffeekup/commit/bd50744f9b3783244...
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