The following is an archive of comments made before threaded discussions was implemented (November 16th, 2008)

Hi Maloninc,
The arrow in the foot of the Gmail is very bad... In the part of new styles change:

border: 12px none transparent;

for...

border: 7px none transparent;

That was my contribution...

In "Compose Mail", the GMail logo moves down (equal that all the page). Very soon I report more bugs... And .. You cannot get the arrow disappear?

// sorry for my english, is very bad //

actually, this script seems real buggy.
i have issues with scrolling.
and inconsistent fixed areas depending what i'm viewing in gmail, a conversation, or list of mails in the inbox, or all mail, etc.

and that black arrow that tells you which email you were just looking at, that's been screwy with this script too

i 2nd that last request, actually i was just coming here to make that request myself

maloninc, love the new version enhancements, but

1) I noticed if I am in a folder with a small number of emails I get a lot of white space below the listing, so I cannot see my google reader or footer unless I scroll down. Can that be changed?

2) Can the bottom arrow be defaulted to show the footer. Right now it is defaulting as closed. Is there a setting I can change in the script?

(previous request for when reading an actual email)

i noticed it's already fixed for inbox and other mail list views.

hey, what about fixing everything from the subject up, to include the subject, and actions, search mail field, etc?

I don't see any difference in the version 0.9.7 BETA
2007/09/13. The header in the email view is still not fixed.

maloninc, Great job, you fixed it for the Inbox view, but the same change should also be made when viewing the contents of an email.

hmm, there's a bug in fixArrow(), in the line arrow.style.top = "140px".

The problem is when turning page in the k-direction, then the bug "works", the arrow should be in the last line, not the first line, the fix:

arrow.style.top = (parseInt(arrow.style.top) - 13) + "px";

In fixCompose(), it's better to have:
foot.parentNode.style.paddingLeft = "21ex";
and to remove the unused var cont. (my fault:P)

And, menu.height = body.clientHeight - 84 is perfect.

Good job!

This one's pretty sweet!! Thanks!!

Hi maloninc, yes I forgot to relocate the compose component, your work rocks!

Again, nothing could stop improving, here's more:

1. scrollbar changed with overflow-x:hidden and overflow-y:auto
2. the footer also pushed to the right to align with cm_compose
3. now nav.z-index=1 to not covered by the logo

cheers, also for the overwhelmingly powerful firebug :P


function fixLogo() {
var ds = document.getElementById('ds_inbox');
if (ds != null){
ds.style.position = "fixed";
ds.style.paddingTop = 0;
} else {
setTimeout(fixLogo, 500);
}
}

fixLogo();
fixMenu();
fixArrow();
fixCompose();


It works as perfectly for me. Yahoo mail, along with almost every other 3 panel GUI has works this way, where the top and left navigation panels stay fixed when the body panel is scrolled.

Change request: Also leave the navigation menu ABOVE the email selections fixed. This way I can always see the buttons for 'Select All, None, etc' 'Archive, and 'Delete', even after scrolling down in the email list or when viewing the email text itself.