Gmail Tasks: Fluid App

Yesterday Brit posted on twitter about Gmail Tasks for the iPhone. I checked it out and liked it more than the normal browser based interface.

I thought it would be great to use as a Fluid app. I did a quick search to see if it already existed and found this, but not much else… so I set it up myself.

It’s pretty straightforward and shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes. Here’s how to do it:

• download and launch Fluid; enter the following info:
• url: http://gmail.com/tasks mail.google.com/tasks/ig
• name: tasks
• location: applicaitons
• icon: download it
• press ‘create’ followed by ‘launch now’
• you’ll get a page telling you to visit the mobile site or use gmail labs

• open a new tab in Fluid by hitting ⌘T (cmd + T)
• click the menu bar where it says tasks, navigate to User Agent, and choose Mobile Safari 1.1.3 — iPhone
• hit ⌘ + L to go to the address bar and enter in http://gmail.com/tasks (this will load the site using Mobile Safari as the user agent).
• close the other tab with the original tasks page; hide the Toolbar by hitting ⌥⌘T (alt + cmd + T)
• now every-time you open Tasks it will use the iPhone site

• click the menu bar where it says tasks and choose Convert to MenuExtra SSB…
• the app will relaunch
• all set.

p.s. when you first launch the app you’ll have to dismiss the prompt asking you to upgrade your iPhone software. this could be hidden using a User Script, but so far I haven’t had much luck making this work because of the way CSS is loaded in the app. if you can get a User Script running on the Gmail Tasks iPhone site drop me a line - it’d be nice to hide the footer info, too.