Fixing Gmail’s iPad interface weirdness for Macs

I don’t know why I care so much about this, except that it’s been fun wading through Google’s horrific code and using nth-child selectors. Wait, did I just say that was fun? What I meant to say is that it sucks, but I have a hard time admitting defeat.

So, suffice it to say, I’ve fixed one of the many bugs presented when using the Gmail iPad interface on a Mac.

One of the most annoying is that you can’t scroll the message listing. Not with your scrollball, not with a two-finger swipe on your trackpad, and not even with selecting the text in the view and dragging down (you know you’ve done it before). I’ll spare you the details, but basically:

1. Create a userstyle for the app with the URL pattern (it’s found in the Preferences area): *mail.google.com*
2. Copy-and-Paste this code into the userstyle box:
3. Create a userscript for the app and place this code into it to make it resize the window to iPad dimensions:
4. Hope Google doesn’t change any of their code and bork this.

Apart from that, I think I’m done tinkering with this project, and will just go get an iPad instead. Enjoy!