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Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

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Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

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Odd, I'm unable to reproduce. What version/OS? Just out of curiosity, what happens if you try it in incognito mode? Is anyone else experiencing this?

I'm getting this too. Chromimum 8.0. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10.

Me too. I'm on XP SP3 with Chrome 10.0.648.119 beta.

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

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It's a handful of iframes going here: https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig , nothing more. I'll stick to https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas though this is quite nice. I wish it could remember the lists I had visible, but I realize why it can't :) To the maker: nice idea! It makes me ponder over what other sites this could be done to... though this is a particularly perfect fit!

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?

I snooped around a bit and it seems that you can do it by POSTing a JSON parameter to that URL, although I'm not sure if it includes a nonce.

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

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He uses frames to pull in tasks. That elementary part of HTML that's been in the spec for some time. I was shocked when loading up comments and I saw many people aghast at how he could have access to their tasks, especially when it's obvious to anyone with a basic knowledge of HTML that the site is using frames.

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Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

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He uses frames to pull in tasks. That elementary part of HTML that's been in the spec for some time. I was shocked when loading up comments and I saw many people aghast at how he could have access to their tasks, especially when it's obvious to anyone with a basic knowledge of HTML that the site is using frames.

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I don't get it.

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

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He uses frames to pull in tasks. That elementary part of HTML that's been in the spec for some time. I was shocked when loading up comments and I saw many people aghast at how he could have access to their tasks, especially when it's obvious to anyone with a basic knowledge of HTML that the site is using frames.

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huh? Its not like your tasks info is passing through his server. Seriously, is this a breach of etiquette?

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

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question, how did you grab the session and display tasks without authenticating through OAuth or whatever method google provides? Granted I'm logged into gmail but I'm somewhat goosed since it seems your third party domain can pull private data from my account without my explicit permission?

It's a handful of iframes going here: https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig , nothing more. I'll stick to https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas though this is quite nice. I wish it could remember the lists I had visible, but I realize why it can't :) To the maker: nice idea! It makes me ponder over what other sites this could be done to... though this is a particularly perfect fit!

Hey Groxx how did you find about the /canvas link? I could find no reference on Google that would have direct me to it in the first place! Very curious how you knew about it. Thanks for it btw as I never knew it existed.

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

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It's a handful of iframes going here: https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig , nothing more. I'll stick to https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas though this is quite nice. I wish it could remember the lists I had visible, but I realize why it can't :) To the maker: nice idea! It makes me ponder over what other sites this could be done to... though this is a particularly perfect fit!

Hey Groxx how did you find about the /canvas link? I could find no reference on Google that would have direct me to it in the first place! Very curious how you knew about it. Thanks for it btw as I never knew it existed.

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer...

It is a part of tasks for iGoogle.

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