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A well rounded answer, but I'll pass for now. If Google really believed in your ethos of making the software more valuable via third parties, their platform wou
by squiggy22 11y ago
A well rounded answer, but I'll pass for now. If Google really believed in your ethos of making the software more valuable via third parties, their platform wouldn't require dom hacks that could break without notice. i.e. they'd open up their own APIs to make building these sorts of apps themselves.
I absolutely commend you for what you are doing, I just wouldn't be willing as a developer to dip my toes in that particular water to spend the time developing something they could rip apart and break.
As a side note, the documentation page is broken on Mac Safari 8 on OSX Javascript error:
TypeError: undefined is not a function (evaluating 'reference.endsWith('()')')
- dkokelley 11y agoSure Google could break this (maliciously or otherwise), but would you rather have to keep up with their changes on your own, or build something that works on InboxSDK, and let them play cat-and-mouse with the Inbox DOM? Worst case in the latter scenario is that a feature is down for as long as it takes for a fix to be released.
- teacup50 11y agoI'd rather target open standards, like client-side SMTP/IMAP.
- alooPotato 11y agoThanks for the safari bug. fixing...
- dtran 11y agoI'm sure you guys have already figured this out by now, but you just need to add a polyfill for `endsWith` since Safari doesn't implement the ECMAScript 6 spec. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/endsWith https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...