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Can anyone explain how this is different from Google's Gmail Contextual Gadgerts? https://developers.google.com/gmail/contextual_gadgets#what_is_a_gmail_context

• icebraining 11y ago
  In my experience (I've built a gadget for our internal use, to create tickets on our software from emails), the gadgets are fairly limited, both in terms of the content they can access (only the first 1000 characters, and no attachments) and in terms of UI (you get a small bar below the email - no integration with the rest of the interface). Even for our simple use case, which is essentially a button that makes an HTTP request to a web service with the email fields, it felt limited. It also suffers from poor debugging tools. They made some changes that broke our gadget (I think it was the deactivation of OAuth 1.0) and there's no way of knowing why it isn't loading, it just doesn't.