When we first built Rapportive for Gmail, people thought that we were crazy — writing a browser extension that modified the Gmail page on the fly, effectively writing an application inside someone else’s application! But it turned out to be a great success, and many others have since followed our footsteps and written browser extensions for Gmail.
The author is being a bit arrogant, there are more complex stuff that modifying gmail on the fly (remember greasemonkey?).
The author is being a bit arrogant, there are more complex stuff that modifying gmail on the fly (remember greasemonkey?).