Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure it's not a typo ;)
Definitely a typo. They left out a "one" at the end.
[deleted]
Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
61–70 of 113 posts
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#62Is that Salo?
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#63I liked the older one better - http://www.google.com/tisp/notfound.html You might have typed the URL incorrectly, for instance. Or (less likely but certainly plausible) we might have coded the URL incorrectly. Or (far less plausible, but theoretically possible, depending on which ill-defined Grand Unifying Theory of physics one subscribes to), some random fluctuation in the space-time continuum might have produced a…
The "MentalPlex" April Fool's Joke would have been funnier if it had automatically entered "porn" into the search box after a few seconds.
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#64I liked the older one better - http://www.google.com/tisp/notfound.html You might have typed the URL incorrectly, for instance. Or (less likely but certainly plausible) we might have coded the URL incorrectly. Or (far less plausible, but theoretically possible, depending on which ill-defined Grand Unifying Theory of physics one subscribes to), some random fluctuation in the space-time continuum might have produced a…
[deleted]
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#65I liked the older one better - http://www.google.com/tisp/notfound.html You might have typed the URL incorrectly, for instance. Or (less likely but certainly plausible) we might have coded the URL incorrectly. Or (far less plausible, but theoretically possible, depending on which ill-defined Grand Unifying Theory of physics one subscribes to), some random fluctuation in the space-time continuum might have produced a…
The "MentalPlex" April Fool's Joke would have been funnier if it had automatically entered "porn" into the search box after a few seconds.
I'd have entered "they don't really expect me to believe that, do they?"
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#66Given the size of Google, I wonder if there was a whole team tasked with this development. A 404 page for a company as big as Google is an awfully big responsibility for just one person :) To be honest, I prefer the idea of a more intelligent 404 page. You'd think Google would have sufficient horsepower to make a good guess at what you might have been trying to find.
Google's most frequently accessed pages (most prominently, the homepage itself) are designed by a team of pretty high-level engineers, to reduce latency and bandwidth requirements, by stripping bytes. Every change is reviewed with extreme scrutiny. I'm sure the 404 page was designed with similar care. If you view source, for example, the image is base64 encoded, and they don't even bother closing their tags on the pa…
Seems weird to have Arial in the font-stack, as Arial is the default font for sans-serif on Windows. (And Helvetica on OS X which has the same metrics.)
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#67View the source. All the css is inlined, the images are base64 encoded, and there's no closing tag. That's one efficient 404!
One image is inline, the other is a conventional file. I wonder why. Oh, and it validates indeed: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.google.com/nota...
I don't understand how it validates - I'd always understood that html, head, [title] and body were required for a complete document. Certainly the draft spec at http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/semantics.html#the-html-element-0 appears to confirm this ...
Fairplay to them though, they got a semantically and structurally deficient document to validate - it's like the IE6 of webpages ;0)
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#68Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#69I liked the older one better - http://www.google.com/tisp/notfound.html You might have typed the URL incorrectly, for instance. Or (less likely but certainly plausible) we might have coded the URL incorrectly. Or (far less plausible, but theoretically possible, depending on which ill-defined Grand Unifying Theory of physics one subscribes to), some random fluctuation in the space-time continuum might have produced a…
I like Yahoo's better: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkenning/464845773/
Reddit's is cute too:
http://allthatsnew.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/reddit.png?w=...
Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google's most frequently accessed pages (most prominently, the homepage itself) are designed by a team of pretty high-level engineers, to reduce latency and bandwidth requirements, by stripping bytes. Every change is reviewed with extreme scrutiny. I'm sure the 404 page was designed with similar care. If you view source, for example, the image is base64 encoded, and they don't even bother closing their tags on the pa…
don't knkow if it's firefox inserting them, but i do see closing tags, apart from elements, but that's allowed.
There is no , , , , or .