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Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by wdewind »

davidmurphy wrote: post #97
bradgessler wrote: post #24

Google has been really been stepping up their design over the past few months. I really like the subtle tweaks they made to the top bar across all google pages: https://img.skitch.com/20110302-kdhkc99usamdhb6yaptrw2y81d.j...

It's made usability worse though, in one important respect: logging out requires two clicks, not one. :(

That's true only under the assumption that the UI should be optimized for the Signing Out process. It shouldn't, the design has improved usability by hiding less frequently used options.

Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by leif »

colanderman wrote: post #98
colanderman wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neither are closing tags...

Who in the world downvoted this, please own up? Can you show that gzip does not, in fact, perform well at compressing repeated strings of text such as the likes of closing tags?

Wasn't me, but why make gzip do the work when you can do it once, easily, yourself? Sure it can do it, but their servers can serve the closing tags, and google strips those. The discrepancy is weird is all.

Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by [deleted] »

kgermino wrote: post #10

A part of me is sad about this. The old page functioned just fine and acted as a relic of the old Internet. I thought it was kind of cool how they left it alone, especially since it served it's purpose just fine without costing anything. Not that I'm denying it was ugly as all hell :)

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Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by necrodome »

idonthack wrote: post #81
jules wrote: post #69

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Reddit's is cute too: http://allthatsnew.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/reddit.png?w=...

that page is reserved for 500 errors. for a 404 they swap out several images. see http://www.reddit.com/thisisa404

All of them:

http://www.reddit.com/static/reddit404a.png http://www.reddit.com/static/reddit404b.png http://www.reddit.com/static/reddit404c.png http://www.reddit.com/static/reddit404d.png http://www.reddit.com/static/reddit404e.png

Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

#108

Post by haraball »

bradgessler wrote: post #24

Google has been really been stepping up their design over the past few months. I really like the subtle tweaks they made to the top bar across all google pages: https://img.skitch.com/20110302-kdhkc99usamdhb6yaptrw2y81d.j...

I have the new top bar in gmail, but not in greader.

Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

#109

Post by digitaltothem »

haraball wrote: post #108
bradgessler wrote: post #24

Google has been really been stepping up their design over the past few months. I really like the subtle tweaks they made to the top bar across all google pages: https://img.skitch.com/20110302-kdhkc99usamdhb6yaptrw2y81d.j...

I have the new top bar in gmail, but not in greader.

My case too. I don`t have it in Picasa either, but I do in Docs.

Re: Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

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Post by wisty »

Griever wrote: post #33
ZoFreX wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This hasn't rolled out for everybody yet - I see it at work, but I don't see it (when signed into the same account) at home.

Same thing happens to me. I'm assuming its a cookie or cache issue.

AB testing, I'd guess.
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