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

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Post by idonthack » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 11:46 PM UTC

jules wrote: post #69

edw519 wrote: post #52

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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=...

that page is reserved for 500 errors.

for a 404 they swap out several images. see http://www.reddit.com/thisisa404

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

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Post by moblivu » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 11:47 PM UTC

Haha, a nice simple error page! Still, nothing beats that one http://www.abovetopsecret.com/404.html

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

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Post by swcharl » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 12:10 AM UTC

Groxx wrote: post #74

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...

And have you noticed the changes to Docs? Their list display is finally useful!

I'm a student, and I find Google Docs is super useful. I just wish for a more consistent experience. For example, I like to edit with "Compact Controls." Sometimes that feature goes missing, and I'm forced to edit in full screen – not an incredibly useful feature because the controls are completely hidden.

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

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Post by nostrademons » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 12:12 AM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #67

cstuder wrote: post #5

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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)

The elements are required, but the tags are implied by the tag structure of the rest of the document. They're added automatically at parse time:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tokenization.html#the-before-html...

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

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Post by kpreid » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 12:26 AM UTC

nathan82 wrote: post #2

View the source. All the css is inlined, the images are base64 encoded, and there's no closing tag. That's one efficient 404!

Base64 isn't exactly efficient. (Though it might be more efficient than an additional HTTP request. But if so, why aren't they using it for the homepage logo, say?) I wonder if they're using it as non-useless padding for stopping the IE-overrides-too-short-404s behavior.

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

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Post by visural » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 1:45 AM UTC

kpreid wrote: post #85

nathan82 wrote: post #2

View the source. All the css is inlined, the images are base64 encoded, and there's no closing tag. That's one efficient 404!

Base64 isn't exactly efficient. (Though it might be more efficient than an additional HTTP request. But if so, why aren't they using it for the homepage logo, say?) I wonder if they're using it as non-useless padding for stopping the IE-overrides-too-short-404s behavior.

Base64 is ok when the response is gzipped

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

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Post by Luyt » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 1:50 AM UTC

kordless wrote: post #73

Check out ours: http://loggly.com/404

And I created this one: http://access-training-amsterdam.nl/xyzzy

...abandoned in the desert...

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

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

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Post by gohat » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 2:00 AM UTC

This is nice, but more developed, cutesy ones with animals and such are all the rage. Maybe they should ask the guy at The Oatmeal comic if he'd be willing to help; he did the Tumblr one for free iirc and it's fairly awesome.

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

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Post by colanderman » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 2:11 AM UTC

beaumartinez wrote: post #72

switch007 wrote: post #56

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Why did they not remove whitespace too?

I'm guessing it's not much of an issue when it's sent compressed over the wire.

Neither are closing tags...