Google WTF

valerion

At the moment, if you use www.google.co.uk and have IE7, you get a nice Javascript error when you try to re-size the window. Doesn't happen on IE8, Firefox or Chrome, and doesn't seem to happen on the .com site either.

But it is nice that even someone as mighty as Google can cock something up in that fashion.

SkaveRat

Google fucks up a lot of things. Have you ever checked their HTML?

Rootbeer

What's wrong with their HTML?

derula

@Rootbeer said:

What's wrong with their HTML?

Yeah, it works in browsers. I just wonder: even if you don't give a fsck about web standards, how do you manage to implement 70 HTML errors on the front page? It's just an image and a form...

fennec

Easy. You go out of your way to save bandwidth.

PSWorx

@fennec said:

Easy. You go out of your way to save bandwidth.

Which is why they don't even use gzip encoding.

morbiuswilters

@PSWorx said:

@fennec said:
Easy. You go out of your way to save bandwidth.

Which is why they don't even use gzip encoding.

Say what? The Google home page and search results use gzip for me. I even checked the UK site to see if it was location-specific, but gzip is used there as well. Did you actually confirm this before making inaccurate claims?

PSWorx

@morbiuswilters said:

Say what? The Google home page and search results use gzip for me. I even checked the UK site to see if it was location-specific, but gzip is used there as well. Did you actually confirm this before making inaccurate claims?

As a matter of fact, I did test. However, not enough to discover that google checks the User-Agent to avoid old browser bugs apparently. Here are my findings.

So, let's agree, we were both right ;)

So, on to the next question: Why no caching?

morbiuswilters

@PSWorx said:

As a matter of fact, I did test. However, not enough to discover that google checks the User-Agent to avoid old browser bugs apparently.

Clever.

@PSWorx said:

So, on to the next question: Why no caching?

My guess is because many proxies are crap and the caching would be all screwed up. I haven't confirmed any of this, though, so take it with a pinch of salt.