I’m not trying to dump on Google here; I just think this is cute. I went to my Gmail account today, only to see the following:
I guess they didn’t use their graphical logo for bandwidth reasons. Seeing “Google” written in plain text is kinda funky!
What is even more amusing is the code for this page.
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html;charset=utf-8″>
<title>502 Server Error</title>
<style><!–
body {font-family: arial,sans-serif}
div.nav {margin-top: 1ex}
div.nav A {font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif}
span.nav {font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold}
div.nav A,span.big {font-size: 12pt; color: #0000cc}
div.nav A {font-size: 10pt; color: black}
A.l:link {color: #6f6f6f}
A.u:link {color: green}
//–></style></head>
<body text=#000000 bgcolor=#ffffff>
<table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td rowspan=3 width=1% nowrap>
<b><font face=times color=#0039b6 size=10>G</font><font face=times color=#c41200 size=10>o</font><font face=times color=#f3c518 size=10>o</font><font face=times color=#0039b6 size=10>g</font><font face=times color=#30a72f size=10>l</font><font face=times color=#c41200 size=10>e</font> </b>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor=#3366cc><font face=arial,sans-serif color=#ffffff><b>Error</b></td></tr>
<tr><td> </td></tr></table>
<blockquote>
<H1>Server Error</H1>
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.<p>Please try again in 30 seconds.<p>
</blockquote>
<table width=100% cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=#3366cc><img alt=”” width=1 height=4></td></tr></table>
</body></html>
Ah, mixed CSS and HTML styling. How do I love thee?