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Re:Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly by switch007 on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @01:56PM (#2280682)
Why did they not remove whitespace too?
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Re:Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly by beaumartinez on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @03:42PM (#2281206)
I'm guessing it's not much of an issue when it's sent compressed over the wire.
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Re:Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly by colanderman on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @09:11PM (#2282394)
Neither are closing tags...
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Re:Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly by colanderman on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @11:45PM (#2282857)
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?
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Re:Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly by leif on Thursday March 03, 2011 @12:54AM (#2283004)
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.
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Re:Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly by leif on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @01:57PM (#2280683)
No idea, I saw that too and was puzzled.
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