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Gmail: Server Error 502

Published
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kyleabaker
on August 11, 2008
in Firefox, Internet Explorer, News, Opera, Web and Web Browsers
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Well, Gmail has been down for a while today. I’m hoping it will come back up pretty soon, but if you’re also getting an Error 502 message then you may be waiting for a while as well.

I did a little research (google is your friend..unless it’s Gmail with a 502 message, haha) and it looks like it happens fairly often to people. One person reported not being able to login for up to 4 days!

I also read that sometimes logging in with a different browser will temporarily fix the problem, but it didn’t work for me with Opera, Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Hopefully everyone else is having better luck.

UPDATE: It appears that the Gmail outages were indeed as wide spread as I had assumed. Webmonkey.com even covered the issue in their blog (hours after I released a post about it, haha) and got the following statement from Google on the issue:

Since about 2 p.m. Pacific Time today, many Gmail users have been unable to access their email. We are very sorry for this interruption in service. The issue is being caused by a temporary outage in the contacts system used by Gmail which is preventing Gmail from loading properly. We are starting to roll out a fix now and hope to have the problem resolved as quickly as possible. Even though you may not be able to get to your inbox right now, your mail is safe, including new incoming messages.

We will post an update in the Gmail Help Center ( http://mail.google.com/support/ ) when more information is available.

Gmail seems to be back in order now and apparently came back online around 8pm EST. Hopefully no one is still affected by the outages.

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CSS: More on Acid Testing…Acid3 Test!

Published
by
kyleabaker
on January 31, 2008
in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Web Browsers
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acid2A while back I blogged a piece on Internet Explorer and Web Standards. Well, I’m back at it! Only this time I have some good news and some disappointing news.

irst off, the good news is that Internet Explorer 8 is rumored to have passed the Acid2 Test, however, Internet Explorer 8 has not yet been release to the public in any form and this rumor is based on internal testing. No actual proof is available to the public until we get to test this future release ourselves. There is, however, a screenshot posted online to further support the statement, but I would still like to see Internet Explorer 8 perform. ;)

On to the on-topic content, which also contains the bad news. :P WebStandards.org recently officially release the Acid3 Test to the public! The test has been available all along the way (the test itself took some time to develop) and I checked it out from time to time while I was waiting, but testing an incomplete test isn’t really testing at all.

I was surprised when I first saw the Acid3 Test that it didn’t have anything really comparable to the smilie face as seen in the Acid2 Test when rendered properly. However, a lot of work and code has been put into this third Acid project and it is an intensive test for all browsers! I was glad to see that Opera was the leading browser when it comes to the Acid3 Test. Although Opera currently fails the test, they achieve a score of 60/100. I ran the test in several other browsers to compare the results and here is what I found thus far:

  1. Opera 9.5x (weekly build): 60/100
  2. Firefox Minefield (nightly build): 59/100
  3. Firefox 3.0b3pre: 57/100
  4. Firefox 2.0.0.10: 50/100
  5. Opera 9.25: 47/100
  6. Safari 3.0.4 (523.15): 40/100
  7. Internet Explorer 7: 13/100
  8. Opera 8.54: 2/100

It’s a neat test (not as visually cool as the Acid2 Test)! I recommend that you test your browsers with the various Acid Tests every now and then to keep track of how well they are actually doing their job and following web standards! Please let me know if you see any different results or if you have results for versions that I wasn’t able to test!

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