What is Digg?185 Comments
- cerealjynx, on 07/07/2008, -4/+196it's the exp bar, it turns green when you level up in real life.
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -13/+167It’s a camera Viacom put to spy on Gmail users
- DamageInc, on 07/07/2008, -9/+143It means go outside and get a life.
- saboola, on 07/07/2008, -1/+86I clicked on the little gray box and vanished .... I woke to find myself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not my own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. My only guide on this journey was Larry Page, who appears in the form of a hologram that only I can see and hear. And so I find myself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that my next leap will be the leap home. Which it was, then I posted this digg comment.
- WebWorker, on 07/07/2008, -2/+79When I Adblocked this: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1q ... Gmail would not load my inbox in Ajax view, but it would in the Standard HTML view. Just gonna make the leap here that it is a container for javascript purposes. It's not like they aren't already tracking you via your HTTP requests and via Google Analytics...
- Yusayoh, on 07/06/2008, -3/+75Yes, some are certainly nuts. It's a gray box, it's an iframe, oh *****!
- xmrkkr, on 07/07/2008, -2/+70might be a Praetorian access point for the Gatekeeper system ;-)
- fungifred, on 07/07/2008, -0/+59I was pretty sure that was a frame that they use to ensure that the back button continues to function as expected when they do all the AJAX wizardry that makes gmail so good. Without that, clicking back would not take you from reading an email to the inbox, it would take you back to the last real webpage you were on.
- imspacevanman, on 07/07/2008, -0/+51From the comments on TechCrunch:
"It’s definitely coming from their “invisible” iframes. It looks like someone changed some styling recently and forgot to zero out the borders on their “invfr” class. What you’re seeing are the borders of a 0px tall, 0px wide iframe — several, actually, stacked in the upper left corner. This accounts for why the “graphics” look different in Firefox and Safari, since they render default iframe borders with different shades of gray."
That about sums it up. - semaphoreblock, on 07/07/2008, -1/+51It indicates that Gmail has a sticky backside.
- e68895f, on 07/07/2008, -0/+45This is a message from the year 2028. The box is now the size of Europe and still expanding... kill it before it takes out the planet !!!
- zonovo, on 07/07/2008, -2/+46Just blank iframes: js_iframe, sound_iframe, hist_iframe.
Relax, please. - inactive, on 07/07/2008, -1/+42it's where you put the stamp when you send your email
- earnjam, on 07/07/2008, -1/+38You're masturbating to gmail?
- agimat, on 07/07/2008, -1/+35Everytime you click on it, Google kills a kitten.
- Remmiz, on 07/08/2008, -0/+30Kill people.
- samuelmcm, on 07/07/2008, -0/+30I FOUND ANOTHER ONE!!
Go to any eBay bid page scroll down and and look at the bottom left!!
http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m388/elitesam/l ...
ATTACK OF THE KILLER GRAY BOXES!! - ModernGeek, on 07/07/2008, -0/+30Finally, an explanation that actually makes sense. Talk about terrible signal:noise ratio.
- Cimlite, on 07/07/2008, -0/+30Lame... it's just a regular gray box, does not have a diagonal line through it.
Obviously, you have not understood what makes Google's gray box so horrific. - vinceislegend, on 07/07/2008, -3/+32http://flyingredhorses.com/GalleryImages/BigGrayBo ...
Where is your God now? - shapew, on 07/07/2008, -6/+32oh noooo.
Gmail is gonna get invaded by Gray dots. This is just a beginning people. - serif69, on 07/07/2008, -2/+26I really didn't intend to read this seriously, given the description, but I took a look at it and it's pretty easy to explain. Google uses iframes as a means to include things on a page similar to the way one might use includes on a PHP page. Since AJAX doesn't really give the ability to include things in the usual ways, on the playground was where I spent most of my days, chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool,and all shootin some b-ball outside of the school. And between you and me, something amazing happened... and now I can talk to animals! It's really cool, but totally secret. And you know what? Life's never been the same.
- bweltondav, on 07/07/2008, -0/+23After reading your comment I went into Gmail and clicked the box. Just to be sure.
AND BOY WAS HE RIGHT! - djepik, on 07/07/2008, -3/+23O RLY?
http://digg.com/tech_news/Do_you_see_a_black_dot_o ... - vbullinger, on 07/07/2008, -2/+19It's one of two things...
1) A subtle om nom (zoom in: it's jagged, like a mouth)
2) Since it doesn't show up in IE7, it may be a secret access point into Firefox's secret website that helps train people how to take down Microsoft. - ikrit2006, on 07/07/2008, -1/+18AJAX breaks the back and forward buttons, the best way to get around it is using location.hash (which Google does) but IE doesn't capture hash changes in browser history like Firefox, Safari, and Opera unless you pass hash changes through an iframe with a querystring...
- Loonacy, on 07/07/2008, -0/+14Oh yeah baby, reply to that email! Reply to it HARD!
- Fordi, on 07/07/2008, -1/+14It's the three background portions of GMail:
js_frame, which handles the behavior of the gmail client
hist_frame, whose URL is changed every time you do something (but whose URLs always return a 0-byte file with mimetype text/html, so as to keep bandwidth use low)
sound_frame, which plays the gChat noises.
The frame you normally see is called 'canvas_frame', and is the interface portion of the application.
They're badly skinned, mind you.
Anyway, if they're that annoying, here's a fast fix shortcut:
javascript:(function(){for(var i in{js_frame:0,hist_frame:0,sound_frame:0})document.getElementById(i).style.border='none';})(); - Loonacy, on 07/07/2008, -0/+13Ah crap, now there's TWO ways that I'm responsible for kitten deaths.
- ElbertF, on 07/07/2008, -2/+14Wait, did you steal my comment from Techcrunch? :(
- serif69, on 07/07/2008, -1/+13It's ceiling cat?
- 5urr3al5am, on 07/07/2008, -2/+13@blog author -- way to much time on your hands dude
- silent7seven, on 07/08/2008, -1/+12Add to CSS:
iframe { border:none; }
Zing! Fixed. Google, that one is free, but next time I'm going to need a gracious job offer. - donald347, on 07/08/2008, -0/+10You can do that? I must be level 1... How do you collect exp?
- vitriolage, on 07/07/2008, -0/+10God dammit, who has the remote?
- y3rt, on 07/07/2008, -0/+10I thought that was supposed to be the Pi symbol?
- cawpin, on 07/07/2008, -3/+13FTA - "nor right-click on it."
***** you can't. I just did. - isuisorisuaint, on 07/07/2008, -4/+14gray boxes....serious business.
- VivaLaUndead, on 07/08/2008, -1/+10Congrats on being the 12th person this week to post this "clever" comment.
- filefly, on 07/08/2008, -0/+9I read that as "Sandra Bullock pissing on webpages"
- lintmonkey, on 07/07/2008, -2/+10That's what she said.
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 07/07/2008, -0/+8Don't you have to shift-click on it? Something about Mozart?
- Nauru, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7Oh, the life lessons you learn from video games.
- Foamator, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7Yay, Fresh Prince of Wild Thornberrys FTW!
- wiretapped, on 07/07/2008, -1/+8They're onto us, did you realise its only Digg users who have gray boxes on Gmail?
- orangebluedevil, on 07/07/2008, -7/+14i was JUST looking at this and trying to figure out what the F. If it's an attempt to make it look like a sheet of paper like some people say then they failed because it looks like crap
- Rotzooi, on 07/07/2008, -1/+7You can annihilate Google Analytics by putting them in your hosts file and pointing them to your localhost:
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
etc - Loonacy, on 07/07/2008, -0/+6That's what the DOM inspector is for.
- jemka, on 07/07/2008, -2/+8You just had to ruin it didn't you?
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