Thursday, October 09, 2008

You've slipped, Google

Oh, how the mighty slip (even if they don't fall)!

:-P Hype aside, I was taking Google Chrome out for a spin by pointing it to Gmail, and here's what hit me.


Did you notice the missing images on the page, including the Google Mail logo? I was somewhat amused to see the message, "Some of the elements on this page came from an unverified source and were not displayed." Google's browser couldn't verify the authenticity of the images that were being served from their own servers? I wonder what it was that it couldn't verify. Quite ironical, isn't it?

Of course, it's a rather trivial error - some of the images on the page were coming from an http server rather than the https server that the page itself was being served from, as the image below confirmed.