DanPremo.com » Email http://danpremo.com Daniel Premo's Brain. Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:34:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gmail Tasks and the Scrollbar http://danpremo.com/2009/07/10/gmail-tasks-and-the-scrollbar/ http://danpremo.com/2009/07/10/gmail-tasks-and-the-scrollbar/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:45:54 +0000 DP http://danpremo.com/?p=383 The other day I created a grocery list in Google’s Tasks as it appears inside Gmail.  I resized my browser window briefly and discovered what I thought was a Firefox 3.5 bug — The tasks pane rendering above the horizontal scrollbar:

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The Behavior as I First Spotted it, in Firefox 3.5 Mac

Before asking anyone about it, I decided to check if the same phenomenon occurs in other browsers. My research:

Not Just a Firefox Thing

Not Just a Firefox Thing

I thought, maybe this is a Mac OS X issue. I booted into Windows and fired up IE8:

Definitely not Limited to Mac OS X

Definitely not Limited to Mac OS X

Then I wondered, would Google let this slip through in Chrome, too?

Sure Enough

Sure Enough

Finally I booted back into Mac OS X and loaded up Gmail in Opera:

Op ... Wah?

Op ... Wah?

I’m not sure what to conclude about all this. Is this a bug from which all major browsers suffer? I can hardly believe the functionality got into all these browsers accidentally. So is it a Gmail bug? It does get in the way of the horizontal scrollbar.  I guess the moral of the story is this:  When viewing Gmail with Tasks, don’t make your browser window too narrow.

]]> http://danpremo.com/2009/07/10/gmail-tasks-and-the-scrollbar/feed/ 0 I Can’t Get to My Gmail http://danpremo.com/2008/08/06/i-cant-get-to-my-gmail/ http://danpremo.com/2008/08/06/i-cant-get-to-my-gmail/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:04:22 +0000 DP http://danpremo.com/?p=322 I’ve been getting a 502 error on my Gmail account for almost four hours now:

Temporary Error (502)

We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.

Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes.

I just got an email from them (sent to my Yahoo! account, as I specified in an error report/support request):

Hello,

Thank you for your report.

We are aware of this problem, and our engineers are working diligently to find a solution. We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

Sincerely,

The Google Team

Anyone else having problems?

[Update 2008.08.07 11:16AM] When my alarm went off this morning I had access to my email.  I went to bed last night around 1AM and it was still unavailable.  So I was without Gmail for somewhere between 12 and 18.5 hours.

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