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Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
16 years ago2,326 views

Any idea why the yellow O looks like its got bits of extra red color, and where that extra line comes from? I tried to change the theme, but it won't accept a new one...it just stays 'classic.'
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/brinkeguthrie/Untitled-18.jpg

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Doesn't look like that for me in Firefox.

Zim [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It's weird. The red dot may be some JPEG aberration? But the black thing over the O and the line at the end are mysterious.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

This could be caused by a proxy or something. I remember years ago seeing AOL compressing all images on their proxy to save on bandwidth.

Are you using any proxies Brinke?

Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I have 11 tabs...the O looks like that on all of them..but that black line on only a few. And i'll admit- what's a proxy? BTW these are being viewed in IE7.

Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Looked in FF2....shows almost the same- no black line, tho. Anywhere. But the red degradation of the logo looks the same.

Bilal [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

the red dot in the yellow "o" is an ordinary degradation due to compression, the logo is too small.
here is the original used image:

http://www.google.com/ig/images/sprite_arrow_enlarge_max_min_shrink_x_blue.gif

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Ah... it's the same on mine! I guess I should've checked my iGoogle page first!

So, it looks like they're using CSS sprites now and haven't optimized their color palettes properly. And they're using GIFs again instead of PNGs.

Terrible.

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