sorry for th typos and don’t blame the mesenger. Yes, the internet will die but it certainly is not my fault.

It is right clickable, and on ff3 rightclick->this frame-> open in new tab, it shows this link:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?u.....gpcgurkovy

with source being

This is generally used for javascript purposes, nothing special.

It is a mini computer using the magnetic properties of LCDs to implement a basic Python interpreter on your LCD using YOUR electricity, and creating a sort of world-wide distributed computer. That’s Gevil!

They must be testing something and does not wish to reveal before all the tests are done. Or it may be another gimmick to create buzz and get covered.

It’s obviously the new 3M® Google® Post-It® Screen (®). Effective next week, you will be able to pull your homepage off the screen and stick it to any surface. This will be helpful for CA drivers, who may now talk AND surf while they drive, all the while freeing up their hands to shave and/or apply make-up during rush hour.

I would say it should create the illusion of a of a paper buckling

What’s that the page narrator for visual disability browsers?
I saw that been blocked by ‘no-script’ add on.

Its a test to see how many bored users are out there…
The good result - from the number of comments - not so many
The bad result - I’m one of them

Just another Google Junky…

I notice this some time ago, looked at it and first thought it would be the regular iframe placeholder for ajax like call-back functionality that for whatever reason was made visible.

However that would have been a too easy explanation.

When I looked inside the code of the iframe it obviously showed only the little piece of code with no interesting features.

However when I changed my browser recognition string via the firefox extension to the one from the Google bot things started to change and I saw a whole lot of content in the source of the iFrame.

I saw that it was an invitation for the new developer contest which is going to start and for which they are looking for the most brightest web-coders.

There is a link in it and if you follow it you get to some more information.

Strange that noone has found this out, maybe im exceptionally gifted or noone around here is a coder nerd like me ?

When I Adblocked it, 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…

It’s the frame border of the IFrame “js_frame”.
Set the CSS border property to none or the frameborder attribute to 0 and it disappears
(but why is it visible anyway?)

too many comments to see if this has already been posted, but the grey box only appears in Firefox … invisible in IE. I bet it’s nothing but bad code.

Could it be Google’s response to the Viacom case ruling allowing them to view Google’s source code?

All they have to do is peel back the little grey tab and all of Google’s precious source code will be revealed underneath?

Remember Mike, you did suggest that Google should provide the code in a novel way. Perhaps this is the start of it?

The only thing I want to know is how much Google pays TC to write uninteresting and useless posts on every single detail they see about Google. A month ago we were inundated with posts about their favicon change, and now we’re debating about a 10×10 pixels square appearing in the top left of the screen once you log into Gmail.
Oh hold on Arrington, I heard Google’s coffee machine broke down this week end and they just change it! And guess what? There are rumours saying might change their entrance doormat as well! Now you can go write your 2 posts and pick up your check.

We’ve finally found the magic box! It explains how Google can find anything! Whilst it might look 10 x 10 pixels, through the magic of time travel and space bending, it’s actually 15 x 16.

There are actually 5 frames. 5th one is inside 4th one. Javascript, history, sound, canvas frame and one inside canvas . canvas is big frame that we all our emails and navigation (regular gmail screen). that dot is other 3 iframes. (javascript, history and sound.) they can use {display:none;} to hide them. They already know about display none directive as it is used on other places inside page. (tested on FF3.)

@AIK I also think that it is not the kind of topic that TC should post.

its a frame border issue on FF

Read this here: http://www.googlewatchblog.de/.....il-pixeln/ (german)

Translatet in my words:
Seems to be a feature used for the Gmail Chat to play sounds when new messages arrive?

Those are 2 iframes where the file sound.swf is loaded. Maybe google forgot to set the iframe-background to white. what you see should be the iframe border.

This is definetely cause by CSS error.

To Regenerate error use following CSS file along with the other HTML File.

CSS File :

body{margin:0;width:100%;height:100%} .invfr{position:absolute;left:0;top:0;z-index:-1;width:0;height:0}

html,body{margin:0;height:100%;width:100%;overflow:hidden}

HTML File:

Untitled Document

Notes:

iframes should contains swf file. There is a problem with setting z-index, when a layer contain a swf file. This is what hapenes here.

I think above post missed the important HTML code..

Here it is again

Untitled Document

I think it’s actually the peep hole for a spy cam they are using on us!

ooops..problem with publishing HTML content. Here is an online example..

http://www.48g.net/gmail/test.html

Sorry for multi posting

whatever!!!

Does it really matter?

I think it’s just to make the page look like a piece of paper with a bent over corner. Well that or its a hidden passage into the tomb of Ron Google the real founder of Google.com!

If you hold down CTL-ALT-START-tildeand hit the PrtScrn button you can Grab it and drag a copy of all your mail to a digital paper printer so you can fold your inbox up in your pocket and take it with you

It’s a belly button of course.

Peel it back and we’ll get that energy-conscious black skin we’ve been waiting for.

I don’t see it when I go to Gmail.

The image was left there by the guys that have been changing the Techcrunch favicon for the last weeks over and over again.

Its a master plan for causing little pixel disasters in pages that we see every day. I hear that the next plan was changing the Readers Counter (Upper right corner) of Techcrunch, from orange to pink! Can you beleve it?

Those Bastards !

It’s just to load their scripts and what not.
It’s a simple place holder.

And it IS referenced in the HTML.

Seriously, sometimes I think Techcrunch misses the forest despite a specific subset of trees. Google is great, we all know Google kicks ass - but who cares about the dot? And Twitter is not the future - Twitter is a beacon for one trend - but we hear about it all the time, as if whatever happens with Twitter will be repeated and remembered for thousands of years, the way people say about philosophy that “it all begins with Plato”. Personally I’m sick of hearing about mostly large companies and a hodge podge of unrelated startups. Please connect the dots more and talk about trends without focusing almost exclusively on the “hottest startups”.

I would enjoy reading more about the emergence of the mobile web, and which applications are most suitable for the mobile web. How will mobile apps be marketed? How will Android fare? What other companies are working on solutions to common problems in the mobile web and how does it all fit together?

Anyway, it was a good post because it got people posting comments and increased page views.

It is Google’s extension of the CSS box model that allows borders and backgrounds in more directions that just top, right, bottom, and left. It has properties like border-bottom-left and fill-diagonal. It will serve as the backbone of the JavaScript Drawing API.

I agree with jvedman and pixelbud… It looks like a page curl, but can agree that the frameborder=”0″ is not set.
jw

Maybe they are cookie stuffing their affiliate programs from the new google affiliate program so the publishers cant make any money!

It is Chuck Norris trying to take over the Gmail. It’s slow start but in the end Chuck Norris would be able to check everybody’s emails within a blink of an eye. From all email providers, including hotmail, live, yahoo, etc. Period

It looks like a page curl. I’d assume a Gmail makeover is coming, and this is a teaser for when we’ll be able to “peel back the cover.”

It’s iSight used to tracking the behavioral target, eyetracking and other things to do a new AD model (ADpix) to make Google richest…

I think its a same dark box which was in the movie, “The Net” was the name i think, when Sandra Bullock clicked on a mysterious icon on her desktop and she lost her Internet identity and all of her credit cards and emails and personal information was compromised, so who do you think now a days has the power to do so? I think Google is the only super powered Net deamon who can do that, so whatever you do just do NOT click on that image, you might loose your identity…

You can also find it in the bottom of the “Friends for Sale!” Facebook-App browsing with Firefox.

Wow I think this post has the most comments for the stupidest post. Who Cares

I think it is probably ice. If we can scrape a bit off we’ll be able to shake it into our oven and analyse it.

yup - it’s an iframe with width=0 height=0 frameborder=1

ie: not an image

It’s yahoo’s % of the search market

Few possibilities

1. It symbolizes the beginning of Google’s downturn. The corner fold will slowly expand and eventually a big Microsoft logo will be revealed.

2. It’s a secret access to an elite hacker network that only Julia Roberts knows how to hack into.

3. TC may be contractually obliged to mention Gmail at least once a month, however there is just nothing worth writing about. On MA’s probe for a story, Google responded by creating the corner icon and asked him to write about it.

It looks to me like it’s just to make the page look more like it’s a real piece of paper with a slightly curled edge. Just gives it a somewhat nicer look, and draws the eye to that corner.

its was done by gmail developers who are running an internal book betting on a) how long before this pointless ‘thing’ was picked up by techcrunch and b) how many user posts would it get …

seriously I know someone who works their and this is EXACTLY whats is for

It’s a gray and black square.

Evil Peep hole! They are watching us!

4 iFrames with JS