I’ve noticed that every once in awhile in Gmail, and even other Google apps, when I have completed an action, there will appear briefly a little message in the status bar saying “read aanandprasad.com”. I found I could reliably reproduce this simply by deleting an email; the message “read aanandprasad.com” would appear in the status bar right after doing this.
Aanand seems to be a web developer with some nifty Javascript on his site, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why Gmail wants me to visit him.
Has anyone else seen this?
UPDATE: My best guess is that Google is using a bit of Javascript from Aanand’s page and is linking directly to it, so really what is happening that Firefox is simply telling me to wait while Google reads from it’s source. Now, why link directly to this page, I don’t know. Doesn’t Google have enough server space?
