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I must say, as the inventors of the Retina Display, they're doing goof by serving waiting message assets at 1x. Hopefully, it's just me — but I'm running it on

• heavymark 10y ago
  It's an animated gif, weighing in at 4MB, which is already massive, do if they doubled the resolution that would be very large for a very subtle visual difference for that particular graphic. The file name includes 1x, so I believe it's intentional for performance reasons.
  • sarreph 10y ago
    Good point — but why would they do that, when they're so set on the UX benefits of retina assets? They seem to manage it everywhere else on their site... Couldn't they lazily-load a 2x gif, or use CSS transitions?