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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 Safari on OS X...

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.

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?

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