Hemebond on 7/9/2003 at 03:52
The images for "Reply" and "New thread" do not have ALT text which means the links are completely invisible with images disabled.
David on 7/9/2003 at 05:59
<img src="http://www.concretedonkey.net/img/junk/forums/alt.gif">
They do from here. :weird:
Vigil on 7/9/2003 at 08:45
The confusion may have arisen because images that don't have width or height specified generally will only appear the size of the 'this is an image' icon until they are loaded (or if the page is stopped) - and thus are too small to print any alt text on. Images that have width and height are generally wide enough to show the alt text while they are loading.
I know, because I almost blasted my bank for not putting alt text on their form submission buttons until I checked the code. I really wish IE's "always expand ALT text" option lived in Mozilla too, which probably means it does as some obscure user.js tweak.
Salvage on 7/9/2003 at 12:40
It's odd that Opera doesn't show the alt text with images off for the post reply button. It does show the alt text for the new thread button, though.
It does show the alt text for the other buttons, though, expanding as necessary.
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http://www16.brinkster.com/salvage/ttlg/alt_text.htm)
Hemebond on 7/9/2003 at 21:32
Doh. Sorry. Must be a bug in this build of Firebird. I have all images from (
www.ttlg.com) blocked, but no alt text is showing up for any image.
Should've done more testing Heme.
Vigil on 8/9/2003 at 05:57
That ain't a bug, that's a 'feature', and has been the case for every version of image blocking in Moz/FB. As far as I can remember they've never shown up anything for blocked images, neither the placeholder border nor the image icon nor the alt text. Which doesn't exactly come in handy when you're trying to work out why a page doesn't make sense. There might be something you can tweak in userContent.css to get the desired functionality, or then again there might not.
