106286 - <alt> tag not working

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[John Unruh]

Mac OSX. 10/22 branch build.
1.) View the above URL.
What is expected: That the applet should appear.
What happens: No applet

Comment 1

[Joe Chou]

Mac bug, re-assing to beard.

Comment 2

[mes]

I don't know about whats going on with this page since the URI is not.
However this page http://lazo.ca/cvcu/ which is http://cvcu.com with alt
tags added to show that with a tiny bit of effort their website could be made 
much more accessible. It renders correctly in Lynx with alt tags discribing
the links pointed to by the images. In Mozilla with image loads disabled
however, no alt tags are shown. I have noticed this behavior before if images
are restricted, the images are not loaded as expected, but the links to the images
are removed and anchors pointed to by those images have no indication of their 
existance. This is unfortunate since the wonderful fine grained image management 
made possible by Mozilla has much of it usefulness removed by this behavior.
Just because I don't want to load the images by default does not mean I wish to
have the possibility to do so removed forever. I have noticed that since 10-15
images that do not exist have a remnant left behind. It would be nice if this were
always so, and if an alt tag exists it should be shown. That is what they're for
I am lead
to believe. 
The platform is Debian(Woody), CVS 01-12-02. This may be a different bug but it sure
looks like alt tags are not working.

Comment 3

[Rob]

The <Alt> isn't working with Mozilla 2001122106 (Windows 9x platform) at this
either:
http://www.norlink.net/~rchand/photo/aroundtown.htm

Thanks
Rob

Comment 4

[Tom P]

Attachment: simple alt demo

Just to verify that this is present with build 2002031104 on w2k so it is not a
mac/win9x/debian only issue

Comment 5

[John Levon]

comments 2,3,4 you are talking about bug 62046 or bug 25537.

Junruh, what exactly is this bug about ? If the testcase
is confidential what's the point in us being able to
see this bug ? This bug is misleading people ...

Comment 6

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

Taking this...

Comment 7

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

junruh, this test case is invalid.

According to the page the alternate text should read:
  [The "Jitter Text" Java Applet!]

view-source on the page shows that the applet has been parsed as follows:
  <applet codebase="." code="JitterText.class"
   width=400 height=80 alt="[The "Jitter TextJava Applet!]>
  <param value> pairs removed...

Note that the alt tag was apparently entered as:
  alt="[The "Jitter Text" Java Applet!]">

Removing the illegal quotes from the middle of the alt tag fixes the problem.

Comment 8

[John Unruh]

cc sharma to fix the code.