182191 - Alternate text for an image is shown in image properties even when viewing just an image

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 177747

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[lsof]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

Alternate text is shown when viewing an image.
This alternate text should not be there if the user is not viewing an HTML page.
The error message should be different when the alternate text is blank (on an
HTML page), e.g. ALT="" on the bugzilla homepage.

Text given is "The image “http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ant.jpg” cannot be
displayed, because it contains errors."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ant.jpg
2. Right-click> Properties
3. Read Alternate Text line.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, that _is_ the alternate text on that image in the HTML document we
synthesize to show standalone images.  That way if the image can't be displayed
you get that text....

imo, Image Properties should simply be disabled for standalone images in any
case.  Page Info is much more appropriate in that situation....

Comment 2

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

Dupe of bug 177747.

Comment 3

[Kevin Lacquement]

On 1.2-Release, the text is:
 The image “http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ant.jpg”
Which makes more sense than an error message.  However, I agree with comment #1
- it probably shouldn't be shown at all (and with comment #2 - it is a dup).

Comment 4

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177747 ***