186409 - Request for feature possible bug: "broken image" sign similar to IEs "red x"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[subbes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

I'm not sure if this should be happening and is not, or merely is not a part of
Phoenix:

If an image cannot be displayed, IE renders a red X in its place.  I believe
Opera and netscape also perform this task.  This allows a user to rightclick ->
properties or show image to attempt to reload the image or view it another way.  

I have noticed in Phoenix that instead if displaying a broken image link, if the
image cannot be downloaded, it becomes a blank space -- even attempting to
highlight does not indicate anything was there.  The only way to see that there
was an image is through viewsource for the img src attribute.

This does not happen if the download is interrupted -- for instance, if I become
disconnected or hit "stop" before the image has downloaded, the image
placeholders or "broken image" placeholders remain opon the page.  this bug only
seems to happen on pages where the image cannot be downloaded.

I would love to see this fixed, or to obtain an explanation as to why it has not
been offered.  Thank you for reading. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load page with broken image.
2. Image disappears -- no "broken image" placeholder or indication that image
exists.  Only way to notice presence of image is through view source.
Actual Results:  
Image disappears -- if you were unaware that there was an image upon the page,
it would look as if there was no img on the page.

Expected Results:  
Displayed a "broken image" symbol similar to that in other browsers if an image
cannot be loaded.

Comment 1

[David Tenser [:djst]]

This is not Phoenix specific, and I believe it's intentional too.

Comment 2

[subbes]

Then is there a workaround that will allow me to view "broken" images?  I really
don't like having them just disappear, especially if they're really the only
reason I'm loading the page. 

Comment 3

[Ferenc Veres]

Yes, I wanted to report the same bug. This behaviour with broken images is very
unfortunate for web developers too!

Please display a broken image (or make it possible to enable this) for broken
images and allow right click to see the URL, for example.

I am using Mozilla 1.2.1.

Thanks,
Ferenc

Comment 4

[Jim Dunn]

This should be marked as INVALID, since we are doing what
is supposed to be done.  See bug 41924 which implemented this
which has LOTS of supporting docs.

As for a workaround, there has to be a way to set some default
css style pararmeter.

Comment 5

[Jim Dunn]

just realized blaker isn't around... marking this invalid myself

Comment 6

[Jim Dunn]

marking invalid... (honest)