204930 - Image is blank after inserting in a new composition window.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Robert La Ferla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

After inserting an image, the newly inserted image is blank (white).  If you
select it, you will get the handle bar controls but you cannot see the image.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new message
2. Insert "http://i.hot.com/img/HotCom.gif"


Actual Results:  
No image appears in compose window but if you select the message body, you will
find that it inserted a blank image of the same size.


Expected Results:  
It should have displayed the image properly.

Comment 1

[Robert La Ferla]

This is a showstopper bug.  It still shows up in the nightly build 2003051608. 
Interestingly, a previous nightly build did not exhibit the problem.  Do we have
a regression bug lurking here?

Comment 2

[Robert La Ferla]

This is happening again in latest nightly build (2003061904).  I did more
research and found that it happens when you use an URL e.g.
http://mozilla.org/images/mozilla-banner.gif instead of a filename on your hard
disk for the image you want to insert.

Comment 3

[Robert La Ferla]

It turns out the "Do not load remote images for Mail and News" preference was
checked.  It would be nice if there was a way to load remote images for messages
that you compose/send but not for messages that you receive (e.g. to eliminate
unwanted web beacons and spam)

Here's an idea that perhaps should be filed as an enhancement:  Enable remote
loading of images if the Sender address is in your personal address book.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

=>Invalid, per reporter's comment 3.

Robert La Ferla, if you would like to open a bug to request that feature, feel 
free to do so; be sure to set the severity on that bug to 'enhancement'.