234363 - Find skips alt text (of broken images)

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Felix Wiemann]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

When displaying of images is deactivated, the alt-texts are displayed but are not
found using the Find-dialog or using Find As You Type.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to about:config.
2. Set browser.display.show_image_placeholders to false and
   network.image.imageBehavior to 2.
3. View a page containing images, e.g.
   <http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-shutil.html>.
4. Enter a text (e.g. "next") in order to search for links or press Ctrl+F and
   search for the text.
Actual Results:  
The images' alt-texts are not found, although they is displayed as normal text.

Expected Results:  
The images' alt-texts should be found.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase involving a broken image

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Also happens in Seamonkey, so -> browser

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 158757, same bug for non-broken images (and maybe specific to Find
As You Type).

Comment 4

[Felix Wiemann]

I think bug 158757 is an enhancement proposal, whereas this one is pretty
obviously a bug.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The here problem is that the text is not in the DOM...

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".