2534 - require "broken image" icon replacement for img src

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout, defect, P4)

Description

[Margaret Lum]

read text on page.

there should be a broken image icon (as there was in Nav4x) indicating that the
path img src is referencing is incorrect.

currently, nothing is displayed, except for a very minute, dot where the image
(referenced by img src) would be.

Comment 1

[troy]

After thinking about this a bit I decided that no we shouldn't do that. Refer to
bug #1994 for details, but basically if we're following the spec then we
shouldn't be displaying a broken icon at all we should display the "alt" text
instead. Since there is no "alt" text probably nothing should be displayed

As far as this particular example goes, if you specified width/height attributes
on the IMG tag then we would display the broken icon within the space you
specified

Comment 2

[Eli Goldberg]

Verified duplicate of 1994/won't fix.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This bug is one of many related to alternate text of images. All these bugs
have been marked. To find related bugs, search the description field for the
string "[ALT]".