269545 - ALT text not displayed while image is loading

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263244

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[David Balažic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

NOTE: this is not a duplicate of bug 25537

On http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ , there is a menu on the right.
The links in the menu are images ( IMG tags ).
Depending on circumstances, it can take a while before the images are all loaded
and displayed.
In that time they are rendered as empty frames ( with a small icon IIRC ) and
all look the same.
IMO the ALT text should be displayed during that time.
See bug 75185 and bug 1994 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

note that this works here... although I'm using mozilla trunk

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with win2k build 20041112..

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

confirming, and changing Version to 1.7 Branch
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041104
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
not seen on a current trunk nightly.

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

Should this not be a WFM resolution, since it works on the trunk?  Aviary is
closed now to FF branch bug work.

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

it is a minor bug in the currently 'stable branch', so it can be fixed, if
somebody cares, and a 1.7.5 gets released. I don´t think that bug is important,
to people having loading of images allowed.
But does it also work for the blind, which use screenreaders to get the Alt-Text
instead the image?
Maybe Component should be changed to Accessability.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> it is a minor bug in the currently 'stable branch', so it can be fixed, if
> somebody cares, and a 1.7.5 gets released.

That's not how it works.  It's not a crasher, not a security issue, hence has no
 real place on branch.

> But does it also work for the blind, which use screenreaders to get the
> Alt-Text instead the image?

Screen-readers are unaffected by this bug.

> Maybe Component should be changed to Accessability.

This bug has nothing to do with accessibility.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263244 ***