6166 - Ignoring alternate text of "" and using filename instead

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 1994

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

You're ignoring alternate text of "", i.e.,

<img alt="" src="some file...">

and using the filename of the image instead.  You should display no alternate
text if alt="", since in many cases alt="" should be used for images that are
merely decorative and would not be missed at all.

FYI, the HTML 4.0 spec has some very good suggestions for how to come up with
alternate text:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#altgen

Previous issues relating to alternate text were discussed in bug 1994.

This probably requires the equivalent of the DOM's Element::GetAttributeNode
rather than GetAttribute.  This may also be related to bug 6052.

Comment 1

[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]".

Comment 2

[rickg]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1994 ***

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

Agreed. This is a duplicate of 1994.