74717 - [RFE] when you disable image, all of ALT text should be displayed.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 62046

(Core :: Layout, enhancement)

Description

[Chu Alan]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010323
BuildID:    2001032319

if u switch off image than go to any web pages, if the image is too small, the
alt text may be "cut off" by the edge of image, or simply invisible.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.disable image
2.go to http://www.adobe.com
3.the alt text of the image in the right menu is cut off

Actual Results:  the alt text of the image in the right menu is cut off

Expected Results:  The alt text of the image should resize to "fit" the image.

Comment 1

[timeless]

i browse w/ nc4 images off, that page loads fine. for the record each image 
there appears to have width and height tags.  irc we are required to honor 
them.

=> Layout, if i'm right this bug is invalid.  if people want you to be able to 
read the text because it's important, they should use TITLE. ALT text should 
tersely hint describe the image.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

timeless: alt text should not tersely describe the image, not at all. They 
should be an alternatative textual representation for the image. For example, 
if you have a fancy letter "O" instead of an "O" at the start of a paragraph, 
the alt text would be "O". But if your image was a complex equation, then you 
would have to write out the entire equation in long hand.

This bug isn't invalid though. If we don't load the image, we should be creating
the text frame with the alt text (CantRenderReplacedContent), not the 
placeholder frame.

Having said that, the "don't load images" pref isn't working for me at all...

Comment 3

[Chu Alan]

Ian :-

>This bug isn't invalid though. If we don't load the image, we should be creating
>the text frame with the alt text (CantRenderReplacedContent), not the 
>placeholder frame.

You mean do not display the "image box", just ignore the image when the browser
render the image, just use the alt text to replace the image totally ?
i.e. just like how text mode browsers handle images ?

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Exactly.

Comment 5

[karnaze (gone)]

Reassiging to attinasi in case it gets confirmed.

Comment 6

[Ken Snider]

This is an important accessibility feature, IMHO, and one honoured by IE as well
("Always expand ALT text for images").

If nothing else, it's a valid enhancement request. :)

Confirming, and chaning platform to All/All (Confirmed happens in Linux too..)

Comment 7

[Michael Hendy (Hendikins)]

methinks we have a dupe of 62046...

Comment 8

[basic]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62046 ***

Comment 9

[Michael Hendy (Hendikins)]

v for sentimental value :)