There's a wierd problem with Firefox

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There's a wierd problem with Firefox of some pictures just showing up as the word "Image" instead of the picture showing up. The placeholder for the picture doesn't show up or anything.

Here's a screenshot of it and a link to a thread where it happened:

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/5957 ... extze8.jpg

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34461&start=35

If I right-click the text and choose "View Image" then the browser goes directly to the picture URL, and going back to the page it was supposed to be displayed on then has it displayed there.

I know "Image" is the alt tag for pictures posted on the forums, but why doesn't the missing picture display as a placeholder with the text inside it like with Internet Explorer; how am I supposed to know that a picture was supposed to be displayed without a placeholder?

Is this deliberate in the design of Firefox?

If it is, is there a plug-in or something that can get it to do what Internet Explorer does, instead?

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Is this deliberate in the design of Firefox?

Yep, because it's what the HTML standard dictates. The algorithm behind it goes a little like this:

- display the resource
- if it's unavailable, display the alt text
- if there's no alt attribute, display a placeholder

It's a bit of a pain when sites use CMS software that automatically adds an alt="" attribute.