1 Topic by Simple Exploding Man (edited by Simple Exploding Man 2004-05-01 17:24)

  • From: Spain/Germany
  • Registered: 2004-02-27
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Topic: Images that don't exist or cannot be loaded

IE usually displays a white square with a red cross, and Mozilla does something similar. I've noticed when using Mozilla+PunBB if an image does not exist nothing is shown, so you have no hint it's there. I have that problem not only with images that don't exist but with some servers where the image is placed correctly (I don't know why).

As a demonstration, a screenshot (there should be images between the lines of text):

http://www.geedorah.com/img/personal/iespana_apesta.gif

And here as an experiment a link to a non-existent image:

http://www.geedorah.com/img/iespana_apesta.jpg

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Any ideas why the image-could-not-be-loaded indication is not there?

2 Reply by s0da

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Re: Images that don't exist or cannot be loaded

you have direct linking turned on (no direct linking outside of the web site) OR the image just doesn't exist.

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  • From: Spain/Germany
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Re: Images that don't exist or cannot be loaded

Maybe I wasn't very clear... In short:

Why in other forums I see the red cross and not on PunBB? Is there a way to activate it through HTML? Always referrring to Mozilla, at least.

Thanks.

4 Reply by sverrir (edited by sverrir 2004-05-01 19:13)

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  • Registered: 2003-10-06
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Re: Images that don't exist or cannot be loaded

The red cross in IE is inserted by the browser and there is nothing you can do in html to change that. I don't know how mozilla handles this but in my Firefox if the image is not found the alt text is displayed instead. Maybe that is the case with Mozilla(as Firefox is based on it) and if you have no alt text I could imagine that nothing would show up.

I have not tried this to confirm it but you should check this out.