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Posted by Neredbojias on 10/14/05 08:36
With neither quill nor qualm, dorayme quothed:
> > From: Toby Inkster <usenet200510@tobyinkster.co.uk>
> >
> > dorayme wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone know if there is a simple way or a way to have some
> >> /styled/ text appear if a graphic image fails (by accident or
> >> intention) to load?
> >
> > That's the idea of the <object> element:
> >
> > <object type="image/jpeg" data="blah.jpeg" height="120" width="180">
> > <p>Alternative text goes here. It can use <i>italics</i> or
> > <b>bold</b> or whatever you want. You might want to offer a <a
> > href="blah.jpeg">link to the image</a> so that people can download
> > it for viewing in a standalone image viewer if their browser doesn't
> > support images.</p>
> > </object>
> >
> > However, although <object> itself is well-supported in most browsers, many
> > still have problems correctly dealing with the alternative content.
> >
> > XHTML 2.0 will be cool in that you won't really need the <img/> element.
> > Any element can be used to display an image. e.g. instead of:
> >
> > <h1><img src="banner.jpeg" alt="Heading"/></h1>
> >
> > you'd use:
> >
> > <h1 src="banner.jpeg">Heading</h1>
> >
>
> Yes, that would be neat.
>
> I made some experiments and offline the object construct was
> best on some of my browsers but things are different and more
> complex online! Online, my best browser the Mozilla, renders the
> <h1> or <span> best... my main criterion being the /absence/ of
> the rectangle (from the img specs), all else like bg and width
> can be accounted for, but the rect can only be rid of by leaving
> out the specs (I don't like doing this, but I suppose it is a
> thought for the occasional pictured heading)...
What rectangle, the focus rectangle?
> You can see a test page at http://dorayme.150.com/test.html
This seems to render pretty good in IE, but in Mozilla it sucks.
> (I
> include the last in the list with same bg as the page (my
> preferred practice for most headings, even the rare pictured
> ones), this looked the best to me off line, but not online.
> Anyway it is too complicated for now, I would need to make
> screen shots to show you what I see... For now it seems that a
> span or h1 is best for online - on the evidence of my eyes. I
> started out this post saying things like "Yes, the object
> element is the go..." till I tried online. Maybe that server is
> lousy? Will try others...
>
> I will take a look on Windows browsers when I can...
>
> Don't anyone worry about all this too much...it is not any kind
> of urgent problem. No wonder pharmeceutical drugs cost so much,
> testing anything seems to take up enormous quantities of time.
I'd like to know more about the object object, too, so am interested.
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Neredbojias
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