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Posted by Neredbojias on 10/15/05 00:38
With neither quill nor qualm, dorayme quothed:
> > From: Neredbojias <neredbojias@neredbojias.com>
> >
> > With neither quill nor qualm, dorayme quothed:
> >
> >>> From: Neredbojias <neredbojias@neredbojias.com>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> 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?
> >>
> >> When you have an <img src="whatever.jpg" width="300"
> >> height="150" alt="Don't show a rectangle, not even with feint
> >> the borders, for where the picture /would/ have gone">, some
> >> browsers ignore it and want to show off how they worked to
> >> prepare space for it...
> >>
> >> Is this any help? Perhaps you have not seen this in your
> >> browsers. Some do it and some do not.
> >>
> >> dorayme
> >
> > Okay, you've been hitting the sauce again, haven't you? Luigi was
> > right.
>
> Let me say it again without anything that may mislead you. You
> know how desperate I am to help you Boji.
<grin>
> When you have an <img src="whatever.jpg" width="300"
> height="150" alt="picture of Italian seagull in Sweden">, some
> browsers not only provide a 300px by 150px space for the picture
> when loading the page but also /display/ this space with a
> border even though the picture fails to load. Getting it?
Okay, but your previous mess. implied that alt text had something to do
with this placeholder rectangle. So if you use <object> for images in
Mozilla, you don't get the rectangle..?
> Actually I am very sober (sort of pathetic 2 glasses of wine
> with dinner and occasional beer, maybe a good slug of
> bourbon/brandy/port if it is around too). I am extremely
> disappointed in my drinking, it interferes with the fine
> machinery of my considerable brain. Nevertheless, I have
> possibly wild liberal views on drugs except where any of my
> family are concerned... (psst... wanna see an article I wrote
> about the drug laws?).
Yes. I dunno much about Australian narcotics problems, but the much-
talked-about internet accessibility statutes tend to abet my interest in
things legislative down under.
>
> dorayme
>
>
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Neredbojias
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