Posted by dorayme on 10/15/05 01:58

> From: Neredbojias <neredbojias@neredbojias.com>

>> 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..?


Yes, I realised how you could have failed to appreciate the joke
in my previous "mess". Perhaps I better be very serious for a
while, lie low, shoot straight arrows, bowl a good line, keep a
straight bat... no... it is too boring to contemplate...

dorayme

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