from bug 9796: ------- Additional Comment #31 From Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2001-05-02 22:42 ------- What should happen is that when you are viewing an image, as opposed to an HTML, TXT or XML document, and it turns out to be broken, some feedback should be provided to inform you of the problem. Something like (inline, instead of the image): /\ This image is not valid. /__\ URI: http://www.pavlov.net/pr0n/catherine/00055.jpeg Content-Type: image/jpeg Error: The JPEG header was missing the JPEG signature. This is probably not a JPEG image. Of course, mpt could give you better text. ------- Additional Comment #32 From Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2001-05-02 23:19 ------- Pavlov: btw, you can probably implement that by using <object> instead of <img> and by putting the error message in the <object> element's alternate content. [...] ------- Additional Comment #42 From Christian Biesinger 2002-03-26 07:26 ------- ok; <object> can not be used because of bugs in Mozilla (bug 96976, bug 127963). I will file a new bug for converting this code to use <object> after they are resolved.

not sure if this is the right place, but this should go to whoever owns the content viewers.

I fixed bug 9796, I'll take this one too

->future until the bugs this depends on are fixed

This is a dup of bug 90256. The patch that has been started in that bug to wrap plugins in a synthetic document will fix this bug.

-> default owner