Summary: If an IMG is unloadable and also has an empty ALT string, the filename of the IMG is displayed in place of the image, instead of the requested empty string. To Reproduce: View the testcase attachment, "(dis)Honouring IMG ALT if unloadable" Result: The unloadable IMG with the empty-string ALT is replaced by the filename of the unloadable image, rather than the empty string, as its ALT text. Expected: The unloadable IMG with the empty-string ALT is replaced by the the empty string as its ALT text. (Note also that in the testcase the boxes showing the dimension of an unloadable image appear, and then disappear. This is a separate bug.) Occurs on: 1999-10-15-11-M11 on Windows NT. Note that if a webpage author took the trouble to add an empty-string ALT, there must have been some reason, and that there are many reasons why an IMG may not load in some circumstances while it does in others.

The second attachement shows how ugly this can get. It is essentially the same as the file at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=2229, except that empty-string ALT attributes have been added to all of the IMGs (there were none in the original. Despite the empty string, every second line of the main table contains "1x1trans," the name of MSN's single-pixel transparent gif, instead of the requested nothingness on tan. It looks UGLY.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1994 ***