Closed Bug 70098 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Images lock up when they fail to load.

Categories

(Core :: Graphics: ImageLib, defect)

PowerPC
Mac System 8.6
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED FIXED
mozilla0.9.1

People

(Reporter: e_mayilme, Assigned: pavlov)

Details

(Whiteboard: [imglib])

An image object is unable to be accessed by scripts once it has failed to load. For an example go to http://www.angelfire.com/yt/jmyers/get/pix/000/index.shtml and hit Command Period or click Stop while an image is loading -- kaboom! the image crunches into a small gray box and no more slide show.
i'd call this a feature.
Component: Browser-General → ImageLib
Pretty poor feature I'd say. I think this is important, and wrote a little more specific information and posted it up at http://www.angelfire.com/yt/jmyers/client/errata/image_lockup/image_lockup.html The least you can do is read it. After all, why am I spending my precious time submitting bugs to Bugzilla for Mozilla if I don't want it to turn out to be a great browser.
reassigning
Assignee: asa → pnunn
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: doronr → tpreston
I think the "feature" is that images disappear when they do not load completely. Is that what's happening in this case (image fails to load, disappears, can't be displayed again w/o reloading the page)? FWIW, I consider this a bug as it screws up page layout on most sites.
Yes, Adam, that is correct.
I shouldn't say disappear, as the image is usually replace by the ALT attribute text (if specified). Either way, it appears as if this behavior no longer occurs in the 2001030208 build. I can't verify with your test page, though, as popup menus don't work in today's builds <sigh>.
OK, I was wrong. The behavior still occurs. Nothing happens when you press the stop button, but when you load another page before the first one finishes, the images do disappear.
My guess is that this is a problem with Javascript. It seems that once it hits the error, it doesn't attempt to load anything after that. If so, the disappearing images is a separate issue than this, and that's not keeping your site from working (either a Mozilla JS bug or a bug in your JS code). It does work correctly in Communicator 4.7.6.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.0
All pnunn bugs reassigned to Pav, who is taking over the imglib.
Assignee: pnunn → pavlov
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Based on what was originally described, I can't reproduce the problem in the April 3rd Mac build. There is a painting issue where the images appear when you go through the sequence of images. But I believe this is a known issue and not related to the original problem. Tested under OS 9.1.
Whiteboard: [imglib]
Target Milestone: mozilla1.0 → mozilla0.9.1
marking fixed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Verified fixed mac build 2001053009
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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