How to get firefox to show image placeholders?

technomage · Post by **technomage** » March 8th, 2004, 6:40 pm

i don't think constantly bumping this thread without something meaningful to add to it is going to help any. the question has been answered as fully as is possible at the moment. unless the devs change the way FF behaves or someone writes a patch/extension/whatever, i think this is as far as this topic can go.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » March 12th, 2004, 1:43 am

ujkm,

incredibles · Post by **incredibles** » February 3rd, 2005, 8:41 am

I also would like FF to show a placeholder in ALL cases that an image is not found, regardless of whether it has alt text defined...
Is there an open bug on this?

technomage · Post by **technomage** » February 3rd, 2005, 8:56 am

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41924

incredibles · Post by **incredibles** » February 3rd, 2005, 1:05 pm

Wow.... long one!
Browsing that bug I found this one, which I think it's more specific to what we're talking about:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180991
it was actually considered as a duplicate of the one you mentioned, but it was reopened (and no news about it)

technomage · Post by **technomage** » February 3rd, 2005, 2:01 pm

I was personally more interested in a bug that made reference to alt="" in the topic, but that one was also marked a dupe of 41924.

Either way, I think it's clear that the representation of broken images when there are alt tags and no set image dimensions is really really bad. Which is kind of odd since Mozilla supports w3 standards and w3 standards encourage the use of alt tags.

melizer · Post by **melizer** » October 29th, 2005, 12:41 pm

I just found this post because I wanted to print pages that hadareally colorful banner ads on the sides. I wanted to show image placeholders for the entire page, then right-click on just the images I want to print and Show Picture (in IE-speak). That way I don't waste all my color ink, and the page looks neater too. Has anyone found a way to do this, the way Firefox is now?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » October 29th, 2005, 3:49 pm

In addition to "browser.display.show_image_placeholders", also try "browser.display.force_inline_alttext".

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 9th, 2008, 4:07 am

Bumpity bump bump. Seems Firefox is still full of holes...

Using 3.0b2, and this issue still seems to have been unresolved. I'm trying to bug-test a dynamic image I use as an avatar on some sites, that seems to have an intermittent problem that results in the image not being displayed. Because Firefox can't render the image (probably due to a PHP error output into the data stream), it... you guessed it... does not show up at all, without even a hint that there was an image. The only way I can think of to reproduce the problem was from Offline Mode, and saving the corrupt file from the cache, then opening it in a hex editor... which I couldn't do since I couldn't right click and view the image directly (since it didn't exist).

Judging from the fact that there are at least two (three? more?) long and accepted bug reports about the handling of broken images, why on earth hasn't this been addressed yet? It seems so simple since Firefox already handles *some* broken images properly...?

malliz · Post by **malliz** » February 9th, 2008, 4:13 am

Maybe starting a new thread instead of bumping one that's 3 years old would make more sense.
If you don't like Firefox don't use it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 9th, 2008, 4:40 am

Making a new thread just creates spam, duplicate topics, "WE'VE DONE THIS BEFORE, SEARCH!", and all sorts of other crap nobody wants.

And that whole "if you don't like it, don't use it" is the most overused, yet totally asinine, response ever given to any post someone doesn't have a reasonable solution for. Do you honestly believe someone would stop using Firefox because of a problem like image placeholders? They'd have to be the biggest crybabies on the planet...

If anything, I'd quit using Firefox simply for the incompetent staff behind it.

chief editor · Post by **chief editor** » June 21st, 2008, 11:55 am

So, what's new on this issue? FireFox 3.0 still does not provide any direction where images are placed on a page. Simple alt-text (even if it is present in an img-tag) shown can not be easily distinguished from ordinary text on a page, that is the borwsers does not clearly indicate "this is an image here". I'd prefer FireFox show image borders for disabled images, as most other browsers do.

The lack of image placeholders when images are intensionally disabled is a bug (not critical but serious, imo).

Guest · Post by **Guest** » June 24th, 2008, 12:30 am

chief editor · Post by **chief editor** » June 24th, 2008, 12:43 am

I'd prefer to have some "feedback" from the support. Is anybody here from the team who could give some reasoning?

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