WebberificGrrl — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:22:57 +0000

Thank you for the reply, Busy!

In my global css, images are set to not have any borders, so perhaps that's it (though it doesn't *seem* it should work that way.) I'll have to play around with that. But of course, the css is currently set the way I want it, and to change it just to accommodate these temporary circumstances is hardly ideal. But better to add a temporary image border to the layout than to have Firefox close up the image space altogether.

What somewhat complicates things is that the sections of HTML with the "missing" images are being generated by a CMS engine, which iterates on what is, in the template, just a few lines of code that include an image reference -- with that image not always available in the post/entry being fetched from the cms database.

Anyway, thanks again!

Busy — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:25:20 +0000

My findings is it's a CSS issue, if the image is being served with a slice of CSS then the placeholder is wiped out and makes a very jumpy loading site (on dialup), and no broken image just alt if that otion chosen.

Depending on your layout style, you can set border:1px for images in CSS if the images arent there yet.

In some ways FF not displaying the image is good and bad, good as it doean't show ugly broken image but bad as it can mess up the layout if used for layout