[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 5566] ALT attribute value not displayed when image is missing

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5566





--- Comment #37 from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>  2010-11-16 11:16:21 PST ---
> If providing an alt text was questionably beneficial for sighted users, 

This is substantially different from what I said. I wasn't saying that it's never useful to sighted users, but that practical user experience can degrade if we displayed ALT when links got broken, on Internet Archive in particular.

I'd love to be proven wrong - in that case, we wouldn't face the horrible choice between user experience and compatibility with other browsers. Do you have an example of a page in Internet Archive where seeing ALT text is beneficial? This is not exactly a fair request, because I didn't provide any examples to the opposite, but it still seems appropriate to give at least one example in favor of a proposed change.

> then I fail to see why webkit-based browsers provide a setting in the user preferences
> to disable image download to begin with.

I don't know what the original reasons were, but I've been personally using it on multiple occasions to avoid paying for excessive traffic, as you described below.

>> This is how the bug was filed originally, and I don't think that it should be repurposed
>> to track other issues with ALT that we might have. 
> Not everyone (who are not original reporter) has sufficient powers to edit a bug summary, you know.

I've been saying that this bug should _not_ be repurposed in my opinion, not that someone should repurpose it :)

The issue as originally reported here is real, was reported in this exact form at least three times (see the bug I've duped a few days ago and the chromium bug), and even though it might technically be fixable in a single commit with image placeholder dimensions for disabled image loading case, discussing them in one bug only slows down resolution of both.

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