Re: Invisible D link.

Jason wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
> 
> > One way would be to put the D-Link as the alt text to an invisible graphic. 
> >   then it would only show up when graphics were turned off ---- but 
> > unfortunately you would have a second graphic marker......
> How would today's browsers react to the following?
> 
> <a href="description.html" class=longdesc> <img src="" alt="[D]"> </a>


In Netscape 3, it shows the missing image icon.

The specs for "Relative Uniform Resource Locators" (rfc1808, at
ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1808.txt) says that empty urls directly
map to the base url, so I think what happens is that "" is taken as
the current directory, and since it's not an image, it breaks.

Received on Thursday, 18 September 1997 05:10:53 UTC