Re: Stand-in color before images load

Matthew Raymond wrote:
>>> A more general way however, to detect whether or not images are being 
>>> load for the complete document could save a lot more issues that 
>>> might come up. Something like
>>
>> That wouldn't work for me as I frequently abort pages because the images
>> are taking too long to download, which results in some images 
>> displaying and
>> some reverting to the alt text.
> 
>   Perhaps what we need is "alt" styling...
> 
> | p { background: transparent url("marble.png"); }
> | p:alt { background-color: black; }

I don’t know if that would work...

p { background: transparent url("marble1.png");
     content: url("marble2.png"); }
p:alt { background-color: black; }

When will the :alt be visible, marble1.png fails to load, or 
marble2.png, or both? Also, this is just about images not loading, 
right? There are a limited amount of /properties/ with which you can 
load images. Is it logical to ‘fix’ something done by properties with a 
selector? Wouldn’t it be easier to introduce an equally limited amount 
of properties for this specific functionality? Also, I think this would 
then be the first selector which becomes valid based on the state of CSS 
itself. What if you load an image inside an :alt selector?

Just some questions.

Replace the p with img and you’ve got an even more complex case.

OTOH, img:alt { content: attr(alt) } sounds kinda nice. Though that 
wouldn’t work with XHTML 2.0.


~Grauw

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Received on Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:52:10 UTC