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Re: Proposing content-hidden for background-image and img content

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:17:45 -0400
Message-ID: <4E697749.6080300@mit.edu>
To: www-style@w3.org 
On 9/8/11 9:36 PM, Brad Kemper wrote:
> I would expect it to be as though the image bounds had 'overflow:visible' on it, so it wouldn't create layout differences.

That would make the text unreadable in many cases.

In practice, what Gecko does for failed image loads in many cases is to 
simply make the <img> a non-replaced element containing the alt text.

-Boris
Received on Friday, 9 September 2011 02:18:14 UTC

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