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On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 17:53 +0100, Simon Pieters wrote:
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:40:31 +0100, Ian Hickson <<A HREF="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">ian@hixie.ch</A>> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
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>> I've now looked at a selection of random URLs.
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>> Conclusion: None of these seem to need a request to be made. img should
>> fire an error event. iframe and frame should use about:blank.
Did you miss the part about the error event for <img src>? I don't see
anything in the spec that says error should be fired for that case.
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I would assume that the error is the same as that of a broken URL. A valid image file cannot be found (as the URL is zero-length) so it cannot display it.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Ash<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk">http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk</A><BR>
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