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Despite the advice in the article, never use an <img> tag with an empty src attribute - it causes the page itself to be requested, which is probably a larger re
by WickyNilliams 14y ago
Despite the advice in the article, never use an <img> tag with an empty src attribute - it causes the page itself to be requested, which is probably a larger request than just serving up a low res image in the first place.
Otherwise lots of interesting points here, and a lot of thought given to the fine details a lot of us would otherwise skip over. Good work mate
- PStamatiou 14y agoWicky and I chatted on Twitter -- I think this is only a case for certain older browsers. Haven't seen an issue with anything like this in recent browsers in the last few years
- WickyNilliams 14y agoI've done some investigation and you're right, it seems that it's been fixed in the majority of modern desktop browsers. As far as I can tell Chrome, FF, Opera, Safari and IE (9+) have resolved this issue [1][2][3][4]. Can't find any data on mobile browsers, haven't got the patience. [1] http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2009/11/30/empty-image-src-can-destroy-your-site/ http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2009/11/30/empty-image-src-can... [2] http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/03/16/empty-string-urls-in-html-a-followup/ http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/03/16/empty-string-urls-i... [3] http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/07/13/empty-string-urls-browser-update/ http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/07/13/empty-string-urls-b... [4] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38144 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38144