I'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,

I'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