On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 17:53 +0100, Simon Pieters wrote: > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:40:31 +0100, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Simon Pieters wrote: > >> > >> I've now looked at a selection of random URLs. > >> > >> 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. >
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. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk