neowin display issue with firefox


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Look at the username "Deihmos" in the screenshot below, as you can see it is messed up. This happens in both Firefox 24.4.0 ESR and Firefox 29 Beta 9. I'm not sure if this is a problem with neowin, IPB or a problem with firefox's rendering engine. Please try and fix this and if it is a firefox or IPB issue then file bug reports so they can fix it.

 

Here is a link to the thread that this happens on: https://www.neowin.net/news/canonical-trying-to-lure-xp-users-with-the-release-of-ubuntu-1404-lts-for-desktop

 

This has happened a lot on neowin recently so I thought I would report it. I have checked the page with Chrome and IE11 and it displays perfectly on those browsers.

 

 

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This appears to happen when the image isn't present, yay that Firefox changed this behavior! afaik when I used Firefox ages ago, it just didn't display anything, now it seems to be showing the alt text.

 

Here's how it looks in Chrome:

 

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Looks like it isn't Firefox, but something to do with Deihmos's avatar. In Chrome the avatar in the news article just doesn't show.

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If you look at source its clearly missing

 

<img src="" alt="Deihmos avatar" /></a>

 

So explains the alt text being shown..  Possible to just remove alt text from comments section?

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Should now be fixed.

Yep, was getting the borked image thing too with 28.0. Better now, just showing the text only instead of a placeholder with alttext when the image is missing.

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