<img> content being replaced by spaces!

This is the wierdest problem.

I have a web page with some HTML code, for example:

<a href="mypage.htm"><img src="pagelogo.gif" alt="click here"></img></a>

But when I visit the page in my browser (both IE and Firefox do it), the
image is missing, and when I do a "View Source", the code has been *changed*
so that the <img> portion is replaced (yes, replaced!) by spaces:

<a href="mypage.htm"> (spaces!) </a>

However, the symptoms only seem to occur on my home PC - the page works fine
on my work PC. The page in question is www.binarybaby.co.uk - there
should be an animated logo (.gif) at the top of the page.

Why in the name of God are my browser(s) bastardising the HTML code? It
can't be the server because it only occurs on my home PC. And the files on
the server are correct.

W.T.F.??????

Owen

Owen wrote:

> Why in the name of God are my browser(s) bastardising the HTML code?

You seem to have done a good job of that yourself

(Hint: the image element does not have a closing tag)

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"Dylan Parry" <usenet@dylanparry.com> wrote in message
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> Owen wrote:
>
>> Why in the name of God are my browser(s) bastardising the HTML code?
>
> You seem to have done a good job of that yourself
>
> (Hint: the image element does not have a closing tag)
>

Yeah ok thanks for that, but do you have any ideas about the problem i
described?

In article <ADILd.52$0o6.22@newsfe3-win.ntli.net>,
"Owen" <spam@spam.com> wrote:

> However, the symptoms only seem to occur on my home PC - the page works fine
> on my work PC. The page in question is www.binarybaby.co.uk - there
> should be an animated logo (.gif) at the top of the page.
>
> Why in the name of God are my browser(s) bastardising the HTML code? It
> can't be the server because it only occurs on my home PC. And the files on
> the server are correct.
>
> W.T.F.??????

T.F. is likely your ISP (or yourself) running a banner blocking proxy.
To the computer, what you have looks like a banner ad, so it gets
removed.

"Doc O'Leary" <droleary.usenet@2005.subsume.com> wrote in message
news:droleary.usenet-3BB7A4.05235201022005@corp.supernews.com...
> In article <ADILd.52$0o6.22@newsfe3-win.ntli.net>,
> "Owen" <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>> However, the symptoms only seem to occur on my home PC - the page works
>> fine
>> on my work PC. The page in question is www.binarybaby.co.uk - there
>> should be an animated logo (.gif) at the top of the page.
>>
>> Why in the name of God are my browser(s) bastardising the HTML code? It
>> can't be the server because it only occurs on my home PC. And the files
>> on
>> the server are correct.
>>
>> W.T.F.??????
>
> T.F. is likely your ISP (or yourself) running a banner blocking proxy.
> To the computer, what you have looks like a banner ad, so it gets
> removed.

Hmm. This bastard McAffee Internet Security software is causing me problem
after problem, I'm beginning to regret buying it.

Owen

And lo, SpaceGirl didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

> Renders fine, but doesn't validate at all. So who knows what each
> browser will really do.

Validating code is not a prerequisite for cross-browser rendering
predictability.

> ANYWAY - the site looks fine here; as others have suggested maybe you
> have some sort of ad-blockers running. You may have accidentally told it
> to block that image? I can only think of two other things - a cached
> version of the image that's blank (perhaps you had a placeholder there
> previously, and your browser has it cached?), or your browser has been
> set to not display animated GIFs (FireFox has the option to do this, for
> example).

If it isn't a caching problem, it is likely some page-element blocking
filter, like Proxomitron for instance, as you say.

Grey

--
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pitfall corollory that nothing is ridiculous.
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This is probably an issue with your ISP somehow blocking the image.
It could also be your browser being hi-jacked. Try switch browser?

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Owen wrote:
> This is the wierdest problem.
>
> I have a web page with some HTML code, for example:
>
> <a href="mypage.htm"><img src="pagelogo.gif" alt="click here"></img></a>
>
> But when I visit the page in my browser (both IE and Firefox do it), the
> image is missing, and when I do a "View Source", the code has been *changed*
> so that the <img> portion is replaced (yes, replaced!) by spaces:
>
> <a href="mypage.htm"> (spaces!) </a>
>
> However, the symptoms only seem to occur on my home PC - the page works fine
> on my work PC. The page in question is www.binarybaby.co.uk - there
> should be an animated logo (.gif) at the top of the page.
>
> Why in the name of God are my browser(s) bastardising the HTML code? It
> can't be the server because it only occurs on my home PC. And the files on
> the server are correct.
>
> W.T.F.??????
>
> Owen
>
>