On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Simon Pieters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:52:41 +0100, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I don't know why <img src=""> has a special exception. It would be >> possible to look through the svn log to see if there was a helpful >> commit message, or maybe someone will remember. > > I seem to remember someone from Mozilla mentioned that they recently changed > the behavior for img, so Hixie changed the spec for img.
It turns out that <img src=""> is decently common on the web, and in all cases we saw did *not* intend its literal interpretation (i.e. display an image using the current baseuri). So it was deemed as a worth while performance improvement to add code to suppress the network fetch. For further details see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444931 / Jonas
