little red 'x' instead of pictures

[scorpion]

This may sound stupid, but why is it sometimes when my page loads in IE 6, some images get the little red 'x' placeholder. When I do a reload, it shows just fine...never happened in Netscape's browsers...I am using php to get a page, could this be the issue?

[Mark_A]

scorpion are you sure your images are uploaded to your web server and the links in page point to them there and not on your hard disk.

The little red x means "image link failed" or image not found. its odd if on reloading they appear but perhaps someone with more of a clue on other possible issues will pop along in a mo.

[scorpion]

the links are fine. I can navigate to the picture from the address bar and it comes up. Perhaps it is also a timing out issue, when many pictures load at once, maybe it just overloads!

[Mark_A]

scorpion, fancy popping the page url in your profile so I can take a look?

[pageoneresults]

I believe there is a known bug concerning this. You are not the only who has brought this question up at the boards. I get broken images sporadically throughout the day. It all started after I loaded one of the recent patches in October I believe.

[pageoneresults]

If you are running Norton Personal Firewall, there is a documented bug with images and IE6...

You Cannot View Some Images on Web Pages After You Upgrade to Internet Explorer 6.0 [support.microsoft.com]

[scorpion]

thanks. Does anybody know if PHP within an HTML document is parsed sequentially? That is the HTML starts being read top-down and if there is a PHP segment in the middle, it is read when it comes to it?

[txbakers]

AFAIK all the server side scripts are processed BEFORE any HTML is rendered. The PhP, ASP and JSP code is parsed and interpreted, converted to HTML, and then delivered to the browser.