I would not have expected it to either, but it will! (At least for some browsers.)
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Replying to @brian_d_vaughn
Interesting. IIRC, Chrome doesn't do anything. Is it older browsers that maybe do it? Non-chromium based ones?
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Replying to @SilvestriCodes @brian_d_vaughn
Chrome definitely did do this as recently as two months ago. Not sure if they changed the behavior but I doubt it.
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Replying to @rhagigi @SilvestriCodes
That is interesting. Based on my own local testing, Chrome (and Chromium Edge) do not seem to do this any more.
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Replying to @brian_d_vaughn @SilvestriCodes
What happens if you (new Image()).src = "";
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Replying to @rhagigi @SilvestriCodes
Nothing. (Same as <img src=""> in the page for me)
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Replying to @brian_d_vaughn @SilvestriCodes
I'm so confused. This was a huge driver of "failed loads" (where we get a server request but no client side code executes) on Facebook only a few months ago
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@mathias has this changed recently?1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Sorry, this isn't really an answer and was just searching on my phone, but it looks like there were some changes around img loading + WPT here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1000273 … maybe worth checking there, or those owners might have a better idea?
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