Beginning yesterday, when I open Yahoo (in Chrome), none of the photos that accompany the articles are showing up. Just a light gray box with an icon in the corner that doesn’t do anything. Of course, all the ads are showing up just fine. Is there a setting I need to change? I seek the superior experience of the Dope! Thanks!!
I’ve been noticing this more and more often on a lot of sites, Yahoo included.
As I’ve mentioned many times, I run my browser with JavaScript disabled. I’ve found that this explains some of the pictures that don’t show up. When I run with JS enabled, I get more pictures, but still there are many missing.
I suspect that, in my case at least, it has to do with browser version. HTML is changing (HTML5 in particular) and more and more sites, I think, are using it. Older browsers either don’t do HTML5 or do it partially. Also likewise the latest version of CSS, whatever that is. I just have a hunch that OP and I are using browsers that just plain don’t do everything that newer web sites require.
This is stupid. Sure, newer versions of HTML and CSS can do all sorts of fancy stuff that older versions couldn’t do. But simply displaying a picture? Or a slide show? Or placing a button that you can click on? Those things were possible since almost forever. Why do web designers have to find ever-newer and more exotic ways to do plain old things that older HTML and older browsers have always been able to do?
A lot of it has to do with server interactivity and language processing speed. Web pages used to be just for display, but now they take in and process information from external sources and interactive data. Instead of sending information to the user in a single stream, the web does it from multiple sources from conceivably all over the globe.
Some of these use third-world generated bots to look for pictures to match content, instead of using their own images. They base searches on key words that can get confused in translation. That’s why some ads about mortgages use pictures of homeless people. Moreover, some of those pix are no longer live, but the bots haven’t updated to match. Yahoo is full of crap like that.