How to show image before executing javascript?

JavaScript alternative to HTML tag?

• Hello, So I have a website, lets call it site1.com, which is ALWAYS online. I also have another website (on a different server) that is only online part time, lets call it site2.com On site1.com, I want to load an image from site2.com. I'm currently using the standard HTML <img src="http://site2.com/image.png" alt="blah" />. The whole purpose of that image is to tell visitors on site1.com if the server at site2.com is online, and if it's not, it SHOULD show the alt text "blah". For the most part, this works in IE and FF, but not in chrome. In chrome I get chrome's standard 404 page in place of that image when the server is offline. What I want to do is write some JavaScript to put in place of the standard HTMl <img/> tag that will; 1. load (and display) the image from site2.com/image.png 2. if the image is not reachable, I want it to load an image from blah.com/external.png How would I go about doing this? Thankyou very much!

• Answer:

  According to the first discussion below it seems that short alt strings might work. The second link eventually proposes a solution using javascript and jQuery.