No change. They just are lousy coders or very lazy. ALWAYS tell browsers what you want it to do by coding everything needed for the presentation of your page(s).

I use this sometimes unless I put it in the CSS:

<img style="width: XXpx; height: YYpx; border: 0;" src="Path to image" alt="Text Description">

Thanks Major, I do the same.

I thought maybe I've had my head stuck in SEO threads too long and missed something important.

They just are lousy coders or very lazy.

Not necessarily, many CMS's and shopping carts make it almost impossible to add width and height attributes without hacking the code. And if you do, the next security upgrade will overwrite it.

And if you do, the next security upgrade will overwrite it.

I have a heavily modified phpBB forum, I manually apply changes using Winmerge.

Where do you guys specify your image sizes? In css or html? I thought it was preferred to do this in css, so that's what I've done for my presentation related images. But for content related images, I have some groups where they are all different sizes. I didn't want to bog down my css file with dimensions for each and every image, so I left them out for many. With content related images, is it best to put the dimensions in the html markup?

The idea is that the inline w/h attributes will provide placeholders for the browser to render the layout *before* the images fully load. That way you don't get the bouncy loading layout, elements floating around until it fully loads. So while it's recommended to use w/h inline, a lot of sites don't.

Okay, so I'll fix those content images - put the w/h inline for them. But I'm wondering now about all the layout related images I've set w/h for in css. Should I expect the same bouncing around with them? I'm pretty sure the css gets loaded first.