Mac OS X forum: Blue Box with question mark inside.instead of pictures

I ran this site through the W3C site validator and it did not do well.
44 errors and 2 warnings, some involving images.

If this is one of your regular sites, I would consider contacting the webmaster with the problem, which is not a Mac problem. The problem is that the site is badly coded and does not conform to the XHTML standard that it purports to be in.
A good webmaster will take notice and correct the issue, a not so good one will tell you that it works with Internet Explorer.
The fact that the site does not work with Firefox or Safari should be a point for them.

You can find the W3C validator Here

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If this was a Mac problem and not an individual problem, this blue question mark thing should be there for all of us


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A friend is having this problem right now, the exact way you described it. Would be interested in passing on any information you might be able to provide. Thanks. Pls. email me also at gtoribio@gmail.com. Many thanks.

I was having the same problems and it's because of your security settings.

Simply change the "http:" address you are using to "https:" and you will then be able to see the images then!

Sometimes, it's so simple it gets overlooked.

I ran into this problem on my own site and it turned out that I had mistakenly used httpS URLs for my image src values when the rest of my page was not HTTPS.

My images were being stored on Amazon S3 so I had to use the whole http://blah.blah.blah URLs instead of relative URLs. I used S3 Browser to pull the URLs and I guess that utility automatically added the "s" to "http".

It won't help if you don't control the source of the page, but there may be a safari setting somewhere that doesn't enforce that the whole page is or is not delivered over HTTPS. Of course there are some security concerns if you don't enforce https consistency on a page so adjust with care.