Originally Posted by xyzzy
Perhaps there's a missing quotation mark in the alt text or something? I see this behaviour on every Firefox browser I've tried (5+ machines so far). Internet Exploder seems to display it fine. All other emoticons seem fine.
It works fine in 1.5.0.3 for me. What happens if you upgrade? What does the HTML from 'View/Source' look like? What OS are you running?
What is similar about those 5 machines that might be unique to the rest of the world?