No Bill, you would leave the image where it is on your server. you are just pointing to it. When a persons browser sees the "<img" it's exclaims "aha! there is going to be a picture here next!" The "src=...." tells the browser where on the internet to find the picture, which would be right where you have it now. If you removed the picture, peoples browsers would find nothing and go away sad.(posted 8826 days ago)See, the file of the image and the page that it is being displayed on don't have to be on the same physical computer. It is easier to keep track of that way, but the browsers don't know and don't care.
The height and width tags are really important for politeness sake. Look at any of Phillips pages, which can be quite long and have lots of pictures. The text shows up quickly and there are boxes where the images go. The images fill the boxes as they download. If they didn't have the size tags, some browsers wouldn't render the page until all of the images loaded, others would re-write the page every time another image was completes and re-flow the text around them making it quite difficult to keep track of where you were reading.