From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78637 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Levitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Asynchroneous image retrieval in HTML rendering Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 19:15:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87aaf64a0x.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bozwfw84.fsf@gmail.com> <87r58ll8jm.fsf@gmail.com> <87liys4x04.fsf@gmail.com> <87tydewilm.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304270197 6102 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2011 17:16:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 17:16:37 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26939@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 01 19:16:33 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGaG0-0000oB-Kl for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 19:16:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QGaFY-0002FR-R0; Sun, 01 May 2011 12:16:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QGaFX-0002FE-Pu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 01 May 2011 12:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QGaFW-0007N1-K0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 01 May 2011 12:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QGaFU-0002oe-Gb for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 19:16:00 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGaFR-0000Qr-NF for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 19:15:57 +0200 Original-Received: from uni14-1-82-233-220-106.fbx.proxad.net ([82.233.220.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 May 2011 19:15:57 +0200 Original-Received: from antoine.levitt by uni14-1-82-233-220-106.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 May 2011 19:15:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: uni14-1-82-233-220-106.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78637 Archived-At: 01/05/11 18:06, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > The other thing about how shr inserts images has to do with the caching. > > If shr has already retrieved the images, it will insert them into the > article synchronously. The idea is that having the text move around a > lot is more annoying than waiting a tenth of a second more to see the > article. > > However, if you're reading an article with, say, 500 images, which isn't > unusual in math-ey articles, then inserting all those images takes a > while. That doesn't seem to be that big an inconvenience: on gwene.com.wordpress.terrytao (which has pretty long posts with a lot of images), a fully cached article loads in under a second (perceptible, but not that annoying). So I'd say the current way of loading cached images is pretty safe.