From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78576 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Levitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Asynchroneous image retrieval in HTML rendering Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:18:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87bozwfw84.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303597323 13905 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2011 22:22:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:22:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26879@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Apr 24 00:21:59 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 1QDlDD-0004w9-71 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:21:59 +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 1QDlBh-0007qx-Uv; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:20:26 -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 1QDlBf-0007qf-UH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:20:23 -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 1QDlBe-0006Zz-Jw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:20:23 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QDlBa-0008Cy-UJ for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:20:18 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QDlBX-0003tj-Ok for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:20:15 +0200 Original-Received: from ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net ([78.233.218.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:20:15 +0200 Original-Received: from antoine.levitt by ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:20:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ney92-7-78-233-218-202.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:78576 Archived-At: Right now, with mm-text-html-renderer set to 'shr or 'gnus-w3m, loading images on slow servers takes ages, and hangs emacs (for instance, check out gwene.com.wordpress.terrytao, which has latex code rendered into lots of small images). 'w3m (with emacs-w3m installed) results in a nice smooth display, and does not hang emacs. Is there a setting I missed somewhere? If not, how feasible is it to add asynchroneous image retrieval to shr? Sorry if the subject has already come up, but I didn't find anything about it.