Re: Asynchroneous image retrieval in HTML rendering

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

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.

It might, perhaps, make more sense to only insert, say, the first ten
images synchronously, and then switch to asynchronous for the remaining
pictures?  

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