On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Antoine Levitt wrote:

> 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.

AFAICT, the image downloading is already asynchronous.

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Julien Danjou
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