Re: EWW: initially failed loading of images

> Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 16:55:40 -0400
> From:  Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <[email protected]>
> 
> >> Hi. A frequently problem I have in EWW, when loading up Wikipedia pages,
> >> is that many of the images do not load. The spot where the image is
> >> supposed to be just has a gray box of the correct proportions. However, if
> >> I reload this page (eww-reload) then all the images do load.
> [...]
> > Yes, eww loads images in the background and does not delay rendering
> > the page until all the images are fetched (because that could take a
> > lot of time).  This is not a bug, so there should be no need to fix it.
> 
> But the gray boxes should be replaced by the image when the
> corresponding HTTP requests complete, whereas he seems to say that this
> doesn't happen, even after waiting long enough to be sure that the
> image fetches did complete (as suggested by the fact that `eww-reload`
> does show the images, previously obtained from the cache).

I said nothing about that part, which is clearly some kind of problem
(and doesn't happen to me, FWIW).  The OP said:

> It seems like what must be happening is that EWW is rendering the page before all of the images have loaded. But I'm not sure what to do to fix this.

This is "to fix" I alluded to do, because it seemed to say the OP
thought the delayed loading itself was the cause of the problem.  It
cannot be.