Re: eww: delay/defer image loading

[raman@google.com (T.V Raman)]

Thanks for the pointer to shr-inhibit-images -- I did find that
eventually.

It might be useful to surface all user customizations for EWW via the
eww- prefix -- and completely hide shr- as an implementation detail.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
 > "T. V. Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
 > 
 > > If I use eww to display rss feeds that are converted to html via
 > > xslt I notice that eww is busily loading lots of urls in the
 > > background -- many of these images.
 > >
 > > Example: Cnet Tech News RSS:
 > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/cnet/tcoc
 > >
 > > I got a number of these downloads to not happen by temporarily
 > > advising eww-display-image to be a no-op -- could we have a
 > > user-customizable option to defer loading images?
 > 
 > You can inhibit image loading by binding `shr-inhibit-images' to a
 > non-nil value.  Perhaps that should be a more user-visible variable.
 > 
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