Wide images not shrinking immediately during poor network connection

[moneytoo]

I use News+ with TT-RSS (& Full-Text-RSS) for reading offline news when commuting. (In the past I used gReader with Google Reader)

In both cases I experience slight inconvenience - I use swipe left/right to move among articles but sometimes the article is wider and it takes few more swipes. I configured News+ to download full content and options "Image fit-to-width enabled" are on. Usually article images shrink in less than second but when I'm commuting on a subway, the network connection goes on and off every minute (and only 2G/Edge) and often it doesn't shrink even in 15 seconds so instead of waiting more (for some timeout probably), I just move on to the next article using more swipes. (The same articles fit width just fine when opening later outside of subway)

I'm not able to reliably duplicate the issue outside of subway. I don't have such problem with offline mode in TT-RSS Android client.

My settings:

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...
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...
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[noinnion]

could you pls try the latest beta https://github.com/noinnion/newsplus/tree/master/beta

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Marcel Dopita notifications@github.com wrote:

I use News+ with TT-RSS (& Full-Text-RSS) for reading offline news when commuting. (In the past I used gReader with Google Reader)

In both cases I experience slight inconvenience - I use swipe left/right to move among articles but sometimes the article is wider and it takes few more swipes. I configured News+ to download full content and options "Image fit-to-width enabled" are on. Usually article images shrink in less than second but when I'm commuting on a subway, the network connection goes on and off every minute (and only 2G/Edge) and often it doesn't shrink even in 15 seconds so instead of waiting more (for some timeout probably), I just move on to the next article using more swipes. (The same articles fit width just fine when opening later outside of subway)

I'm not able to reliably duplicate the issue outside of subway. I don't have such problem with offline mode in TT-RSS Android client.

[image: screenshot_2014-08-01-17-51-45] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1071643/3785662/30990708-19c8-11e4-9899-debaa26d0537.png

[image: screenshot_2014-08-01-17-52-38] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1071643/3785665/3f7f53d0-19c8-11e4-96a1-40d5eb9becf1.png

My settings:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>

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[moneytoo]

Ok, will switch to beta and report then.

[noinnion]

The problem is that image fit could only apply after everthing has been downloaded. On Aug 2, 2014 9:07 AM, "Marcel Dopita" notifications@github.com wrote:

Ok, will switch to beta and report then.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/noinnion/newsplus/issues/78#issuecomment-50956126.

[moneytoo]

In the settings I have already chosen to download everything. I also works fine offline.

[noinnion]

sometimes there are items that need to be loaded. not everything can be saved for offline. You can see the loading with the blue line.

On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Marcel Dopita notifications@github.com wrote:

In the settings I have already chosen to download everything. I also works fine offline.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/noinnion/newsplus/issues/78#issuecomment-50983131.

[moneytoo]

I understand and I thought that it's something like that. However looking at an article (last in http://feeds.feedburner.com/blackberry/CAxx), there's no JS or tracking, just few links and images. Maybe I could find out more from logcat or network capture if it's type of non cached resource causing this.

[noinnion]

are the images cached? could you send me a screenshot from the feed?

On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Marcel Dopita notifications@github.com wrote:

I understand and I thought that it's something like that. However looking at an article (last in http://feeds.feedburner.com/blackberry/CAxx), there's no JS or tracking, just few links and images. Maybe I could find out more from logcat or network capture if it's type of non cached resource causing this.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/noinnion/newsplus/issues/78#issuecomment-50992772.

[moneytoo]

I tried few more times and was able to replicate the issue only on the first try (I switched to 2G and it took few seconds until offline feed article loaded with all four images). I will make snapshots of cache to compare agains real world usage. I also had "Load full content" on so I will try that off as I don't really need it.

[moneytoo]

Seems like it's the feed icon which doesn't cache and causes this...

[noinnion]

yeah it could be the site icon On Aug 4, 2014 7:33 PM, "Marcel Dopita" notifications@github.com wrote:

[image: shots] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1071643/3800810/eaac1dd4-1bfc-11e4-830d-4666e6322642.jpg Seems like it's the feed icon which doesn't cache and causes this...

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[moneytoo]

v1.1.5 fixes it. Thanks!