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Images in reference drawer don't lazy load
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Description

For example, Math formulae. All that is shown is the grey placeholder:

image.png (454×483 px, 45 KB)

If you scroll to the references section the reference now renders (as black on black because of T129054, but if you disable the black background it is there)

image.png (454×483 px, 47 KB)
image.png (454×483 px, 47 KB)

Event Timeline

Change #1015291 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Trigger image lazy load when drawer opens

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1015291

My understanding is Math images might be going away (T353000). Not sure if this is the only use case though.

It is possible to include any image in a reference using [[File: syntax, so this should work regardless of what happens with Math rendering.

I know it's possible, I just seldom see it happen so I'm wondering what % of articles this bug fixes.

ovasileva moved this task from Incoming to Groomed on the Web-Team-Backlog board.
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I know it's possible, I just seldom see it happen so I'm wondering what % of articles this bug fixes.

Any thoughts on whether we have this data? Marking as low for now

Adding to sprint 2 for consideration as there is a patch open from Ed.