bug#28402: 25.2; shr.el uses shr-tag-img despite set shr-external-rendering-functions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Vasilij Schneidermann <v.schneidermann@gmail.com> writes:

> How deeply nested does typical HTML get anyways?

Very.

> I recall an exemplary comment from an article on browser rendering
> that pointed out that they bail out on degenerate cases, so perhaps
> it's better to add that to shr rather than hoping you never hit the
> stack limit by following a conservative coding style.

shr does check and bail.  Search for max-specpdl-size in shr.el.

> What I'd additionally do is adding a comment explaining why there's
> two very similar snippets of code doing the same thing, otherwise the
> next person proposing a patch will change only one of them and be left
> head-scratching why it doesn't quite work.

Sure; please submit a patch to do so.

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