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Animated gifs absolutely crush the preview window
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Description
It hangs and draws artifacts all over the place for ~60 seconds after you insert a gif like this one:
Maybe this is while the gif is loading? It figures itself out after a while. Sometimes it's like 3 minutes of hang time, actually. Just thought I'd bring it up.
Here is what these artifacts look like:
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in MacDown's preview window by inserting the linked animated GIF, then trace the preview rendering path responsible for loading and displaying it. Done means animated GIFs no longer cause prolonged hangs or visual artifacts during preview.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, objective-c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100