Bug 224547 – Images and iframes with attribute loading=lazy do not print if not viewed (scrolled to) first

• Component: Images
• Status: NEW

* SUMMARY
Lazy loaded images and iframes that have not been on screen yet, are not loaded when printing, producing empty elements.

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Safari/WebKit.
2. Enable lazy loading of images in the Experimental features.
3. Visit a page that contains lazy loaded images or iframes that are not visible on page load (i.e. below the fold).
4. Print the page

* EXPECTED RESULTS
All images should be visible in the printed version

* ACTUAL RESULTS
Only images that were already loaded before executing the print command are visible. 

* REGRESSION
I think this never worked.

* TEST CASE
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/lazy-loading-test/

Printing this page should show the numbers 1 through 6. 

* RELATED LINKS
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6581

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/76959554>

[Rob Buis]

Created attachment 439736 [details]
Patch

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

This bug still exists. The same issue in Chrome was fixed in January of 2022 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=875403

This is currently blocking Wikipedia (esp Desktop) from using the native attribute, as people still want to print Wikipedia and expect that to work.


I even tried something like:
<script>
window.onbeforeprint = () => {
	console.log( 'print' )
	document.querySelectorAll( 'img' ).forEach( (elem, index) => {
		elem.removeAttribute( 'loading' );
	})
}
</script>

But it seems that this is only processed async, and the print still misses images.

Related wikipedia ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148047

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

For Safari 17.6 (Desktop) images, I can now set a beforeprint handler, to remove the loading attribute, or explicitly sets it to 'eager' and this will force the images to load.

Of course I shouldn't have to set a onbeforeprint handler, but at least that might offer a workaround for the time this remains broken.

Still have to verify on the iPhone and I haven't tested iframe behaviour.