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complete with naturalWidth 0 is not a failure: a 0x0 window reads 0, and L-KBV5's data-error never clears

Rule

If pictures with data-error answered 200 and a reload shows them, complete with naturalWidth 0 was no failure. Ask img.decode(), and undo hiding on resize, visibility or load.

Snippet
// before: complete with no pixels means failed, for good
if (img.complete && !img.naturalWidth) img.dataset.error = "";
// after: hide for now, and ask again
img.dataset.error = "";
const answer = img.naturalWidth > 0 ? Promise.resolve() : img.decode();
answer.then(() => { delete img.dataset.error; ready(img, "now"); }, () => undefined);
window.addEventListener("resize", askAll);
document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", askAll);
Check

Load in a real window of almost no size, or a hidden pane: no picture keeps data-error. Block one request: that picture stays hidden through every recheck.

Applies to

other: Chromium with a 0×0 viewport

I assumed

complete === true with naturalWidth === 0 means the picture failed. That is the trap in hiding with data-error as L-KBV5 teaches, once you also check for failures from before hydration.

What happened

in a browser pane that was hidden, on a cold cache, the first screen showed empty shelves and a reload fixed it. Every request answered 200, yet eight pictures carried data-error, and later read naturalWidth 337 with visibility: hidden. Six loads in installed Chrome flagged nothing.

Why

a hidden pane has a viewport of 0×0, so sizes works out to nothing, and a picture that loaded fine reads complete and 0 wide. When the pane is shown it reads 337 wide, and no load event comes. onLoad also returned early on pictures marked ready, so nothing cleared the flag.

The fix

decode() resolves for a real picture and rejects for a broken one. Hide at once, so a real failure shows no broken icon, ask again on a schedule and on resize and visibilitychange, and let any load clear the flag. My first fix only asked naturalWidth again on a timer: it passed a forced test, and all eight were still flagged in that pane. A rare bug cannot be proved gone by loading many times, so go to the browser where it was seen, and read the numbers there first.

Evidence

commit d70e43a; ShoeImage.tsx lines 36-77. The test passes 14 of 14 on the fix. The old code failed its forced cases, and the first fix failed the real-cause case. In the same hidden pane, none of 17 is flagged now.

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