Loads profile pictures even if the showUser option is set to false about twitter-post-fetcher

[jasonmayes]

Thanks for reaching out. This is a known occurrence on some browsers but is actually working as intended. Some browsers pre-fetch data for HTMLElements that are not yet attached to the DOM. Twitter fetcher currently creates a JavaScript variable which stores returned HTML data as a HTMLElement so you can use things like "getElementsByClassName" on that variable to extract data without having to use a regex on a raw HTML string. Unfortunately some browsers it seems are trying to be too clever by fetching images that are not yet attached to the DOM causing the requests in your screenshot above. This is therefore working as intended as the Twitter Fetcher itself does not insert images in to the output it produces. This is taking no more requests than the original Twitter Widget would take if you had used that on your site - so no performance difference there. Also, as they are stored on Twitter's CDN it should load pretty fast though and not cause any extra load on your server. If anyone has any efficient, reliable, and cross browser compatible solutions to this, by all means feel free to submit a pull request and I can take a look. :-) But for now I think this is the lesser of many potential evils in terms of efficiency, and robustness for markup that is subject to change without notice.

[dvorapa]

Okay, modern browsers make eerything possible for better performance, but sometimes not in a clever way. Thank you for quick response and also for your awesome work

[jasonmayes]

No problem :-) Thanks for your feedback.