One of Merlin EA customers complained about long delay of image
loading in SwingSet2's JEditorPane on Win32. Here is a quote:

"In the SwingSet2 demo, if you select the
"JEditorPane HTML Demo" (6th button from the left), and select one of the
linked pages that contains an image, there is strange pause before the image
is rendered. This actually appears in the previous JDK's as well (in
addition to 1.4ea). Is this a Swing problem or a J2D problem? I want to
make sure I point the finger at the right development team when I file the
bug :) The strange part is that the image is loaded from the file system,
so you would think performance would quicker. Additionally, the pause seems
inconsistent.. Sometimes it could take several seconds, sometimes immediate."

I'd add that it does not look like an image loading delay because it happens
over and over as you enter the same page.

This problem in reproducible on jdk1.3 (build 1.3.0-C and prev) and
(build 1.4.0beta-b13) on Win32.

It looks different on Solaris: images appear at the same time as the text
and scrollbars which happens after some delay as well, though.