Both node types fell through the inline-span switch to an empty textContent span: words on either side of a hard break glued together, and images vanished with no trace. A br now emits a newline; an img renders a muted italic "[image: alt]" placeholder (falling back to the src) — no inline network loading in the owned renderer; live-pane images keep going through clide image show. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>