On 5 Nov 2007 Michael Drake wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Mike Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When the pointer is moved over links the URI is displayed in the >> status icon but some links are incredibly long. Would it not be >> better to display the URI (and/or descriptive text) in a pop-up >> bubble?
> You can resize the status bar, making it take up more of the width of the > window. Drag the divider between status bar and scrollbar. To keep the > change permanently, select [Display > Save as default] on the browser > window menu. That helps. I have reduced the scroll bar down to the two arrows. > NetSurf currently uses a default setting of two thirds status bar and one > third scrollbar. If you have been using NetSurf for a long time your > Choices file may have the old default of half scrollbar and half status > bar, which was much too narrow. Yers, it was, but two thirds is often too small. > Sometimes you may come across a link that's so long it wouldn't fit on > your screen. If you want to check the destination before following such a > link, the best way to see the full URL is to Shift+Adjust Click the link > ad drag the URL to an editor such as Zap or Edit. Ugh! That is inconvenient. Also Shift-Adjust isn't shown on the menus so you need to know about it. Why can't we have the "Object" option enabled for links, with a submenu including: Info - full link URL, title, target, etc. Save - save target as (Shift-Select) Export - save target as text file Save location - save link as Acorn URI, ANT URL or Text New window - open in new window (Adjust) (also for images) Reload (greyed out)? See druck's FR no. 1568425 and my earlier FR no. 1429234. > NetSurf's user interface is designed to try to give you all the > information and functionality you want and use as much of the screen as > possible for the main function of the browser; displaying web pages. > There's a bit of a compromise here. Various things have been considered. > One is to use an ellipsis (...) when the URL doesn't fit, to show the most > important bits. (Typically the domain and the end of the URL.) Yes that would be better. I generally want to see the domain and page filename, but not a whole string of lengthy arguments generated by some content management and transacxtion tracking systems. > Various other ideas exist to provide a richer status bar too, but > they'll have to wait until the developers have time to work on them. The status information is fine for now. -- _ |_|. _ Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ |\_||_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
