it's nifty that Netsurf lets you drag the contents of the address bar and it gets saved as text, into a filer directory or into an application such as Edit or Impression. or Shift-drag it, and it gets saved with filetype URL. nifty.
now, whenever i download a utility or application, i always save the URL and file it inside the app, so that in future i know where to check for background information or updates. the gotcha, as i discovered the hard way, is that Netsurf gives this URL a filename that is the same as the leafname of the URL. which in the case of http://www.avisoft.force9.co.uk/TaskUsage.htm was TaskUsage, which happened also to be the name of the main module within the app. so no wonder the app did not work: i had overwritten its operative module. i would think this example quite typical of many apps and their webpages. the moral, i guess, is that this trick of dragging the contents of a window (or field) to disk is nice, but since the user never sees the conventional RiscOS Save dialogue, you have to be on guard for the name the resultant file gets. perhaps, to be safe, Netsurf could modify the leafname somehow -- maybe, in this case, "taskusage~" or "taskusage/url". (Fresco had a similar drag-it-out trick, and its filename was always just "URL".) -- >>> no need to reply my entire message back to me ;=] Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk Abbey Press 32 Norbins Rd (01458) 83 3603 Glastonbury BA6 9JG pocket 0797 415 3861
