In article <mpro.lgk2k204hzm9s01kl.li...@stevefryatt.org.uk>, Steve Fryatt <li...@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote: > On 13 Feb, Brian Bailey wrote in message > <51a4df40f4bbai...@argonet.co.uk>:
> > I really look forward eagerly to each upgrade to NetSurf and very much > > appreciate the effort put in by the dedicated few, but I am more than a > > little baffled by the above modification. What is its purpose, please? > The background needs to be cleared to a known state at some point, > unless the subsequent redraw is guaranteed to fill the whole area. > NetSurf's doing the job itself, which is usually far less intrusive than > asking the Wimp to do it for us. I see, but in practice, from what I am seeing here, the reverse is true. > I don't know the background behind r11644, but I'd imagine that there's a > pretty good reason for the change. Well, yes, so I would have thought. > > Clearing the background to white and the redraw 'seems' to take ages. > Can you give us an example site that shows this and tell us what > hardware and screen mode you're using? Yes, sorry, I forgot to do that. The NetSurf homesite www.netsurf-browser.org/ springs to mind. A7000+ hardware and AKF60 256 colours 1024x768 60Hz. > Again, I can't see a problem here: there's no visible flicker with the > new build. Ooo, it doesn't just flicker, it hangs for at least 4 secs.
