Re: Netsurf versions

2023-06-27 Thread Richard Porter
On 27 Jun 2023 Dave wrote: > In article , >Richard Porter wrote: >> On 26 Jun 2023 Chris Newman wrote: >>> If I use !Fetch_NS I get version Dev C1# 5433. >>> If I go through the Download latest NetSurf fro th browser itself I >>> get version

Re: Netsurf versions

2023-06-26 Thread Richard Porter
s as far as 5414. I've just noticed that 5415 to 5433 are hidden away in clear sight at the top of the list. I'd never thought of looking there. Richard -- Richard Porter https://www.minijem.plus.com t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com S

Re: Please test the latest build

2022-11-03 Thread Richard Porter
On 3 Nov 2022 Michael Drake wrote: > Please could you test the latest builds (5377 or later) from: > https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/ RISC OS version loaded up! -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer ma

Re: Online converters

2022-02-01 Thread Richard Porter
o do with online converters that will run on NetSurf, which has more to do with the limitations of NetSurf than the converters themselves. -- Richard Porter ___ netsurf-users mailing list -- netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org To unsubscribe send an email t

Re: Online converters

2022-01-31 Thread Richard Porter
was going to suggest TW/EW but they don't keep the format particularly if you have text flowed around images, and it doesn't do automatic numbering of paragraphs, sections, chapters etc. -- Richard Porter ___ netsurf-users mailing list --

Re: Online converters

2022-01-31 Thread Richard Porter
On 30 Jan 2022 Richard Porter wrote: > On 30 Jan 2022 Harriet Bazley wrote: >> I have this one bookmarked for XLSX to XLS, and it also seems to offer >> 'Word to PDF'. >> https://convertstandard.com/word2pdf.aspx >> Tested, and it works - with the p

Re: Online converters

2022-01-30 Thread Richard Porter
DF I was asked for a (non-existing) password, but it > worked on the second attempt. I tried this on two files. The first produced an XML file. I changed the file type to MSexcel and !ViewXLS just produced a large grid with no content. The other file produced no output at all. -- Richard Port

Re: Website refusal

2021-02-21 Thread Richard Porter
On 21 Feb 2021 Rien Mertens wrote: > GOOD websites don't ask to upgrade your browser but make a good > universal website, but almost no wesite builder takes the effort to do > so.. Except, of course, RISC OS users! Actually 'The Register' seems to work w

Re: "Warning from Netsurf: Unknown"

2019-10-22 Thread Richard Porter
On 22 Oct 2019 David Pitt wrote: > It is on the bug tracker now. The example above is a very broken site, > neither Safari or Firefox get anywhere with it. I get the same response after a long wait. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernex

Re: "Warning from Netsurf: Unknown"

2019-10-21 Thread Richard Porter
5). I have been getting this with 4834 if not earlier. I don't think it's easily repeatable. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"

2018-11-06 Thread Richard Porter
On 6 Nov 2018 David Pitt wrote: > Richard Porter, on 6 Nov, wrote: >> Anyone else getting this? I've had it from one or two addresses, for >> example: http://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/ideas-bank.ashx >> >> gives me the error "Couldn&

Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"

2018-11-06 Thread Richard Porter
NetSurf does resolve the host name and gives me an expected 404 error. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Please try the latest build

2018-08-16 Thread Richard Porter
lists at the same time. Unless the recipients have done their filtering carefully all the posts could end up in the first list to be found e.g. if they filter on "To:" rather than "List-ID:". Richard -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t:

Re: Missing images

2018-08-09 Thread Richard Porter
On 9 Aug 2018 Tim Hill wrote: > In article , Richard Porter > wrote: >> Hi all, I've got a strange problem on one of my sites. On >> http://www.mmpa.org.uk/ all of the gif images are missing, including >> the yellow navigation buttons at the top. If you go to other

Re: Missing images

2018-08-09 Thread Richard Porter
On 9 Aug 2018 Richard Porter wrote: > On 9 Aug 2018 Richard Porter wrote: >> Hi all, I've got a strange problem on one of my sites. >> On http://www.mmpa.org.uk/ all of the gif images are missing, including >> the yellow navigation buttons at the top. If you go to oth

Re: Missing images

2018-08-09 Thread Richard Porter
On 9 Aug 2018 Richard Porter wrote: > Hi all, I've got a strange problem on one of my sites. > On http://www.mmpa.org.uk/ all of the gif images are missing, including > the yellow navigation buttons at the top. If you go to other pages the > "home" and "News&q

Missing images

2018-08-09 Thread Richard Porter
tforms all the images are present. Before I raise a bug report I'd like to know if other NetSurf users are seeing the same fault. There was a recent update to the news panel which increased it's size. This could have affected the rendering. -- Richard Porter

Page refresh

2018-07-13 Thread Richard Porter
a solution before I raise a bug report? -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: launching a PDF from a link

2018-06-28 Thread Richard Porter
quot;Allow links to open in new windows" ticked in Choices > Content. BUT It's different if you click on an html link in Messenger Pro. In that case NetSurf always opens a new window and then decides what to do. I raised a feature request about this ages ago, but to

Re: Image won't display

2018-06-12 Thread Richard Porter
ist/png" width="653" height="104"> But Netsurf won't display >> the image. Chrome does it properly. >> But http://stronged.torrens.org/man/modes/img/clicklist.png displays the >> image! > Not here, I'm getting 404 - Not Found >> I am ba

Re: bad linebreaks

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Porter
On 27 Apr 2018 Jim Nagel wrote: > Anybody concur with me? Yes I've raised bug reports about it in the past. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience&qu

Re: URL crashes Netsurf

2018-04-13 Thread Richard Porter
he log. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: URL crashes Netsurf

2018-04-13 Thread Richard Porter
e else? I can get the first page but when I clicked on one of the images NetSurf aborted with a "serious error" and stiffed the machine. #4319 RO 5.23 -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I d

Re: displaying a nested list

2018-03-03 Thread Richard Porter
what you mean. I have the same problem on www.minimarcos.org . The drop down menus work on mainstream browsers but the tabs at the top lead to intermediate pages (whether or not the menus work. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer

Re: displaying a nested list

2018-03-03 Thread Richard Porter
's own. No doubt there's a CSS way to do it. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: linking to root of website, not root of drive

2018-02-19 Thread Richard Porter
ould push the site down a level to match your local setup and then have redirects for any links that go to the top level by default but I haven't tried this. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Backyard Worlds

2018-02-14 Thread Richard Porter
Works here on #4303 (RO 5.23). Probably a DNS glitch or server down. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: problem with Mailman or is it just me?

2017-11-08 Thread Richard Porter
On 7 Nov 2017 Richard Porter wrote: > On 7 Nov 2017 Jim Nagel wrote: >> I wonder if a couple of others could try that link, please: try >> subscribing to the Netsurf list from a different valid address of your >> own. Do you get the same message as I did? What ISP

Re: problem with Mailman or is it just me?

2017-11-07 Thread Richard Porter
valid email address" whether I supply a valid forwarder address, an alternative mailbox on my PlusNet account or a PlusNet alias for my normal address. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don&#

Re: Page causes crash

2017-10-30 Thread Richard Porter
to cause this fairly reliably: > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/water-vole-hole.html > Does this happen to anyone else? > RO 5.23 (29-Jun-16) > NS 3.8 (Dev CI #4238) and earlier versions for some time. Seems to load ok here (ARMX6, 5.23, #4214) -- Richard Porter

Page Refresh

2017-06-01 Thread Richard Porter
mages separately. Surely this shouldn't be the way it works? #4088 -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Redraw oddity

2017-05-16 Thread Richard Porter
; (29-Jun-16) Yes. (#4086, RPC 6.20) -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Window position

2017-04-06 Thread Richard Porter
ndow position' being on but it doesn't matter. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Window position

2017-04-06 Thread Richard Porter
window to stagger it from. I feel a bug report coming on, although it's really only a design oversight. In the mean time I might be better off with 'stagger windows' disabled. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer m

Re: KYP West

2017-03-22 Thread Richard Porter
On 22 Mar 2017 Tony Moore wrote: > On 22 Mar 2017, Brian wrote: >> This looks to a really interesting site > URL? > Tony I would hazard a guess that it might be http://www.kypwest.org.uk/ -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/

Re: Congratulations!

2017-02-25 Thread Richard Porter
On 25 Feb 2017 John Williams wrote: > Congratulations to the NetSurf team for all the hard work it took to get to > #4000! Hear, hear! -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't w

Making playlists play

2017-02-10 Thread Richard Porter
es for m3u: audio/m3u MPEGURL aa7 audio/x-mpegurlMPEGURL aa7 .m3u -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Web page magnification

2017-01-02 Thread Richard Porter
be in order) but increasing the default and minimum font sizes might be help. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Web page magnification

2017-01-02 Thread Richard Porter
y" sub menu click on "Save as > default". Good luck! Yes it does. There is an entry in choices: Scale:150 . Ctrl-W is a quicker route to 150%. It's useful for enlarging photos on the screen (goes to 150 - 200 - 300% and more). Ctrl-Q reduces the magnification correspondi

Re: Javascript ON when it's OFF

2016-12-17 Thread Richard Porter
On 17 Dec 2016 Tim Hill wrote: > In article <96f819f055.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>, Richard Porter > wrote: >> On 17 Dec 2016 Tim Hill wrote: >>> As you have a problem with both machines ... >> I didn't say that. I said that the behaviour was the same

Re: Javascript ON when it's OFF

2016-12-17 Thread Richard Porter
On 17 Dec 2016 Tim Hill wrote: > As you have a problem with both machines ... I didn't say that. I said that the behaviour was the same on both machines i.e. the page was working as intended and not showing duff gen on the ARMX6. -- Richard Porter

Re: Javascript ON when it's OFF

2016-12-17 Thread Richard Porter
rsion of NetSurf. Does it contain any alternative paths depending on OS version or processor type? -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Javascript ON when it's OFF

2016-12-17 Thread Richard Porter
On 17 Dec 2016 Tim Hill wrote: > In article <4c8196ef55.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>, >Richard Porter wrote: >> On 16 Dec 2016 Tim Hill wrote: >>>>> http://timil.com/riscos/calendar/ >> I've run into a slight problem with the calendar. If you

Re: Javascript ON when it's OFF

2016-12-17 Thread Richard Porter
On 16 Dec 2016 Chris Young wrote: > On 16 December 2016 22:49:06 GMT+00:00, Richard Porter > wrote: >>Have you got a test page that tells you if javascript is on or off >>e.g. Javascript is NOT enabled. ? > http://www.javatester.org/javascript.html > Chris Useful p

Re: Javascript ON when it's OFF

2016-12-16 Thread Richard Porter
calendar short of starting again. The back button doesn't help. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Javascript ON when it's OFF

2016-12-16 Thread Richard Porter
...". However if you follow the link the calendar display comes up. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Javascript ON when it's OFF

2016-12-16 Thread Richard Porter
and it works just the same. Have you got a test page that tells you if javascript is on or off e.g. Javascript is NOT enabled. ? -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Javascript ON when it's OFF

2016-12-16 Thread Richard Porter
ion. The message saying it is ON is > rendered with Javascript so how can it possibly be disabled? > You shouldn't need to quit, only reload after SETting that Content Choice > option. > #3798 works as expected. Works on #3803 here (6.20 RPC) -- Richard Porter

Re: Website not renendering correctly

2016-11-25 Thread Richard Porter
hat the background colour doesn't go all the way down to the bottom. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: No-display page

2016-09-24 Thread Richard Porter
t! But should this happen? I removed the line body { visibility: hidden; display:none } and it displayed the page. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experien

Re: Site crasher NS

2016-09-20 Thread Richard Porter
s. Both SSL windows remain. If you wipe any other window across an SSL window you get a trail of repeated frames across the text area of the window. When I then rejected one of the certificates NS aborted. (#3697) -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Sky

Re: Segmentation fault started with no apparent cause

2016-08-25 Thread Richard Porter
r to be 106 URLs in there. I'm not going to test each one > to find where the problem is. Just quit NS, delete the contents of URL and re-run NS. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I d

Re: how to make Netsurf forget its logged-in state

2016-05-17 Thread Richard Porter
t's a directory in !Scrap: .WWW.NetSurf.Cache > It can be deleted manually, which may or may not help. There's a nice little utility called !ShowScrap that opens the IDdisabled directory for you (then WWW > NetSurf > Cache as above). I keep it on my launcher (!MenuBar). -- R

Re: Netsurf Cache -- relocation tangent

2016-04-12 Thread Richard Porter
rching through all of !Cache. So on all my machines I > made a new directory that comes alphabetically last: $._ > !Cache and !Scrap and !Newsdir now live there, with appropriate > pointers in the old places. Works well. I exclude any cache directories from backups. Ditto ScrapDirs

Re: JavaScript status indicator - request for a snippet of code

2016-02-17 Thread Richard Porter
On 17 Feb 2016 John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> I suspect that what I require is very simple/trivial and can be done in one >> line of JS. > try this: > document.write("javascript is enabled"); alternatively / additionally: JS Off -- Richard Porter

Re: Bug reporting

2016-01-31 Thread Richard Porter
On 31 Jan 2016 lists wrote: > There is "My view|View issues|Change log|Roadmap" > NOWHERE ON THAT PAGE IS A BOX THAT SAYS REPORT BUG HERE! There should be a link "Report Issue" after "View issues". -- Richard Porterhttp://w

Re: auto-launching a PDF

2016-01-29 Thread Richard Porter
launch a playlist (.m3u) file. Oregano does this. I raised a feature request for this a long time ago. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Very slow page rendering

2016-01-09 Thread Richard Porter
. CI#3250. Firefox on the macbook pro takes 2s over the same connection. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

BBC site gone mobile again

2015-11-17 Thread Richard Porter
extremely slowly (throbber stops rotating) - regex problem again? -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-07 Thread Richard Porter
ld respond with an error straight away. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-07 Thread Richard Porter
On 7 Nov 2015 David Pitt wrote: > 30s is an interesting duration NetSurf-wise, that is how long before > fetches time-out. From a look at the log :- This could explain why 'full save' didn't save the css files. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.mi

Re: simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-07 Thread Richard Porter
didn't make a lot of difference. Has 'full save' changed? It always used to save CSS files. This could be a serious problem because the page wouldn't render properly if the original file was no longer available. -- Richard Porterhttp:/

Bad type

2015-10-20 Thread Richard Porter
I get an awful lot of "Bad type" errors when clicking on links. What does this mean? I guess it has something to do with javascript. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don'

Re: #2988 hanging

2015-10-13 Thread Richard Porter
es > that's the only way out of the so-called 'pyjamas' screen on Iyonix and > other situations with a Pi. I know what you mean by the pyjamas screen. I've had it on my RiscPC but I've always put it down to the Vpod. -- Richard Porter

Re: #2988 hanging

2015-10-13 Thread Richard Porter
ching off and on again, which I have had to do on occasion. Obscure situations seem to happen quite a lot! -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience"

Re: How we can all assist NetSurf's development

2015-10-13 Thread Richard Porter
On 13 Oct 2015 Peter Young wrote: > On 13 Oct 2015 Richard Porter wrote: >> On 13 Oct 2015 Dave Higton wrote: >>> You can semi-automate the process nicely with Fetch_NS, which is >>> abailable from http://aconet.org/tools/fetch-ns.zip >> Is there a v

Re: How we can all assist NetSurf's development

2015-10-13 Thread Richard Porter
On 13 Oct 2015 Dave Higton wrote: > You can semi-automate the process nicely with Fetch_NS, which is > abailable from http://aconet.org/tools/fetch-ns.zip Is there a version which stores a 4-digit.zip filename? -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/

Re: Google

2015-05-09 Thread Richard Porter
Why only one radio button? The script I use to search a specific site is: http://www.google.com/search";> I guess the important difference is going to /custom instead of /search. On my local home page I have two radio buttons to search either www or the specified site.

Re: Google

2015-05-09 Thread Richard Porter
ery careful to make sure you're on the right link and not some Yahoo! link they want you to follow. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Google

2015-05-09 Thread Richard Porter
ert after signing in on my Mac (I delete all cookies, cache, etc on quitting Firefox): <https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/device_alert_feedback?hl=en>. I gave them some 'feedback' but I haven't heard any more. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.min

Re: Google

2015-05-08 Thread Richard Porter
can supply a domain to search but it becomes unusable on NetSurf. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Google

2015-05-08 Thread Richard Porter
ogle but has its own frontend, which seems to work fine > whether JavaScript is on or not. I use Google to provide a search facility on my own web site. Which of any of the other search engines or front ends allow you to create a form which specifies a particular site?

Re: Google

2015-05-08 Thread Richard Porter
;s on streetmap.co.uk won't work. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Slow page opening

2015-02-15 Thread Richard Porter
scPC. There's a big white space half way down on the left hand side. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Page timeout

2015-01-08 Thread Richard Porter
On 8 Jan 2015 Peter Slegg wrote: > When I tried the page below it just times-out and never > renders any of the page, it didn't even leave Bing, where > I found the link. > https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays > Does it do this for anyone else ? Works OK here. #2504 RO6.14

Re: RISC OS experimental build with new compiler

2014-11-16 Thread Richard Porter
t. (Also any comments on performance difference, better > or worse, would be of interest.) > http://www.rjek.com/netsurf-gccsdk-4.7.zip I've had a quick play. Nothing too difficult but it seems fine here. KRPC, RO6.14 -- Richard Porterhttp://www.

Re: RISC OS Save-as PDF file

2014-11-10 Thread Richard Porter
time. I think there's still a PDF printer driver, but I just print using Martin W's excellent PostScript 3 driver and then use PrintPDF to convert to PDF and optionally add metadata. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2

Re: "Warning from Netsurf"

2014-09-29 Thread Richard Porter
how much newer they expect it to be! -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: "Warning from Netsurf"

2014-09-29 Thread Richard Porter
erated by the web page - javascript I guess. That figures because I try Oregano with sites that don't display on NetSurf. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Why is NetSurf so fussy?

2014-09-22 Thread Richard Porter
On 22 Sep 2014 Tony Moore wrote: > On 22 Sep 2014, Richard Porter wrote: >> On 22 Sep 2014 Steve Fryatt wrote: > [snip] >>> What settings do you have on in the OS for cut and paste in writable >>> icons? >> >> Where can I find those settings? >

Re: Why is NetSurf so fussy?

2014-09-22 Thread Richard Porter
cons? Where can I find those settings? -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Why is NetSurf so fussy?

2014-09-21 Thread Richard Porter
duplicates the block in situ or tells me no block is selected, then when I try to paste it into NS I get some text I had saved some time before from another document. Then I try Shift-Ctrl-C and -V, and I get the selected URL twice! Well at least it did paste the URL but it

Re: Why is NetSurf so fussy?

2014-09-21 Thread Richard Porter
On 21 Sep 2014 Tony Moore wrote: > On 21 Sep 2014, Richard Porter wrote: >> On 20 Sep 2014 Tony Moore wrote: >>> On 20 Sep 2014, Richard Porter wrote: >> >>>> One really annoying feature of NetSurf (RO front end) is that it >>>> won't le

Re: Why is NetSurf so fussy?

2014-09-21 Thread Richard Porter
On 20 Sep 2014 Tony Moore wrote: > On 20 Sep 2014, Richard Porter wrote: >> One really annoying feature of NetSurf (RO front end) is that it won't >> let you paste text from an html file into the URL field. ... > It _isn't_ necessary, when using StongED to view th

Why is NetSurf so fussy?

2014-09-20 Thread Richard Porter
is as a feature request a long time ago. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Boxconvert

2014-08-21 Thread Richard Porter
I got a warning from NetSurf - Boxconvert What is "boxconvert"? -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Selecting text gone crazy

2014-07-22 Thread Richard Porter
On 22 Jul 2014 Richard Porter wrote: > On 22 Jul 2014 John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> #2023 when I try to select some text as soon as I click on the page >> everything from the click to the end of the article is highlit. > Yes, I've raised a bug report. It happens in

Re: Selecting text gone crazy

2014-07-22 Thread Richard Porter
21 9 July) Yes, I've raised a bug report. It happens in spades in The Register. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Bug reporting

2014-07-09 Thread Richard Porter
is the ABEND option about? No idea. ABEND goes back to IBM 360 days if not before. It's short for "Abnormal End". Richard -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Bug reporting

2014-07-09 Thread Richard Porter
rting is specific to that platform? You don't but the developers may need to know what platform you are running on. I take it to mean hardware platform since the OS and version are asked for separately. Richard -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.

Re: Facebook URLs

2014-06-13 Thread Richard Porter
you get to the unescaped ampersand it and all the rest is Facebook garbage which you can delete. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Google hanging

2014-06-02 Thread Richard Porter
elf. Yahoo! does for some but I can either type in the visible URL or extract it if necessary. With Google alerts it's easy to select and launch the embedded link in Messenger Pro so I don't have to go through Google. However I haven't noticed any particular problems with it.

Re: Accents in URLs

2014-03-10 Thread Richard Porter
ml >>and this >>http://dahlström.net/svg/favicon/favicon.html > those should not work; the "&xxx;" things are valid inside HTML whereas > inside a URL you need to follow the rules for encoding funny characters in > URLs, ie the %xx values. http://dahlstrom.net/

Re: downloads always set to filetype F80

2014-02-26 Thread Richard Porter
often happens with email attachments too. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: Dev Cl #1717 -- bug-tracker peeve

2014-02-13 Thread Richard Porter
rd with the spaces > that make it human-readable and human-checkable. Ditto phone numbers. I agree although don't have a problem with credit card or phone numbers. I do get annoyed with sites that try to be too clever and then give you an error message if you enter a sort co

Re: Your bugs in the tracker

2014-02-09 Thread Richard Porter
ssistance is appreciated. I have now annotated all of my open bug reports as appropriate. There are some that can now be closed. Richard -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "use

Re: Bad archive

2014-02-03 Thread Richard Porter
p archive got corrupted somewhere. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Streetmap.co.uk

2014-01-21 Thread Richard Porter
ll 25 of a large map. What's the problem? -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: BBC web site

2014-01-07 Thread Richard Porter
d age). > Can someone prompt me again. Use a more recent build that omits the processor string. But please do send another complaint to the BBC. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't wan

Re: Recent changes kybosh El Reg comments

2014-01-06 Thread Richard Porter
On 6 Jan 2014 Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 16:10:24 +0000, Richard Porter wrote: >> I tried again with release 2.9 and all was well. >> Is anyone else seeing this problem? > This is a bug in a huge form rewrite which occurred at the hack weekend. It &

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