One longstanding UI gripe I have with NetSurf (in fact, I think it's about
my only serious remaining gripe) arises whenever a link has an overlong URL.
The first part of the URL appears to the left of the bottom scroll bar. But
if the URL is obnoxiously long, as often happens, the right part is
tru
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 20:32:36 +, Steve Fryatt wrote:
> The front-end doesn't seem to know anything about the status bar content
> (beyond that it's some text), so it might be pretty stupid. Intelligence
> such as "Send form to http://foo.com/...bar/wibble.php"; would probably
> require some ver
The following bytes were arranged on 7 Mar 2013 by Steve Fryatt :
> I see there's actually some tooltip code buried in the local history GUI for
> the RISC OS front-end (turn them on via the option in Interface). Can a
> front-end find out from the core that the pointer is hovering over a link,
>
The following bytes were arranged on 7 Mar 2013 by Tim Hill :
> Or, scroll the URL from one end to the other. And back.
>
> But I want to see the whole thing at the pointer. A tooltip which pops up
> when you hover over a link for more than a couple of moments would cut
> down on eyestrain. i.e. I
On 6 Mar, Simon Smith wrote in message
<9527682853.zen44...@zen.co.uk>:
> One longstanding UI gripe I have with NetSurf (in fact, I think it's about
> my only serious remaining gripe) arises whenever a link has an overlong
> URL. The first part of the URL appears to the left of the bottom scro
In article
,
Chris Young wrote:
[snipped]
> A better fix might be for the end of the URL to be given priority (aka
> right-justify), or some shortening technique where the domain and the
> end of the URL are shown, but the middle is truncated with ellipsis if
> it is above a certain length.
In article <53288e1557d...@triffid.co.uk>,
Dave Symes wrote:
> That's interesting, the default on my NetSurf install is 5000 or 50% and
> I've never changed it. (Ever).
It's been 66.67% since 2006 (a year before NetSurf 1.0 was released):
http://source.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/commit
In article <53286a1e80t...@netsurf-browser.org>,
Michael Drake wrote:
> In article <9527682853.zen44...@zen.co.uk>,
>Simon Smith wrote:
> > A fix which would mitigate matters is if the proportion of the lower
> > scroll bar (or, even better, the absolute size in pixels) allocated to
> > t
On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:40:00 GMT, Simon Smith wrote:
> A fix which would mitigate matters is if the proportion of the lower scroll
> bar (or, even better, the absolute size in pixels) allocated to the
> horizontal scroll was configurable and/or persistent from window to window.
You can configure
In article <9527682853.zen44...@zen.co.uk>,
Simon Smith wrote:
> A fix which would mitigate matters is if the proportion of the lower
> scroll bar (or, even better, the absolute size in pixels) allocated to
> the horizontal scroll was configurable and/or persistent from window to
> window.
It
One longstanding UI gripe I have with NetSurf (in fact, I think it's about
my only serious remaining gripe) arises whenever a link has an overlong URL.
The first part of the URL appears to the left of the bottom scroll bar. But
if the URL is obnoxiously long, as often happens, the right part is
tru
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