Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Alan Calder
In article <5328da581e...@timil.com>, Tim Hill wrote: > In article > <49255.86.154.45.205.1362675722.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk>, >Learning Partners wrote: > [Snip] > Thanks for the summary. > > This may have been available for ARM based tablet > > users. Sadly no more unless it h

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Peter Young
On 7 Mar 2013 Richard Porter wrote: > On 7 Mar 2013 Alan Calder wrote: >> Just tried using the BBC News link on Netsurf's home page (the out of the >> box version) NS 2.9. >> Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I >> assume to be the mobile version. Not pret

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Tim Hill
In article <49255.86.154.45.205.1362675722.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk>, Learning Partners wrote: [Snip] Thanks for the summary. > This may have been available for ARM based tablet > users. Sadly no more unless it has moved its address. At least an ARM based tablet with Android has bro

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Richard Porter
On 7 Mar 2013 Alan Calder wrote: > Just tried using the BBC News link on Netsurf's home page (the out of the > box version) NS 2.9. > Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I > assume to be the mobile version. Not pretty but it is usable. That is precisely the p

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Learning Partners
On Thu, 7 March, 2013 3:56 pm, Tim Hill wrote: > In article <5328c00187alan_cal...@o2.co.uk>, >Alan Calder wrote: >> Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I >> assume to be the mobile version. Not pretty but it is usable. > > Similarly, and for reasons of fu

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Tim Hill
In article <5328c00187alan_cal...@o2.co.uk>, Alan Calder wrote: > Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I > assume to be the mobile version. Not pretty but it is usable. Similarly, and for reasons of functionality, I have been known to use NetSurf with http://

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Alan Calder
In article <49380.86.154.45.205.1362660717.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk>, Learning Partners wrote: > > On 27 Feb 2013 Martin Bazley wrote: > > > >> If you're still using 2.9, you don't need to be told. Simply open > >> WWW.NetSurf.Log in your computer's ScrapDir (note: this only works > >> w

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:03:55PM +, Richard Porter wrote: > "Please note that the issue was once again escalated to Future Media > and finding that your browser is NetSurf running under RISC OS 6.16 > running on a StrongARM powered RiscPC informed that this is old > technology and may expl

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Chris Young
Richard Porter wrote: >> Considering their >clucking >> over the raspberry pi you would think no large organisation, >> different hands, no co-ordination! Richard, you could let them know >that >> apparently very large numbers of the little wonders have been sold >which >> might help us on le

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Richard Porter
On 7 Mar 2013 Learning Partners wrote: > As someone who requires a stable version I am still using 2.9. I worked > round the problem by redirecting the BBC link to the mobile desktop page > which gave access to standard BBC content. But now in their wisdom the BBC > have deleted this so I am back

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Learning Partners
> On 27 Feb 2013 Martin Bazley wrote: > >> If you're still using 2.9, you don't need to be told. Simply open >> WWW.NetSurf.Log in your computer's ScrapDir (note: this only works when >> NetSurf is *not* running) and it should be right there in the first few >> lines. > > Thanks for the informat

Re: BBC News websites

2013-02-28 Thread Richard Porter
On 27 Feb 2013 Martin Bazley wrote: > If you're still using 2.9, you don't need to be told. Simply open > WWW.NetSurf.Log in your computer's ScrapDir (note: this only works when > NetSurf is *not* running) and it should be right there in the first few > lines. Thanks for the information. I hadn

Re: BBC News websites

2013-02-27 Thread Martin Bazley
The following bytes were arranged on 27 Feb 2013 by Richard Porter : > The problem still affects version 2.9 if not the latest dev versions. > Can you tell me what the useragent details are (or were)? If you're still using 2.9, you don't need to be told. Simply open WWW.NetSurf.Log in your compu

Re: BBC News websites

2013-02-27 Thread Richard Porter
On 15 Jan 2013 Michael Drake wrote: > In article > , >Chris Young wrote: >> I'm not sure I necessarily agree with this workaround - a website >> deciding that everything running ARM must want the mobile version of a >> page is making a pretty big assumption > I decided there was no good re

Re: BBC News websites

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Young
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:12:32 + (GMT), Michael Drake wrote: > > I'm not sure I necessarily agree with this workaround - a website > > deciding that everything running ARM must want the mobile version of a > > page is making a pretty big assumption > > I decided there was no good reason for lea

Re: BBC News websites

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Drake
In article , Chris Young wrote: > I'm not sure I necessarily agree with this workaround - a website > deciding that everything running ARM must want the mobile version of a > page is making a pretty big assumption I decided there was no good reason for leaking processor architecture informati

Re: BBC News websites

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Young
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:13:04 + (GMT), David H Wild wrote: > I see that we now have normal access to the BBC news websites. Whether this > is something done by the Netsurf team or someone at the BBC taking note of > complaints I am pleased to see it happen. Build #812 removed the processor fro

Re: BBC News websites

2013-01-15 Thread Martin Bazley
The following bytes were arranged on 15 Jan 2013 by David H Wild : > I see that we now have normal access to the BBC news websites. Whether this > is something done by the Netsurf team or someone at the BBC taking note of > complaints I am pleased to see it happen. It's something NetSurf did. It

Re: BBC News websites

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Porter
On 15 Jan 2013 David H Wild wrote: > I see that we now have normal access to the BBC news websites. Whether this > is something done by the Netsurf team or someone at the BBC taking note of > complaints I am pleased to see it happen. I raised it as a technical problem twice, then as a complaint,