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't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears

Re: Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"

2018-11-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 06/11/2018, Richard Porter 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't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears > to be OK. What's more if I delet

Re: Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"

2018-11-06 Thread David Pitt
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't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears > to be OK. What's more if I delete the

Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"

2018-11-06 Thread Richard Porter
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't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears to be OK. What's more if I delete the last element NetSurf does resolve the hos

Re: spurious grey areas on displayed page

2014-12-09 Thread Richard Ashbery
In article <7fed4f7354@abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel wrote: > I see this more and more often of late: large grey areas on a web > page as displayed by Netsurf. Drag a menu (or other window) over > the grey, and the trail goes white. You never know what content > is never shown. > Example: > h

spurious grey areas on displayed page

2014-12-09 Thread Jim Nagel
I see this more and more often of late: large grey areas on a web page as displayed by Netsurf. Drag a menu (or other window) over the grey, and the trail goes white. You never know what content is never shown. Example: http://www.cnet.com/products/hp-color-laserjet-cp2025/specs/ Is it becau

Another spurious 'out of memory' error

2012-10-09 Thread Martin Bazley
I get the infamous "NetSurf is running out of memory" error when clicking the following URL: http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/ NetSurf #417, ARMini/RISC OS 5.19. NS 2.9 works. Typing in the .co.uk equivalent (which blogspot.com addresses now redirect to) also fails, so it must be something in

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-03-03 Thread John-Mark Bell
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 14:07 +, Richard Porter wrote: > On 18 Feb 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > > > Let's stay on topic (NetSurf), please. > > OK, what about Google maps? It contained an unclosed comment. We reported it to Google and they've fixed it. This is not a bug in NetSurf. John.

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread David J. Ruck
Richard Porter wrote: OK, what about Google maps? You mean some of the most complex javascript ever written and specifically tailored for each major browers it runs on? Would you like to guess which side of hell freezing over it will work on Netsurf? Cheers ---Dave -- Email: dr...@druck.org

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Porter
On 18 Feb 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > Let's stay on topic (NetSurf), please. OK, what about Google maps? -- _ |_|. _ Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ |\_||_mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com Disclaimer: Please imagine about 50 lines of point

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread David J. Ruck
Rob Kendrick wrote: > A friend of mine makes use of the Dolphin stuff; the synthesiser that > shipped with it was pretty dreadful. We don't like to talk about that, it's utter sh*te, but we managed to ease out the director responsible last year, and are rapidly elimating all trace of it. > Fort

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Drake
In article <6553812f50.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>, Richard Porter wrote: > On 18 Feb 2009 David J. Ruck wrote: > > The sort of modern natural voice synthesisers we are using in screen > > readers for the visiually impared, have all sorts of parameters which > > you can use to change the empha

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Porter
On 18 Feb 2009 David J. Ruck wrote: > The sort of modern natural voice synthesisers we are using in screen > readers for the visiually impared, have all sorts of parameters which you > can use to change the emphaisis. They actually read passages of text > superbly well with, and honestly, sometime

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:21:08 + "David J. Ruck" wrote: > The sort of modern natural voice synthesisers we are using in screen > readers for the visiually impared, have all sorts of parameters which > you can use to change the emphaisis. They actually read passages of > text superbly well with,

Re: Deprecated elements [was Re: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Porter
On 18 Feb 2009 JJ van Poll wrote: > In message <502f57db9easg...@inspire.net.nz> > Keith Hopper wrote: >> In article <502f456d69...@timil.com>, >>Tim Hill wrote: >>> In article , Richard Porter >>> wrote: On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: > The element which should be

Re: Deprecated elements [was Re: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Porter
On 18 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: > In article <502f456d69...@timil.com>, >Tim Hill wrote: >> In article , Richard Porter >> wrote: >>> On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: The element which should be used is the 'em' element and, instead of the 'b' element, use 'strong'. The reaso

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread David J. Ruck
Keith Hopper wrote: > In article , >Richard Porter wrote: > > [snip] > > > I'm trying to imagine just how you would intonate 'emphasised' and > > 'strong' so as to differentiate them. In fact I don't really know what > > 'strong' means in this context. > > Neither do I, in general;

Re: Deprecated elements [was Re: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread JJ van Poll
In message <502f57db9easg...@inspire.net.nz> Keith Hopper wrote: > In article <502f456d69...@timil.com>, >Tim Hill wrote: >> In article , Richard Porter >> wrote: >>> On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: The element which should be used is the 'em' element and, instead of

Deprecated elements [was Re: spurious newlines

2009-02-17 Thread Keith Hopper
In article <502f456d69...@timil.com>, Tim Hill wrote: > In article , Richard Porter > wrote: > > On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: > > > The element which should be used is the 'em' element and, instead of > > > the 'b' element, use 'strong'. The reason for the others being > > > deprecated

Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-17 Thread Keith Hopper
In article , Richard Porter wrote: [snip] > I'm trying to imagine just how you would intonate 'emphasised' and > 'strong' so as to differentiate them. In fact I don't really know what > 'strong' means in this context. Neither do I, in general; however, some combination of pauses, risi

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-17 Thread Tim Hill
In article , Richard Porter wrote: > On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: > > The element which should be used is the 'em' element and, instead of > > the 'b' element, use 'strong'. The reason for the others being > > deprecated they're not [Snip] -- Tim Hill, www.timil.com

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Porter
On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: > The element which should be used is the 'em' element and, instead of > the 'b' element, use 'strong'. The reason for the others being deprecated > is a desire to separate styling from the reason that a content needs a > particular style - 'i' and 'b' imply a pa

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-17 Thread Tim Hill
In article <502eafeecaasg...@inspire.net.nz>, Keith Hopper wrote: > In article <920b6d2e50.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com>, Roger Darlington > wrote: > > On 1 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: > > > In article , Richard Porter > > > wrote: > [snip] > > > Yes, but Netsurf still inserts a spa

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-17 Thread Keith Hopper
In article <4cd5fa2e50.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com>, Roger Darlington wrote: > On 16 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: > > In article <920b6d2e50.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com>, > >Roger Darlington wrote: > >> On 1 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: > >> > In article , > >> >Richard Porter wro

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-17 Thread Roger Darlington
On 16 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: > In article <920b6d2e50.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com>, >Roger Darlington wrote: >> On 1 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: >> > In article , >> >Richard Porter wrote: > [snip] >> > Yes, but Netsurf still inserts a space after an end tag - > >> It does

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-16 Thread Keith Hopper
In article <920b6d2e50.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com>, Roger Darlington wrote: > On 1 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: > > In article , > >Richard Porter wrote: [snip] > > Yes, but Netsurf still inserts a space after an end tag - > It doesn't if that end tag is . > So a line like this w

Re: Extra Space (was: spurious newlines in lists in tables)

2009-02-16 Thread Roger Darlington
On 16 Feb 2009, Tim Hill wrote: > In article , Roger Darlington > wrote: >> On 3 Feb 2009, Tim Hill wrote: >> > >> > Just to follow-up this issue of Netsurf generating extra space, I >> > have found an even simpler case: >> > >> > .(italic normal). >> > >> > I refer to the extra space w

Re: Extra Space (was: spurious newlines in lists in tables)

2009-02-16 Thread Tim Hill
In article , Roger Darlington wrote: > On 3 Feb 2009, Tim Hill wrote: > > > > Just to follow-up this issue of Netsurf generating extra space, I > > have found an even simpler case: > > > > .(italic normal). > > > > I refer to the extra space which coincides with the . > > > And doesn'

Re: Extra Space (was: spurious newlines in lists in tables)

2009-02-16 Thread Roger Darlington
On 3 Feb 2009, Tim Hill wrote: > > Just to follow-up this issue of Netsurf generating extra space, I have > found an even simpler case: > > .(italic normal). > > I refer to the extra space which coincides with the . > And doesn't it also miss out the space between and 'normal' - it d

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-16 Thread Roger Darlington
On 1 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: > In article , >Richard Porter wrote: >> On 1 Feb 2009 Tim Hill wrote: > >> > I thought browsers ignored white space and in no way thought that would >> > be the problem. Other browsers obviously must not translate white space >> > into an extra newline wher

Extra Space (was: spurious newlines in lists in tables)

2009-02-03 Thread Tim Hill
Just to follow-up this issue of Netsurf generating extra space, I have found an even simpler case: .(italic normal). I refer to the extra space which coincides with the . Keith Hopper mentioned that ... > This bug was reported a couple of years ago and still seems to occur > under cert

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-02 Thread Tim Hill
In article <5026fac702asg...@inspire.net.nz>, Keith Hopper wrote: > In article , Richard Porter > wrote: > > On 1 Feb 2009 Tim Hill wrote: [Snip] > Netsurf still inserts a space after an end tag - so that > an end tag immediately followed by a visible or invisible character can > throw onto

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-01 Thread Keith Hopper
In article , Richard Porter wrote: > On 1 Feb 2009 Tim Hill wrote: > > I thought browsers ignored white space and in no way thought that would > > be the problem. Other browsers obviously must not translate white space > > into an extra newline where none is needed. Sometimes Netsurf does. >

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-01 Thread Richard Porter
On 1 Feb 2009 Tim Hill wrote: > I thought browsers ignored white space and in no way thought that would > be the problem. Other browsers obviously must not translate white space > into an extra newline where none is needed. Sometimes Netsurf does. Any white space should translate into a single sp

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-01 Thread Tim Hill
In article <692fe22650.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>, Richard Porter wrote: > On 1 Feb 2009 Tim Hill wrote: > > I have just noticed an oddity, even with the latest build. Please > > will someone check that I'm not going mad and I haven't done > > something inadvertent to the HTML in the extract her

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-01 Thread Richard Porter
On 1 Feb 2009 Tim Hill wrote: > I have just noticed an oddity, even with the latest build. Please will > someone check that I'm not going mad and I haven't done something > inadvertent to the HTML in the extract here: > http://www.timil.com/riscos/netsurf_query.htm > This file is an extracted par

spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-01 Thread Tim Hill
I have just noticed an oddity, even with the latest build. Please will someone check that I'm not going mad and I haven't done something inadvertent to the HTML in the extract here: http://www.timil.com/riscos/netsurf_query.htm This file is an extracted part of the very old index page which live

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Richard Porter
On 12 Aug 2008 Tony Moore wrote: > On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 12 Aug 2008 Tony Moore wrote: >>> On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> [snip] >> This fault is extremely sensitive to what else is on the page. >> >>> Try running the

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Tony Moore
On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12 Aug 2008 Tony Moore wrote: > > On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > This fault is extremely sensitive to what else is on the page. > > > Try running the html through Tidy. The RISC OS port is

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Richard Porter
On 12 Aug 2008 Tony Moore wrote: > On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> This fault is extremely sensitive to what else is on the page. > Try running the html through Tidy. The RISC OS port is at > http://www.archifishal.co.uk/software/riscos/tidy.shtml and a use

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Tony Moore
On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > This fault is extremely sensitive to what else is on the page. Try running the html through Tidy. The RISC OS port is at http://www.archifishal.co.uk/software/riscos/tidy.shtml and a user guide by Dave Raggett is at http://www.w3

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Richard Porter
On 12 Aug 2008 Gavin Wraith wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> On 11 Aug 2008 Kevin Wells wrote: >> It is definitely not mismatched < and > but I have narrowed down the >> problem. One of the forms has an 'action' attribute which, including >> encoded ampersands, quotes, etc.

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Gavin Wraith
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On 11 Aug 2008 Kevin Wells wrote: > It is definitely not mismatched < and > but I have narrowed down the > problem. One of the forms has an 'action' attribute which, including > encoded ampersands, quotes, etc. is 257 characters long. If I move the > cl

Re: Spurious

2008-08-11 Thread Richard Porter
On 11 Aug 2008 Kevin Wells wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I've found a very curious problem. At the bottom of a long table which >>contains several forms I get a spurious "<" cha

Re: Spurious

2008-08-11 Thread Kevin Wells
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've found a very curious problem. At the bottom of a long table which >contains several forms I get a spurious "<" character. I have made a >change but I can't se

Spurious

2008-08-11 Thread Richard Porter
I've found a very curious problem. At the bottom of a long table which contains several forms I get a spurious "<" character. I have made a change but I can't see a missing ">" or missing quote or anything that would likely to cause it. When I stick in a &