Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup

2009-09-18 Thread Mike Hobbs
In message <800994.16379...@web111312.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> WP Blatchley wrote: > Hi all, > Well despite Rob Kenricks's probably highly accurate description of > how development for RISC OS is ("hateful"!), I am interested, and have > expressed that interest on the developers' mailing li

Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup

2009-09-18 Thread Russell Hafter - Lists
In article <509c71f91eba...@e-allen.me.uk>, Barry E Allen wrote: > Don't be silly. It is not a choice that I have to make. I > rarely use Netsurf, preferring to use Google Chrome on my > PeeCee or Firefox on my ASUS EeePC. Why would anyone use > Netsurf when there are much more capable browser

Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup

2009-09-18 Thread Tim Hill
In article <509ca47aa6rh.li...@phone.coop>, Russell Hafter - Lists wrote: > The adverts tend to take much longer to load than the actual data, and > they also reload frequently. AFAIK the adverts are loaded using > Javascript, so with NetSuf they do not load. Many adverts on the Web these days ar

The Unicode font library could not be initialized

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Stewart
Upon starting Netsurf (Dated 17 September 2008, 21:47 UTC), I receive the following error: The Unicode font library could not be initialized. The error is not specific to this release. I downloaded the latest version in response to the installed version suddenly generating this error on start

Re: The Unicode font library could not be initialized

2009-09-18 Thread John-Mark Bell
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 12:47 +0100, Paul Stewart wrote: > Upon starting Netsurf (Dated 17 September 2008, 21:47 UTC), I receive > the following error: The Unicode font library could not be > initialized. Please email me a relevant Log file, and your !Fonts directory, zipped. John.

Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup

2009-09-18 Thread Xavier Tardy
Rob Kendrick a écrit : On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:34:53 +0100 aw29...@gmail.com wrote: In all of this, our preference has been for option 1. It would, however, be remiss of us not to point out the inevitable result of option 1 not happening (i.e. option 2). One idea is doing what 99% of

Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup

2009-09-18 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:58:23 +0100 Tim Hill wrote: > Are there 500 user of the RISC OS version of NetSurf willing to > donate £4 a month to support a developer? > > www.pledgebank.com/netsurf4riscos Can I ask what happens if your patches aren't accepted, for whatever reason? This is why we've