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

2014-02-13 Thread Jim Nagel
Brian Bailey wrote on 11 Feb: > ... I'm not into guessology. # is not a British convention > anyway so far as I am aware, for some 80ish years, it's a hindrance! Why > put it there when it serves no useful purpose, I ask? You'd think the software behind the bug-tracker could simply ignore the "#"

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

2014-02-13 Thread Richard Porter
On 13 Feb 2014 Jim Nagel wrote: > You'd think the software behind the bug-tracker could simply ignore > the "#" if people type it in this box. It would seem natural enough > for a user to type it, since "#" is shown loud&clear in the Netsurf > info box as part of the version number. Well there

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

2014-02-13 Thread Dave Higton
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:59:06 GMT Jim Nagel wrote: > You'd think the software behind the bug-tracker could simply ignore > the "#" if people type it in this box. It would seem natural enough > for a user to type it, since "#" is shown loud&clear in the Netsurf > info box as part of the version num

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

2014-02-13 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 03:24:19AM -0800, Dave Higton wrote: > > I think Netsurf is alone in RISC OS applications in having a version > number incorporating a hash. It's not a version number, it is a test build number. And it's odd that nobody complained about test build numbers beginning with "

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

2014-02-13 Thread Jim Nagel
Rob Kendrick wrote on 13 Feb: > ...back then the same issue happened ("occurs in revision" field not > accepting an "r") and yet nobody complained! My point was just a general one that software needs to anticipate that different users might input stuff in ways that are obvious with hindsight.

dates of !Boot and !System within download

2014-02-13 Thread Jim Nagel
I have just downloaded the current development version, NetSurf-gcc-json-1718/zip and am in the throes of installing it on several machines here. Datestamps on the !Boot and !System folders and all their contents were lost again sometime before 2014-02-04 (possibly before 2013-04-25, which is

Re: dates of !Boot and !System within download

2014-02-13 Thread Brian Jordan
In article <9b5f51d953@abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel wrote: [Snip] > Suggestion to the Netsurf team: > Please, could you include an extra "Readme-date" file in the download > zipfile that would simply state in plain text the date of the last > actual change and words to the effect that "I

Re: dates of !Boot and !System within download

2014-02-13 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:56:17PM +, Brian Jordan wrote: > I work on the assumption that if a merge-boot or merge-system is required > that NetSurf will let me know with an appropriate message. Otherwise I > just let NetSurf get on with it. Am I under vigilant or are you over > vigilant? It s

Re: dates of !Boot and !System within download

2014-02-13 Thread Jim Nagel
Brian Jordan wrote on 13 Feb: > In article <9b5f51d953@abbeypress.net>, >Jim Nagel wrote: >> Suggestion to the Netsurf team: >> Please, could you include an extra "Readme-date" file in the download >> zipfile that would simply state in plain text the date of the last >> actual change an

Re: dates of !Boot and !System within download

2014-02-13 Thread george greenfield
In message Jim Nagel wrote: > Brian Jordan wrote on 13 Feb: > >> In article <9b5f51d953@abbeypress.net>, >>Jim Nagel wrote: >>> Suggestion to the Netsurf team: > >>> Please, could you include an extra "Readme-date" file in the download >>> zipfile that would simply state in

Re: dates of !Boot and !System within download

2014-02-13 Thread lists
In article <53d954c84abrian.jord...@btinternet.com>, Brian Jordan wrote: > I work on the assumption that if a merge-boot or merge-system is required > that NetSurf will let me know with an appropriate message. Me too. I only bother with the other stuff in the download if !NetSurf complains.

url field

2014-02-13 Thread Peter Slegg
I noticed a couple of oddities that may just be the Atari version. 1. I opened an incomplete url and got a "bad url" error. So I closed the Netsurf window and tried to open another. Instead of an empty window I got the bad url error again. I had to exit and restart Netsurf. 2. I tried to append s

Cursor doesn' follow typing

2014-02-13 Thread pal...@inwind.it
Hi, I am a newcomer to the list and have a problem with netsurf which I am unable to solve. I'm trying to use netsurf on a i386 Debian Jessie box. If I start netsurf with the default homepage www.google.com and type a string of 7 "a"s in the search field, the cursor in the field moves slower than t

Re: Cursor doesn' follow typing

2014-02-13 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:35:13PM +0100, pal...@inwind.it wrote: > Hi, > I am a newcomer to the list and have a problem with netsurf which I am unable > to solve. > I'm trying to use netsurf on a i386 Debian Jessie box. There is no such thing. Do you mean Debian Testing? Sid? What version of

Dev Cl #1717

2014-02-13 Thread Brian
In article <53d83f69e8bbai...@argonet.co.uk>, Brian wrote: > In article <53d83d6e6ebrian.jord...@btinternet.com>, Brian Jordan > wrote: > > In article <53d83be5c4bbai...@argonet.co.uk>, Brian > > wrote: > > [Snip] > > > Who'd have thought it?? Certainly not me. I'm intuitive but not that