Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Harriet Bazley
On 27 Apr 2015 as I do recall, Daniel Silverstone wrote: [snip] > surely you can work together to either produce a patch, or to persuade > someone who might already know how to code in C to produce a patch. I'm not sure it's very realistic to expect a random C coder out of the kindne

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:52:19AM +0100, Harriet Bazley wrote: > I'm not sure it's very realistic to expect a random C coder out of the > kindness of his heart to download the source to a program of the complexity > of a web browser, work out how one specific piece of it currently functions, > and

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:52:19 +0100, Harriet Bazley wrote: > > surely you can work together to either produce a patch, or to persuade > > someone who might already know how to code in C to produce a patch. > > I'm not sure it's very realistic to expect a random C coder out of the > kindness of

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Harriet Bazley
On 29 Apr 2015 as I do recall, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:52:19 +0100, Harriet Bazley wrote: > > > surely you can work together to either produce a patch, or to persuade > > > someone who might already know how to code in C to produce a patch. > > > > I'm not

Re: Cookie dates

2015-04-29 Thread Harriet Bazley
On 27 Apr 2015 as I do recall, Gavin Wraith wrote: > In message <392690ba54.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk> > Harriet Bazley wrote: > > > I've been told by a webmaster that Netsurf doesn't log into his site > > properly because the timestamps on the cookies that it is creating are

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Richard Torrens (lists)
In article <20150429101112.GY23045@somnambulist.local>, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > I'm not sure it's very realistic to expect project maintainers to > continue to support a platform which none of them run and which has no > active maintainer to help -- where despite there clearly being a numbe

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread cj
In article <54bbe96175li...@torrens.org.uk>, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: > write a request to comp.sys.acorn.programmer to see if you can > interest anyone there in joining the team. There may well be > someone who is capable, could be interested, but does not subscribe > to this list. Ther

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 02:42:43PM +0100, cj wrote: > In article <54bbe96175li...@torrens.org.uk>, >Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: > > write a request to comp.sys.acorn.programmer to see if you can > > interest anyone there in joining the team. There may well be > > someone who is capable, cou

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Andrew Pinder
In message <54bbf0d883ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk> on 29 Apr 2015 cj wrote: > One question I have mused over for some time is what is the fraction > of NetSurf users that are RISC OS users and what fraction use other > platforms. Data on the number of downloads per month for each platform would

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 29 Apr, Rob Kendrick wrote in message <20150429135240.gl11...@platypus.pepperfish.net>: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 02:42:43PM +0100, cj wrote: > > In article <54bbe96175li...@torrens.org.uk>, > >Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: > > > write a request to comp.sys.acorn.programmer to see if

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 29 Apr, Harriet Bazley wrote in message : > On 27 Apr 2015 as I do recall, > Daniel Silverstone wrote: > > > surely you can work together to either produce a patch, or to persuade > > someone who might already know how to code in C to produce a patch. > > I'm not sure it's very

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:02:11PM +0100, Andrew Pinder wrote: > In message <54bbf0d883ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk> > on 29 Apr 2015 cj wrote: > > > One question I have mused over for some time is what is the fraction > > of NetSurf users that are RISC OS users and what fraction use other > > pla

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Nick Roberts
In message <20150429135240.gl11...@platypus.pepperfish.net> Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 02:42:43PM +0100, cj wrote: > > In article <54bbe96175li...@torrens.org.uk>, > >Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: > > > write a request to comp.sys.acorn.programmer to see if you can

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:36:35PM +0100, Nick Roberts wrote: > > I spent some time writing a HOWTO document outlining how to set up a > > cross-compiling environment using a virtual machine (so it can be done > > on Windows machines as well as on Linux). Sadly few people seem to have > > taken ad