Re: netsurf on RiscOS

2008-12-10 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 10 Dec 2008 richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just trying netsurf for the first time and by internet banking site is > complaining that javascript is not working on my browser. Does this OS > support javascript or is it something I've not set properly? If that is the HSBC site, it does

Re: The Register

2008-12-10 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 10 Dec 2008 Paul Vigay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've just started getting errors on the home page of >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/ . The errors are "invalid block type" and >> "invalid code lengths set". O

Re: Broken link on NetSurf site

2008-12-18 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 18 Dec 2008 Brian Jordan wrote: > Recent attempts to download the latest development build of Netsurf > via the internal help files fail. The "Development builds" link from > file:Docs/documentation/info_en#GettingNetSurf > produces a "Page not found error" > The "Test builds" link from h

Re: Text overlap

2009-01-13 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 13 Jan 2009 "Torrens (lists)" wrote: > http://www.tpub.com/content/neets/14177/css/14177_35.htm > has bad text overlap problems. Not here with RISC OS 5.13 and NetSurf r6029. Looks OK to me. > It's a pigs-ear of an html, using lots of text position information in > the css! I suspect if NS

Re: Text overlap

2009-01-13 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 13 Jan 2009 "Torrens (lists)" wrote: > In article <50a9e71c50.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, >Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 13 Jan 2009 "Torrens (lists)" wrote: >>> http://www.tpub.com/content/neets/14177/css/14177_35.htm >>>

Re: subscript isn't

2009-01-23 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 23 Jan 2009 Jim Nagel wrote: > a thread in another forum about the origin of the "0x" prefix for hex > numbers had me look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal > skip to the section called "Representing hexadecimal" and i see > Netsurf turning subscripts into superscripts. > is this

Re: subscript isn't

2009-01-23 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 23 Jan 2009 Erving wrote: > In message you wrote: >>> a thread in another forum about the origin of the "0x" prefix for hex >>> numbers had me look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal >> >>> skip to the section called "Representing hexadecimal" and i see >>> Netsurf turning subscri

Re: Overlapping text problem again

2009-01-27 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 27 Jan 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article <4fe96cd8d7lists-nos...@vigay.com>, >Paul Vigay wrote: >> I'm this this one had been sorted in the past, but I've just looked at >> the Daily Mail (I'm not a reader, someone emailed me the link, honest >> gov) website and all the text is ove

Re: Overlapping text problem again

2009-01-27 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 27 Jan 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article <94d83c2450.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> It is, but not yet with http://www.traintimes.org.uk/ which overlaps >> badly, as someone else has reported. > I explained the reason

Re: r6324 crashes on loading

2009-01-31 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 31 Jan 2009 Tony Moore wrote: > SARPC RO 6.14 32K colour > NetSurf 2.0 (Dev) (31 Jan 2009 16:30) r6324 crashes on loading. > Please see log attached to bug report > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2553069&grou > p_id=51719&atid=464312 All fine here with RISC OS 5.

Re: r6324 crashes on loading

2009-01-31 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 31 Jan 2009 Dr Peter Young wrote: > On 31 Jan 2009 Tony Moore wrote: >> SARPC RO 6.14 32K colour >> NetSurf 2.0 (Dev) (31 Jan 2009 16:30) r6324 crashes on loading. >> Please see log attached to bug report >> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta

Re: r6324 crashes on loading

2009-02-01 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 31 Jan 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article , > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> D'oh. It was OK on the home page, www.bbc.co.uk , but crashes when I >> try to access anything else. > It works here. Please submit a bug report with log if it's crashing when >

Re: r6324 crashes on loading

2009-02-01 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 31 Jan 2009 Dr Peter Young wrote: > On 31 Jan 2009 Michael Drake wrote: >> In article , >> Dr Peter Young wrote: >>> D'oh. It was OK on the home page, www.bbc.co.uk , but crashes when I >>> try to access anything else. >> It works here.

Re: r6298 - broken URL drag

2009-02-01 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 1 Feb 2009 Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 12:13 +0100, John Williams wrote: >> Today's version r6298 gives a file containing "(null)" when a URL is >> shift-dragged to the filer from the address bar instead of the URL. > Have you filed a bug for this in the bug tracker?

Re: Newbie wants help - 2nd thoughts

2009-02-11 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 11 Feb 2009 Richard Porter wrote: > On 11 Feb 2009 Michael Bell wrote: >> Maybe I should mention that I renamed my old !NetSurf to !NetSurfOld >> to get it out of the way, as I think I ought to. I don't know if >> that's relevant. > That's what I do, or more accurately I rename it to !NetSu

Re: Newbie wants help - 2nd thoughts

2009-02-11 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 11 Feb 2009 Chris Newman wrote: > In article , > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 11 Feb 2009 Richard Porter wrote: >>> On 11 Feb 2009 Michael Bell wrote: >>>> Maybe I should mention that I renamed my old !NetSurf to !NetSurfOld >>>> to ge

Re: Blanking text box content

2009-02-22 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 22 Feb 2009 John-Mark Bell wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 09:20 +, Michael Drake wrote: >> In article <0c736a3150.harr...@freeuk.com>, >>Harriet Bazley wrote: >>> Before I embark on another 2Mb+ of download... is there a problem with >>> my latest version of NetSurf (20 Feb)? >> >>

Re: website crashes netsurf

2009-02-26 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 26 Feb 2009 Tony Moore wrote: > NetSurf 2.0 (Dev) (16 Feb 2009 20:30) r6542 > After double clicking on > http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleI > D=171203805 > NetSurf crashes, without opening its main window, and disappears from > the iconbar. > Can anyone

Worth a bug report?

2009-03-03 Thread Dr Peter Young
I suspect this may be due to bad HTML rather than to a NetSurf bug, but I don't have the knowledge to confirm or deny this. 1) Go to the new (and I think a lot worse) BBC weather site. I use http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/2174?area=GL52 2) Ignore all the warnings about missing JavaScrip

Re: automating login details

2009-04-16 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 16 Apr 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:00:16 +0100 > Jim Nagel wrote: >> is there any way of automatically providing my username and password >> when i go to a certain website i need to use frequently? > It depends. If the site is using basic auth (ie, the browser pops u

Re: automating login details

2009-04-17 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 16 Apr 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:39:19 +0100 > Dr Peter Young wrote: >>> There was a hack floating about to automatically fill in forms for >>> browsers under RISC OS, but I don't recall its name. >> >> Not a hack, but Kev

Re: NetSurf 2.0

2009-04-25 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 24 Apr 2009 John-Mark Bell wrote: > The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the completion of NetSurf > 2.0. This release contains many new features and enhancements as well as > many minor bug fixes and improvements. It will be made available for > download from http://www.netsurf-brows

Re: NetSurf 2.0

2009-04-26 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 26 Apr 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote: [snip] > NetSurf 2.0 is a snapshot of the development version from a few days > ago, with a few release-specific changes. If you're using a > development version from today, you're already using something later. > Beware: now we have released 2.0, we are lik

Re: NetSurf 2.0 + Royal Mail Address Finder

2009-04-29 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 29 Apr 2009 Russell Hafter - Lists wrote: > It was not possible to use the Royal Mail's Address Finder > with NetSurf 1.2, though many of the more recent test builds > did work OK. > I have just tried it with NetSurf 2.0 and there is a problem > again. > www.royalmail.com/postcodes > When

r7415 and fonts.

2009-05-07 Thread Dr Peter Young
I've just tried downloading and running r7415 with its changes in font handling. Running it gives the font scanning window, which then gets stuck with the hourglass at 18% while scanning Cyberbit, and I've had to go back to 7402. The first font it comes to is also a Unicode one (Abysinnica, giv

Re: r7415 and fonts.

2009-05-07 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 7 May 2009 Dr Peter Young wrote: > I've just tried downloading and running r7415 with its changes in font > handling. Running it gives the font scanning window, which then gets > stuck with the hourglass at 18% while scanning Cyberbit, and I've had > to go back to 7

Re: r7415 and fonts.

2009-05-07 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 7 May 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article , > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> I've just tried downloading and running r7415 with its changes in font >> handling. Running it gives the font scanning window, which then gets >> stuck with the hourglass at 18% while

Re: r7415 and fonts.

2009-05-07 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 7 May 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article , > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 7 May 2009 Dr Peter Young wrote: >> Just tried again, and the font scan continued after 90 seconds on >> Cyberbit. When it came to run, an error message said "Error from >>

Re: r7415 and fonts.

2009-05-07 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 7 May 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article , > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 7 May 2009 Michael Drake wrote: >> That's interesting, and in investigating this I discover that I had >> two copies of SwissB, one in Resources.!Fonts and one in FontFS. I

Re: r7415 and fonts.

2009-05-07 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 7 May 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article , > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 7 May 2009 Michael Drake wrote: >> That's interesting, and in investigating this I discover that I had >> two copies of SwissB, one in Resources.!Fonts and one in FontFS. I

Re: Save as drawfile broken in r7513

2009-05-15 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 15 May 2009 Gary Jones wrote: > I've been successfully using the very useful save as drawfile in > v2.00. However, I notice in r7513 some files are causing !Darw to > complain with multiple errors for example "Bounding box coordinates > are in the wrong order at location 16_10734". > Can any

Re: Save as drawfile broken in r7513

2009-05-15 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 15 May 2009 Dave Symes wrote: > In article <38a2e85b50.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 15 May 2009 Gary Jones wrote: >>> I've been successfully using the very useful save as drawfile in >>> v2.00. However, I notice

Re: Save as drawfile broken in r7513

2009-05-16 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 16 May 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article <9a0b0a5c50.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> Anyone going to post a bug report? > Please say what URLs cause broken drawfile export. www.bbc.co.uk for one. With best wishes, Peter. -- Pe

Re: Save as drawfile broken in r7513

2009-05-19 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 18 May 2009 Gary Jones wrote: > In message <3b11435c50.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk> > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 16 May 2009 Michael Drake wrote: >>> In article <9a0b0a5c50.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, >>>Dr Peter Young wrot

Re: Netsurf Export as Drawfile problem

2009-05-23 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 23 May 2009 Dave Symes wrote: > In article <1243088471.32028.15.ca...@duiker>, >John-Mark Bell wrote: >> The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the immediate availability >> of NetSurf 2.1. > Worth mentioning as a positive note. > This 2.1 release Exports as a Drawfile okay. > So

Re: Netsurf Export as Drawfile problem

2009-05-24 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 23 May 2009 Dr Peter Young wrote: > On 23 May 2009 Dave Symes wrote: >> In article <1243088471.32028.15.ca...@duiker>, >>John-Mark Bell wrote: >>> The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the immediate availability >>> of NetSurf 2.1.

Re: NetSurf rendering speed test

2009-05-25 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 25 May 2009 "Chris Young" wrote: > Hello :) > Please can somebody try accessing the following site in NetSurf and > tell me how it compares speed-wise to any other page: > http://www.amigaimpact.org > It is painfully slow in my port (takes about 8 seconds to page down), > so I want to know

Re: NS2.1 Unicode font library could not be initialized

2009-05-26 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 26 May 2009 Mike Hobbs wrote: > I just tried 2.1 and can't get past the first hurdle... > "Unicode font library could not be initialized..." > I'm using it on Virtual RPC-SA (RO 4.02) which has been > running various versions of NetSurf successfully up to 2.0 > and I just rolled back to 2.0

Re: Ctrl-A on text input area

2009-05-30 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 30 May 2009 Jim Nagel wrote: > when typing a lengthy bit of text into one of those typically > annoyingly small panes on a web page, i have learnt the hard way over > the years to keep a copy of what i write, because too often a site > throws up some error when i click Submit and then i have

Squashed formatting on Google.

2009-07-01 Thread Dr Peter Young
Does anyone else find this, and is it worth a bug report? In www.google.co.uk the formatting isn't right for me (RISC OS 5.14, NetSurf r8217 and several previous builds; most things are a bit squashed up. A screenshot is at http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk/screen.jpg TIA, With best wishes, Pe

Re: NS2.1 Unicode font library could not be initialized

2009-07-06 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 6 Jul 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article <507685eb29rh.li...@phone.coop>, >Russell Hafter - Lists wrote: >> But while that may be a reason, it does not explain the need >> for font scanning *to me*. Sorry. > Try reading the description of what RUfl does here: > http://www.netsur

Re: NS2.1 Unicode font library could not be initialized

2009-07-06 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 6 Jul 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article , > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> How did you make the screenshot, I wonder? I'd be interested to do that >> with a couple of the Unicode fonts that I have. > It's a screenshot of RUfl Chars, a sort of example pr

Odd hourglass.

2009-07-24 Thread Dr Peter Young
RISC OS 5.14 and NetSurf r8768. Just out of idle curiosity, really: why do I get the hourglass changing from normal to tiny and back again when NetSurf is downloading a page? I've only noticed this for the last two or three weeks, perhaps, or was I unobservant previously? TIA, With best wishe

Re: Odd hourglass.

2009-07-24 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 24 Jul 2009 David Pitt wrote: > In message <0b84c47f50.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk> > Dr Peter Young wrote: >>RISC OS 5.14 and NetSurf r8768. >> >>Just out of idle curiosity, really: why do I get the hourglass >>changing from normal to tiny and back a

Re: Odd hourglass.

2009-07-26 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 25 Jul 2009 John-Mark Bell wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 08:34 +0100, Dr Peter Young wrote: >> RISC OS 5.14 and NetSurf r8768. >> >> Just out of idle curiosity, really: why do I get the hourglass >> changing from normal to tiny and back again when NetSurf is

Re: Serious error when doing a full save to disc

2009-07-26 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 26 Jul 2009 Richard Ashbery wrote: > Serious Save bug when Adjust-clicking on Save icon. A fatal error from > NetSurf occurs (must exit immediately) and icon disappears from > iconbar. > A good site to try this on is. > http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/how-to-convert-a-p

Google formatting; thanks.

2009-08-03 Thread Dr Peter Young
>From the entry for r9012 on the Test Builds page: "Add default line-height for form elements. Fixes squashed Google homepage." Much better, and many thanks. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter, \ / zfc Yb \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 Anne\/ ____\

BBC weather site using hige amounts of memory.

2009-09-29 Thread Dr Peter Young
I imagine that this is the fault of what seems to be a thoroughly bloated site rather than of NetSurf, but I'd like an expert opinion, particularly as to whether I should submit a bug report. Loading http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/2174?area=GL52 as the first page on a 500MB Iyonix (RISC

Re: BBC weather site using hige amounts of memory.

2009-09-29 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 29 Sep 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article , > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> I imagine that this is the fault of what seems to be a thoroughly >> bloated site rather than of NetSurf, but I'd like an expert opinion, >> particularly as to whether I should sub

Re: BBC weather site using hige amounts of memory.

2009-09-29 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 29 Sep 2009 John-Mark Bell wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:14 +0100, Michael Drake wrote: >> In article , >> Dr Peter Young wrote: >>> I imagine that this is the fault of what seems to be a thoroughly >>> bloated site rather than of NetSur

Re: BBC weather site using hige amounts of memory.

2009-09-30 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 29 Sep 2009 John-Mark Bell wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:14 +0100, Michael Drake wrote: >> In article , >> Dr Peter Young wrote: >>> I imagine that this is the fault of what seems to be a thoroughly >>> bloated site rather than of NetSur

Global history in RISC OS

2009-10-06 Thread Dr Peter Young
Please, where does RISC OS NetSurf keep its global history, and in what form? I have searched in vain so far. I've been able to search the hotlist by loading the HTML in Boot.Choices.WWW.NetSurf and then using NetSurf's search facility, and there are occasions in which it would be useful to be

Re: Global history in RISC OS

2009-10-06 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 6 Oct 2009 John-Mark Bell wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 14:31 +0100, Dr Peter Young wrote: >> Please, where does RISC OS NetSurf keep its global history, and in >> what form? I have searched in vain so far. > Choices:WWW.NetSurf.URL Many thanks; I'd seen this, and

Re: Global history in RISC OS

2009-10-07 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 7 Oct 2009 Tim Hill wrote: > In article , Dr Peter Young > wrote: >> Ah, but I can load it into StrongED and search for URLs and launch >> them from there. > You may have to edit some as the URL has been split. >> Shortcuts for hotlist and global history ar

Re: (housekeeping) private copies vs list

2009-10-14 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 14 Oct 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:32:00 +0100 > Jim Nagel wrote: >> please, if sending a private copy to somebody while posting to the >> list, put the list in the TO field and the private copy in CC or BCC? >> >> then people's filtering systems will be happy. > You

Re: NetSurf dumps

2009-11-18 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 18 Nov 2009 Dave Symes wrote: [snip] > I have an obey file on my Pinboard which contains: > Copy .WWW.NetSurf.Log .NSLog ~C F~V > When double clicked, copies the NS log to my !Transient Dir of the day. Useful hint, Dave, thanks. It works with TempDir's too, and here is now on StrongMen'

Re: BBC Weather site display

2009-11-20 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 20 Nov 2009 "Gerald Dodson" wrote: > November 15 version: > On first accessing the BBC weather site the part of the page initially > shown is blank and there is a error occurs with a png. Stepping down > results in the image on the lower part of the page being shown and on > returning to the

Re: BBC Weather site display

2009-11-21 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 21 Nov 2009 David Pitt wrote: > Dr Peter Young wrote: [snip] >> I suspect this is all the fault of the BBC web-people, but I wonder what >> the experts have to say? > Given the general slowness reported I would have doubts about Peter's > broadband speed. I get

Re: BBC Weather site display

2009-11-22 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 21 Nov 2009 Michael Drake wrote: > In article <49539.82.153.33.53.1258751334.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk>, >Gerald Dodson wrote: >> November 15 version: >> On first accessing the BBC weather site the part of the page initially >> shown is blank and there is a error occurs with a png

Re: BBC Weather site display

2009-11-22 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 21 Nov 2009 David Pitt wrote: > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 21 Nov 2009 David Pitt wrote: >> >>> Dr Peter Young wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>>> I suspect this is all the fault of the BBC web-people, but I wonder >>>>

Re: National Rail Enquiries site no longer works

2009-12-17 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 17 Dec 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:26:07 GMT > Roger Darlington wrote: >> http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ >> >> Now, even though I enter a time for tomorrow, it gives me a time for >> today, or even says I cannot enter a time in the past. > As a stopgap, try this site

Re: National Rail Enquiries site no longer works

2009-12-17 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 17 Dec 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:26:19 GMT > Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 17 Dec 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:26:07 GMT >>> Roger Darlington wrote: >> >>>> http://www.nationalrail

Re: National Rail Enquiries site no longer works

2009-12-26 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 18 Dec 2009 Matthew Somerville wrote: > Jim Nagel wrote: > http://www.traintimes.org.uk/ > ... Hmm, looks like it's encoding a trailing space into the URL it > gets redirected to. Try removing any instance of %20 in the URL it > sends when you to when you submit the form. >

Re: National Rail Enquiries site no longer works

2009-12-27 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 27 Dec 2009 Roger Darlington wrote: > On 26 Dec 2009, Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 18 Dec 2009 Matthew Somerville wrote: >> >>> Jim Nagel wrote: >> >>>>>>> http://www.traintimes.org.uk/ >>>>>>> ... Hmm, looks like i

Re: 2.1 not working here?

2010-01-01 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 1 Jan 2010 John wrote: > Very strange. I have just tried to run 2.1 and it refuses. "Last year" it > was fine when I tried it. > I downloaded a fresh version, and it still refuses. Since it is so small, I > enclose an archived log file in case it means anything to someone more > informed tha

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-16 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 16 Jan 2010 Steve Fryatt wrote: > On 15 Jan, Michael Bell wrote in message > <9d6e16da50.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>: >> In message <20100115131610.5b82a...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> >> Rob Kendrick wrote: >> >>> Perhaps 5 to 10 years of experience to learn C a

Re: inconsistency between Linux and RISC OS

2010-02-01 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 1 Feb 2010 rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: > On my website there is an inconsistency between RISC OS and Linux when > displaying an image via a css defined background-url. > On RISC OS NetSurf R8643 >www.gaydon.org.uk displays a background image of wind turbines. > If you click on the first

Re: cut&paste oddity

2010-04-02 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 2 Apr 2010 Richard Porter wrote: > On 2 Apr 2010 Jim Nagel wrote: >> why is it that i can copy a URL (as a bit of text) out of an >> Impression document and paste it into Edit, Datapower, Techwriter, and >> various other apps, but i can't paste it into Netsurf's URL bar? >> i can, however,

Re: cut&paste oddity

2010-04-02 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 2 Apr 2010 Jim Nagel wrote: > Dr Peter Young wrote on 2 Apr: >> I regularly do this, and have never had a problem! > sorry, Peter: not sure which of the various operations that were > quoted is what you mean by "this". Sorry, I was posting in a hurry. What

Re: cut&paste oddity

2010-04-03 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 2 Apr 2010 Dave Symes wrote: > In article , >Jim Nagel wrote: >> Brian Howlett wrote on 2 Apr: >>> Are you using Clipboard or IcnClipBrd? >> *modules and *rommodules turns up only ClipboardHolder 0.15 (on rom). > I'm on Select RO 6.20 ClipboardHolder 0.17 and I can't Ctrl-C out of Imp

Re: cut&paste oddity

2010-04-05 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 5 Apr 2010 Steve Fryatt wrote: [snip cut and paste not working from Impression to NetSurf] > This isn't a NetSurf problem. > The URL bar is just a standard Wimp writable icon (I think; I'm open to > corrections), and so Ctrl-V into it is handled by whatever you use to handle > the clipboard

Re: RISC OS autobuilder re-enabled

2010-04-18 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 18 Apr 2010 Dave Symes wrote: > In article <510a0e4a4dt...@netsurf-browser.org>, >Michael Drake wrote: >> In article <510a0b9091sjcl...@ormail.co.uk>, >>Steve Clark wrote: >>> I have the same problem. I've put in an bug report. >> Thanks, I see in the screenshot that the URL star

Re: NetSurf 2.5 Released

2010-04-25 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 25 Apr 2010 Michael Bell wrote: [snip] > It's so sad that NetSurf is not going to be developed further. Maybe I > should have come to Wakefield. Not so, I think. Since 2.5 came out there have been several updates on the test builds page, at least one of which is RISC OS-specific. With bes

Re: Netsurf.Page.Export.PDF

2010-04-27 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 27 Apr 2010 Brian wrote: > Hi > After using the current Netsurf(25/04/10)r10482 I tried to export the > webpage as a PDF. > I went into the export.PDF stage and dragged the file to a directory > but the file isn't deposited and it doesn't seem to have been saved. > Though it gives the impress

Re: Netsurf.Page.Export.PDF

2010-04-27 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 27 Apr 2010 Dr Peter Young wrote: > On 27 Apr 2010 Brian wrote: >> Hi >> After using the current Netsurf(25/04/10)r10482 I tried to export the >> webpage as a PDF. >> I went into the export.PDF stage and dragged the file to a directory >> but the file is

A BBC page failing to load.

2010-04-28 Thread Dr Peter Young
Could someone please try this for me, before I think about submitting a bug request, in case I'm doing something silly? Trying to load http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour (I was trying to download the podcast for S(WMBO)+(WILAC) ) NetSurf r10504 on RISC OS 5.16 gets stuck on this machine wit

Re: A BBC page failing to load.

2010-04-28 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 28 Apr 2010 Richard Porter wrote: > On 28 Apr 2010 Dr Peter Young wrote: >> Could someone please try this for me, before I think about submitting >> a bug request, in case I'm doing something silly? >> Trying to load http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour (I was

Re: NetSurf and Printing

2010-04-30 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 30 Apr 2010 Dave Symes wrote: > Has anyone else had problems printing from the recent releases of NetSurf, > up to and including todays 30 April r10528? > It will print the page, but then Errors out and dies, presenting the usual > Log file (I still have stored). > This happens with the pas

Re: NetSurf and Printing

2010-04-30 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 30 Apr 2010 Brian Jordan wrote: > In article <02fc231051.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, Dr Peter Young > wrote: >> On 30 Apr 2010 Dave Symes wrote: >>> Has anyone else had problems printing from the recent releases of >>> NetSurf, up to and includ

Re: hiccup with emailed link to a password-protected file

2010-05-17 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 17 May 2010 Jim Nagel wrote: > nobody responded to my earlier posting (quoted below). problem has > come up again. here are some smaller sample files: Oh, yes, I have! On the MPro list. And is it wise to put Gerald's passwords on a public posting, I wonder? [snip] With best wishes, Pet

Re: test builds after 2.5

2010-05-18 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 18 May 2010 george wrote: > Since the developers have stated that NetSurf 2.5 will be the last > stable RISC OS release, should I continue to download and install test > builds from the RISC OS section of the Downloads area? Presumably, at > a certain point, these will fail due to incompatibi

Re: star-command to fetch a web page

2010-07-04 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 4 Jul 2010 Jim Nagel wrote: > does there exist a command i can put in an obeyfile or type in a > taskwindow that would tell the browser to fetch a certain web page? > (and launch the browser if it's not already running?) > e.g. *heyfetch > i'm trying to set up a Keystroke to do this from

Re: Scroll wheel scrolling hangs?

2010-07-19 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 19 Jul 2010 Grahame Parish wrote: > I'm running r10651 on RO 5.16 (flashed) with !HID 0.36. I've noticed > recently that if I use the scroll bar to move up and down a page all > is OK, but if I try the scroll wheel (which is my normal method) I get > a hang of 6 or 7 seconds each time befor

Re: Downloading zip files (from mw-software)

2010-07-22 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 22 Jul 2010 Russell Hafter - Lists wrote: > In article > <20100722102119.641f5...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>, >Rob Kendrick wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:07:03 +0100 Russell Hafter - Lists >> wrote: Can you give us an example URL that demonstrates this? >>> Given that

Re: Downloading zip files (from mw-software)

2010-07-23 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 22 Jul 2010 John-Mark Bell wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 10:21 +0100, Rob Kendrick wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:07:03 +0100 >> Russell Hafter - Lists wrote: >> Can you give us an example URL that demonstrates this? >>> >>> Given that in both cases I was downloading paid for softw

Re: Scroll wheel scrolling hangs?

2010-08-11 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 11 Aug 2010 Grahame Parish wrote: [snip] > Seems I'm constantly updating my own thread... > Somewhere between r10684 and r10687 the problem has gone away. I've > browsed a dozen or more sites this evening since upgrading this > afternoon, many with long pages, and no instances of scroll w

Re: Scroll wheel scrolling hangs?

2010-08-13 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 13 Aug 2010 Steve Fryatt wrote: > On 12 Aug, Dr Peter Young wrote in message > : >> Yes, confirmed that scrolling seems to be normal here again; also, the >> frequent hard disc access reported by others seems not to happen now. Are >> these related? > The SV

Hang resulting in 11MB logfile.

2010-09-07 Thread Dr Peter Young
I've just filed this bug report: [quote] This is with RISC OS 5.16 and NetSurf test build r10731. Page http://www.rickstein.com/Steins-Fish-and-Chips.html loaded; hourglass activity, sometimes the main animated one and sometimes the NetSurf small one, seems to be continuous. Click on "Sample e

Re: Hang resulting in 11MB logfile.

2010-09-08 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 8 Sep 2010 Brian Howlett wrote: > On 7 Sep, Dr Peter Young wrote: >> Page http://www.rickstein.com/Steins-Fish-and-Chips.html > Something on that page is fooling NS (r10731 here) in to thinking it > is loading several million out of 25 objects. It also steals every >

Re: Hang resulting in 11MB logfile.

2010-09-19 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 7 Sep 2010 Dr Peter Young wrote: > I've just filed this bug report: > [quote] > This is with RISC OS 5.16 and NetSurf test build r10731. > Page http://www.rickstein.com/Steins-Fish-and-Chips.html loaded; > hourglass activity, sometimes the main animated one and som

Re: I would like to have a search facility in the hotlist.

2010-09-23 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 23 Sep 2010 Michael Drake wrote: > In article , >Michael Bell wrote: >> My hotlist reflects my wool-gathering mind. Too many bits and pieces! >> I would like to be able to search through it in the same wasy as I can >> in any other directory. > It's been on the feature requests list for

Re: A what is

2010-09-29 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 29 Sep 2010 Dr Alan Leighton wrote: [snip] > What are we doing on this line? ^ List? Getting a drucking shortly, I think! With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter, \ / zfc Lu \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 Anne\/ ____\

Global History oddity.

2010-10-24 Thread Dr Peter Young
This is with RISC OS 5.16 flashed, and NetSurf r10900. I'm getting used to the new much smaller font size in the Global History and Hotlist windows (gets a lot more text in), but I have found that the first time in a session that I open the Global History the "Three weeks ago" directory is open

Re: Global History oddity.

2010-10-24 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 24 Oct 2010 "Chris Young" wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:09:52 +0100, Dr Peter Young (no relation) > wrote: >> I'm getting used to the new much smaller font size in the Global >> History and Hotlist windows (gets a lot more text in), but I have >>

Bug tracker page unusable!

2010-12-01 Thread Dr Peter Young
This is with RISC OS 5.16 and NetSurf r10951. I've just had a crash on the HSBC site; I went to the bug reporting site to report this, but have found it to be unusable. The "Add new" point on the site is overlapped by "Bugs", and I haven't found a way of being able to click on it. Is there any

Re: Bug tracker page unusable!

2010-12-01 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 1 Dec 2010 Richard Porter wrote: > On 1 Dec 2010 Dr Peter Young wrote: >> This is with RISC OS 5.16 and NetSurf r10951. >> I've just had a crash on the HSBC site; I went to the bug reporting >> site to report this, but have found it to be unusable. The "A

Re: NetSurf RISC OS archive files

2011-01-28 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 28 Jan 2011 John Williams wrote: > In article <519ca0651ft...@netsurf-browser.org>, >Michael Drake wrote: >> Sounds like something on your system gives them different RISC OS >> filetypes when they're downloaded. Do you use different apps to download >> NetSurf? > No, but I do use a h

Re: Sourceforge passwords

2011-01-30 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 29 Jan 2011 Harriet Bazley wrote: > Wonderful... you can't use Netsurf to reset the Sourceforge passwords to > access the Netsurf bug tracker :-( > (Unless I'm missing something.) > https://sourceforge.net/account/registration/recover.php No you're not missing anything; I had to go to Windo

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2011

2011-02-28 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 28 Feb 2011 george wrote: > In message <17f1bfac51.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk> > Tony Moore wrote: >> On 26 Feb 2011, Michael Drake wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> Finally, I'm not sure it's been mentioned officially anywhere, so I'll >>> say it here: The RISC OS front end

Re: Bug "Out of date"

2011-03-08 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 8 Mar 2011 "David J. Ruck" wrote: > On 08/03/2011 08:38, John-Mark Bell wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 08:30 +, David J. Ruck wrote: >>> What is the reasoning behind marking a bug "out of date"? Particularly >>> when it is easily reproducible with the last test build by one click on >>>

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