Re: RISC OS Netsurf on Beagleboard

In article <530a75t...@netsurf-browser.org>, Michael Drake wrote: > In the !NetSurf application directory, there is an Obey file called > OpenScrap. Run it and the log file, called Log, will be in the directory > that opens. Would a menu item 'Open Logfile' be more accessible? John

Re: Controlling Javascript

In article <530f63fff3t...@netsurf-browser.org>, Michael Drake wrote: > about:testament should say if CI builds are built with JS. - which conveniently works as a URL file to put on the pinboard if required. John

Re: Toolbar Customisation

left mouse buttons respectively. Thus, from left to right, the three mouse buttons are: Select, Menu, Adjust, and their names usually start with a capital to avoid the obvious confusion and ambiguity which may be partly contributing to your problems and those of other newcomers to the OS. Hope this helps, John

Re: Toolbar Customisation

> Perhaps the correct information to provide to Ken, is that the toolbar > on the GTK version of NetSurf is not cutomisable. OTOH, if GTK provides a context sensitive menu using a different button, then try that over the toolbar and see what happens. Regards -- John Harrison Websit

#910

#910 breaks Google - form submission doesn't work! John

Re: favicon confusion

In article , John Rickman Iyonix wrote: > But to get this on every page means having to put the code into > hundreds of html files. Hence WebChange! http://www.webchange.co.uk/ Thank you, Vince! John

Re: Find !Fetch_NS

In article <86bb852e53.supe...@albenito.eclipse2k.freeserve.co.uk>, Allan Bennett wrote: > Surely? Please don't call me ...

Re: Find !Fetch_NS

s or comments about this version should > not be posted here, but instead to c.s.a.apps at my suggestion, IIRC. Wrath is best avoided! John

Update notification

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Re: dv #1012 continous loop > alt/break > freeze

ould have closed the logfile without rebooting using Ian Hamilton's CloseIt - that would have worked! If you don't have it, get it would be my advice. John

Upper character truncation - CSS handling

top few lines of the characters in the headines are not displayed. John

Re: Upper character truncation - CSS handling

cker too, if it isn't > already. I remember some discussion about implementing usage of > specific fonts quite some years ago. What concerns me is that the Google home page also displays a similar problem with the 'Advanced Search' and 'Language Tools' links to the riht of the search box - which may confuse/discourage our new RPi users! It needs sorting! John

Re: Upper character truncation - CSS handling

hted to see that the similar effect on the Google page links to the right of the search box /has/ been fixed. A much better impression for all our RPi new users! John

Re: Upper character truncation - CSS handling

On 24 Apr, joh...@ukgateway.net wrote: > I see this hasn't been corrected, Whoops - a quick refresh and it magically has - was I looking at a cached page or what? Congratulations all round! John

Re:   Non-breaking space.

> > Browsers know not to split a line at > > a non-breaking space, don't they? Except Netsurf? > Yes it's a long-standing bug. I assume 'long standing' only relates to 3.x. 2.9 behaves correctly. -- John Harrison Website http://jaharrison.me.uk

Gerph

Having been prompted to visit: http://gerph.org/riscos/ramble/ I find a problem with the bottom of: http://gerph.org/riscos/ramble/patches-lowlevel.html where text is overlaid. Can anyone cleverer than me suggest where the problem might lie? John

Re: streetmap.co.uk

Thanks for the URL - useful! John

Re: streetmap.co.uk

I can't find a way to type into the search field. I just tried it with Dev #953 (the latest I had loaded) and (a) it goes straight to a new style page to offer you the alternative places, which works but then (b) displays a blank map on which (c) none of the controls work. Regards -

Re: streetmap.co.uk

> ... Streetmap hasn't changed recently... It has! I use it regularly and the behaviour changed (as per my previous posting) about a week ago. Regards -- John Harrison Website http://jaharrison.me.uk

Re: streetmap.co.uk

disabled. The behaviour seems to be the same. (But one thing I reported before was incorrect. Changing scale keeps you in the old format. It's just moving the centre that jumps to new format.) Regards -- John Harrison Website http://jaharrison.me.uk

Re: Slow image display

ful thing to do) aggravate the problem by hiding from them the consequences of what they are doing. Regards -- John Harrison Website http://jaharrison.me.uk

Re: Broken directory

reports "Broken directory" > if I try to delete or move it. > Any way out? If you can rename it to, say, "" so it gets put out of the way at the bottom of the filer display, you could create a new empty directory to populate. John

Re: Paypal Order status/Actions

e found similar behaviour on several websites. I suspect it means that the facilities are provided by JS functions that NS doesn't yet support (hence the blank page) but that when the website detects the absence of JS it provides non-JS alternative versions. Regards -- John Harrison Website http://jaharrison.me.uk

Re: Cut to clipboard

eletion, whether by over typing or using the Delete key, is separate from the clipboard. The only thing I use where deleted or over typed text goes to the clipboard is Pluto, and it is extremely annoying. Even though I know about it, I still trip up from time to time. Regards -- Jo

Re: Cut to clipboard

ng deleted material in there, then you have still got a problem. The only possible exception I could think of is if there is a multi-level clipboard, so you can add the new stuff and still preserve what was there before. But we don't have that on RISC OS AFIA. -- John Harrison Website http://jaharrison.me.uk

Re: Cut to clipboard

x27;t an editor. (Somehow typing in a box on a web page feels more like interacting with the website than using an editor.) Anyway, since F8 is the RISC OS standard Undo I would never have thought of using it for anything else. If I want to view source I just use F3 and drop it onto Str

3.1 (Dev CI #1330)

My treeview display pluses and minuses have changed to 25/b8 and 25/be. John

Re: 3.1 (Dev CI #1330)

se get in touch. Way beyond my competence level! Though I notice Dingbats does have a down-pointy triangle if that helps anyone else! Tho' it also has an EFF logo, so perhaps not. John

Re: 3.1 (Dev CI #1330)

andling. Looks fine now, too small on earlier versions. I had assumed that someone had modified a built-in font, as you originally suggested was needed. But, yes, much better now! John

Re: Fanfiction.net login

7;s from at least last month, and Harriet did say 'As of today'. John

Re: Grey page

t that's what I see > with the same version of NetSurf. I notice an error in the stylesheet line - missing leading angle bracket, leading to the line being printed at the top rather than interpreted. John

StreetMap

Am I imagining it, or has StreetMap (without JS) decided to load all elements of the map each time? If so, well done! John

Re: Google hanging

In article <7f015b1154.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk>, Harriet Bazley wrote: > Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? > (Netsurf v1932, JS disabled) I was experiencing it yesterday with 1929/1930, JS disabled. Plusnet. Thought it was just me! John -- | John Williams

Re: web page is blank with new vwersion on NeSurf

In article , Fred Bambrough wrote: [Snip] > > > > Ah, having seen what it's supposed to be on my Mac... yes, it's blank. > Don't know if it's helpful but I found the missing content in: > !Scrap.ScrapDirs.ScrapDir.WWW.Netsurf.Misc.00.00.00.63

Re: web page is blank with new vwersion on NeSurf

In article <5413ed517djoh...@ukgateway.net>, John Williams wrote: > It broke between 1932 and 1935. And, unfortunately, http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/jenkins/view/All/job/netsurf/changes only goes back to #1936, so just misses the change that broke that page. John -- | John

Re: Disc cache worth it?

o grapple with his personal demons, I have taken the liberty of posting his suggestions myself so that they might reach a better target audience. Didn't take long, as he'd already done most of the necessary typing! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Beneficiary *

BBC Programme Pages

o see what I mean. Or is there some other explanation? John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Survivors *

Re: BBC Programme Pages

In article <20140709072018.gh1...@platypus.pepperfish.net>, Rob Kendrick wrote: > JavaScript replaces it with a higher-quality one once the page render has > completed. Ah - understood. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Requirements *

RISC OS Save-as PDF file

a PDF file, but the direct option seemed so much more elegant! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Proprietor(s) *

Re: Continuous disc activity when NetSurf running (RISC OS)

In article , Peter Young wrote: > Has any other user of RISC OS NetSurf found that there is continuous > disc activity while a development build is running? I've just reported > this on the bug tracker. #2410 seems OK, so after that version. John -- | John Williams

Changes page

http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/jenkins/view/All/job/netsurf/changes no longer seems to have content. Has the page/system moved somewhere else? John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net I think, therefore I am unsure - I think! *

Re: Image Link issue

In article <00195d22.01ffd490d...@smtp.freeola.net>, Peter Slegg wrote: > Can someone confirm this with other versions ? Same here with #2438 under RISC OS. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Magic tricks are like boiled eggs - hard to see how they are done *

Re: #2463 - Scanning fonts

In article <54797458f6bbai...@argonet.co.uk>, Brian wrote: > NetSurf has very recently started scanning fonts during loading. This > hasn't happened for ages. Is this a glitch, perhaps, or revised behaviour? Not happening here! Could something have changed in your font

RSS feed and Sargasso

/job/netsurf/rssAll in Sargasso, but it doesn't work. Can anyone advise on a correct URL, ie, one that /will/ work? John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Trader(s) *

Re: Slow page opening

Less than 30 sec under RISC OS John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Survivors *

#2654

the Inventory file. I suppose there must _be_ a reason. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Expression *

Re: #2654

In article <20150318085030.gd29...@kyllikki.org>, Vincent Sanders wrote: > Had you actually read the commit message in its entirity [1] I have now found out how to do this for myself using the link on the changes page. Thank you. John -- | John Williams

Re: Google

presses and menu items" programs we used to have in the olden days. Anyway, it's a pain having to do Menu, Choices, Content, Radio icon every time you want to switch, and, as it's RISC OS-only problem, it's unlikely to be fixed by the developers. So, some more lateral t

Re: Google

e there to listen that would be good!" Thus I (and I hope others will follow) am drawing this to your attention. I hope that this helps, John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Beneficiary *

Google

for discussion of third party applications. Best wishes, John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Trader(s) *

Re: Google

y.net> > I have used the Send feedback link on the bottom of a search page to send > this. I hope others will follow. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Rites *

Re: !Fetch_NS

In article <9f2fd6de54.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, Peter Young wrote: > If someone can tell me whether it's legal to do so, I could send him > my "Not John William's" version, which should work exactly as it does > here. This is really not the place t

Re: Crash with #2860

In article , Chris Young wrote: > Actually, try 2862, that's more likely to fix it. Won't even open a window here, like 2861. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Trader(s) *

Re: How we can all assist NetSurf's development

r contact me privately if you really prefer mine. I doubt there is any serious difference. Best wishes, John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Doubt *

Flickr

versions, but I do not have sufficient stock of older versions to isolate when the problem started. If anyone does have adequate numbers of earlier versions to find out at what development version the trouble started, I'm sure that information would help the developers greatly! John -- |

Re: Flickr

this mix-up be avoided if saved Choices actually reflected user's choices and set it how the user wanted it! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Too many brothels spoil the cook! *

Re: Ordered list problem

;, <mailto:netsurf-users-requ...@netsurf-browser.org?subject=unsubscribe> That http bit appears split over 3 lines, but is really all one. That is how you "remove this address from your list" Hope this helps, John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Th

Search Case Sensitivity - RISC OS - #3251

The case sensitivity option does now work, but the highlighting of the found terms only works if "Show all" is selected. At least, so it seems here. Perhaps someone else could check John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Souled and Healed *

Re: Search Case Sensitivity - RISC OS - #3251

atically downloaded it earlier today. Also, I gleaned what it was about from the changes log and, as I saw the progress bar was still not complete (and still isn't) I assumed that it was a brand new version with other OS versions still being rebuilt. So, I'm still puzzled. John --

Re: Search Case Sensitivity - RISC OS - #3251

In article , David Pitt wrote: > So it does, how very wierd! The page won't validate with w3, so I guess this was a red herring. Apologies. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Doubt *

Coffee in Bolognaise

real coffee, as I get gut-ache with instant! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Magic tricks are like boiled eggs - hard to see how they are done *

Builds as reflected on changes page under Build History

build #3270 remains "pending". RISC OS #3269 has downloaded fine, but presumably something has stuck at a later point for another OS. Why/how does this happen? Also, sometimes there is nothing listed under Changes for versions - not even a build reference. Just curious! John -- | Joh

JavaScript status indicator - request for a snippet of code

t the two possible states, then my local index page¹ uses PHP served by WebJames, but that is by no means essential and may well be over-complicated. I suspect that what I require is very simple/trivial and can be done in one line of JS. TIA John ¹ As described in my article in Archive magazine so

Re: JavaScript status indicator - request for a snippet of code

In article <60ac4d5355.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk>, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: > try this: > document.write("javascript is enabled"); Perfick, as HE Bates was prone to write! Thank you. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Name

Re: JavaScript status indicator - request for a snippet of code

In article , Richard Porter wrote: > > document.write("javascript is enabled"); > alternatively / additionally: > JS Off Excellent! I drop out of PHP and do them both, then drop back in: ?> document.write("JavaScript is enabled!
"); JavaScript is disabled

Re: Netsurf Cache -- relocation tangent

critical in Jim's particular case, but are in mine! Best wishes, John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Beneficiary *

Re: Text drag & drop

6 1:35:32 PM 1. update risc os frontend for layout table - Vincent Sanders/cgit - from the changes page. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Doubt *

Re: Text drag & drop

In article <5577741072joh...@ukgateway.net>, John Williams wrote: > So that might correspond with: ... Thank you, Vincent; normal behaviour restored! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Beneficiary *

Facebook

heques, not to mention my time! Forgive me if you already knew ... John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Suppliers *

Re: !Cache

In article <55bcf7a3bdnets...@avisoft.f9.co.uk>, Martin Avison wrote: > 3.5 (6th April 1016) So before the Norman Conquest, then? -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Doubt *

Re: history and hotlist not saved; CSS site

Quitting NS automatically seemed a bit like overkill - it helps to remember what's going on if you have to do it yourself! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Doubt *

Congratulations!

Congratulations to the NetSurf team for all the hard work it took to get to #4000! Best wishes, John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net I think, therefore I am unsure - I think! *

Browser ID/User Agent

servations, please! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Literary allusions are often magical - the art of the allusionist *

Name from NetSurf has underscores for percents

y-%C3%BCltet%C3%A9si-a-vid%C3%A9ken-m/jpg whereupon it works into the apps. -- John Rickman

URL lengths

imum - but what would a sensible limit be before complaining? 500 characters /seems/ reasonable, but is it actually? An genuine real-life number would be better! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- The Soul Criterion *

Re: URL lengths

of concatenating variables as I intend to BPUT them later; so I don't really need to have a long variable, just a series of suitable GET variables. A number would be easier! How many? John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Does 'expostulation' refer to the antics of former nuns? *

Re: URL lengths

y unlimited though I believe we have a > similar four gigabyte limit. Right, so it will be an arbitrary comparatively small allowance I will make, and then politely refuse to handle anything larger. Thank you all for your assistance. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.ne

Failure to initialise Unicode font library

ource would produce this error, but to no avail. Any suggestions as to what to look at next? John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Agent(s) *

Re: Failure to initialise Unicode font library

opied over the resources from back-up! No matter, sorted now, thanks! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Expression *

Logging of Changes

Why are there often series of changes which are not specifically logged at: http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/jenkins/view/All/job/netsurf/changes like in the last 13 builds. Does the information appear somewhere else? John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net

Re: Logging of Changes

Thank you for the clarification/explanation! Best wishes, John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net

Re: Backyard Worlds

with no problem here on ARMX6 NetSurf 3.8 #4235 John -- John Rickman

Re: date in search results

ragments the searched for quote. In the advanced serch options Google used to have an option to search by a range of dates. This has been removed from the mobile a desktop versions. Who is likely to want to pay for advert to pop up on a page that was last updated a long time ago? -- John Rickman

Re: linking to root of website, not root of drive

elping to spot the required file visually by type rather than looking for obscure file extensions or looking at contents. It's how RISC OS does it, and I like it that way! John PS and yes, it is actually RISC OS, not RiscOS with its pseudo camel-case. Editor should have spotted that one!

Re: date in search results

which allowed you to specify a date range has been removed. John -- John Rickman

Re: URL crashes Netsurf

.23 (18-Feb-18) NetSurf 3.8 #4235 John -- John Rickman

Re: URL crashes Netsurf

In message John Rickman wrote: > In message <56e81c01ccli...@torrens.org> > "Richard Torrens (lists)" wrote: >> This URL >> www.siemens-home.bsh-group.com/uk >> causes Netsurf to totally crash on the ARMX6 with 5.23 (18-Feb-18). &g

Re: Missing images

In article <8e6cf72457.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>, Richard Porter wrote: > I've now got the same problem with http://www.minimarcos.org/ That's OK here as well! Must be a local problem! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net

Re: Missing images

In article , Richard Porter wrote: > Before I raise a bug report I'd like to know if other NetSurf users are > seeing the same fault. All seems visible here! Latest 5.25 ROM, NetSurf 3.8 (Dev CI #4386) - both latest AFAIK. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net

Re: Getting the fb frontend to work

front end to Face Book) -- John Rickman

Sargasso RSS feed reader

James, please look at thread: https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/5/topics/1010 John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net

Re: Please test webp image format

here: > Oh dear I can't now get to the Netsurf mailing list with Plusnet's > webmail. > I only wanted to report that webp image colours are OK now with #4947. > Tested on Titanium and RPi3B+. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net

Re: Dragging from URL icon

y a URL, as one might if sending a link to someone else for example. You can drag URLs directly from the address bar and drop them into the target area - no need for copy and paste. John -- John Rickman ___ netsurf-users mailing list -- netsurf-users@netsur

Re: Dragging from URL icon

In message <980d53d858.harr...@bazleyfamily.co.uk> Harriet Bazley wrote: > On 1 Dec 2020 as I do recall, > John Rickman wrote: >> In message <58d83a9b0bstuartli...@orpheusinternet.co.uk> >> lists wrote: > [snip] >>>

Re: Crashing after #5252

the webpage URL? I can't drug and drop it, there isn't a menu option that I can see and I can't seem to get the URL into the clipboard. John -- John Rickman ___ netsurf-users mailing list -- netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org To unsubscribe

Re: Crashing after #5252

In message <5904f95cf0petit.f...@free.fr> Petit Four wrote: > In article <25c3f20459.j...@rickman.argonet..co.uk>, >John Rickman wrote: >> is there a workaround for exporting the webpage URL? > You now have to use the menu - over page, Page > Sa

Re: Please test the latest build

installed - seems to be more responsive John -- John Rickman ___ netsurf-users mailing list -- netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org To unsubscribe send an email to netsurf-users-le...@netsurf-browser.org

Re: Priorities

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, John Williams wrote: Can someone advise me whether the priorities for fixing stuff is highest at 1 or at 9 - that is, does the lightest get done first or the darkest? Clear unambiguous answers would be appreciated. I quote from the drop-down menu: 1 - Lowest 5

Re: Fatal signal received: Segmentation fault

2007 17:30)' NetSurf on , node , release <4.02>, version <19990818-001>, machine Please report this on the bug tracker, attaching the log file. Thanks, John.

Re: Netsurf crashing

r issues to be reported on the tracker is that they will get lost otherwise. John.

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