Re: Crashes on GMail

2012-09-30 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Ma Xiaojun wrote > I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.5, NetSurf 2.9. ... > I'd like to use GMail, I don't mind it is just mobile view only. > However, all the following addresses gave me a crash: > www.gmail.com > mail.google.com > g.illinois.edu No problem on Iyonix 5.18 with 2.9 I link to:- htt

small problem with raspberry pi site

2012-10-05 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Version 2.9, and version 3.0 (2012-10-03_19-43-06) of NetSurf mess up the top menu line of the raspberry pi home page by overlaying the text, "Skip to primary content" over the menu items. I don't have the expertise to be able to tell whether this is this a bug in NetSurf or is caused by a bad

Re: User feedback requested (esp. RISC OS)

2012-10-07 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Any attempt to load this page :- http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/songaf.html using netsurf-2012-10-03_19-43-06 pops up a message from NetSurf saying: "NetSurf is running out of memory. Please free some memory and try again." Tasks shows NS is using 6800K, Free 422772, Dynamic areas NS

NetSurf running out of memory

2012-10-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
I have hit three more pages that give the out of memory message using the latest test version (netsurf-2012-10-07_21-57-22/zip) click on: http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/kinder.htm This will show a page of images. Click on either the bicycle or the kayak and (on my Iyonix running 5.18) a war

Re: NetSurf running out of memory

2012-10-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Alan Leighton wrote > John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> I have hit three more pages that give the out of memory message using >> the latest test version (netsurf-2012-10-07_21-57-22/zip) >> click on: http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/kinder.htm >> This will show

Re: NetSurf running out of memory

2012-10-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Alan Leighton wrote >> Could you confirm that >> http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/songaf.html >> which also gives me an out of memory message works for you? > It is fine Thanks - what hardware/software are you using? -- John - http://mug.riscos.org/

Re: NetSurf running out of memory

2012-10-09 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Rob Kendrick wrote > The "out of memory" error almost never means you're out of memory. It's > just caused by the vagueries of how some parts of NetSurf handle errors > and other parts not being expressive enough. > Yes, we're working on that, too. I have tracked down the cause of at least some

Google + -Your Browser is no longer supported

2012-10-24 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
A web page with the subject message appears when I try to access Google+ from NetSurf. https://plus.google.com/ Clicking on learn more the next page says: Google+ is supported in the following browsers:  Windows: Chrome, Firefox 3.6 and beyond, Internet Explorer 8 ...  Linux: Chrome, Firefox

Re: Google + -Your Browser is no longer supported

2012-10-25 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Jess Hampshire wrote > John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> Is this a good case for faking the User-Agent string? > Possibly a good case for dismissing Google plus as an irrelevance. > Facebook can be used with NS I am trying to find a cloud based application for shari

Re: NetSurf running out of memory

2012-11-03 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Brian Jordan wrote > In message > Brian Jordan wrote: >> The page shown at www.bjordan.org.uk/test/index.html has started >> throwing up a "NetSurf is running out of memory" error since at least >> NetSurf 3.0 (Dev CI#471) and up to 492. ... > Somewhere between #540 and #570 this has

Re: NetSurf running out of memory

2012-11-04 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Brian Howlett wrote > On 3 Nov, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: > [snip] >> Not so with the links I reported unfortunately. They still fail on >> #571. >> However the message has changed from "out of memory to "unknown". >> eg >> You can see

Re: small problem with raspberry pi site

2012-11-06 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
John Rickman Iyonix wrote > Version 2.9, and version 3.0 (2012-10-03_19-43-06) of NetSurf mess up > the top menu line of the raspberry pi home page by overlaying the > text, "Skip to primary content" over the menu items. > http://www.raspberrypi.org/ Problem still happeni

Re: small problem with raspberry pi site

2012-11-06 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Michael Drake wrote > In article , > John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> Problem still happening today on CI #607. >> I have now submitted a bug report. > Fixed. I am speechless:) but as Obi-Wan Kenobi might have put it: "What took you so long! -- John - http://mug.riscos.org/

CSS position not supported workaround

2012-11-15 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
I would like to be able to fix some heading content on a page so that when the page is scrolled the heading stays on the screen. Is there anyway to do this that would work in NetSurf? A JavaScript solution is obviously not on. It can be done with CSS but unfortunately NetSurf has not yet implem

Re: CSS position not supported workaround

2012-11-15 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Michael Drake wrote > In article <970f2cef52.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk>, >John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> I would like to be able to fix some heading content on a page so that >> when the page is scrolled the heading stays on the screen. ... >> Is there any

Re: CSS position not supported workaround

2012-11-16 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Chris Young wrote > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:03:15 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >>> Does your design actually need it? Usually I detest it when I see it. :) >>> The performance penalty can affect e.g. Chrome/Firefox on modern PCs too, >>> although to a lesser ex

Full Save not setting of CSS files

2012-11-29 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
When you run a NetSurf Full Save application it does not act on the the CSS information because the CSS file is given a type of Text. This is on an Iyonix 5.19, NetSurf #674. I think it used to work but am not sure. As an example open:- http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/ do a Full Save,

Re: Full Save not setting of CSS files

2012-11-29 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
> John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> When you run a NetSurf Full Save application it does not act on the >> the CSS information because the CSS file is given a type of Text. >> This is on an Iyonix 5.19, NetSurf #674. >>eg >>http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/

Re: Full Save not setting of CSS files

2012-11-30 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
David Pitt wrote > John Rickman Iyonix, on 29 Nov, wrote: >> When you run a NetSurf Full Save application it does not act on the the >> CSS information because the CSS file is given a type of Text. > The css file is correctly typed here on the ARMini, mimemap does have the &g

Re: RISC OS Javascript support

2012-12-13 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
george greenfield wrote >> Great news! Does the Javascript need to be switched On? > I think it must be on by default: http://www.navweaps.com/ no longer > displays a 'your javascript is switched off' notice. >> >> I have tried a few simple tests but my Javascript seem to be being >> ignored.

Re: RISC OS Javascript support

2012-12-13 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Chris Young wrote > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:22:43 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> Great news! Does the Javascript need to be switched O? > It is on by default, however if you've been running a non-JS build and > have changed NetSurf's settings, you may find it has

Re: RISC OS Javascript support

2012-12-15 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Chris Gransden wrote >> Please can you send a patch? even if its just the files you changed I >> can work up a suitable patch from those, whatevers easiest. > Steve already beat me to it. Those changes are working. Thanks Steve - it is great to see an extra entry in the choices content window.

Re: Javascript and Fonts

2012-12-15 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Harriet Bazley wrote > On 15 Dec 2012 as I do recall, > Gavin Wraith wrote: >> Using NetSurf 3 #739. Wonderful to have some Javascript working, >> enough at least to show Greek text in http://memiyawanzi.wordpress.com/ . > That's not Javascript... that's just Unicode :-) > Seeing the

Re: Javascript and Fonts

2012-12-16 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Peter Young wrote >> Looks more complete on linux raspberry Pi Chromium Chromium browser. >> On RISC OS the accented characters appear as hex couplets. > It's all Greek here (and Greek to me!) on an ARMini, RISC OS 5.19. > Perhaps you don't have the necessary font? Probably:-( I have DoulosSIL

Re: RISC OS Javascript support

2012-12-16 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Chris Gransden wrote > In article <20121216154023.gl15...@kyllikki.org>, >Vincent Sanders wrote: >> OK, the CI system just built #740 with a spidermonkey 1.8.5 library >> with the JIT disabled as suggested by Chris Gransden. Can this be >> tried by someone with access to RISC OS? and please

Re: RISC OS Javascript support

2012-12-16 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Vincent Sanders wrote > ok last try for now, ci #744 is built with spidermonkey 1.7.0 maybe it > works maybe it doesn't. > Please also remember to use the json tagged downloads if you want to > try with javascript as the jsoff ones do not even have teh interpreter > linked. I confirm that #744

Re: Unicode on local pages

2012-12-16 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Brian Howlett wrote > On 16 Dec, Gavin Wraith wrote: >> With NetSurf #739. If I browse >> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01. >> 0173%3Atext%3DSym. it displays OK. If I save or do a full save of the >> page, and then browse the resulting local page the Greek te

Re: Controlling Javascript -- button suggestion

2013-01-14 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Jim Nagel wrote > Using build 797 at the moment, on both RiscPC 4.39 and Iyonix 5.18. did you mean #787? -- John Rickman - http://mug.riscos.org/ You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus

Re: Controlling Javascript -- button suggestion

2013-01-14 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Peter Young wrote > On 14 Jan 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> Jim Nagel wrote >>> Using build 797 at the moment, on both RiscPC 4.39 and Iyonix 5.18. >> did you mean #787? > Why? I'm currently on #809, downloaded this morning by the invaluable > Fetc

Re: Scroll wheel speed

2013-01-19 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Richard Porter wrote > On most applications, including messenger Pro, the speed of the > pointer in relation to the scroll wheel on the mouse is just about > right, but on NetSurf it is much too fast so it's almost impossible to > use on long web pages. Is there any way to adjust the scroll wheel

Re: Scroll wheel speed

2013-01-19 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Richard Porter wrote >> Are you using HID? NetSurf scroll speed on Iyonix is fine with it. > HID? Sorry that doesn't mean anything to me apart from 'high intensity > discharge'. I bought it from RComp some years ago for 15 pounds here is an extract from the helptext:- ...

Clipboard not working #824

2013-01-21 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
There appears to be a problem with the clipboard in 3.0 #824. Within a NetSurf window ctrl-c and ctrl-v work as normal but anything put on the clipboard from outside the NS window does not get inserted into writable icons using ctrl-v. The Clipboard works properly in 2.9 john -- John Rickman

Re: Clipboard not working #824

2013-01-21 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Steve Fryatt wrote > On 21 Jan, John-Mark Bell wrote in message > <1358761082.31757.14.camel@duiker>: >> On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 09:35 +0000, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >>> There appears to be a problem with the clipboard in 3.0 #824. Within a >>> NetS

Re: Clipboard not working #824

2013-01-23 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Martin Bazley wrote > The following bytes were arranged on 21 Jan 2013 by John Rickman Iyonix : >> However, I have just downloaded the postings for Jan 2013 but cannot >> read them. They are in an archive file - called 2013-January/txt/gz >> >> My copy of SparkFS wo

Re: New textareas and text inputs

2013-02-12 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Michael Drake wrote > In article <531d105167cvj...@waitrose.com>, >Chris Newman wrote: >> In article <531ce7d6b0t...@netsurf-browser.org>, >>Michael Drake wrote: >>> More new features: >>>- Double click in a textarea selects a word. >>>- Triple click in a textarea selects a pa

new clipboard niggle

2013-02-13 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Clicking on the body text in NetSurf no longer gives the window focus. Pressing F8 gives the message "Clipboard is empty" instead of loading the source. Clicking on the title bar does not give focus either. You have to click in the URL area to get focus. I am not sure if this is a bug or it

Re: new clipboard niggle

2013-02-13 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Michael Drake wrote > In article <45d38f1d53.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk>, >John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> Clicking on the body text in NetSurf no longer gives the window focus. > Should be fixed in CI build #890. Thanks >> Pressing F8 gives the message &quo

Re: Ctrl-arrow keys confused

2013-02-17 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Jim Nagel wrote > In Netsurf #891 and #616, and in 2.9 (on both Ro 5.18 and 4.39) -- >Ctrl-up works as expected >Ctrl-down does nothing >Ctrl-left takes you all the way RIGHT >Ctrl-right takes you all the way LEFT It is the same in Netsurf #898 john -- John Rickman - http://ri

viewing CSS

2013-02-18 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Does anyone know of a neater way of viewing CSS? What I do at present is press F8 to view html. look at the -http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx

Re: viewing CSS

2013-02-18 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Rob Kendrick wrote > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:23:46AM +, Tim Hill wrote: >>> It would be useful if NetSurf had a View CSS.. menu option, but I have >>> no idea how much work this would involve. >> >> More than very occasional use by a very few of us would warrant, I >> imagine. > Given a

NetSurf html events

2013-02-18 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Are any of the html mouse events working in NetSurf? eg click, mouseover, mouseout, mousemove. The final item on the page for the link below, "mouse event tests" works on Firefox but not on NestSurf. http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/testing/index.html Is there any more detailed documentation

Re: rendering of Wikipedia page

2013-02-25 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Jim Nagel wrote > I've wondered for a long time what it is about Wikipedia's layout > (or something) that makes its pages so slow to render in Netsurf, > compared to the time to render the same page in Firefox or Chrome. > (Netsurf #891 here at the moment, but the wondering goes back a lot > fur

Re: rendering of Wikipedia page

2013-02-25 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Jim Nagel wrote > John Rickman Iyonix wrote on 24 Feb: >> Are there any pages in particular that are slow? >> Wikipedia pages on my Iyonix typically take 2 to 3 seconds to load and >> render which is quick enough. the Wikipedia entry > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex

Re: Failure to follow on-page links

2013-02-26 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Richard Porter wrote > On this page and similar ones on the site > http://www.rdtev.de/aktuelles.html > the navigation links on the left work fine but the on-page links in > the lower right hand pane (which scrolls) do not work. The layout is > defined in the css file. There is no javascript. I

Re: Failure to follow on-page links

2013-02-26 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Graham Pickles wrote > In message > John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >>Richard Porter wrote >> >>> On this page and similar ones on the site >> >>> http://www.rdtev.de/aktuelles.html >> >>> the navigation links on the left work fi

Re: Failure to follow on-page links

2013-02-27 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Richard Porter wrote > On 26 Feb 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >>> I suspect that NS can't cope with local links in a scrolling pane with >>> absolute positionning in CSS. >> NS does not do absolute positioning. > Yes of course it does. The frames are loc

#956 fixes back button and history bug

2013-03-04 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
I would like to thank Michael Drake for his prompt fix to the bug with the history list. -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx Ein nasser Vogel fliegt nicht bei Nacht - Das ist der Sinn des Lebens.

favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
I am trying to find the best strategy for getting a favicon to appear on various web sites that I maintain. The problem is that every browser seems to have its own way of handling them. Some time ago all you had to do was put a file called favicon.ico into the root directory of the web page an

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Brian Howlett wrote > On 8 Mar, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> For NetSurf I use >> >> in the section. But to get this on every page means having to >> put the code into hundreds of html files. > FWIW on my web site I have favicon.ico in the root directory, an

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
John Rickman Iyonix wrote >> FWIW on my web site I have favicon.ico in the root directory, and >> Netsurf displays it to the left of the address bar. This is using a >> recent development version of Netsurf - which version are you on? > This does not seem to work for me o

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Brian Howlett wrote > On 8 Mar, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> Does your favicon get picked up by html in sub directories? > It isn't in the HTML code anywhere. >> Perhaps you could post a link to your website so I could have a look? > http://www.brianhowlett.me.uk/

Mailing list archives

2013-03-09 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Is there anyway to search the NetSurf mailing list archives:- http://vlists.pepperfish.net/pipermail/netsurf-users-netsurf-browser.org/ I am trying to find a thread that occurred sometime 2009-2010 and am opening each month at a time. It is a bit slow. -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheus

Re: Mailing list archives

2013-03-09 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Vince M Hudd wrote > John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> Is there anyway to search the NetSurf mailing list archives:- >> http://vlists.pepperfish.net/pipermail/netsurf-users-netsurf-browser.org/ >> >> I am trying to find a thread that occurred sometime 2009-2010 and am

Re: Choices behaviour

2013-03-17 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Chris Newman wrote > Hi, > I thought Netsurf kept its choices within !Boot. & indeed here I have.. > IDEFS::h-4.$.!Boot.Choices.Users.Single.WWW.NetSurf.Choices > However, if from the iconbar I set - Content - Disable Java script unticked, > every time I reload netsurfm the tick is back. I do

Re: Find !Fetch_NS

2013-03-18 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Michael Drake wrote > In article <532e67d218cvj...@waitrose.com>, >Chris Newman wrote: >> I've lost the link to !Fetch_NS. > Out of interest, why don't people just visit > http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/riscos/?C=M;O=D > And download either of the top two archives (depending on w

Re: Find !Fetch_NS

2013-03-18 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Peter Young wrote > Pardon my ignorance, but where can find what has changed? I've looked > for this, but have never found it, not that it would make a whole lot > of sense to me, perhaps! http://git.netsurf-browser.org/ john -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx Tout a ét

Re: Find !Fetch_NS

2013-03-18 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Peter Young wrote > On 18 Mar 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> Peter Young wrote >>> Pardon my ignorance, but where can find what has changed? I've looked >>> for this, but have never found it, not that it would make a whole lot >>> of sen

Re: Find !Fetch_NS

2013-03-18 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Chris Newman wrote >> Its because, on a good day**, it will automatically delete the current >> version of NetSurf and replace it with the latest version if it has >> changed. > Er? My copy (2.10 of 17-12-2012) doesn't dd that. it just downloads the > latest zip file. I have to manually delete t

Re: Find !Fetch_NS

2013-03-19 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Brian Jordan wrote >> But a good day happens about one in three. More common is that it >> forces NS to quit, deletes the current NS then fails to find the new >> one. So I have to complete the job manually. > Try having your de-archiving program (SparkFS or whatever) loaded and > on the icon ba

copy and paste urls from webpage

2013-03-26 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get it into the clipboard? If you try to stripe a selectable field the arrow pointer turns into the hand and it won't mark the text. If you start the stripe before the url or after the url and stripe backwards you always pick up ext

Re: copy and paste urls from webpage

2013-03-26 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Tony Moore wrote > On 26 Mar 2013, Richard Porter wrote: >> On 26 Mar 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> >>> Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get >>> it into the clipboard? >> >> No. I use Object > Link > Save >

Re: NS 3.1 json Dev C1#1171 - 2 problems

2013-05-15 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Roger Darlington wrote > I can check checkboxes written in java, but nothing happens if I click > on the 'Search Using Checkboxes' icon (nor on the [RESET] icon. Support for mouse events eg mouseover, on select etc are not implemented yet. Your page uses the jquery library. This, along with so

Re: Invisible JPEG (OT)

2013-07-16 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
lists wrote >> I get a very large image of a guitar (#1292). > Yes, it's of the make and model that I own. I was sending the link to a > friend who didn't even know 12-string guitars existed. Nice guitar. -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx Infinity is Sad. God is infinite

Re: NetSurf friendly alternative to GoogleGroups?

2013-11-17 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Martin Bazley wrote > The following bytes were arranged on 16 Nov 2013 by Gavin Wraith : >> Is there a NetSurf friendly alternative to GoogleGroups? > http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/ Thanks for that. I have added it to my hotlist. -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx To

Google Images search not working

2014-02-24 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
For the past several years I have used NetSurf for finding images on the web via Google Images search. Google puts up a page of images for the search term. Then a click on an image used to bring up a web page with an option to see the impage full size. This no longer seems to work with NetSurf.

downloads always set to filetype F80

2014-02-26 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
NetSurf downloads always set filetype of &F80 (XML?) and I have to retype to ZIP, PDF etc as appropriate. Is this just happening on my machine? John -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx John Rickman - http://www.gaydon.org.uk/

Re: downloads always set to filetype F80

2014-02-26 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Rob Kendrick wrote > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:56:41PM +0000, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> >> NetSurf downloads always set filetype of &F80 (XML?) and I have to >> retype to ZIP, PDF etc as appropriate. >> >> Is this just happening on my machine? > A

Re: downloads always set to filetype F80

2014-02-26 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
John Rickman Iyonix wrote >>From this URL - http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/software/float/ > On RISC OS RaspBerry Pi the file, "float036.zip" is downloaded and > saved as "float036" and given a filetype of &F80. > (NS #1702) > On the Iyonix the .zip suf

Re: downloads always set to filetype F80

2014-03-06 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Tim Hill wrote > In article , Martin Bazley > wrote: > This does sound like a mimemap issue. Doesn't happen here with > http://timil.com/riscos/mimemap where unrecognised files are 'text'. >> I don't remember exactly how MimeMap works, so you might have to reset >> to apply the changes. > Aft

internet radio

2014-03-12 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Can NetSurf be used to play an internet radio stream using AMPlayer or a similar module? If not when is it likely to happen? John -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx Foot it featly here and there And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. WS

Re: Version 1773

2014-04-01 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Gavin Wraith wrote > NetSurf #1773 on Raspberry Pi 5.21. Pressing F8 or selecting > Page->View Source... works OK on local webpages. Otherwise > selecting Page->View Source... yields an error message > "NetSurf is running out of memory ..." and pressing F8 yields > "An unexpected error occurred:

Re: Version 1773

2014-04-06 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
John Rickman Iyonix wrote > Gavin Wraith wrote >> NetSurf #1773 on Raspberry Pi 5.21. Pressing F8 or selecting >> Page->View Source... works OK on local webpages. Otherwise >> selecting Page->View Source... yields an error message >> "NetSurf is runn

web page is blank with new vwersion on NeSurf

2014-06-06 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Since moving to #1959 the following page is blank. It should show three columns of text. http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx/lynxweb.html It works as expected with #1785 and all earlier versions. Would someone please check that this problem is reproducible on a machine other that my Iyonix. I

Re: web page is blank with new vwersion on NeSurf

2014-06-07 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
John Williams wrote >Fred Bambrough wrote: >> Ah, having seen what it's supposed to be on my Mac... yes, it's blank. > It broke between 1932 and 1935. Thanks to all who tested and confirmed the problem. I will report it as a bug. John -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.u

Selecting text gone crazy

2014-07-22 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
#2023 when I try to select some text as soon as I click on the page everything from the click to the end of the article is highlit. This has been happening since at least #1980 Is anyone else seeing this? (Iyonix RISC OS 5.21 9 July) -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx

Re: Selecting text gone crazy

2014-07-22 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Dave Higton wrote > Fred Bambrough wrote: >> John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> >>> #2023 when I try to select some text as soon as I click on the page >>> everything from the click to the end of the article is highlit. >>> This has been happening sinc

Re: quick on-off for Javascript

2014-11-09 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Jim Nagel wrote > Brian Jordan wrote on 23 Oct (in thread "Maps"): >> Strangely I have no black background problems here with build 3.3 (Dev >> CI #2193) if JavaScript is disabled. If JS is enabled the page doesn't >> render at all. > Leads tme to ask: is there a quick way of switching Javascr

Re: routers

2014-12-03 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Gavin Wraith wrote > Do there exist any routers which can be controlled by NetSurf? I have managed a Vigor Draytek 2600 for several years using NetSurf and Nettle. -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx No sé nada, y no estoy seguro de éso

Re: Disc cache updates

2015-03-16 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Harriet Bazley wrote > Down with categorical imperatives! Kant only had one. -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx siempre luchar contra el zeitgeist

Re: JavaScript

2015-03-29 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
David Feugey wrote > Hi. I worked on several appliances since 2000, and I'm now switching back > to RISC OS. As I have total control on the applications, I would like to > try to provide client appliances for these applications. > I know that NetSurf has only a limited support of JavaScript. But

Re: Hot List

2015-04-30 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
someone? wrote: > It takes less than an hour to install the OS and get a NetSurf build > going. Is it feasible to do this using an RasPi? (Pi 2 Raspian) john -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx "If you are doing what you want you are not wasting your time, but you may be

Re: Hot List

2015-04-30 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Dave Higton wrote > My uncle trained many years ago in Adult Education. One thing he said > has always stuck with me: that adults possess no less ability to learn > than do children. Your uncle was right, but he forgot to mention how quickly adults can forget what they have learnt. I have bee

Re: Facebook links

2015-10-10 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Chris Dewhurst wrote > Hi all, > It used to be the case that when you clicked on links to external > websites (e.g. when somone shares a BBC News story) it would stop at a > blank screen and I used to have to manually edit the URL to get there. > It seems the URL is now correctly parsed by Nets

simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-07 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
The Gaydon online parish magazine is a single HTML file which references a common CSS file. http://www.gaydon.org.uk/mags.html It takes on average 31 seconds to load and display a magazine using NetSurf #3055 on an Iyonix. Javascript on or off makes no difference. Using NetSurf 3.2 the page l

Re: simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-07 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Chris Young wrote > On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 15:08:01 +, David Pitt wrote: >> "Chris Young", on 7 Nov, wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:35:26 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >>> >>>> The Gaydon online parish magazine is a s

Re: simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-07 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Harriet Bazley wrote > On 7 Nov 2015 as I do recall, > David Pitt wrote: >> "Chris Young", on 7 Nov, wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:35:26 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >>> >>>> The Gaydon online parish magazine is

Re: simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-07 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Peter Young wrote > Not an answer to the question as asked, but with #3048 the page loads > in 0.2 seconds. Apologies, it was not clear from my post that the problem was with links to magazines on the quoted URL and not with the URL itself http://www.gaydon.org.uk/mags.html points to a list of

Re: simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-07 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Chris Young wrote > On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 20:10:45 GMT, David Pitt wrote: >> (20.17) content/content.c:386 content_destroy: content 0x4e5f42a0 >> file:///%3CBootDisc$Root%3E/Work/Internet/Browsers/html/favicon.png >> >> (41.38) content/fetchers/curl.c:834 fetch_curl_done: done >> http://ww

Re: simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Harriet Bazley wrote > On 7 Nov 2015 as I do recall, > John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> The problem was introduced between 28/11/2014 and 6/01/2015. >> (#2398) is fast, (#2509) is slow. >> >> If you have any builds between these two it would help t

Re: Not an important bug.

2015-11-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Ron Briscoe wrote > I have not reported this on the bug tracker as it does not affect the running > of NetSurf at all. > The download window in NetSurf is too narrow. That is when downloading > a large > zip for instance only the last one or two digits of the downloaded amount are > shown. E.G.

Re: simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-10 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
David Pitt wrote > Vincent Sanders, on 10 Nov, wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 08:12:18AM +, David Pitt wrote: >>> Vincent Sanders, on 10 Nov, wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 11:35:26AM +, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >>>>>

Re: Flickr

2015-11-14 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
John Williams wrote > Attempting to view a photo of the PiTop at: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/andymarks1970/22992712162/ > does not render the photo, yet it has been pointed out to me that it does > work with NetSurf 3.1, and for me here with an old 3.0. .. > If anyone does have ad

Re: Flickr

2015-11-14 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Dave Higton wrote > To see the image with a recent version of NetSurf, just disable > Javascript. explains why it works with 2.9 - pre-javascript -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx I could have been someone - SMcG

Re: Flickr

2015-11-15 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
John Williams wrote > It always arrives with JS on regardless of what you set it to last time. > Why is this, and is it logical/user-transparent? Might instances such as > this mix-up be avoided if saved Choices actually reflected user's choices > and set it how the user wanted it! AIUI this

Re: Segfault: issue 2381

2015-11-17 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Dave Higton wrote > (Last time I looked, the latest was 3053.) #3062 now -- John Rickman -

Re: Segfault: issue 2381

2015-11-17 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
lists wrote > In article <68193746bbf.07b8d...@davehigton.me.uk>, >Dave Higton wrote: >> If any of you has seen NetSurf quit (the log shows a segfault) >> when you clicked in the window, I'd recommend that you get one >> of today's builds. (Last time I looked, the latest was 3053.) > Y

Re: simple html pages slow to render

2015-11-18 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
The cheetah is back! Thanks for fixing this problem John -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx No sé nada, y no estoy seguro de éso

Re: Big push on testing needed

2016-01-24 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Dave Higton wrote > Big news... > Current test (CI) builds are now release candidates. Yes, a new > release of NetSurf is imminent. > Please, everybody, download the latest test build (which will, > of course, change as bugs are found and fixed), give it a good > thrashing, and get your bug re

Re: Big push on testing needed

2016-01-25 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Dave Higton wrote >> I am happy to download every day, or whenever a new version is >> available. >> Is there any information available about the current state of >> javascript? > That's impossible to answer in any way that is both simple and > meaningful. > The Javascript interpreter was repla

Re: Big push on testing needed

2016-01-25 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
John Rickman Iyonix wrote >http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/testing/test5.html > I have now traced the problem to an error in my code. I need to fix > the problem and try again. My javascript is now working. the problem was that the new interpreter does not like html comment

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