Re: Ntesurf won't quit

2007-07-04 Thread Simon Smith
ear. I'm on a 512Mb Iyonix, BTW, and the behaviour may well be different on systems like RISC PCs and Kinetics, and 128Mb Iyonixes. -- Simon Smith The idea of an uncrackable digital rights management (DRM) scheme is fundamentally flawed. Encryption is about A sending information to B while ensuring that C cannot read it. In DRM, B and C are the same person.

Identify the scam?

2008-01-14 Thread Simon Smith
;d like to know what they're doing too. Some sort of link farming or googlebombing trick? Is this a related trick to that of pop-up launching? I have to say, I would like to know if a site is trying to hide things from me in sneaky ways like this. How would NetSurf handle it? -- Simon S

Suggestion re bug and request tracker links

2008-01-24 Thread Simon Smith
rceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=51719&atid=464315 - Request a New Feature ? -- Simon Smith The idea of an uncrackable digital rights management (DRM) scheme is fundamentally flawed. Encryption is about A sending information to B while ensuring that C cannot read it. In DRM, B and C are the same person.

SVG rendering - impressive start!

2008-02-03 Thread Simon Smith
my hat is off to you gents for your work so far. Now, ArtWorks' SVG expert does have quite a lot of customisable settings. Would you care to comment on the optimum export settings to use, or is it going to remain a question of trial and error for the foreseeable future? Thanks -- Simon Smi

Re: Netsurf Hunger - for memory

2008-03-10 Thread Simon Smith
mess correctly, but it's probably quite a good smoke test - even displaying it without crashing and without leaking memory all over the place probably counts as a major success. -- Simon Smith The idea of an uncrackable digital rights management (DRM) scheme is fundamentally flawed. Encryption is about A sending information to B while ensuring that C cannot read it. In DRM, B and C are the same person.

Re: Illegal window handle

2008-05-14 Thread Simon Smith
re carelessly re-running NetSurf after a glitch has cost me a log file that I might otherwise have submitted. Even just a log-A and a log-B file would usually be sufficient to cover for these lapses, and grandfather-father-son would add only a little extra overhead on top of that. -- Simon S

Socket exhaustion

2009-02-23 Thread Simon Smith
viour that used to be fine (I'd hit the socket limit only every few weeks, on 'heavy usage days') is now triggering the problem noticeably more often. -- Simon Smith Time flies like an arrow, steers like a cow.

Inaccessible history

2009-04-02 Thread Simon Smith
to-complete history from the global history, or at least speed up the loading of the feature I'm using? If so, is it something I can do, e.g. by pruning the URL file? Or is the long loading delay more likely to be cookie-related? I haven't cleared them out for a while either. -- Simon Smith Where there's muck there's hope.

Missing up-arrow in menus?

2009-05-18 Thread Simon Smith
by reverting to the system font, which I'd rather not do. Are there any other work-arounds? NetSurf is not the only victim, although it is the main app. I use that's affected - mainly because Netsurf actually troubles to mention the shortcuts it uses in its menus. -- Simon Smith Whe

Re: Missing up-arrow in menus?

2009-05-19 Thread Simon Smith
In message <200905181949.06...@zamez.strcprstskrzkrk.co.uk> James Bursa wrote: > On Monday 18 May 2009, Simon Smith wrote: > > My preferred desktop font is Homerton Medium, which does not contain a > > glyph for the hollow up-arrow sometimes used to indicate Shi

Socket exhaustion - a possible lead?

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Smith
be that the real problem is with the (X)Socket_Creat and/or (X)Socket_Close SWIs. Or else a 'blocked' socket gets created that suddenly renders all the other 60-odd sockets that should be available inaccessible. I'm using a 512Mb Iyonix with RO5.14 and dialup. -- Simon Smith Where there's muck there's hope.

Re: Socket exhaustion - a possible lead?

2009-05-22 Thread Simon Smith
In message <505f6e90cet...@netsurf-browser.org> Michael Drake wrote: > In article , > Simon Smith wrote: > > > > I'm still managing to trigger socket exhaustion from time to time - in > > fact I think I'm getting better at it. > >

Re: Socket exhaustion - a possible lead?

2009-05-24 Thread Simon Smith
In message <6b7a725f50.zen44...@zen.co.uk> Simon Smith wrote: > In message <505f6e90cet...@netsurf-browser.org> > Michael Drake wrote: > > > In article , > >Simon Smith wrote: > > > > > > > I'm still m

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

2009-07-06 Thread Simon Smith
y system keeps finding... Swz.Narrow I believe, which, on my system, isn't. -- Simon Smith | A golden bird stands on a silver snake lying | in a pool of water. The snake drinks the | water, and the bird eats the snake. When | the water is gone, the bird dies.

Re: Running out of memory

2009-08-30 Thread Simon Smith
;Galloping memory leak' (although the link in this email is a new example of the same problem), and trying with build 9506 now, the behaviour seems to be exactly the same as on build 9382. -- Simon Smith | A golden bird stands on a silver snake lying | in a pool

Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup

2009-09-17 Thread Simon Smith
e I use? And, sailing a little closer to the wind, what proportion of useful bug reports? I'd love to help, but I'd have to learn C programming properly first. I can do Hello World, with help, but beyond that is uncharted territory ATM... -- Simon Smith | A golden bird stands o

Re: Failed writing body

2010-08-11 Thread Simon Smith
ally spotted any pattern to it. I'll look into the dialog box angle and see if I can find something more repeatable. -- Simon Smith | Remember remember, something something | Something something and something | For something somet

Re: r11929 not downloading properly

2011-03-08 Thread Simon Smith
With other programs, the execution may be slightly different. Whichever way you do it you might have to tweak a boot or a run or a config file somewhere. The Spark/SparkFS docs do clearly tell you what setting to adjust. -- Simon Smith | Once more unto now | Is the win

Sloppy writing generates false positive spam warnings (was Re: aggravating pane)

2011-03-20 Thread Simon Smith
puter-moderated filter with the criteria I was mentally applying, you certainly would have been caught by it. -- Simon Smith | Once more unto now | Is the winter to be or | 'Tis the east (Exit.) | -Wm. Shakespeare, abridged

Re: NetSurf for Mac OS X

2011-04-20 Thread Simon Smith
k it was about time I gave NS a go on my other machine. This will save me a LOT of reading and head-scratching, and many of the other likely hassles of getting the thing to compile for myself. TYVVM to all those responsible! -- Simon Smith | Once more unto now | I

Re: NetSurf for Mac OS X

2011-06-19 Thread Simon Smith
any web page, whether local or remote, the style sheet error kicks in and NetSurf dies. I was also able to confirm that the program's default entries for preferences, its hotlist and so forth are created OK. David, may I ask what your 'local file' was? Simple web page? Complex web page? And in particular, did it have an associated local style sheet or any embedded styles in it? Thanks. -- Simon Smith | Once more unto now | Is the winter to be or | 'Tis the east (Exit.) | -Wm. Shakespeare, abridged

Re: Geminus

2012-01-11 Thread Simon Smith
to look for - load some picture-intensive sites and see if you start getting fragments of images from one site spuriously popping up on the others. I'll retry once I'm on a current build again. -- Simon Smith | Once more unto now | Is the winter to be or | 'Tis the east (Exit.) | -Wm. Shakespeare, abridged

Long URL annoyance

2013-03-06 Thread Simon Smith
bes for this kind of feature, please just let me know your pricelist. I'd be happy to pay in beer... -- Simon Smith | Once more unto now | Is the winter to be or | 'Tis the east (Exit.) | -Wm. Shakespeare, abridged

Long URL annoyance

2013-03-11 Thread Simon Smith
bes for this kind of feature, please just let me know your pricelist. I'd be happy to pay in beer... -- Simon Smith | Once more unto now | Is the winter to be or | 'Tis the east (Exit.) | -Wm. Shakespeare, abridged

Re: Mac OS X

2013-05-19 Thread Simon Smith
ecide to knock your old build environment on the head. I did have to obtain an updated version of Xcode before NS would work for me at all on the Mac. But as long as I can get hold of the very last Mac build I'd be entirely happy. I am already grateful for all the work you guys do. -- Simon Smit

Feature req: completely turn off saved web page app iconsprites/replace with generic?

2013-12-30 Thread Simon Smith
ile) aren't available as editable resources. At present I'm deleting the unwanted Sprites files and tweaking the !Run files by hand, which is a chore. Thanks. -- Simon Smith | Once more unto now | Is the winter to be or | 'Tis the east (Exit.) | -Wm. Shakespeare, abridged

NetSurf State of Play?

2022-06-18 Thread Simon Smith
internal technical refinements. The progress info on the web site hasn't been touched in a very long time. NetSurf is mature enough that's it's understandable that development has slowed - I'm curious what is being worked on at the