Re: RISC OS Javascript support

2012-12-15 Thread Steve Fryatt
t build with Javascript yet (something else to sort out), I haven't definitely confirmed that it all works as intended beyond that. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England Wakefield Acorn & RISC OS Show Saturday 20 April 2013 http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/ http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/

Re: RISC OS Javascript support

2012-12-16 Thread Steve Fryatt
ng > > version exists. > > > > Please remember to enable javascript via the nice shiny new > > configuration interface Steve Fryatt has provided. > > The configuration interface in my 740 is different from the shiny new one > in Steve's picture. It will do: that

Re: Controlling Javascript

2013-01-16 Thread Steve Fryatt
tually forced off on those builds). > Otherwise I'm not aware of any other mechanism for discerning which of the > versions you have (other than a much larger !RunImage on disc!) Don't the infobox strings differ? I've not got RISC OS in front of me at present

Re: Scroll wheel speed

2013-01-20 Thread Steve Fryatt
ggested by John wouldn't work on the RiscPC because > it was designed for the Castle Technology USB stack. Correct. HID also complicates things, as it removes some of the "quirks" of the vanilla RISC OS 5 scroll wheel support. I'm fairly sure that I tested NetSurf with and without

Re: Scroll wheel speed

2013-01-20 Thread Steve Fryatt
. That's in RISC OS, and happens when the app doesn't take scroll events as quickly as you produce them. See also scrolling via PageUp/Down. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England Wakefield Acorn & RISC OS Show Saturday 20 A

Re: Clipboard not working #824

2013-01-21 Thread Steve Fryatt
reading the Dev list, I've said that I'll look into this when I get five minutes -- although that may not now be for a few weeks. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England Wakefield Acorn & RISC OS Show Saturday 20 April 2013 http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/ http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/

Re: new clipboard niggle

2013-02-13 Thread Steve Fryatt
C OS thing. If it did, you'd move the focus every time you dragged a window or brought it to the top of the heap. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England Wakefield Acorn & RISC OS Show Saturday 20 April 2013 http://www.ste

Re: Ctrl-arrow keys confused

2013-02-17 Thread Steve Fryatt
otlist selection dragging and so on. However, I'm much more likely to remember what needs to be done if the issues are all in the bug tracker. Thanks. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England Wakefield Acorn & RISC OS Show Saturday

Re: Long URL annoyance

2013-03-07 Thread Steve Fryatt
n them on via the option in Interface). Can a front-end find out from the core that the pointer is hovering over a link, form submission button or similar? -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England Wakefield Acorn & RISC OS Show Saturday 20 April 2013 http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/ http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/

Re: Choices behaviour

2013-03-17 Thread Steve Fryatt
nt - Disable Java script > unticked, every time I reload netsurfm the tick is back. I don't think > this happened previously. Has something changed? Have I missed somthing? Are you sure that you're not using a "jsoff" build? IIRC that forces the config option to be set regardles

Re: Broken directory

2013-06-29 Thread Steve Fryatt
ut of the way at the > bottom of the filer display, you could create a new empty directory to > populate. Probably not a good approach for the long term, as the disc map clearly isn't very happy. I'd endorse the advice to check/fix the disc with DiscKnight, before doing much else with the system. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Broken directory

2013-06-30 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 30 Jun, Christopher Dewhurst wrote in message <0f86116453.cri...@cdewhurst2010.btinternet.com>: > In message > Steve Fryatt wrote: > > > Probably not a good approach for the long term, as the disc map clearly > > isn't very happy. I'd end

Re: Cut to clipboard

2013-08-11 Thread Steve Fryatt
ected text is deleted" says the RISC OS Style Guide, so the current behaviour seems to be correct. Obviously the other platforms that NetSurf runs on might have other views. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Changes to the RISC OS GUI in #1342

2013-09-08 Thread Steve Fryatt
anges are to make it easier to understand and maintain the mouse tracking code, as part of fixing issues in this area which came to light with the new treeview displays (such as the hotlist). -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: MousAxess

2014-02-10 Thread Steve Fryatt
- if I remember! > > I reported this at 13:59. I received a confirmatory email at 14:16 saying > the issue has been referred to Steve Fryatt. Apparently the problem is: > > "Caused by failed assertion in RISC OS mouse handling: > > riscos/mouse.c", line 183: ro_mous

Re: MousAxess

2014-02-10 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 10 Feb, Steve Fryatt wrote in message : > Can MouseAxess still be legally obtained from anywhere? Google searches > all lead to dead websites or people emailing each other hooky copies. Ignore that: I've spotted the copy mentioned in the ticket. -- Steve Fryatt - Lee

Re: MousAxess

2014-04-05 Thread Steve Fryatt
MKill Moussaxess before > > > surfing - if I remember! > > > > I reported this at 13:59. I received a confirmatory email at 14:16 > > saying the issue has been referred to Steve Fryatt. Apparently the > > problem is: > > > > "Caused by failed assertion in

Re: Username and password problem

2014-06-08 Thread Steve Fryatt
our > email address above and to the list. It has been blocked from the list > because it is a bit over the maximum size. Did you zip the log file down? As they're plain text with lots of repetition, that tends to work well. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: BoxConvert?

2014-06-09 Thread Steve Fryatt
mes real-life does intrude for us. > > Absolutely, I was only reporting the facts, not complaining except I did > moan about the bug tracker. >From a post on the dev list, there would seem to have been hardware issues affecting the bug tracker over the weekend (which are now fixed). Maybe try again? -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Not enough application memory to start Basic

2014-06-14 Thread Steve Fryatt
enough to show it doesn't > work, as it stands. You should be able to put it in !Boot without it > throwing up errors or having other side-effects. > > Our options are to get Cache from http://www.snowstone.org.uk/riscos/ > fixed, and continue using it, or create our own simple

Re: Memory still not being released

2014-08-30 Thread Steve Fryatt
Without hard > information, we're only guessing. Definitely. There could still be memory leaks in NetSurf (NetSurf itself can re-use freed memory from within its DA, as long as there are big enough blocks of contiguous free memory available there), so problems do need investigating. Proper bug reports, with full log files, are essential, however. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Why is NetSurf so fussy?

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Fryatt
ally flattening to plain text as a last resort if that option's available. My guess is that StrongED does that properly. Edit, from what you say, doesn't. It's broken, because it isn't supporting the Block Transfer Protocol correctly. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Why is NetSurf so fussy?

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 22 Sep, Richard Porter wrote in message <4a10d84a54.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>: > On 21 Sep 2014 Steve Fryatt wrote: > > > No, Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V just copy and paste on the Global > > Clipboard. > > So in what way is that different fron Ctrl-C

Re: crash during Wikipedia edit

2014-10-04 Thread Steve Fryatt
closed the > window. > > Netsurf crashed. I believe "RISC OS NetSurf crashes if a browser window is closed while the page in it is still loading" is what's described as a "known problem"... -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: BBC sites very slow.

2014-12-17 Thread Steve Fryatt
sites? I suspect the > latter. Have you done the same comparison using another browser (on another OS), to confirm that it's actually NetSurf and not the sites themselves? For many sites, your connection speed won't be the limiting factor. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: #2463 - Scanning fonts

2014-12-21 Thread Steve Fryatt
Where do you have !Scrap located, and is its contents retained across sessions? Are the files in it all writable? -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Steve Fryatt
ion to the RISC OS front-end before they lost that interest, a couple of patches came in... and then it went quiet. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Steve Fryatt
n't hugely difficult, and would be a nice introductory project for someone wanting to get involved with the RISC OS front-end. The offers of guidance that I made to Glen a couple of months back still stand for anyone interested in picking it up. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Do Netsurf's errors get logged? (Syslog, Wimplog)

2015-08-12 Thread Steve Fryatt
Wimplog intercepts the standard Wimp_ReportError wimp error messages. If > Netsurf uses its own internal error reporting, then Wimplog will not see > it. NetSurf uses its own non-blocking error dialogues, so WimpLog won't ever see the errors reported. In terms of bug reporting, NetSurf's own log is far more detailed and far more useful. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Do Netsurf's errors get logged? (Syslog, Wimplog)

2015-08-12 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 12 Aug, cj wrote in message <54f23593afch...@chris-johnson.org.uk>: > In article , >Steve Fryatt wrote: > > > I'm not sure it's that odd. > > What is odd is that out of hundreds of zip files on the hard drive, only a > very small numbe

Re: Do Netsurf's errors get logged? (Syslog, Wimplog)

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 13 Aug, Jim Nagel wrote in message : > Steve Fryatt wrote on 12 Aug: > > > On 12 Aug, cj wrote in message > > <54f1f9a962ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk>: > > > > In article , > >>Jim Nagel wrote: > >> > >>>W

Re: even Wikipedia times out now

2015-10-01 Thread Steve Fryatt
perfish.net/pipermail/netsurf-users-netsurf-browser.org/2015-August/013219.html ...or... http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2343 ...for the background. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Older Modules in NetSurfs System upgrader.

2015-11-09 Thread Steve Fryatt
). No, as Rob said: "The System Merge tool won't overwrite newer versions with older". Don't merge !System manually. Ever. (Unless you have a very good reason to, and know what you're doing.) :-) -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Slightly odd behaviour #3225

2015-12-16 Thread Steve Fryatt
t; > hasn't anything to do with Messenger. > > OK, thanks, Jan-Jaap, understood. Got me worried there. I'll stick with > Pluto. Pluto will very likely be doing exactly the same behind the scenes. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Met office missing icons

2016-02-21 Thread Steve Fryatt
etc. I have looked at the forecast on an android but the site looks > quite different. An earlier NS shows the same lack of icons. > > NS 3421 Iyo 5.18 Which weather site is this? -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Window position

2017-04-08 Thread Steve Fryatt
roblematic from a technical point of view because RISC OS won't allow the two actions to be differentiated. RISC OS sends a single click, followed shortly after by a double-click -- exactly what's required for a selection model like the Filer's. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Name from NetSurf has underscores for percents

2017-11-17 Thread Steve Fryatt
3%A9n > y-%C3%BCltet%C3%A9si-a-vid%C3%A9ken-m/jpg > > whereupon it works into the apps. Is % actually a valid character in a Fileswitch filename? It represents the CSD, and is included in the reserved characters list, so I'd suggest not. So NetSurf is correct to replace % with

Re: URL lengths

2017-11-27 Thread Steve Fryatt
GET variables. Allocating the necessary memory is the correct way to do it, yes. > A number would be easier! How many? As long as the URL is? My memory is that the RISC OS GUI might apply some limits, but that the core probably doesn't. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: URL lengths

2017-11-30 Thread Steve Fryatt
bviously means that there's a limit to the size of URL that you can type in, too. But that's it. You can follow any length of link in NetSurf, and launch any length of URL via the launch protocols. All subject to that 4GB limit, of course. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: URL lengths

2017-11-30 Thread Steve Fryatt
nother way of saying "limited by available memory"... -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: bad linebreaks

2018-04-27 Thread Steve Fryatt
many years ago. I'm fairly sure (without going to check) that it's both known about and has been stated that it is being ignored until the component responsible is replaced as part of the road to Javascript. I'm guessing the layout engine, but I could easily be wrong on that -- as Chris

Re: Crash on loading NetSurf

2019-02-21 Thread Steve Fryatt
n deleted? I have a recollation of corrupt Unicode cache (RUFL) data preventing the browser from starting. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: The 3.9 Release

2019-07-21 Thread Steve Fryatt
wo mailing lists, one of which you don't have posting rights to. The answer to your original question is yes, by the way, because 3.10 Dev is the ongoing test build version after 3.9 was taken out and released. 3.9 is the stable release, while 3.10 is the potentially unstable versions arising f

Re: Scrolling issues

2020-04-06 Thread Steve Fryatt
t bits within NetSurf's RISC OS front-end -- which, aside from being relatively complex, also took us into areas best described as "sparsely documented" and hence fragile if the OS developers change the way things work. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: New address

2022-12-04 Thread Steve Fryatt
you'll have to send an email from your new address to > netsurf-users-j...@netsurf-browser.org It might be easier to use https://listmaster.pepperfish.net/postorius/lists/netsurf-users.netsurf-browser.org/ as you can unsubscribe your current address at the same time. (That link is from

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