Re: [Netsurf-develop] Special Features
by Philip Ludlam
On 23 Oct in message <3c2dde894b.riscos(a)myrealbox.com>
Andrew Duffell <andrew(a)banners.iconbar.com> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I was having a think about special features that we could possilby have in
>NetSurf that other browsers don't have and I came up with:
>
>* Ad Blocking, where banner ads are removed from the page if you have the
>option switched on. We could in theory have it blocking the main internet
>ad-servers such as the comission junction one, and have the option for users
>to add more ads to block.
>I don't know if this would work in practice but I think that theoretically it
>is a good feature.
If you're interested this sort of this is already available as a sort
of plug-in if you use the Unix/Linux proxy Squid. Have a look at it's
main page at:
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/adzap/
and:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=squid+this+ad+zapp...
for other related pages.
Yours,
Phil L.
20 years, 11 months
Re: [Netsurf-develop] Throbber Speed
by Phil Mellor
In message <67d5de894b.riscos(a)myrealbox.com>
Andrew Duffell <andrew(a)banners.iconbar.com> wrote:
> I am not sure what anyone else thinks (comments?) but I feel that the
> throbber currently goes a bit too slow on the latest alpha version. Weould
> it be possible to speed it up so that we don't see al the individual stages
> (make it look more smooth :-)
Certainly. I suppose it could be specified as part of the theme.
I was wary of animating it too quickly as it might slow down the formatting.
Phil.
20 years, 11 months