[Netsurf-develop] 192.com
by Mike Binks
Hi
Is it Netsurf or www.192.com that stops me seeing the name that I am
typing in to its directory enquiry form?
By the way developers - thanks for a great browser.
Test Build (27 Mar 2006 01:15)
and for staying up so late :-)
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16 years, 3 months
Re: [Netsurf-develop] Brilliant!!!
by Richard Porter
On 27 Mar 2006 Paul Vigay <lists-nospam(a)vigay.com> wrote:
> I'd just like to say an enormous thank you to the NetSurf developers
> for fixing the long-standing 'negative indent' bug, which means that
> not only my weblog domain works with NetSurf again, but several other
> pages now work correctly.
>
> Excellent service, and keep up the good work! NetSurf is now firmly
> established as my default browser.
I'll echo that. I do now run NetSurf from choice except for sites
where I know it isn't going to work.
It would be really good if the table row height bug could be fixed,
and also the table error handling (a missing <tr> or </tr> should be
assumed, not the other one ignored).
Cheers,
Richard
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Re: [Netsurf-develop] Local file types
by Richard Porter
On 25 Mar 2006 Paul Vigay <lists-nospam(a)vigay.com> wrote:
> Richard Porter <ricp(a)minijem.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> It shouldn't go _horribly_ wrong. Anything that isn't valid css should
>> be ignored just as if it were a correctly typed css file containing
>> rubbish.
>
> There are some combinations of /valid/ CSS which can go horribly
> wrong, for instance negative indents (used for creating hanging
> indents). ie. visiting http://www.paulsdomain.co.uk will cause NetSurf
> to die horribly, even though it's perfectly valid HTML and CSS.
>
> And, yes, I have reported it as a bug on the bug tracker.
Yes you're right, it does go all pearshaped, but as you say that's a
bug. I said "it shouldn't ...", not "it doesn't ...". But the point
I'm trying to make is that if you tell NetSurf to fetch a particular
file and use it as a stylesheet then it should use that file. If it
can't make sense of the file then it can't make sense of the file
because of its contents, not because of its file type. It shouldn't
matter if the file type is text, html or css.
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16 years, 3 months
[Netsurf-develop] The Road to 1.0
by Daniel Silverstone
Hi,
Currently the NetSurf team are working towards releasing version 1.0
of NetSurf for RISC OS. The team have various goals to achieve in
order for this release to be made. Some (but not all) of these are
listed below. Once version 1.0 has been released, various invasive
changes to the project are likely to occur.
Along side the !NetSurf RISC OS application, the codebase produces a
GTK+ version of the browser which is currently very basic. GTK+ is one
of the graphical toolkits used on GNU/Linux operating systems, but it
has also been ported to Windows, Solaris, the BSDs and various other
systems. For 1.0, it is intended that this browser remain very basic
and essentially it will exist as a debugging aid for working on the
core of the project. When 1.0 has released it will be promoted to a
fully fledged browser and we expect that NetSurf 2.0 will be
simultaneously released as a RISC OS browser and as a GTK browser on
as many platforms as we can compile it for. You can see an example of
the current state of the GTK+ version of NetSurf here:
http://www.rjek.com/ns/iconrobe-nsgtk.png
Goals for 1.0 include:
o Cookie support needs fixing
o HTML list support needs finishing
o CSS absolute positioning needs implementing
o RISC OS Choices UI needs finishing
A more complete generalised TODO can be found at:
http://netsurf.sourceforge.net/plan
There are also over one hundred bugs filed in the bug tracker
currently in use for the project. These will need to be triaged and
those which are appropriate, fixed before 1.0 can release.
Along the way to 1.0, the team will be looking at migrating from CVS
to Subversion[1] which is a better version control system, providing
certain features which will be useful as we move to supporting a
stable release of the browser.
Thank you for your time,
Daniel
[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/
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Re: [Netsurf-develop] Local file types
by Rob Kendrick
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 23:39 +0000, Paul Vigay wrote:
> In article <3493530d4e.ricp(a)user.minijem.plus.com>,
> Richard Porter <ricp(a)minijem.plus.com> wrote:
>
> > It shouldn't go _horribly_ wrong. Anything that isn't valid css should
> > be ignored just as if it were a correctly typed css file containing
> > rubbish.
>
> There are some combinations of /valid/ CSS which can go horribly wrong, for
> instance negative indents (used for creating hanging indents). ie. visiting
> http://www.paulsdomain.co.uk will cause NetSurf to die horribly, even
> though it's perfectly valid HTML and CSS.
>
> And, yes, I have reported it as a bug on the bug tracker.
Hmm - nsgtk (the GTK build of NetSurf) renders www.paulsdomain.co.uk
identically to Firefox 1.5 except for the margin not being quite right
(there's a thin white outline surrounding the whole document.)
Have you tried with a recent version of NetSurf for RISC OS?
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16 years, 3 months
[Netsurf-develop] Local file types
by Richard Porter
NetSurf seems to be very particular about seeing particular file
types. It will ignore a local css file if it's a text file - it must
be css. But if the same text file is uploaded to the server it's no
problem. It's a Linux server so it doesn't change the file type
because it's got .css on the end - if I download it it's still a text
file.
If I copy some text out of an html file and paste it into a form,
NetSurf interprets the text as a new page and wipes out the form. I
can't think of any situation in which I would want to load a page by
pasting the source into the browser window. Drag and drop would be
quite different.
Why is NS being so needlessly awkward?
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16 years, 3 months
[Netsurf-develop] Down loading
by David W Mills
Just downloaded 25 Mar 2006 09:00 in 40 secs which is a huge improvement on
the previous version which took 3 tries and the final go at a max speed of
2.6 Kb/sec..... lesson? Don't try down loads on weekdays between 17;00 and
00;00 but go for Saturdays.
Have to say thanks to the developers as things continue to get better:
loading the prog is faster, it works with most websites I use regularly and
that at a more than acceptable speed!
I use Firefox on W******** and even that has some rendering difficulties
with some sites!
Thanks people.
David
16 years, 3 months
[Netsurf-develop] NetSurf grabs URLs
by Eur Ing John Rye
Hello All
I am now sufficiently impressed by NetSurf to want to make it my default
browser, but I have hit a small snag.
I run InetSuite to manage dialing etc, and AntUtils because of the range of
useful facilities that it provides. I am still on Dial Up for web access.
When I replace Fresco by Netsurf in my Boot Up in the sme place in the
sequence, I lose the useful facility of being able to click on an URL, and
store it in the URL store of AntUtils. NetSurf insists on grabbing the URL,
and opening a Window, whether I am on Line or not.
I assume that it is overwritting a system variable, but which one,
StrongArm RiscPC running 4.39
NetSurf Test build 20 Mar 1100
John Rye
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16 years, 3 months
[Netsurf-develop] Re: Local file types
by Tony Moore
On 24 Mar 2006, Richard Porter wrote:
> If I copy some text out of an html file and paste it into a form,
> NetSurf interprets the text as a new page and wipes out the form.
Not here.
Using StrongED to cut and paste from an html file, the clipboard
contents is accepted, and displayed, as text in the form.
Using drag and drop, a _text_ file is accepted, and displayed, as text
in the form.
An _html_ file dragged into the form causes the window to be redrawn.
Tony
Test Build (23 Mar 2006 10:30)
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