[Netsurf-develop] egg.com
by David J. Ruck
egg.com now seems to work with NetSurf. You can log in, and while it
regularly takes you to a page saying "please enable javascript", pressing
continue takes you to the desired page.
I had previously been using an unreleased javascript enabled browser just
to check my account, which sat there fetcing 3,7,2,9,1 objects while locking
the machine up entirely (some people will recognise that one), so thats
oneless time I'll have attempt to to use it.
Cheers
---Dave
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16 years, 1 month
[Netsurf-develop] Formatting awry on BBC home page.
by Dr Peter Young
This is with the 30 Jan 2007 15:45 build and with RISC OS 5.12. I
think it isn't a bug, but some awful HTML, which is why I'm posting
here but not on the bug tracker.
For the last couple of days the formatting of www.bbc.co.uk has gone
substantially wrong. Why I think it's not NetSurf's fault is that
Oregano 2 makes a lot more of a hash of it. RISC OS Firefox seems to
get it right, and also Firefox, Opera and Internet Exploiter on Win
XP. However, the page has a "display options" link, and this seems to
work on none of these six browsers, though in NetSurf you have to make
a guess as to where this link is, as it doesn't show up. Does this
give a pointer to some bad HTML, I wonder?
FWIW I've tried validating it on two validator sites, and they both
come up with multiple errors.
I doubt whether the developers would think it worthwhile to try to
make NetSurf work with what seems to be such a defective site, but I
felt I might get a bit more understanding and explanation here than
from the BBC. However, if someone with a lot more technical knowledge
thinks that having a go at the BBC might be worth it ...
With best wishes,
Peter.
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16 years, 1 month
Re: [Netsurf-develop] NetSurf-develop Digest, Vol 8, Issue 28
by Michael Bell
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:23:42 GMT
From: Richard Porter <ricp(a)minijem.plus.com>
Subject: Re: [Netsurf-develop] Failure to move between pages of Open
University site
To: netsurf-develop(a)lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID: <f90a7dad4e.ricp(a)user.minijem.plus.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On 30 Jan 2007 Michael Bell wrote:
>
> Once again I am sending a bug report by e-mail because I cannot see
> how to get into the bug tracker.
> Go to
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=464312&group_id=51719
. or alternatively go to www.netsurf-browser.org/ and follow the link
to
> "Support tracker". Now bookmark the page for future use.
Yes, yes, I've seen this page before. But where is a field for "Report
a new bug"?
[snip]
> I am asked again for my username and password, which I enter,
> I click "submit" and the fields clear and nothing happens.
> Are you sure this is a bug? Have you looked at the source? Is there
> any javascript? If all the fields clear it's not true to say that
> nothing happens. Have you done a reset rather than a clear?
Maybe it is lack of JavaScript. Fresco opens it, though I still can't
find what I want. It's a new course and maybe everything is not fully
set up yet. The OU sometimes is a bit disorganised.
Michael Bell
16 years, 1 month
[Netsurf-develop] Failure to move between pages of Open University site
by Michael Bell
Once again I am sending a bug report by e-mail because I cannot see
how to get into the bug tracker.
I have registered to do Open University course MT262 "Putting
computers to work" - a Course in C and C++.
I have been given a user name and a password, and using them I have
been able to log into my Open University e-mail account and view the
material present there. But I CANNOT get into "MT262 Course website"
or "MT262 Electronic TMA Service" ("TMA" = Tutor-marked Assignements"
- my coursework). I NEED these templates. When I click on these two
buttons, I am asked again for my username and password, which I enter,
I click "submit" and the fields clear and nothing happens.
Organisations like the OU are twitchy about passwords being given out
to others, though no money is at stake, but if it helps I could give
them.
My version of Netsurf is 30 Jan 2007 15:45, though actually I
downloaded it about 20:00 (earlier versions did the same)
Michael Bell
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16 years, 1 month
[Netsurf-develop] Funny scaled image href bug
by Stefan Bellon
I just noticed a funny bug in NetSurf where it miscalculates the
hotspot area for a link if the link is a scaled image:
<a href="image.png" target="_blank">
<img width="100" height="100" src="image.png">
</a>
Let's assume that image.png is 200x200 in size, then NetSurf uses the
original size as hotspot for the link and not the one actually used by
the scaled image.
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Stefan Bellon
16 years, 2 months
Re: [Netsurf-develop] Weird display problem
by Dr Peter Young
On 25 Jan 2007 Paul Vigay <lists-nospam(a)vigay.com> wrote:
>
> In article <5c1ccdaa4e.alan(a)ntlworld.com>,
> Alan Leighton <alan.leighton2(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Thats odd Paul it works fine on my Iyonix and TB 18/1
>
> Odd. That's why I thought I'd mention it here before reporting as a bug.
> That's using todays build (25 Jan 00:00) on an Iyonix with ROS 5.12
I get the same as Paul with the same build and same OS. Also, the
"news in 33 languages" page and its sub-pages on the BBC site don't
seem to produce the majority of the characters that they should and
that they used to.
I don't understand Unicode fonts, but has something been broken here?
With best wishes,
Peter.
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16 years, 2 months
Re: [Netsurf-develop] Weird display problem
by James Bursa
On Thursday 25 January 2007 15:55, Paul Vigay wrote:
> There's a weird display problem when trying to view www.raytheon.com
>
> At first I thought it was some kind of unicode font problem, but I think it
> might be trying to display graphics as text instead of rendering them or
> something.
As some people have replied, it's due to an flash movie in the page being sent
as text/plain.
Those who don't see it have Advert blocking switched on.
The only functions of NetSurf affected by the RISC OS version are fonts and
printing.
James
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16 years, 2 months
Re: [Netsurf-develop] Weird display problem
by David J. Ruck
On 25 Jan 2007 Paul Vigay <lists-nospam(a)vigay.com> wrote:
> There's a weird display problem when trying to view www.raytheon.com
>
> At first I thought it was some kind of unicode font problem, but I think it
> might be trying to display graphics as text instead of rendering them or
> something.
>
> Works fine with Oregano 2 and 3.
I've seen this before, some binary data referenced on the page is being
returned by the server as type text in the HTML headers, which netsurf uses
to determine the type rather than the file extension. So it has to be correct
or NetSurf (under the "thats what want, thats what'll happen" rules) will try
to render the binary data as text, which it does, making a right mess of the
page.
I don't know what is causing this without checking all the refrences. I
thought it would be possible to tell by doing a full save, which indeed does
include a file of type text containing matching binary contents.
Unfortunately there is no reference to this file in the html index to be
able to relate its munged file name back to the its use in the original
page.
Cheers
---Dave
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16 years, 2 months
