microsoft-generated html - 'parsing document failed'
by Mike Hobbs
I frequently get sent html that has been generated by MS Word,
Excel or Access and when NetSurf tries to load it the error
"parsing document failed" occurs (using r5369 Sep 18 and
earlier versions).
OK, I know stuff generated by Microsoft software is likely to
be a nightmare for anything other than IE but the issues are:
* surely NS could make a better attempt to display something?
* what does the error really mean? what exactly failed?
* could NS have an option "re-load but ignore styles"?
Looking at the html its fairly typical Microsoft html format -
excessive use of CSS to define masses of irrelevant stuff like
loads of fonts and styles that aren't even used and a sprinkling
of unnecessary spans and other useless tags as well as MS-specific
definitions inside html comments. NS could safely ignore almost
all of this.
The most recent document I've been sent is actually a fairly
trivial table with 25 rows and 12 columns and an (oversize)
email signature (its a bug report table from JIRA). It displays
OK in Oregano2 (excepting some of the styles). Even Fresco v2.25
(circa 2000) displays it without the styles. I can't release the
document as it stands but if anyone wants a copy I'll edit out the
sensitive stuff. Its over 200K, of which about 90% is style
definitions and references and over 50% of that is superfluous
(typical MS bloat).
Mike
(speaking personally, not for ANT, but the SMTP server won't
let me send mail as if from my demon account)
15 years, 1 month
Vanishing BBC
by Dr Peter Young
Since I upgraded to r5588, www.bbc.co.uk times out without loading
anything. It works with Windows Firefox. Has anyone else found this?
If so, I'll file a bug report.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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15 years, 1 month
Italian translation
by Chris Young
All
Samir Hawamdeh <s.hawamdeh(a)tin.it> has kindly sent me an Italian
translation of the NetSurf Messages file (minus the Help strings).
I've checked it in to SVN as !NetSurf/Resources/it/Messages
If it needs moving, please do so. If there's any feedback contact
either me or Samir (he is not on the list).
Regards
Chris
15 years, 1 month
Online BT billing
by Dave Symes
Netsurf r5531 (10 Oct 2008)
Anyone else here attempted to access their online BT phone bill using
Netsurf and find it impossible to get past the Login page?
Cheers
Dave S
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15 years, 2 months
Branch through zero error on A9
by Gary Jones
I get lots of fatal errors when using my A9 with Netsurf and they are
repeatable. Trouble is, I'm not sure whether it's the A9, Netsurf or
some other item.
With only Netsurf on the iconbar (r5066 but does occur with other
versions also) I get a looping Branch through zero at &023018A0
(sometimes &023148F0) and I have to reset the machine to get out of
it. It occurs when I have accessed a site that uses SSL (i.e. a url
starting with https). As soon as I click on some part of Netsurf
(usually an input field but it could be resize icon etc.) I get this
looping error.
I don't know how to work out from the address given where the problem
is occuring. ISTR someone saying that it could be the Cryptrand module
(I have v0.12). Does this make sense?
Has anyone else with an A9 experienced this? If anyone could help me
to track this down and get it sorted I'd be
grateful.
Thanks
Gary
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15 years, 2 months
