URI module
by Ron
Hi, after downloading the latest unstable version of Netsurf, I noticed
that the !Unicode is newer but the URI module is older than I downloaded
from another link on the Netsurf site.
I was having extremely bad performance (hourglass activity) until I
found the newer URI module (while using the stable build) and think it
is worth a mention.
I'll subscribe more fully to this group in the near future.
Cheers -Ron
15 years, 1 month
Ebay - unable to bid
by Philip H Parker
Clicking on the bid button on an Ebay auction page sends me to the Invalid
Item page, rather than the log-in page or, if already logged in, to the link
page for final bid confirmation.
I don't know when this fault commenced as I had a gap in keeping up-to-date
with development versions. r4376 (17th June) works whereas r5066 (12th
August) and later versions exhibit the behavior given in the first
paragraph.
Is anyone else suffering this behavior or am I the only person bidding on
Ebay? :-)
StrongArm using 4.02
Phil
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15 years, 1 month
Re: PDF Export
by Brian
Thanks for the positive reply.
I'm glad it makes sense to you.
Just because it makes sense to you, doesn't mean that it does to
everyone else.
Its a new feature, which I'd haven't seen or used before and it was
the first time I'd seen and tried it.
Thats why I asked.
If I wanted a page of a webpage as a complete
same view as I'm seeing on the screen in paper form, it
could have advantages.
That was all.
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Using Arm technology without the need of Windoze ...
15 years, 1 month
BeOS and AmigaOS ports
by Michael Drake
NetSurf has recently been ported to two new platforms. They are BeOS/Haiku
and AmigaOS. These ports are native implementations of NetSurf's
interface. Both new ports are at an early stage of development,
although they are already usable for simple browsing of the web.
The BeOS and Haiku port is by François Revol (mmu_man). It can display
web pages, link navigation and form submission etc is working, and it
supports multiple windows. It currently lacks many of the features found
in the RISC OS and GTK versions which are much more mature.
The AmigaOS port is by Chris Young (chris_y). It currently runs only on
AmigaOS 4.x. It displays pages although it needs a bit of work, e.g. to
fix the text encoding issues. It can navigate the web and supports
multiple windows.
Currently neither port is available in binary form from the NetSurf web
site, although the source code is available there.
There are some screenshots of the new ports in the "work in progress"
section here:
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/screenshots/
Finally, welcome to any new NetSurf users from BeOS and AmigaOS platforms!
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Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
15 years, 1 month
PDF Export
by Brian
Can someone enlighten me regarding PDF Export in Netsurf ?
For example I have visited a webpage and I saved that page
as a PDF file.
When I then open up the file instead of having one page as
I've seen on the browser, it been saved as many several
pages as a PDF.
Am I missing the point ?
I know I can quite easily save the page in another format
and convert that but I'm just interested how it all works.
Using Netsurf Dev 17 Aug 2008 r5138.
Regards.
Brian
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15 years, 1 month
Summary of recent changes
by Michael Drake
Here's a summary of changes from the last few months:
It's been a long time since the last changes summary post, and a lot has
happened since, including Google Summer of Code and ports to new
operating systems, so there's a lot to get though here.
The new ports are native front ends for AmigaOS and BeOS/Haiku. I'll
provide more information about them in a separate post.
The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) activity has been a great success. Our
students have completed the new HTML5 parser, vastly overhauled the GTK
front end, implemented PDF export, added print functionality to the GTK
version and split bits of NetSurf out into separate libraries, for ease
of maintenance and use by other projects.
It's worth mentioning Hubbub before listing the key changes that have
happened, as it may be unclear what it does. HTML5 defines exactly how
an HTML parser should work when faced with broken HTML, as well as valid
HTML. The part about handling broken HTML is based on how the mainstream
browsers cope with invalid input. So with Hubbub, we treat broken HTML
(i.e. most of the web) like the mainstream browsers.
Before Hubbub, NetSurf used an XML parser to parse HTML, but now we
actually use a true HTML parser for HTML. So certain instances of valid
HTML are now also handled correctly, where they weren't before.
The upshot of this is that bugs causing a huge variety of different
problems are now fixed. Here's a few examples:
Pages that didn't render at all:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.3243
Pages that appeared completely mangled:
http://uk.wii.ign.com/
Pages where the text stopped part way down:
http://www.ndt-ed.org/GeneralResources/MaterialProperties/UT/ut_matlprop_...
Pages where random JavaScript code appeared on the page:
http://www.youtube.com/
and many more. It fixes over 40 of the bugs that were on the bug tracker
and many others.
+ Fixed a percentage rounding issue in layout.
+ Fixed used of clear property on floated elements.
+ Support for CSS min/max-height
+ Fixed status bar message for standalone images
+ Table height support
+ Fixes for construction of table box structure
+ Improved reflow document behaviour as images are fetched
+ Cookie file handling improvements
+ Ensure layout box scrollbars are visible when needed (eg. not black on
black)
+ Improved behaviour when modifying text selections
+ Fixed formatting of copied or saved text selections
+ Fixed handling of certain file: URLs
+ Fixed text selection redraw bug
+ List marker text now selectable
+ Improved text selection clearing behaviour
+ Form element width / height improvements
+ Text export formatting improved
+ Improved handling of URL redirections
+ Fixed absolutely positioned table cells
+ Fixed containing block behaviour -- fixes layout issues
+ Fixed internal locale handling
+ No longer suppress default Accept: header -- (fixes sites that
brokenly require it)
+ Handle surplus whitespace in URLs
+ Better imagemap handling
+ Rationalised fetch header handling and cache control code
+ Redesigned throbber animation
+ Internal click handling now copes better with different front end
behaviour -- act on press or act on release
+ Performance improvements, especially for when large pages are open
+ Fixed redraw bug related to background images
+ Fixed erroneous drawing of flat coloured text backgrounds
+ Messages files can now be gzipped
+ Change to C89 for BeOS build compatibility
+ Rewritten meta refresh parsing
+ Knockout plotting is now only used for screen rendering -- improves
print, drawfile and PDF export
+ RISC OS: Fixed flashes of random noise with buffered rendering
+ RISC OS: Text selection and drag saving fixes
+ RISC OS: Mouse no longer constrained to window during text selection
+ RISC OS: Fixed mask / alpha channel in sprite export
+ RISC OS: New scripts to open NetSurf's Choices and Scrap directories
+ RISC OS: Fixed RISC OS 6 icon sprites
+ RISC OS: Fixed .nl template keypress restrictions
+ RISC OS: Fixed filetype of downloaded local files
+ RISC OS: Zoom/scale with shift+scrollwheel
+ RISC OS: Fixed local history problems after Scrap is wiped
+ RISC OS: New menu option for PDF export
+ RISC OS: Now possible to dump DA and WimpSlot to files on crash
+ RISC OS: Fix drawfile export crash
+ RISC OS: Templates files now stored in textual format in SVN and
converted to Template files at build time by CCres.
+ GTK: Fixed caret size in form inputs
+ GTK: Fixed caret positioning in form inputs
+ GTK: NetBSD build fixes
+ GTK: Now uses the welcome page as default homepage
+ GTK: Fixed flickering to white during redraw (see layout.c comment)
+ GTK: New debugging submenu for box dump and debug rendering mode
+ GTK: Support for RISC OS sprites, via librosprite
+ GTK: Key shortcuts for zoom/scale improved
+ GTK: Dropped non-cairo plotter
+ GTK: Implemented path plotter (permits use of libsvgtiny)
+ GTK: Can now use series of PNG files for throbber
+ GTK: Fix issue when thumbnailing very large pages
+ BeOS: New port
+ AmigaOS: New port
+ Build: Rewritten multi-platform build system
+ Build: Fixes for native builds on RISC OS
+ Build: Improved GTK build instructions
+ Build: New build configuration system (Makefile.config) allows NetSurf
to be built with or without particular features
+ SVG Tiny: GCCSDK4 build fixes
+ SVG Tiny: Work on linear gradient fills
+ SVG Tiny: Fixed stoke widths
+ SVG Tiny: New library overview document
+ Parser Utils: New library.
+ CSS: New CSS parsing library. (Work in progress.)
+ New automated incremental backup scheme to keep our SVN repository safe
+ New code style guide:
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/developers/StyleGuide.pdf
Changes by our GSoC students:
Michael Lester:
+ GSoC: Fixed proxy options bug
+ GSoC: Improved core text selection
+ GSoC: Improved behavior of form text inputs
+ GSoC: Improved handling of mouse and key presses
+ GSoC: Support for cut-to-clipboard of selections in form inputs
+ GSoC: GTK: Many user interface tweaks to conform to platform standards
+ GSoC: GTK: Context sensitive menu improvements
+ GSoC: GTK: Improved preferences window
+ GSoC: GTK: Preferences window now has instant-apply behaviour
+ GSoC: GTK: Improved About NetSurf window
+ GSoC: GTK: Implemented drag handling (for text selection, page drag,
etc)
+ GSoC: GTK: Implemented platform specific text selection code
+ GSoC: GTK: Implemented clipboard support for copy & paste
+ GSoC: GTK: Download support and new downloads window
Not yet merged into trunk:
+ GSoC: GTK: Implemented global history window
+ GSoC: GTK: Implemented support for tabbed browsing
Adam Blokus:
+ GSoC: New PDF plotter for PDF export functionality
+ GSoC: Enabled use of original bitmap file date in plotters
+ GSoC: Updated libharu to allow export of JPEG and PNG files from
memory
+ GSoC: New concept of page loosening, to fit web pages to paper widths
and improve pagination
+ GSoC: Fixed PDF export bugs reported on RISC OS user mailing list
+ GSoC: GTK: Front end for PDF export
+ GSoC: GTK: Printing support with print dialogue
+ GSoC: GTK: Fixed font / text positioning problem
Sean Fox:
+ GSoC: Extracted NetSurf's GIF handling code into new stand-alone
library -- libnsgif
+ GSoC: Improved libnsgif API
+ GSoC: Extracted NetSurf's BMP/ICO handling code into new stand-alone
library -- libnsbmp
+ GSoC: Improved libnsbmp API
+ GSoC: Made NetSurf use libnsgif and libnsbmp
+ GSoC: Example code and documentation for libnsgif and libnsbmp
Not yet merged into trunk:
+ GSoC: Extraction of core NetSurf "layout engine" (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layout_engine) into new stand-alone
library -- libfandango
+ GSoC: All sorts of API changes for Fandango.
Andrew Sidwell:
+ GSoC: Hubbub: Updated tokeniser to current HTML5 spec
+ GSoC: Hubbub: Now uses libparserutils for input stream handling
+ GSoC: Hubbub: Entity matching
+ GSoC: Hubbub: Work to improve the test suite
+ GSoC: Hubbub: Implemented the treebuilder
+ GSoC: Made NetSurf use Hubbub
Please test the latest version
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/testbuilds (RISC OS)
Note: On other platforms, you currently have to build from source
to try the latest changes.
Please report* any bugs you encounter.
* http://www.netsurf-browser.org/documentation/info#Bugs
Thanks,
The NetSurf Developers
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Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
15 years, 1 month
Crash on directline.com
by John
Using both the 12th August version & also the latest 15th August (r5120) I
get an immediate crash from a fresh start on www.directline.com
Bug report submitted.
John
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. . . using RISC OS 5.13 on an XScale powered Iyonix computer.
15 years, 1 month
FreeBMD
by Dave Barnett
FreeBMD search: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl has stopped
working since r5066. The search form displays OK but 'Find' or
'Count' buttons result an error page saying that my browser is not
sending complete information and that their server is OK. Other
browsers (02 and Fresco) have different problems but WebsterXL (no js)
works, if a little slowly. The site does not W3C validate, but it is
not as bad as many are.
As I use this site a lot ATM, I have reverted to r4986.
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Dave
Keep GMT all year
15 years, 1 month
PDF export
by Anthony Hilton
PDF export from Netsurf is a great feature.
I have just tried the PDF export with Netsurf r4912 (05 August 2008 10:00) -
on RISC OS 4.39 - and compared it with the same page printed to PDF via the
postscript printer driver and Ghostscript (Steve Fryatt's PrintPDF making it
a single process). The website I tested with is one I maintain -
http://www.tinshillfreechurch.org.uk/
Not entirely surprising with an early implementation there is are a couple of
problems with the Netsurf export - the text is wrapped to peculiar line
lengths and a monochrome gif image is inverted (white on black instead of
black on white). The benefit of the Netsurf export is that it accurately
represents the intended look of the page with a dark brown border and all the
text is rendered within the page.
The PrintPDF version crops the right side of the page losing some text,
probably because of absolute widths in the stylesheet for div.container,
div.left and div.content. Printing to a bitmap using !Sprinter shows the same
crop problem suggesting to me that this problem is either due to the RISC OS
printing system or Netsurf's printing routines. Could Netsurf's printing
routines overcome this problem? Should I log it on the bug tracker with an
example file?
The two pdf files are available from
http://www.tinshill.f9.co.uk/ant/pdftest.htm and I could make the bitmap
print available as a gifs if required.
Anthony
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