Version Numbers
by John Williams
I see the version numbers are rolling on a-pace.
When the current 4 digit 'r' number rolls over, will we expect a 5 digit
number such as 10000 et seq?
I ask because my auto-downloading SW will require modding to cope.
If so, when might this be anticipated to occur?
John
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14 years, 2 months
Extracting a JPEG from a web page for a backdrop generator
by Richard Ashbery
Ref: JPEG only required
Adjust-clicking over the save icon or Shift-F3 or even Select-clicking
the packet icon if ButtonBar is loaded enables me to do a full-save on
a selected image resolution on a site like
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper* and then dragging to a filer
window. The full-saved file can then be opened, the relevant jpeg
identified, selected and dragged to a filer window. The unwanted html
gifs and css can then be binned. If many images are needed it becomes
quite time consuming - Is there a simpler way?
If I had the programming skills I would write a routine to this
automatically.
*Incidentally what a superb site.
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Regards
Richard
14 years, 2 months
monospaced font?
by Roger Darlington
I'm looking for a monospaced font that works in Netsurf.
Is there one?
I've tried
<PRE>
<TT>
<CODE>
and
<KBD>
but none of those seem to.
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Cheers
Roger
I'm a mitochondriac
14 years, 2 months
Odd filer contents
by Gerald Dodson
On opening a directory into which I intended to save a web page, only two
two items were present: log and a directory clearly to do with netsurf. I
opened another directory and tried to save to that but after some time a
disc error was posted. Using Iyonix with NS 2 Mar 2009.
On rebooting the m/c all 28 items were still present - relief.
Gerald Dodson
14 years, 2 months
Link colour
by David J Worden
In a two-language website for a friend I have used the colour red on
English pages and blue on French pages (in headings, etc., at her
request), and so I have specified the link colour as green rather than
the default blue.
MSIE and FireFox on Windows do as I have specified, but NetSurf
insists on keeping the link colour as blue. Is this a known fault?
It seems a very fundamental thing to be so complicated that it has
been left until later to implement.
I have just downloaded the latest build (r6778 12th March 2009) and it
still does it.
In this instance it is not a problem for me as it is unlikely that
users of the site will be using RISC OS. I was just a bit surprised.
David
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David J Worden
14 years, 2 months
Re: Link colour
by David J Worden
I seem to have stirred a hornet's nest by starting this thread! My
apologies to the hard-working developers for putting you through this!
In article <7ea8523b50.david(a)david.wanadoo.fr>,
David J Worden <aux.auges(a)free.fr> wrote:
>> In a two-language website for a friend I have used the colour red on
>> English pages and blue on French pages (in headings, etc., at her
>> request), and so I have specified the link colour as green rather than
>> the default blue.
> I hope I'm not teaching you to suck eggs...
No, you're not. I did start to look into CSS at one point(*), but my
personal 'style' of website programming meant that I would pretty much
have to re-write all my existing sites from scratch, and I tend to use
an old site as a starting point for new ones, so I got so far and then
stopped!
(*) As I am retired there is no pressure on me these days to
keep up with later developments. If what I already know is
not sufficient to satisfy someone for whom I am preparing a
website then I will look into what else may be needed. In
this case, as I said earlier, the person concerned knows
nothing of RISC OS or NetSurf and it is unlikely that any of
her clients will either. And even if they do, the site will
still work for them, albeit not quite as I had intended.
> ...but the problem of ignored link body tags (discussion of which may
> need to be preceded by a strict definition of the subjective term "not
> difficult" ;) can be easily overcome _if_ you have control of the web
> site.
Which I do in the case in question.
> To control main document colours with CSS use:
> body {
> background-color: #000000;
> color: #ffffff;
> }
> a:visited { color: #ffffcc }
> a:link { color: #ccffcc }
> a:hover { color: #ffcccc }
Maybe I'll look into this again, but spring and summer are approaching
fast now and I will want to be spending more time outdoors in the
southern French sun, not huddled over my computer! ;-)
>"My" sites were driving me mad so NetSurf did me the favour of forcing
>me to 'upgrade' to CSS because of this seemingly bizarre omission from
>its fundamental repertoire. (It's as if, like, they thought "nobody
>uses body tags" because they're deprecated, ain't they? But not when
>those pages were written, they wasn't? A shame so it is that the term
>deprecated seems misunderstood so widely? Innit?)
> With apologies to Armstrong and Miller.
Given the bit-by-bit circumstances under which NetSurf is being
developed (as described elsewhere in this issue [v23,i15] of the
Digest) I think the developers between them have done and are doing a
remarkable job.
Whatever its shortcomings may be, I have graduated via Fresco, Oregano
and Oregano2 to NetSurf and I now use it exclusively under RISC OS
(other than when checking that my websites work satisfactorily with
the other browsers).
David
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David J Worden
14 years, 2 months
Layout of this site?
by Roger Darlington
Taking an example from the site below:
http://www.british-wild-flowers.co.uk/H-Flowers/Herb%20Robert.htm
What aspect of either Netsurf or of the site in question makes the
layout so appalingly awful in Netsurf? With captions well away from
the photo in question, and often overlaid and half-obscured by other
bits or even only the bottom half of the text visible.
[The whole site is like this, it's not just one page].
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Cheers
Roger
"An invisibility cloak that works at optical wavelengths is nowhere in
sight"
14 years, 2 months
Blank website
by Bryan Hogan
Anyone know why this website:
http://croydondarts.leaguerepublic.com/
...only displays the headings and none of the main page body? The same
problem affects all the sub-sites of leaguerepublic.
Tried with NetSurf r6763 and v1.2, both on RO4.39.
It's not a javascript issue, because it displays in Browse!
Thanks,
Bryan.
14 years, 2 months
Bug Issue: 2028578
by Paul Stewart
Any chance the layout issue can be fixed in bug 2028578?
The issue is that on the login
page(http://www.myserverworld.net/authlogin.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx),
the Username and Password entry boxes do not display correctly. They
are meant to be next to their labels, rather than slightly to the left
and underneath.
There are other issues with the site once logged in, but solving the
issue where you do not need to log in for would be a start.
Recently retested this page with version r6776. Same issues. See
attched images for how it looks.
Regards
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(msn:paulstewart@phawfaux.co.uk)
RISC OS Wakefield '09 show. Saturday Apil 25th. Be there and be
seen!
http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/
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