'back' behaviour in framesets
by Richard Porter
Netsurf's behaviour is a little bit inconsistent or at least
inconvenient with framesets. For example go to
http://www.bestmoments.at/catago/BestMoments/FE/Index/index
and click on "ZU DEN BILDERN". The main frame changes but the back
icon is not enabled. However the menu allows you to select Navigate >
Back one page. Having gone back to the first page the reverse applies
and you can go forward one page using the menu but not the toolbar
icon.
You need to click Menu in the main frame, so I can see what's
happening but it's not particularly helpful. It would be better if the
forward and back icons let you step through the 'pages' actually seen
regardless of their structure. I think most browsers do this.
A further drawback with the present behaviour is that if you arrived
at the frameset from somewhere else and have been browsing it for a
while you can click on back which will completely lose your place.
Then when you click the forward icon you have to start again at the
beginning. This is particularly bad if the whole site uses one
frameset or is masked in a frameset which is there to show a different
domain (don't you hate it when people do that).
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Disclaimer: Please imagine about 50 lines of pointless clutter.
14 years, 6 months
NetSurf 2.0 + Royal Mail Address Finder
by Russell Hafter - Lists
It was not possible to use the Royal Mail's Address Finder
with NetSurf 1.2, though many of the more recent test builds
did work OK.
I have just tried it with NetSurf 2.0 and there is a problem
again.
www.royalmail.com/postcodes
When entering info into the form here, while the cursor
moves along the space, no characters appear to be entered.
It does not appear to be a case of, for some reason, white
characters being entered on a white ground, as if you do
enter apparently invisible data and then click the find
button, it behaves as though no data has been entered.
Anyone else seen this?
--
Russell Hafter - Mailing Lists
rh.lists(a)phone.coop
Need a hotel? <http://www.hrs.de/?client=en__MT&customerId=416873103>
(NB This link needs Firefox to work)
14 years, 7 months
datestamps
by Jim Nagel
within the Netsurf 2.0 zipfile download, the datestamps on all the
internal files have been lost -- everything is stamped 2009-04-22
16:42 (give or take a few seconds).
is that on purpose or a glitch?
this was not so in previous downloads. datestamps usefully indicated
whether items such as Iconv and SharedULib had changed since my last
Netsurf download, ie, whether it's necessary to go through the process
of updating Boot and System.
--
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
Abbey Press 32 Norbins Rd (01458) 83 3603
Glastonbury BA6 9JG pocket 0797 415 3861
14 years, 7 months
NetSurf Developers at Wakefield 2009
by Michael Drake
The NetSurf team will be at the Wakefield RISC OS show tomorrow. Please
come along to meet the team and ask any questions you have!
We are releasing NetSurf 2.0 at the show and will have it running on our
stand. We hope also to be able to demonstrate NetSurf running on other
operating systems and platforms.
If there are features you would like to see implemented, bugs you want to
show us, or if you'd simply like to quiz us on our future plans, please
stop by our stand.
The developers present will be at least:
John-Mark Bell
Michael Drake
Rob Kendrick
Vincent Sanders
Daniel Silverstone
( http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/team )
Thanks,
The NetSurf Developers
--
Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
14 years, 7 months
NetSurf 2.0
by John-Mark Bell
The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the completion of NetSurf
2.0. This release contains many new features and enhancements as well as
many minor bug fixes and improvements. It will be made available for
download from http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ on Saturday 25th April.
Here is a change log detailing the important changes in this release:
Core / All
----------
* Completely new HTML parser (Hubbub).
* SVG support. (Can be used as normal images and background images.)
* PDF export support.
* Many improvements to page layout and rendering.
* More CSS properties supported.
* Improved text selection behaviour.
* Charset fixes.
* Portability improvements.
* Configurable multi-platform build system.
* Tabbed browsing awareness.
* Corrected behaviour of backgrounds on root element.
* Many fixes related to floated content.
* More lenient meta refresh delay handling.
* Improvements to cut, copy and paste behaviour.
* Better cookie handling.
* Improved form functionality.
* Improved form control display.
* Stability fixes for handling nonsense data.
* Better handling of HTML attributes.
* Fix broken layout on systems which don't use '.' as the decimal
separator.
* Fix inline height not affecting line height.
* Handle whitespace in URL bar.
* New throbber animation.
* Fixed occasional white flicker of page area during layout.
* New default homepage.
RISC OS-specific
----------------
* Restructured menu with access to more functionality.
* Remembers save / download paths.
* Improved style-guide compliance.
* Wimpslot size adjusted at build time.
* Alt+click on close icon closes all NetSurf windows.
* Escape aborts drag save.
* New object > link submenu.
* SVG to Drawfile conversion.
* Zoom/scale with shift+scrollwheel.
* Improved drawfile export.
GTK-specific
------------
* Tabbed browsing.
* Global history.
* Download manager.
* Enhanced interface.
* Text selection.
* Print support.
* Improved context menu.
* Handle desktop DPI setting.
* Can support RISC OS Sprite bitmap format via librosprite.
* View source.
* Content language selection option.
BeOS/Haiku-specific
-------------------
* First release.
AmigaOS-specific
----------------
* First release.
Framebuffer-specific
--------------------
* First release.
Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and
documentation enhancements.
Thanks to everybody who has contributed to this release!
About NetSurf
=============
NetSurf is an Open Source web browser for RISC OS, Linux and other Unix-like
platforms, BeOS, Haiku, and AmigaOS 4. For further information, please see
the website at http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
14 years, 7 months
Netsurft 2.0 GTK Faling To Make
by Mark Williams
Because of libhubbub.
Which I don't have, isn't in the Ubuntu repos and I can't find a way to turn off in the makefile options.
Help.
--
Mark Williams <mark.williams(a)ntlworld.com>
14 years, 7 months
automating login details
by Jim Nagel
is there any way of automatically providing my username and password
when i go to a certain website i need to use frequently?
i have got as far as saving a URL file so that at least i don't have
to type that part every time. perhaps there's a standard way (which i
should know but don't) of including the username and password in the
URL file?
thanks.
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
Abbey Press 32 Norbins Rd (01458) 83 3603
Glastonbury BA6 9JG pocket 0797 415 3861
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14 years, 7 months
posts appearing? test
by Jim Nagel
sorry; ignore this. it's just that a post i sent a few hours ago has
not yet appeared, nor its repeat.
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Abbey Press 32 Norbins Rd (01458) 83 3603
Glastonbury BA6 9JG pocket 0797 415 3861
14 years, 7 months
