Unknown SSL protocol
by John Williams (address)
Sometime after r8950 - 1st Aug 2009, accessing my French bank results in
this error at the password box appearing stage:
Sorry, NetSurf was unable to display this page
Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to
voscomptesenligne.labanquepostale.fr:443
- so something changed after that version.
John
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12 years, 9 months
BBC weather site using hige amounts of memory.
by Dr Peter Young
I imagine that this is the fault of what seems to be a thoroughly
bloated site rather than of NetSurf, but I'd like an expert opinion,
particularly as to whether I should submit a bug report.
Loading http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/2174?area=GL52 as the
first page on a 500MB Iyonix (RISC OS 5.14 and NetSurf r9597) with
FreeMem initially reporting 425MB free, reduces the free memory to
286MB, with warnings that NetSurf is running out of memory. There are
also a lot of "Error converting png" messages during the loading,
which takes well over 30 seconds.
I have the log file if it's considered worth reporting this on the bug
tracker.
I'm glad that metcheck.com has at last sorted out its problems, as I
can get trouble-free forecasts from this site.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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13 years, 8 months
Google Summer of Code Roundup
by WP Blatchley
Well, thanks after a prod aren't a patch on thanks without a prod, but nevertheless...
Thanks to all involved in the GSoC work this summer, students and mentors alike. It looks like a huge amount of progress has been made. It's a shame all this work coincided with (was indirectly the cause of) the news that the RISC OS front end is in danger of losing support, otherwise I think praise would have been a lot more forthcoming. I for one was wrapped up in thinking about what to do about keeping NetSurf alive on RISC OS, and forgot the real purpose of this thread, which was to report the great achievements that have been made over the project as a whole. Sorry about that. And WELL DONE!
Cheers,
WPB
13 years, 8 months
crash at PN's survey / big logfile vs bug report
by Jim Nagel
Peter Naulls posted on Sept 20 at 20:21 in c.s.a.apps:
Please take this survey:
http://cs.createsurvey.com/c/55/6155/survey/8222-Y0e21x.html
The formatting isn't ideal in NetSurf, but the site should
still be usable (SurveyMonkey relies on JS for instance).
Or you can use a browser on different platform. Yes, I
appreciate the irony here.
using Netsurf (r9548), i spent 10 minutes digesting and answering all
the questions (about 20). click Submit. Netsurf immediately crashes.
and its crashing takes a further couple of minutes. 9-megabyte
logfile results, with message asking me to submit a bug report and
attach logfile. but 9M is far larger than the maximum you can send
with a bug report. what should i do?
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
13 years, 8 months
Google Summer of Code Roundup
by Michael Drake
Hello,
As many of you know, NetSurf has participated in Google Summer of Code for
a second consecutive year. This year we ran three projects which have all
been of great benefit to the project.
Mark Benjamin
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Mark worked on improving the GTK front end. As part of his work
on the GTK front end he has also moved functionality from the RISC OS
front end to the multi-platform code core, as well as adding new code
functionality than can be used by any NetSurf front ends.
New features added include a search bar, improved toolbar, favicon
support, improved customisation features. Merging of these
improvements into NetSurf's trunk code is currently pending a final
review.
As well as working on the GTK front end and associated core improvements,
Mark started work on a port to the Windows platform. The port is
currently experimental but has already implemented basic browsing
functionality.
Paul Blokus
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Paul worked on various core UI functionality. These include a scrollbar
widget, a text input widget, a SELECT element menu widget and the
treeview functionality used to display hotlist, history and cookies, etc.
Currently the core scrollbar widget, the text input widget, and the core
SELECT element menu have been merged into the trunk codebase.
The scrollbar widget is used on web pages for handling of the CSS
overflow property, and fixes various issues with the old scrollbar code.
The core SELECT widget code is now available to front ends that do not
use a native menu for the presentation of SELECT options.
The text input widget code is currently unused by the core, but it will
eventually replace the existing HTML form textarea and text input
handling. The existing textarea implementation has always been a bit
flaky from a users perspective and made various developments difficult
from a programmers point of view.
Work on the treeview code has removed its dependence on RISC OS, and
moved the treeview based functionality (including the hotlist, global
history and cookie display) from the RISC OS front end to the multi-
platform core. In addition the treeview API has been redesigned so
that the treeview is simpler to work with.
Paul has implemented a GTK front end for the core treeview. The Amiga
front end has also been updated to use the core treeview. Merging the
treeview work into the trunk is currently pending work to make the
RISC OS front end use the core treeviews, rather than the old RISC OS
specific treeviews, as well as a final review.
Bo Yang
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Bo has worked on the LibDOM project. This is a Document Object Model
library that will eventually be used by NetSurf. Implementing the DOM
is a huge job and over the summer Bo has worked on both the Core and
Events DOM modules, and also started on the HTML module. He has
implemented a system for converting and running an automated DOM test
suite.
Both the Core and Events modules support most of the commonly used APIs.
The rest have stub inplementations that do nothing right now and can be
fixed as they're needed. The implementations of these modules have been
merged into trunk. The HTML module is only part complete.
The implementation of LibDOM is one of the key stepping stones towards
the long-term goal of adding full JavaScript support to NetSurf, so this
work is essential in achieving our plans for the future.
In the shorter term, we hope that using LibDOM in NetSurf will enable
greater efficiency in the browser and hopefully speed up and simplify
certain aspects of NetSurf's behaviour.
-----------
NetSurf was blessed to be able to participate in Google Summer of Code for
a second year. Our three students were all enthusiastic, intelligent,
helpful and understanding. Materially, they have all done great work which
represents an enormous boon for the project. And we're always on the
lookout for enormous boons!
Thanks to our three students for their work and to the developers who
helped with the mentoring process. Many thanks also to Leslie Hawthorn
and the rest of the Google Summer of Code team for an excellent and most
beneficial programme.
The NetSurf Developers
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Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
13 years, 8 months
The Unicode font library could not be initialized
by Paul Stewart
Upon starting Netsurf (Dated 17 September 2008, 21:47 UTC), I receive
the following error: The Unicode font library could not be
initialized.
The error is not specific to this release. I downloaded the latest
version in response to the installed version suddenly generating this
error on startup. I'm guessing a file may have become corrupt. Any
pointers as to where I should look. So far I have done the following:
-
Deleted and replaced Unicode
Renamed my !Fonts folder and copied the one across from my
RO6 system, where NetSurf does work
Using RO4.42
Regards
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Paul Stewart - Far Bletchley, Milton Keynes, England.
(msn:paulstewart@phawfaux.co.uk)
13 years, 8 months
Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup
by WP Blatchley
Hi all,
Well despite Rob Kenricks's probably highly accurate description of how development for RISC OS is ("hateful"!), I am interested, and have expressed that interest on the developers' mailing list. And I'm not the only one.
I've had quick responses to the (so far few) questions I've asked, and I believe that the existing NetSurf developers will continue to bend over backwards to help anyone with the time and inclination to maintain the RISC OS front end. They just haven't got the time or the inclination to do it themselves. I'm sure everyone here can understand that.
Right now my time is very limited, just like most other people's. However, I am looking over the sources in the little free time I do have, and I'm starting to get a feel for things. I fully expect to be able to make a positive contribution to the project in time, but I can't just pick up such a large software project and start committing code without a pretty serious investment of time. So patience is required before I, or anyone else I should think, can get up to speed with the project and fill in the gaps. I would therefore understand if the core developers wanted to drop RISC OS support and merge their improvements for now to prevent this stall in development affecting the other platforms for any longer than it has already.
That doesn't mean I or somebody else can't be working on getting the RISC OS front end back into shape at a later date, does it? It would just mean RISC OS autobuilds had to stop for a period, I think.
Correct me if I'm wrong!
WPB
13 years, 8 months
Running out of memory
by Steve Clark
Has anyone still got a copy of Netsurf dating to before the memory leak
problem that they could send me (offlist)?
I've reverted to 2.1 for most uses, but I'd rather have something more up
to date.
With the most recent release r9569 on a graphics heavy page I have dynamic
areas 236K, 548K and 51M; under 2.1 the same dynamic areas are 236K, 548K
and 8704K.
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Steve Clark
{sjclark(a)ormail.co.uk using a 129Mb SA 6.14 RiscPC}
13 years, 8 months
Archive website in Corpus font
by Jim Nagel
why is Netsurf displaying the Archive website in Corpus (aka Courier)
font?
this is the case here with Netsurf r9548 and r9530.
correct fonts were displayed by r7792, and Firefox 3 on XP displays
correct fonts.
by the way, Archive's news story about the Acorn World show at
Huddersfield has been posted on the site. the magazine is about to go
to press, at last, but will reach readers only on the eve of the show,
at best.
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
13 years, 8 months
Link colours
by Richard Porter
Wow! I can now see links on a blue background without recourse to css.
Thanks for implementing that at last.
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13 years, 8 months
