October 2011 - netsurf-users - listmaster.pepperfish.net

by Roger Darlington

I have downloaded the latest test build r12932, and find that it treats frames in an entirely different way to what it test builds did less than 3 months ago. Positioning the mouse pointer over any one frame and rotating the scroll wheel used to scroll only the frame that it was underneath it; now it scrolls the whole caboodle, and reveals a previously unseen blank frame at the bottom. (??) It also scrolls (using the slider bars) much less smoothly, and rather more jerkily. I am looking at: Wild Flowers http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/ -- Cheers Roger Burning the midnight candle at both ends of the barrel

11 years, 10 months

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Search oddity on r13075 (plus at least 1 version prior)

by Jess Hampshire

Hi When I try and search for text on a web page, the dialogue box accepts the first letter and then disappears are searches for just that letter. Does anyone else have this issue? (Iyonix on both 5.16 and 5.17) It works correctly on the default homepage. On the positive side, I successfully did my voter registration online with it. -- Jess

12 years

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Fragment identifiers, PHP, and NetSurf

by John Williams

Doing a bit of scripting to compensate for inadequacies in the BBC Radio 4 Schedule page, I find that, whilst a URL file containing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm/#latenight takes me directly to the Late section in NetSurf, the same URL sent from PHP as a header('Location: ...) function seems to lose the fragment identifier altogether and just loads the base page. It does, however, work OK when called with IE8 under Windows XP Pro, and Firefox under Linux. I am puzzled as to why this only happens with NetSurf. I am running the PHP scripting locally using WebJames, but the same thing happens if I put the script on my web site, except now IE8 ignores the fragment identifier as well! I'm flummoxed. John

12 years, 1 month

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Fatal error when page render clashes with a mail/news fetch

by cj

Has anyone else noticed that if a mail fetch initiates while NetSurf is rendering a page, then NS exits with a fatal error? Before submitting a report, it would be interesting to know whether anyone else has experienced this. It has done it several times here over the past few weeks(?), but has taken me a while to realise the connection. I have now tried fetching a web page and then forcing a mail fetch - it gives the error sometimes - it may depend on exactly where NS has reached in the rendering when the mail fetch starts and whether the page to be rendered is already in the cache or not. Forcing a news/rss fetch while NS was rendering a page caused NetSurf to just vanish from the iconbar, with no error message. The pages used for the test were ROOL pages. I did these tests with r13071, but the errors have also occurred with earlier releases. Machine is an Iyonix with RISC OS 5.17. Mail/news software is Netfetch with Hermes and NewsHound. -- Chris Johnson

12 years, 1 month

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Log file versus security requirements

by Dave Higton

NetSurf crashed yesterday while I was doing my online banking. I would like to provide a crash log - but if I do, that would expose some of my banking credentials, wouldn't it, and therefore put me in breach of my terms of use of the bank's services? r13077, RISC OS 5.16, 512 MiB, not that the information is of much use to you, presumably. I reverted to r12911 and completed the banking. I am aware that recent versions of NS for RO have crashed far more often than older ones did, though I can't see any pattern. Dave

12 years, 1 month

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Re: ROOL to NetSurf (RISC OS) developers

by Steve Fryatt

On Tue, October 25, 2011 1:13 pm, Ste (PlusNet) wrote: > RISC OS Open would like to contact the current RISC OS NetSurf > developers (off the mailing list). Who should we email? Is the subject *really* RISC OS-specific? You're welcome to email me, but I can't imagine that I'd be the only person interested or affected. Is there are reason not to mail the developer mailing list and thereby catch everyone in one go? -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

12 years, 1 month

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puzzling email

by Brian Bailey

Hi I just got an email from i4imaging which included a file oleO.bmp which NetSurf didn't like very much declaring BadType as it was fetching and processing. Said file didn't seem to render. Are bmp file a no go area, perhaps? Cheers

12 years, 1 month

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Re: Search oddity on r13075 (plus at least 1 version prior)

by chris.young＠unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk

> In article <498c4e2752.pnyoung(a)pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, > Dr Peter Young <pnyoung(a)ormail.co.uk> wrote: > >> However, 13077 says "Disable Sprite support - >> DataTypes can't handle these", so could that be fouling something up for RISC OS? > > It actually says: > > Disable Sprite support - DataTypes can handle these. > > which is rather different! Yep, it's an Amiga-specific build change affecting the non-RISC OS Sprite loader. There is no impact on RISC OS whatsoever. > Sprites still load. They do on the Amiga build too, I've just switched over to using the fallback decoder (DataTypes). For those who are interested, DataTypes are an OS plug-in system for various filetypes - the Sprite DataType uses the same base code as NetSurf's non-RISC OS built-in support. Basically I'm saving a few kilobytes by taking it out of the main executable, as it is not something which is commonly used here. Chris

12 years, 1 month

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password for HTTPS site leads to endless loop

by Jim Nagel

This is an URL file I use -- a doubleclick on it always worked until last week to get directly to the Forwarders page, but now Netsurf tells me it cannot resolve host server6.spellings.net. https://<user>:<pwd>@server6.spellings.net:2083/frontend/x3/mail/addfwd .html Netsurf r13033 tells me "Could not resolve host: server6.spellings.net (Domain name not found)". Yet I can ping that host successfully. Loaded up good ol' Fresco, and the URL file works there. So I went back to an older version of Netsurf (2.7) and it works there too, other than the complaint about invalid certificate. However, it then asks for username and password again, thinks a bit, asks for username and password again, thinks a bit, again ... Did something to do with this get broken in a recent development version of Netsurf? My URL worked on Oct 7, and I installed a more recent dev version after that. -- Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk see you at London show? www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk Oct 29 Saturday

12 years, 1 month

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List Focus [Was Re: puzzling email]

by Daniel Silverstone

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:57:21AM +0100, Vince M Hudd wrote: > Either way, this is now off-topic. Indeed it is. It was off topic about four mails in. Please don't sprawl your RISC OS discussions on this list. I'm sure there're places where you don't irritate many people while doing so. I've received complaints, so that thread stops now, or I start forcibly unsubscribing people. Keep the focus guys. Thanks, Daniel. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged. Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69

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