Speed
by Richard Porter
The NetSurf web site says:
"Efficiency lies at the heart of the NetSurf engine, allowing it to
outwit the heavyweights of the web browser world. The NetSurf team
continue to squeeze more speed out of their code."
I've been doing one or two comparisons on a 300MHz Kinetic RiscPC
running OS 6.16.
Test 1 - following a link to near the bottom of a thumbnail index.
Fresco 2.13 15s
Oregano 1.10 17s
Netsurf r11515 28s
Test 2 - following a link to the latest forum post from the "top 10"
latest posts page.
Fresco 4s (when it worked properly)
Oregano 6s
Netsurf 17s
Now obviously there's a big advantage in coding in assembler for a
specific processor family rather than using C and making the code
portable, but the main reason seems to be that NetSurf is trying to
reformat the whole page over and over again, taking note of dimensions
only after the images have been downloaded. The other browsers do a
quick format observing dimensions where given, download the images and
then reformat if necessary. Oregano seems to fill in the visible part
of the window first which is a nice feature, but in the above tests I
waited for the page to finish downloading.
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Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/
mailto:ricp@minijem.plus.com
I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
12 years, 1 month
setting size and position of window
by Jim Nagel
can anybody suggest a trick whereby i could make a Netsurf window open
at a certain size and position on screen, to display a local file?
the page in mind is the control panel for my networked monsterprinter.
it's useful to have it handy during a print job without taking up too
much screen space.
--
Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
12 years, 2 months
logging
by Brian Bailey
I am intrigued by the successive improvement and development of Netsurf.
Periodically I load a personal favourite page in Wikepedia, just to see
what changes are apparent in performance. It would seem that loading and
rendering of that page does indeed vary.
To what extent can one expect verbose logging to slow things down (I use a
rather slow machine, which I am not going to change this side of
Christmas). Is it possible to turn verbose logging on/off.
Just out of interest, could someone clarify, please.
12 years, 2 months
aggravating pane
by Jim Nagel
there appears to be no way to scroll right to read the rest of the
text in the inner pane of this warning generated by Netsurf:
www.abbeypress.net/TEMP/NS-certificatepane.png (12K).
may i suggest that it were a Good Thing to eschew this style of
utterly annoyingly painful panes so beloved in Microsoftland, where
people are so often required to agree "license" terms that they are
deemed to have read (but probably never do) in one of these utterly
aggravating little scrolling panes. yes, it's a pet peeve.
--
Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
12 years, 2 months
Zip file name
by David H Wild
Can you please decide whether it is to be netsurf/zip or just netsurf. :-))
Thanks
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David Wild using RISC OS on broadband
www.davidhwild.me.uk
12 years, 2 months
fancy listing of local directories
by Jim Nagel
downloaded and installed r12139 just now.
glad to see the nice display of a local directory is back.
it was introduced in Netsurf 2.6 but for some reason had disappeared
by r12041, but it's back now.
to see what i mean, try file:///adfs::4 to see your own root
directory. pretty.
--
Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
12 years, 2 months
iGoogle not displaying?
by Chris Shepheard
Has anybody else found that the iGoogle page no longer displays on
Netsurf?
Certainly it was alright until two days ago but now I just get the
background tint. It never displayed fully but always enough to get at
the essential parts to use (it used javascript heavily).
It was just useful that Google knew what you had been looking at if I
subsequently searched on the PC - the functionality is there in the
basic page of course.
I'm not using the latest NS version but I'm pretty sure this problem
must be the result of a change in the page that Google is sending.
Chris
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Chris Shepheard writing as himself
chris.shepheard(a)chrispics.co.uk
from far west Surrey www.chrispics.co.uk
12 years, 2 months
HSBC
by Dr Peter Young
Just to report that the HSBC on-line baking site appears not to work
with NetSurf since it changed yesterday. Not a NetSurf bug, merely it
looks as if it's stuffed with JavaScript. What a pain!
With best wishes,
Peter.
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Peter \ / zfc Lu \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52
and \/ __ __ \ England.
family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
/ \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \______________ pnyoung(a)ormail.co.uk
12 years, 2 months
Problem on test build page.
by Dr Peter Young
When I visit the test build page, I usually click on the links from
the latest build numbers, to check which are applicable to the RISC OS
versions (the rest of the details are incomprehensible to me). Since
this morning, I get an error message, saying:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [no address given] and inform
them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done
that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error
log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while
trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I don't know how to contact the server administrator, so I'm
mentioning this here.
Thanks in advance,
Peter.
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Peter \ / zfc Lu \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52
and \/ __ __ \ England.
family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
/ \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \______________ pnyoung(a)ormail.co.uk
12 years, 2 months
