Nervous tick
by Richard Porter
When Netsurf is displaying the following page and others on the same
site the pointer starts flickering 2 or 3 times a second between a
pointing hand and an hour glass.
http://www.therailengineer.com/2012/04/26/bs11000-working-together-achiev...
This only happens when the top part of the page is displayed. If you
scroll down it stops; if you scroll back up so that most of the image
is shown it starts again. If you're working in another window over the
top it stops. If you bring NetSurf to the top it resumes. What's going
on?
Currently using r13534.
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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.
10 years, 5 months
Failed rendering of background image
by Martin Bazley
The changes to NetSurf making it no longer abort the redraw if one of
the images within the rectangle fails to render have brought a
significant improvement in usability, but they don't seem to cover all
cases.
In particular, the old symptoms of white trails left by windows dragged
across the page in a certain direction are very visible on this page:
http://raphazlab.wordpress.com/
The offending image is the banner, which for some reason is inserted
into the CSS like so:
background: url('http://raphazlab.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/banner2012.jpg') no-repeat;
This appears to cause NetSurf to fail to implement its workaround, and
fall back on the old behaviour of aborting redraw.
Not really sure if that counts as a bug or not. It may well be
intentional. What would a suitable alternative behaviour for background
images be?
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10 years, 7 months
Re: downloading older development versions
by Tony Moore
On 23 Apr 2013, Vincent Sanders <vince(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 01:12:08PM +0000, Tony Moore wrote:
[snip]
> > I would like to determine the version in which the problem first
> > occurs but I cannot find any way of downloading versions prior to
> > those listed at http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/riscos/
> >
> > Could someone please suggest how this may be done?
>
> It cannot, the CI service only keeps the last 25 builds
>
> However:
[snip]
> git log 38a9c374a4685c6b06625e63c3e305101e531d81..61a2b8ddc452b915925793f4f538dbb2ca9b5ba5
>
> shows all changes between them
>
> I have added teh list to the bug
Many thanks for the response, and for the log. Unfortunately, I'm none
the wiser since none of the log descriptions suggests - to me, a user -
that it might be responsible for the problem.
I wonder if anyone else, who uses Yahoo Mail, can replicate this:
On the log-in screen, enter ID and Password, click 'Sign In'
This leads to a screen which says
If you are seeing this page, your browser settings prevent you from
automatically redirecting to a new URL.
Please click here to continue.
Notwithstanding the warning, older versions of NetSurf _do_ redirect,
and display the webmail page, as expected. The current version (#1083
json, or jsoff) displays a 'Warning from NetSurf' saying 'BadType',
and no redirection.
For me this is a nuisance, rather than a show-stopper, since I normally
use pop/smtp, but I need to remember to load #417, to access the Spam
folder, etc.
Tony
10 years, 7 months
Squashed image problem
by Richard Porter
I've encountered a minor irritation caused by a stupid web authoring
mistake. The RBWM Recycling page at
http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/wm_recycling.htm
contains two images which are delivered at 2440 x 1479 px and
displayed at 122 x 89 px - the files are 340 times the size they need
to be! I have reported this to the council but I won't hold my breath
for a correction.
The problem is that as soon as these images hove into view the page
becomes incredibly slow and clunky to move around. I would hazard a
guess that NS is continually struggling to resize the images as it
tries to move them around. Would it be possible to resize the images
once when they are downloaded and then hold them at the required
display size?
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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.
10 years, 7 months
Line wrap
by Richard Torrens (lists)
Might it help if we users made a list of places where line-wrap can
occur?
Clearly at any white space.
Hyphens?
Any other place?
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Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!
10 years, 7 months
Line wrap
by Richard Torrens (lists)
I'm using 1048.
The line wrapping is a little odd. For instance on a www page I have
includes:
"The MOSFETs we are using in 2012 have a <b>maximum</b>
R<sub>ds(on)</sub> of around 6 milliohms."
If width is such, Netsurf will break the line before the <sub> -
effectively in the middle of a word.
--
Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!
10 years, 7 months
NetSurf on Virtual Acorn
by Alan & Sally
Hi All,
I have Virtual Acorn on my Mac G5 running OS 10.5.8. The RISC OS in VA is 4.39.
Netsurf 2.9 runs nicely on this set up but I have had no luck with any of the later
development versions. I have just downloaded 3.0 Dev #833 with the same result.
The problem is that all the recent versions don't connect to the internet. The
message I get is "Resolving timed out after 30000 milliseconds." The settings are
the same ones that 2.9 is using, so I am at a loss with what to do. Has any one got
a fix for this?
The development versions all run well on my Risc PC under OS 3.5. So the
problem seems to be specific to VA and the development versions on the Mac.
Regards, Alan
10 years, 7 months
Re: Text area refresh
by Peter Slegg
> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:54:52 +0100
> Subject: Re: Text area refresh
> In article
> <OUT-51631B25.MD-1.4.17.chris.young(a)unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk>,
> Chris Young <chris.young(a)unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > The core handling of Ctrl-V (and any other similar shortcuts) probably
> > needs to be tracked down and obliterated.
>
> The core handling of Ctrl-V is the only supported way of pasting.
>
> When you select "Paste" in a menu, the front end should be implementing it
> by passing Ctrl-V to the core.
>
> When the core gets a Ctrl-V it passes it on internally to whatever has
> input focus. If there is a textarea with focus, the textarea handles the
> keypress (by calling gui_get_clipboard, in the case of Ctrl-V).
>
The double paste problem has gone. Thanks.
I don't know if it related but the Page Up key does a page-down action.
Peter
Netsurf Port : Atari
Machine : Milan 68060
10 years, 8 months
