<P><LI>
by Richard Torrens (lists)
Doing a list of genealogical notes, I wanted to space them out so there
was a blank line between each record. So I replaced each <LI> by <P><LI>.
This does not work in Netsurf - but does in Firefox and Chrome
Is this a bug?
The page in question is
www.torrens.org.uk/Genealogy/Torrens/DataScot/sasines.html
--
Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!
8 years, 3 months
Do Netsurf's errors get logged? (Syslog, Wimplog)
by Jim Nagel
I was investigating why a download item on the Archive website was
causing problems for somebody, and got this error box:
Warning from Netsurf
The file could not be saved due to an error:
'ADFS::Drive2.$.2310d/zip' is a directory
Turned out that the drive where I was attempting to drop the
downloaded item already had a copy of the item. Deleted the copy,
retried the download, and it completed OK.
Two observations:
(1) The wording of the warning seems inappropriate. A "directory"?
(2) The text of the warning was not recorded by !Syslog (whose job is
to make it easy for people submitting bug reports to quote the exact
wording of an error message). I searched the whole log and found
nothing from Netsurf. Which leads me to ask:
Does Netsurf need to be tweaked somehow so that its errors will be
logged? Or does !Syslog (or its subsidiary !Wimplog) need the tweak?
*help wimplog says: "The Wimplog module logs errors sent to
Wimp_ReportError (ie, shown as error boxes on the screen) to a file
using !Syslog."
(I'm using Netsurf #2789 on Iyonix 5.18, Syslog 0.20, Wimplog 1.02)
--
Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
8 years, 3 months
noscroll
by Jim Nagel
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/fritzing-takes-your-de...
If you make the window bigger, you see more of the text. But the
scrollbars don't change in response. Once the window fills the whole
screen, there's no way to view the remaining text. The cursor keys or
pagedown have no effect; nor does the scrollwheel.
Never seen this phenomenon before. What's going on in the coding?
If it's something in the site's CSS, is there any way of tweaking it
in Netsurf?
First noticed this using Netsurf #2789 on Armini 5.22; same behaviour
now in Netsurf #2935 on Iyonix 5.18.
--
Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
8 years, 3 months
black background obscures most of page
by Jim Nagel
Most of this page is obscured by a black background that overprints
all but the first inch or two at the top of the page:
http://www.combehillwood.co.uk/polden-way/
This is using Netsurf #2935, the latest build, installed just now.
It was the same on #2789 (dated about June 9).
I'm curious to know what mechanism is at (mis)work here. Is it
something in the CSS maybe? Or something in Javascript? I did a
"full save" of the page in order to inspect the CSS, but it's beyond
me. (One CSS file is nearly 700K.)
I reported a possibly similar problem last spring about a CNET page
that Netsurf #2644 appeared to render initially; it then immediately
obscured most of it with a vertical grey band. Could that have been
the same mechanism at work?
Behaviour of that page is different now with #2935: even less of
the text is visible.
http://www.cnet.com/products/synology-diskstation-ds412-plus/
As I say, I'm curious about the mechanism. If it's Javascript, I
appreciate the vastness of the programming job.
--
Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
8 years, 3 months
El Reg formats differently these days - why?
by Dave Higton
NS used to render The Register in three columns, like other browsers.
Recently it renders with each line of three headings broken over two
lines, with the additional oddity that some single items appear left
justified and some appear centred. Go to http://www.theregister.co.uk
and you'll see.
I thought it was caused by a change to NS, but I just went back to a
version from June (which, I'm sure, is before it started happening),
and it's just the same.
So I have to assume that El Reg have changed their layout in some way.
The HTML is beyond my comprehension. Can anyone else explain what's
going on?
Dave
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8 years, 3 months
Re: El Reg formats differently these days - why?
by Tony Moore
On 23 Aug 2015, Dave Higton <dave(a)davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> Still the same old three columns, and it does appear to be the desktop
> site rather than a special mobile version.
Here, using a smart phone, running Android 2.3.6 , a Google search for
'the register' leads to the mobile site http://m.theregister.co.uk .
which is a single column layout.
On the same device, http://www.theregister.co.uk displays a _four_
column layout, the same as that on a Win7 machine, running Firefox.
On a RiscPC, NS #2817 jsoff also displays http://m.theregister.co.uk as
a single column.
On a RiscPC, NS #2817 jsoff displays http://www.theregister.co.uk as
_three_ columns (not four, as FF).
Tony
8 years, 3 months
Re: Error on Yahoo news
by Peter Slegg
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:18:44 +0100
> From: "Richard Torrens (lists)" <Lists(a)Torrens.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: Error on Yahoo news
> To: <netsurf-users(a)netsurf-browser.org>
> Message-ID: <54f6a3f263Lists(a)Torrens.org.uk>
> In article <00110f20.031e94909f96(a)smtp.freeola.net>,
> Peter Slegg <p.slegg(a)scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
> > This url uk.news.yahoo.com just gives me the error
>
> It strikes me that that is not a URL.
>
> As this is a Netsurf list, do you mean http://uk.news.yahoo.com ? That
> orks here. As does https://uk.news.yahoo.com
>
Is the http really necessary ? Shouldn't it just
direct to http://uk.news.yahoo.com in any case ?
The link I was given wasn't https but the https page does try to
open, sometimes, it keeps timing out and often the css layout is
missing.
Also, https://www/yahoo.com has been loading for about 20 mins at
the moment.
Peter
Peter
8 years, 3 months
Error on Yahoo news
by Peter Slegg
This url uk.news.yahoo.com just gives me the error
"Could not process this "GET" request.
This is on Atari build 2915.
Just wondered if it is repeatable for others.
Peter
8 years, 3 months
Re: Error on Yahoo news
by Peter Slegg
> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:58:34 +0100
> From: Dave Higton
> Subject: Re: Error on Yahoo news
> Peter Slegg wrote:
>
> >
> >This url uk.news.yahoo.com just gives me the error
> >"Could not process this "GET" request.
> >
> >This is on Atari build 2915.
> >
> >Just wondered if it is repeatable for others.
>
> I'm using RISC OS build 2921, and it doesn't happen here.
>
> Dave
>
It's the same with build 2926.
Peter
8 years, 3 months
Fail 2890 json
by Gerald Dodson
Has any one else had this version fail?
Gerald
8 years, 3 months
