bad linebreaks
by Jim Nagel
I raised a report on the bug-tracker about really bad linebreaks that
Netsurf sometimes commits.
This isn't a new thing. I'm using #4316 but fault has existed since
many many versions ago and as far as I know has never been reported.
My theory is that the Netsurf code thinks it's OK to start a new line
when text reaches nearly the edge of the frame and that it can perform
the break not only at a wordspace but also at an HTML tag, i.e. at "<"
or ">" or "&xxx;". (Hmm, what about ?)
You too often see a word like "John’s" with the apostrophe-s or
just the -s on the next line. Or a split in the middle of something
like "<i>x</i><sup>2</sup>=4<i>y</i>". Or "(<a href=...> blabla</a>)"
can leave the opening or closing parenthesis on a different line. Or
worse.
It obviously depends on the width of the window, so you might have to
drag the width to see it happen (presuming of course that it's not a
fixed-width page). Try a news page from http://theregister.co.uk as
an example.
Anybody concur with me?
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
4 years, 9 months
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launching a PDF from a link
by Jim Nagel
Is there a way of causing Netsurf to actually open a PDF, rather than
offering to download it, when the user clicks a link to the PDF?
When you click the link for a Jpeg (or various other types of file),
the file opens immediately. Why does PDF behave differently? What is
the mechanism involved?
And why does the PDF link cause BOTH the download dialogue AND a blank
web page to appear?
I'm using RiscOS 5.23 and at the moment Netsurf #4342.
(I presume things would differ for, say, Amiga instead of RiscOS.)
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
4 years, 11 months
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Image won't display
by Richard Torrens (lists)
A very weird problem...
The page
http://stronged.torrens.org/man/modes/syntaxmodefile.html
which I am writing. It has a line
<img src="img/clicklist.png" alt="clicklist/png" width="653" height="104">
But Netsurf won't display the image. Chrome does it properly.
But http://stronged.torrens.org/man/modes/img/clicklist.png
displays the image!
I am baffled.
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Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!
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