Re: Bug: 'Search Text' does not work in framed sites.
On 4 Sep 2008, Richard Porter wrote:
On 4 Sep 2008 Dr Peter Young wrote:
> On 4 Sep 2008 Richard Porter <ricp(a)minijem.plus.com> wrote:
>> On 4 Sep 2008 Roger Darlington wrote:
>>> I have already tried that: it doesn't work in;
>>> Wild Flowers http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/
>>>>
>>> Did it work for you??
>> That site doesn't work for me at all. I just see the banner at the
>> top, part of which overwrites other parts. The rest of the screen is
>> blank.
> With NetSurf, you have to scale the page down; 90% works here for me.
> And searching within a frame works here too.
Right. The problem is that you can't scroll the whole frameset
horizontally, and the individual frames can't be scrolled so NetSurf
just gives up. I had to scale down to 70% to get the index frame in,
although it will display some frames at 90% and full screen width.
Other browsers have no such hangups with this site, and can display
it. i think it is a bug in Netsurf.
My inclination would be to greatly simplify and split up that page,
and do away with frames altogether. I can't see the point of the
<noframes> section - surely it would be better to provide links to the
main index and search facilities. Are there any browsers where you can
turn frames off?
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Cheers
Roger
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