On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:16:38 +0000 (GMT), Michael Drake wrote:

> No, there is no keyboard navigation other than tabbing between form
> elements. Typing 'R' should certainly work on every site, e.g in forms and
> stuff.

Thanks for confirming that - I've just realised why.  If the website
title has an underline in it, when you put this text into a gadget
label, that underline means the next character becomes a keyboard
shortcut.  If, for example, you try to write a reply in a thread
called something involving WA_RMBTrap, all attempts to type the letter
R result in the current tab being reselected and nothing much else. 
Oops.  I shall obviously be fixing this.

> > I get sluggish scrolling on some sites,
> 
> Which sites? Scrolling speed is fast here and doesn't vary between sites.

Mostly ones with complicated amounts of imagery - eg.
http://www.bbc.co.uk is really slow.

> > and although I think it is mostly down to alpha blitting of images
> > (which is far slower than it ought to be), it can be a bit slow in other
> > instances too.  For some reason typing characters in an input box in one
> > of these slow areas is painful - maybe NetSurf is redrawing too much of
> > the page?
> 
> It should only redraw the relevant bit. Which pages have this problem? I
> haven't seen this issue here.

Try the site I was having fun with typing R on -
http://www.utilitybase.com

This isn't the worst example, but typing anything into the search box
is slower than it should be.  Typing into Google's search box is the
speed it should be.

My gui_window_redraw redraws the entire page, and
gui_window_redraw_box draws immediately rather than offloading to the
next refresh, which could be causing an issue.

I'm still not entirely convinced I'm feeding the right values into
content_redraw, so it may may well be a local implementation problem.

> Have you tried turning knockout rendering on/off and seeing if it makes a
> difference?

I keep toggling that thing back and forth and can never tell the
difference!  I've just tried again, paying particular attention to
typing and scrolling, and it seems marginally quicker on the setting I
had it on originally: true.

Chris

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