In article <[email protected]>, Michael Drake <[email protected]> wrote:
> I barely loaded a few pages in it, but there were several obvious issues: Recent development has fixed some of these issues. Details below. > 1. Broken middle click > Middle click doesn't open in new tab or new window any more. Fixed. > 2. Broken toolbar icons > After following a link and the page completes loading, the > toolbar icon for stop was still available and the icon for > reload was greyed out. (They should be the other way round > by that point.) Fixed. > 3. Text size > I'm not sure exactly why, but the text size seemed really > large. Not yet addressed. > 4. URL completion behaviour > If you select an item in the URL completion list, you have > to press return once to put the URL into the URL bar, and > then again to launch the URL. This is contrary to every > other browser I've used and even NetSurf on other platforms. Not yet addressed. > 5. Broken URL bar display > If you type a URL into the URL bar, it returns immediately > to show the URL of the previous page. Then, once the new > page is loaded, the URL bar is updated with a new URL. Still broken. > 6. Status bar / scrollbar furniture > The feature where the status bar and horizontal bar share > the same vertical space (status bar on the left and > scrollbar on the right) has been regressed at some point in > nsgtk. NetSurf's other front ends (RISC OS, AmigaOS, BeOS > and Framebuffer) have this screen space saving layout. Fixed and brought into line with the behaviour of the other front ends. > 7. Mad default window size > The first time you run nsgtk (no previous choices file), the > browser window is really narrow. This makes the welcome > page look really bunched up (especially with the large > text), which is not the best first impression. Fixed. > 8. Jerky scrolling > Scrolling any longish page is really jerky. If you scroll > down a long page, you get a little bit of smooth scrolling, > then a long pause, then a big jump, then a little bit of > smooth scrolling again before another pause and jump etc. > It's most obvious when dragging the scrollbar, but other > scrolling methods like scroll wheel show the same. Fixed. The problem was inefficiency in the gtk bitmap plotter. So remaining are: 3. Text size 4. URL completion behaviour 5. Broken URL bar display I'd say only 5 is really important for now. -- Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
