I could make a ten minute movie of NetSurf trying to get to a post at the bottom of one of my forum threads. It seems to spend most of its time and processing power reformatting the page after every one or two images have been fetched. But the real killer is, if I try to scroll up to see how far it's got, it throws me down to the bottom again. I have to wait until it's finished thrashing about before I can use the vertical scroll bar.
A contributory problem is that it first formats all images according to the space needed for the 'alt' text and then when it's got the image it reformats the page again using the image dimensions. It does this even if it's given the width and height in the tag. There has to be a better way. For a start, if the user scrolls the page then forget about any on-page name/id tags you were trying to get to - the user has taken control. Otherwise finish formatting the page and only then jump to the name tag. Secondly, forget about the 'alt' text unless fetching the image fails, and then format the text within the image dimensions if known. Better still, display the alt text in the "About this object" window (Object > Object > Info). Time for a feature request! -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:[email protected] I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
