In message <5479b57ad5bbai...@argonet.co.uk> on 21 Dec 2014 Brian <bbai...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <f74fa67954.andrew-...@waitrose.com>, > Andrew Pinder <andrew.pin...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >> In message <54797458f6bbai...@argonet.co.uk> >> on 21 Dec 2014 Brian <bbai...@argonet.co.uk> wrote: >>> NetSurf has very recently started scanning fonts during loading. This >>> hasn't happened for ages. Is this a glitch, perhaps, or revised >>> behaviour? >> I think a relevant factor may be the number of fonts you have >> installed. Quite a while ago I installed the EFF collection of fonts >> on my Iyonix. Ever since then whenever !NetSurf loads it displays a >> window showing progress on scanning fonts. It always appears to stick >> briefly when scanning Swz.narrow and then completes I can't see >> anything about that font to know why it takes longer to scan. When I >> bought this ARMini I copied the fonts across and have always had the >> same behaviour. >> So, having read the other responses, I suspect that if you just have >> the original fonts supplied installed then the scanning of them will >> normally be so quick that you don't notice it. So maybe a recent >> change slowed that down. > Please read elsewhere in the thread. No recent changes have been made and > in any event very few fonts have been installed originally, as a matter of > principle, to avoid the kind of issues that you mention. Previous to the > issue that I reported, following any initial scan, ages ago, when the scan > window was clearly visible and quite slow, if there are subsequent scans > then they are just so fast that no window is visible that I am aware of, > just scrolling of the hourglass momentarily. > So I have no explanation as to why scanning should become clearly visible > of late and that is no longer so following a NetSurf update!?! > Thanks for your comment anyway. http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/ says "Notice: "At any given time these builds may be broken, unstable, have verbose logging enabled, or exhibit any other undesirable behaviour." I suspect that one of the NetSurf developers made a change that had the undesirable side-effect of slowing down font scanning and has now made another change that speeds it up again :-) Regards Andrew -- Andrew Pinder
