Re: Would this be a sensible feature request?

2007-10-21 Thread Kevin Wells
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  Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Text areas to be able to be edited in the system editor (perhaps by 
double clicking on them.)

If this were feasible it would make things like googlemail quite 
usable (especially with stronged\zap in email mode).


You could do what I do which is to use stronged then drag the stronged
window into the text area writeable field.


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Re: Multitasking (not)

2007-10-21 Thread Rob Kendrick

On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 11:31 +0100, David J. Ruck wrote:
 On 20 Oct 2007 Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have noticed that sometimes Netsurf singletasks.
 
 Well thats really going to help developers track down the 
 circumstances.

Quite.  There are places where NetSurf can get itself to a point where
it doesn't call Wimp_Poll for a while.  Part of this issue is the lack
of any PMT in the WIMP - it's very difficult to get something as complex
as NetSurf (where it may be fetching content, decoding content, parsing
content, laying out content, responding to GUI events etc) to behave
well like without it.  It's all a very delicate balance that's almost
impossible to get right.

  When using a slow machine like a Mico, this can tie up the machine for
  quite a long time, but even on an Iyonix can occasionally be awkward.
 
 What resolver module are you using?

It shouldn't matter - NetSurf uses its own resolver, not the OS's, although
it does read the address of the resolve from the environment when starting.

B.




Re: Multitasking (not)

2007-10-21 Thread Tony Moore
On 21 Oct 2007, David J. Ruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 20 Oct 2007 Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I have noticed that sometimes Netsurf singletasks.

 Well thats really going to help developers track down the
 circumstances.

It's been discussed before. Single-tasking occurs whenever objects are
fetched from a secondary url - two timers appear in the status bar and
NetSurf single-tasks until the second timer completes, or times-out. I
thought that a bug report had been filed, but I cannot find it for now.

[snip]

Tony






Re: Multitasking (not)

2007-10-21 Thread Jess Hampshire
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  Tony Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 21 Oct 2007, David J. Ruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 20 Oct 2007 Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I have noticed that sometimes Netsurf singletasks.

 Well thats really going to help developers track down the
 circumstances.
 
 It's been discussed before. Single-tasking occurs whenever objects are
 fetched from a secondary url - two timers appear in the status bar and
 NetSurf single-tasks until the second timer completes, or times-out. I
 thought that a bug report had been filed, but I cannot find it for now.

I hadn't pinned down the circumstances, I hadn't thought of it as a 
bug as such, but if it is, it'll be nice when it's fixed.

I was assuming it was just the way things are, (due to CMT in the OS), 
and wondering if there were any settings that would help, (presumably 
slowing down the browser a little in the process)

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Jess
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Re: Would this be a sensible feature request?

2007-10-21 Thread Jess Hampshire
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  Kevin Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

Text areas to be able to be edited in the system editor (perhaps by
double clicking on them.)

If this were feasible it would make things like googlemail quite
usable (especially with stronged\zap in email mode).

 
 You could do what I do which is to use stronged then drag the stronged
 window into the text area writeable field.

Tha's only half the problem.

When you reply on google mail (for example) you have all the quoted 
text and sig already in the box. If this could be loaded into the 
system editor, then saved back into the text area after editing, it 
would make things much smoother.

Googlemail would then actually be very usable on NS.

-- 
Jess
 http://jess.itworkshop-nexus.net



Re: Would this be a sensible feature request?

2007-10-21 Thread Jess Hampshire
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  Kevin Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I think that the latest version of Hermes from Rcomp works with google
 mail, if I remember the release notes with the latest email update.

It does on my main system, quite happilly

But I use NS on a Mico elsewhere.

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Jess
 http://jess.itworkshop-nexus.net



Re: Multitasking (not)

2007-10-21 Thread Tony Moore
On 21 Oct 2007, Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Tony Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On 21 Oct 2007, David J. Ruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On 20 Oct 2007 Jess Hampshire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   wrote:
  
I have noticed that sometimes Netsurf singletasks.
  
   Well thats really going to help developers track down the
   circumstances.
 
  It's been discussed before. Single-tasking occurs whenever objects
  are fetched from a secondary url - two timers appear in the status
  bar and NetSurf single-tasks until the second timer completes, or
  times-out. I thought that a bug report had been filed, but I cannot
  find it for now.

 I hadn't pinned down the circumstances, I hadn't thought of it as a
 bug as such, but if it is, it'll be nice when it's fixed.

I've found the bug report now, filed on 1 June 2007 by Harriet Bazley
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1729711group_id=51719atid=464312
and still assigned to 'nobody', unfortunately.

Tony