Re: online phone book

[Jim Nagel]

Gavin Wraith  wrote on 3 May:
> ... If you try
> http://thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/adva
> nced.publisha  [as a single line]
> you will get a page that NetSurf can cope with ... .

Yay!  Thanks so much.  That goes immediately into my Hotlist, and 
probably also onto the Netsurf home page here, and also as a Hint 
into Archive.


> I would be amazed if pleas for a Javascript-free interface did not
> fall upon deaf ears. ...

Oh, I had never imagined imploring BT to go JS-free, but I did imagine 
there might be some comparatively slight tweak that they could make so 
that at least their first-level buttons would work.

-- 
Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk

Re: Netsurf refresh -- frames

[Vince M Hudd]

Jim Nagel  wrote:

[...]

[^F5 apparently doesn't work with frames]

> Is there any way to cause a frame to reload?  Do the powers of ^F5 etc
> need to be extended?

Before suggesting a possible workaround, did you click on the individual
frame before hitting ^F5 ? I don't know if that'll make a difference, but it
seems plausible that you might need to tell NetSurf precisely what you want
reloaded.

Failing that, if it definitely doesn't work with frames, a possible
workaround might be to load the page into a new window (adjust click on the
link that loads the page into the frame) then, if the rendered page is the
old one, ^F5 on that.

If you need to see it in the context of the frameset, after doing that close
the new page then ^F5 on the whole again. Hopefully, it'll now reload the
whole frameset - but with the new page, since that's the last version it
used.

As with clicking on the individual frame first, I don't know if this'll work
- since I don't use frames, so I've never hit on the problem - but it seems
logical.

-- 
Vince M Hudd
Soft Rock Software

Re: online phone book

[Peter Young]

On 3 May 2016  Gavin Wraith  wrote:

[snip]

> If you try
> http://thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/adva
> nced.publisha
> you will get a page that NetSurf can cope with that asks you to input
> information:
> surname, initial, town etc. When I entered your name, and "Glastonbury"
> it told me
>  J Nagel
>  Tel: (01458) 833603
>  32 Norbins Rd, Glastonbury, BA6 9JG

> Hope this helps.

In one word, wow! That page is now on NetSurf's hotlist here. How 
about writing this up for Archive?

Best wishes,

Peter.

-- 
Peter Young (zfc Os) and family
Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England
http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
pnyo...@ormail.co.uk

Re: online phone book

[Tim Hill]

In article , Jim Nagel
 wrote:
> Jim Nagel  wrote on 28 Apr:
> > Can anybody point me to a free online telephone directory that works
> > on Netsurf?

> None?

Not ignoring you Jim but I haven't used a telephone directory for years.
It's usually a business number I need for which I Google and usually take
from a firm's own website.

This works:

"Okay, Google, what's the phone number for Archive magazine risc oh-ess?"

Select first result, then contact. Voila: 01458 ...603  ;-D

-- 
Tim Hill
www.timil.com

web sites * multimedia * training

Re: online phone book

[Gavin Wraith]

Dear Jim

In message 
  Jim Nagel  wrote:

>Jim Nagel  wrote on 28 Apr:
>> Can anybody point me to a free online telephone directory that works
>> on Netsurf?
>
>None?

This arrived same time as your originating post.  Had a look at the
textual source of the page to which http://thephonebook.bt.com
immerdiately switches you, namely of

http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/index.publisha

It is a load of Javascript, no doubt mandated by google, advertisers,
business partners et al, which gets you to choose an initial letter
for the locality whose code you want. Say that was 'X'. Then
it takes you to
http://thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/uk_codes/index.byname.publisha?Character=X
which gives a page showing a list of choices. Click on one and you get
its local dialling code.
If you try
http://thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/advanced.publisha
you will get a page that NetSurf can cope with that asks you to input 
information:
surname, initial, town etc. When I entered your name, and "Glastonbury"
it told me
 J Nagel
 Tel: (01458) 833603
 32 Norbins Rd, Glastonbury, BA6 9JG

Hope this helps. I would be amazed if pleas for a Javascript-free interface did
not fall upon deaf ears. It is a thin unnecessary veneer. But using the
info embedded in the page, as above, you may be able to bypass it all.
--
Gavin Wraith (ga...@wra1th.plus.com)
Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/

Re: online phone book

[Jim Nagel]

Jim Nagel  wrote on 28 Apr:
> Can anybody point me to a free online telephone directory that works
> on Netsurf?

None?

-- 
Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk