Re: bad linebreaks

[Steve Fryatt]

On 27 Apr, cj wrote in message
<56ef67beabch...@chris-johnson.org.uk>:

> In article <9e0265ef56@6.abbeypress.net>,
>Jim Nagel  wrote:
> > Anybody concur with me?
> 
> Yes - this has been present since the dark ages. I thought it had been
> reported many years ago.

I'm fairly sure (without going to check) that it's both known about and has
been stated that it is being ignored until the component responsible is
replaced as part of the road to Javascript. I'm guessing the layout engine,
but I could easily be wrong on that -- as Chris says, it has been many
years.

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: bad linebreaks

[Richard Porter]

On 27 Apr 2018 Jim Nagel  wrote:

> Anybody concur with me?

Yes I've raised bug reports about it in the past.

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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

Re: bad linebreaks

[cj]

In article <9e0265ef56@6.abbeypress.net>,
   Jim Nagel  wrote:
> Anybody concur with me?

Yes - this has been present since the dark ages. I thought it had
been reported many years ago.

-- 
Chris Johnson
Edinburgh

bad linebreaks

[Jim Nagel]

I raised a report on the bug-tracker about really bad linebreaks that 
Netsurf sometimes commits.

This isn't a new thing.  I'm using #4316 but fault has existed since 
many many versions ago and as far as I know has never been reported.

My theory is that the Netsurf code thinks it's OK to start a new line 
when text reaches nearly the edge of the frame and that it can perform 
the break not only at a wordspace but also at an HTML tag, i.e. at "<" 
or ">" or "".  (Hmm, what about  ?)

You too often see a word like "Johns" with the apostrophe-s or 
just the -s on the next line.  Or a split in the middle of something 
like "x2=4y".  Or "( blabla)" 
can leave the opening or closing parenthesis on a different line.  Or 
worse.

It obviously depends on the width of the window, so you might have to 
drag the width to see it happen (presuming of course that it's not a 
fixed-width page).  Try a news page from http://theregister.co.uk as 
an example.

Anybody concur with me?

-- 
Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk

Re: Netsurf Disc Cache

[Richard Torrens (lists)]

In article <56ef43aa6dnets...@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
   Martin Avison  wrote:
> If anyone wants to try my small program which produces file and directory
> statistics for the disc cache, plus an obey file which if run will delete
> all empty directories, please email me.

Yes please.

I have, on a few occasions, simply deleted .Netsurf and
released several GB of space. Deleting the whole cache causes no
noticeable problem.

-- 
Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!

Netsurf Disc Cache

[Martin Avison]

I know from previous posts that using the Netsurf v3.7 disc cache on my
Iyonix running RISC OS is probably not improving performance, depending
on how low my internet speed is. I am using it to gain experience in the
hope that newer, faster hardware will bring some performance benefits.

After running with a Disc cache of 500MB and expiry of 30 days for about
2 years it was holding around 6,000 files using about 580MB. Old unused
files are being deleted, so these numbers seem stable and acceptable. 

But it was using 45,000 directories ... 23,000 of which were empty (or
just contained other empty directories) occupying 45MB of disc space.  I
realise these figures are small on today's large discs, but I am still
concerned that there is no 'clean up' process for unused empty
directories, so they will just grow and grow.

Earlier this month I deleted all empty directories, with no problems.

If anyone wants to try my small program which produces file and directory
statistics for the disc cache, plus an obey file which if run will delete
all empty directories, please email me.

Martin