Re: RISC OS Javascript support
In message 20121216210011.gn15...@kyllikki.org Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: ok last try for now, ci #744 is built with spidermonkey 1.7.0 maybe it works maybe it doesn't. Please also remember to use the json tagged downloads if you want to try with javascript as the jsoff ones do not even have teh interpreter linked. Recently, somewhere in the CI#5xx builds it became possible to use HSBC Internet banking with NetSurf. The site warns about javascript being off but nontheless it goes to a non-javascript area and is entirely useable. With javascript versions of the browser, with javascript turned on, the warnings are no longer present but some links don't work, specifically those which attempt to follow javascript:void(0);:my account details. Sorry I can't be more specific and many thanks for this leap forward. -- Brian Jordan Virtual RPC-AdjustSA on Windows 7 RISC OS 6.20
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
In article 52ff29f39bdhw...@talktalk.net, David H Wild dhw...@talktalk.net wrote: I have come across three oddities in connection with JavaScript. (i) If you look at Flickr Having JS off brings a message about JS being off but gives the picture. With JS on there is no message, but the picture doesn't appear although the little strip of pictures is there. (ii) In Yahoo groups having JS on means that the navigation buttons don't appear. (iii) On today's Guardian website has, with JS off, a grid of squares saying Link to slideshow 1. clicking on this produces the picture that should have been there.. With JS on the grid of links doesn't appear and there is a blank space on the page. This is with 740 on a rPC. Similar effect with Streetmap.co.uk This will probably be because only some JS is working as of yet - enough that the site recognises JS to be present, but not enough to do the job required. I'm sure it will all get sorted in time, until then we must be patient - and thankful that it is happening at all. Adding JavaScript must be a herculean task! Thanks to all the team. -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more!
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On 16 Dec 2012, Steve Fryatt li...@stevefryatt.org.uk wrote: On 16 Dec, Dave Higton wrote in message f77c24ff52.davem...@my.inbox.com: [snip] It does have a Disable Javascript item - but the effect doesn't appear to be stored; the item always comes up as disabled when NS starts. Are you using a build which contains JS? It works fine in a json build, but in a jsoff version it gets saved (look in the Choices) file, then lost on loading. However, I suspect that it's getting loaded and then overwritten to false by the dummy js_initialise() in javascript/none.c (which presumably isn't an issue in a build that actually contains JavaScript). Running #744 (json) on RO 6.20, I see the problem described by Dave. NetSurf's config file contains enable_javascript:1 but, when loaded, NetSurf Choices... Content shows 'Disable JavaScript' ticked, and http://javatester.org/javascript.html reports that 'JavaScript IS NOT WORKING in your web browser'. After unticking 'Disable JavaScript', the 'not working' warning at http://javatester.org/javascript.html has gone so, presumably, JavaScript is then working - not that this is apparent, on other websites. Tony
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
On 13 Dec, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: Thanks to Rob Kendrik, Chris Gransden and myself we now have NSPR and Spidermonkey libraries building in the NetSurf toolchain[1]. The CI system[1] has built the toolchain successfully and a copy of NetSurf for RISC OS with Javascript enabled[3]. Fantastic news, this looks like the start of a very long road, of course, but many thanks guys! Ta, Steve -- Steve @ PlusNet
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
On Mon, 17 December, 2012 4:41 am, Michael Bell wrote: This is all *far* beyond my technical understanding and abilities, but let me say I am *very* grateful for all this work which makes RISC OS so much more useful. Merry Christmas! Michael Bell Seconded with gratitude. I look forward to a stable (if limited) release of Netsurf with JS. Huge thanks to developers and testers. John Hurley
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
In message 20121216210011.gn15...@kyllikki.org Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: ok last try for now, ci #744 is built with spidermonkey 1.7.0 maybe it works maybe it doesn't. Please also remember to use the json tagged downloads if you want to try with javascript as the jsoff ones do not even have teh interpreter linked. NS 746 json crashes when JS is enabled, on Slashdot, also on the Sourceforge bug tracker submit bug link. Works fine when JS is disabled. I've submitted a bug report and log for Slashdot. You don't need me to submit a log for SF as you know where that is and it's entirely repeatable. My heartfelt congratulations to everybody for getting this far! Dave FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 06:41:14PM +, Chris Gransden wrote: In article 20121215171742.gh15...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: Please can you send a patch? even if its just the files you changed I can work up a suitable patch from those, whatevers easiest. Steve already beat me to it. Those changes are working. good to know How do we disable JIT? I used your recipie to build spidermonkey as a template. Even with --disable-tracejit passed to configure METHOD JIT is still enabled (toolchain build has the patches and Makefile used[1] (in the sdk directory)). If I turn that off too (--disable-methodjit) the library fails to build, perhaps I am missing something? I would like to try and debug where the later version of spidermonkey fails as it is such a huge improvement in functionality going forwards. I think the JIT is built if ARM is detected. Setting WTF_CPU_ARM_TRADITIONAL 0 in Platform.h and '-DENABLE_ASSEMBLER=0 -DENABLE_JIT=0' stops it building the JIT. might try this today though I have run out of time for messing with toolchain stuff right now. I can build 1.7 temporarily, but this is not really solving the issue at all and will (from past experience) almost certianly lead to RISC OS being stuck there forever. In future I do wish to move onto editions of spidermonkey past 1.8.5 (3 years old) which provide improved perfomance and functionality so limiting myself to version 1.7 (which is over five years old now, think firefox 2 era) seems counterproductive. I thought it would be useful for getting people to test stuff now. I spent a few hours on this yestarday. The 1.7.0 download [1] is not autoconf and I was unable to persuade it to cross compile with our toolchain let alone with the nspr. If you have a recipie that would be great... Chris. [1] http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js-1.7.0.tar.gz -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:45:46 +, Vincent Sanders wrote: 1.7 doesn't need NSPR I must have misunderstood what teh DIST variable points at then? but thats perfectly possible ;-) IIRC it needs NSPR if you build it as threaded, but you don't need to do that. well I would be very interested in a diff against the distribution archive anyway. If I can get the NetSurf toolchain package building spidermonkey for your platform we can get the CI builds (and by extension future release builds) to generate output with JavaScript support for your platform Attached. Chris js17.diff.gz Description: Binary data makefile.os4-lib.gz Description: Binary data
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
OK, the CI system just built #740 with a spidermonkey 1.8.5 library with the JIT disabled as suggested by Chris Gransden. Can this be tried by someone with access to RISC OS? and please be aware this may well behave very badly indeed. If this fails I have now successfully built 1.7.0 for RISC OS (though not run tested) so the possibility of using an older known working version exists. Please remember to enable javascript via the nice shiny new configuration interface Steve Fryatt has provided. -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
In article 20121216154023.gl15...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: OK, the CI system just built #740 with a spidermonkey 1.8.5 library with the JIT disabled as suggested by Chris Gransden. Can this be tried by someone with access to RISC OS? and please be aware this may well behave very badly indeed. It get stuck in a infinite loop as soon as a web page is opened. Alt-break is the only way to quit. Chris.
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
On 16 Dec 2012 Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: OK, the CI system just built #740 with a spidermonkey 1.8.5 library with the JIT disabled as suggested by Chris Gransden. Can this be tried by someone with access to RISC OS? and please be aware this may well behave very badly indeed. If this fails I have now successfully built 1.7.0 for RISC OS (though not run tested) so the possibility of using an older known working version exists. Please remember to enable javascript via the nice shiny new configuration interface Steve Fryatt has provided. Just downloaded this build; ARMini, RISC OS 5.19, (16 May 2012). Mixed results, but not helped much because I don't really know what I'm looking for!. All my usual pages seem to work OK: www.groups.google.com/ looks as if it's repeatedly trying to load and failing; this worked with previous builds. http://www.mssociety.org.uk/near-me/branches/cheltenham-and-north-cotswold-branch (sorry, should be all one line) still doesn't format as it does in Windows Firefox; the About us and Contact should be two separate tabs; no idea if this is a JavaScript thing. http://www.metcheck.com/UK/today.asp?zipcode=GL52%203DS is still missing a lot of detail compared with Firefox, and the Conf icons down the right hand side deliver only a part of their content. Like many others I'm very grateful that JavaScript is being worked on, but I think there's still a way to go. If testing by an ignoramus is worth it, please suggest to me some other sites to try. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter Young (zfc Ta) and family Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
Chris Gransden wrote In article 20121216154023.gl15...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: OK, the CI system just built #740 with a spidermonkey 1.8.5 library with the JIT disabled as suggested by Chris Gransden. Can this be tried by someone with access to RISC OS? and please be aware this may well behave very badly indeed. It get stuck in a infinite loop as soon as a web page is opened. Alt-break is the only way to quit. Similar results on Iyonix 5.19. Does get as far as putting icon on icon bar. -- John - http://mug.riscos.org/
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
OK, the CI system just built #740 Bad news - loops on Iyonix, needs alt-break to stop. That's odd. 740 has been happily running here in Iyonix (5.18) since I downloaded it earlier. -- John Harrison Website http://jaharrison.me.uk
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
On 16 Dec 2012 John Harrison j...@jaharrison.me.uk wrote: OK, the CI system just built #740 Bad news - loops on Iyonix, needs alt-break to stop. That's odd. 740 has been happily running here in Iyonix (5.18) since I downloaded it earlier. Presumably it matters which home page one is using. I use http:/m.bbc.co.uk/home/desktop as suggested elsethread. I've certainly seen the failure to load that people report on google groups, but that doesn't lock the machine. ARMini, RISC OS 5.19 With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter Young (zfc Ta) and family Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
In article 20121216161324.gm15...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 04:07:25PM +, Chris Gransden wrote: In article 20121216154023.gl15...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: OK, the CI system just built #740 with a spidermonkey 1.8.5 library with the JIT disabled as suggested by Chris Gransden. Can this be tried by someone with access to RISC OS? and please be aware this may well behave very badly indeed. It get stuck in a infinite loop as soon as a web page is opened. Alt-break is the only way to quit. bother, oh well. any posibility of a log to maybe debug it? anyway I will sort out switching to the 1.7.0 build for now. I've been doing all my testing on a pandaboard which it locks up with. I tried it on a Raspberry Pi and it seems to be running stable so far. The NetSurf JavaScript tests all seem to be working as before. I ran the jsapi-tests program on the Raspberry Pi. Here's the output in case its useful. This locks up on the Pandaboard. *jsapi-tests selfTest_globalHasNoParent TEST-PASS | selfTest_globalHasNoParent | ok selfTest_NaNsAreSame TEST-PASS | selfTest_NaNsAreSame | ok testBug604087 TEST-PASS | testBug604087 | ok testClassGetter_isCalled TEST-PASS | testClassGetter_isCalled | ok test_cloneScript TEST-PASS | test_cloneScript | ok testDerivedValues testConservativeGC.cpp:77:CHECK failed: !memcmp(ch, expected, sizeof(expected)) TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | testDerivedValues | CHECK failed: !memcmp(ch, expected, sizeof(expected)) testConservativeGC Chris.
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
In message 52ff11edd1j...@jaharrison.me.uk John Harrison j...@jaharrison.me.uk wrote: OK, the CI system just built #740 Bad news - loops on Iyonix, needs alt-break to stop. That's odd. 740 has been happily running here in Iyonix (5.18) since I downloaded it earlier. Yes, for me too. Dave FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more!
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
ok last try for now, ci #744 is built with spidermonkey 1.7.0 maybe it works maybe it doesn't. Please also remember to use the json tagged downloads if you want to try with javascript as the jsoff ones do not even have teh interpreter linked. -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
On 16 Dec, Dave Higton wrote in message f77c24ff52.davem...@my.inbox.com: In message 20121216154023.gl15...@kyllikki.org Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: OK, the CI system just built #740 with a spidermonkey 1.8.5 library with the JIT disabled as suggested by Chris Gransden. Can this be tried by someone with access to RISC OS? and please be aware this may well behave very badly indeed. If this fails I have now successfully built 1.7.0 for RISC OS (though not run tested) so the possibility of using an older known working version exists. Please remember to enable javascript via the nice shiny new configuration interface Steve Fryatt has provided. The configuration interface in my 740 is different from the shiny new one in Steve's picture. It will do: that wasn't my picture. Chris G did the version in the picture, but then never submitted his changes to the source. I did my version separately, but didn't commit it until after the screenshot was posted (because I was still wrestling with Git). The sense of our switches is different, too, as I went for the disable logic of the rest of the Content Blocking box but Chris went for enable. It does have a Disable Javascript item - but the effect doesn't appear to be stored; the item always comes up as disabled when NS starts. Are you using a build which contains JS? It works fine in a json build, but in a jsoff version it gets saved (look in the Choices) file, then lost on loading. However, I suspect that it's getting loaded and then overwritten to false by the dummy js_initialise() in javascript/none.c (which presumably isn't an issue in a build that actually contains JavaScript). You can see what choices are getting loaded underneath the RISC OS GUI by browsing to about:config and looking at the settings. As an aside, string display on that screen probably wants to entity-ise any 's and 's (and possibly other stuff too): it doesn't handle Choices$Write.WWW... in the RISC OS settings very cleverly at the moment! -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
In message out-50ce32df.md-1.4.17.chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk Chris Young chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:36:36 GMT, Dave Higton wrote: Is there any simple bit of HTML+JS that we can use to verify that JS is working to /any/ extent? Try this: http://javatester.org/javascript.html It will clearly say whether JavaScript is enabled, and if it is working you'll see the user agent string underneath (NetSurf/3.0 etc) Chris Thanks for that link, on my Raspberry Pi I get your web browser supports JavaScript 2.2 -- Kev Wells http://riscos.kevsoft.co.uk/ http://kevsoft.co.uk/ http://kevsoft.co.uk/AleQuest/ ICQ 238580561 O it's Thin red line of 'eroes, when the drums begin to roll.
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This is all *far* beyond my technical understanding and abilities, but let me say I am *very* grateful for all this work which makes RISC OS so much more useful. Merry Christmas! Michael Bell --
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
Hi Chris, thanks for your ongoing help with this. On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 01:53:03PM +, Chris Gransden wrote: In article 20121214122314.gg15...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: Thankyou for all your feedback. As some of you discovered there was no user interface to enable javascript so you would need to add: enable_javascript:1 to your configuration manually. While testing the various spidermonkey versions I added the user interface to enable javascript. Here's a screen dump www.cgransden.co.uk/screen.png. Please can you send a patch? even if its just the files you changed I can work up a suitable patch from those, whatevers easiest. It seems that the RISC OS edition of spidermonkey is failing to even initialise as can be seen within the log as: javascript/jsapi.c js_initialise 39: New runtime handle 0x0 With 1.85 on RISC OS this happens with the JIT turned on. If the JIT is disabled it gets a bit further then gets stuck in a loop. How do we disable JIT? I used your recipie to build spidermonkey as a template. Even with --disable-tracejit passed to configure METHOD JIT is still enabled (toolchain build has the patches and Makefile used[1] (in the sdk directory)). If I turn that off too (--disable-methodjit) the library fails to build, perhaps I am missing something? I would like to try and debug where the later version of spidermonkey fails as it is such a huge improvement in functionality going forwards. which effectively means the javascript support is disabled and will not be able to use any script code on this platform (many of your examples work fine on the Linux platforms being used for development). If time permits I may look into this further but as I have limited access to RISC OS systems myself and the platform maintainer is currently not active I cannot promise progress in the immediate future. Sorry this was not more useful at this time but I do feel progress is being made albeit slowly. Would it be an option to use Spidermonkey 1.7 on RISC OS temporarily? This version seems stable and all the javascript tests work ok. They give the same results as the gtk version which uses 1.85. I can build 1.7 temporarily, but this is not really solving the issue at all and will (from past experience) almost certianly lead to RISC OS being stuck there forever. In future I do wish to move onto editions of spidermonkey past 1.8.5 (3 years old) which provide improved perfomance and functionality so limiting myself to version 1.7 (which is over five years old now, think firefox 2 era) seems counterproductive. Chris. [1] http://git.netsurf-browser.org/toolchains.git/tree/ -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
On 15 Dec, Chris Young wrote in message out-50cca365.md-1.4.17.chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:53:03 + (GMT), Chris Gransden wrote: While testing the various spidermonkey versions I added the user interface to enable javascript. Here's a screen dump www.cgransden.co.uk/screen.png. I think a patch would be more useful ;) I've finally got around to sorting out some access to Git (along with working out how to actually commit stuff using it), and have committed an alternative version. It seems to set the option correctly, but as I can't build with Javascript yet (something else to sort out), I haven't definitely confirmed that it all works as intended beyond that. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England Wakefield Acorn RISC OS Show Saturday 20 April 2013 http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/ http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
In article 20121215171742.gh15...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: Please can you send a patch? even if its just the files you changed I can work up a suitable patch from those, whatevers easiest. Steve already beat me to it. Those changes are working. How do we disable JIT? I used your recipie to build spidermonkey as a template. Even with --disable-tracejit passed to configure METHOD JIT is still enabled (toolchain build has the patches and Makefile used[1] (in the sdk directory)). If I turn that off too (--disable-methodjit) the library fails to build, perhaps I am missing something? I would like to try and debug where the later version of spidermonkey fails as it is such a huge improvement in functionality going forwards. I think the JIT is built if ARM is detected. Setting WTF_CPU_ARM_TRADITIONAL 0 in Platform.h and '-DENABLE_ASSEMBLER=0 -DENABLE_JIT=0' stops it building the JIT. I can build 1.7 temporarily, but this is not really solving the issue at all and will (from past experience) almost certianly lead to RISC OS being stuck there forever. In future I do wish to move onto editions of spidermonkey past 1.8.5 (3 years old) which provide improved perfomance and functionality so limiting myself to version 1.7 (which is over five years old now, think firefox 2 era) seems counterproductive. I thought it would be useful for getting people to test stuff now. Chris.
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Chris Gransden wrote Please can you send a patch? even if its just the files you changed I can work up a suitable patch from those, whatevers easiest. Steve already beat me to it. Those changes are working. Thanks Steve - it is great to see an extra entry in the choices content window. Probably a good idea to write it in camelCase though, ie JavaScript (not as in the subject of this thread). Picky, but just showing I'm awake:-) -- John - http://mug.riscos.org/
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
Thankyou for all your feedback. As some of you discovered there was no user interface to enable javascript so you would need to add: enable_javascript:1 to your configuration manually. It seems that the RISC OS edition of spidermonkey is failing to even initialise as can be seen within the log as: javascript/jsapi.c js_initialise 39: New runtime handle 0x0 which effectively means the javascript support is disabled and will not be able to use any script code on this platform (many of your examples work fine on the Linux platforms being used for development). If time permits I may look into this further but as I have limited access to RISC OS systems myself and the platform maintainer is currently not active I cannot promise progress in the immediate future. Sorry this was not more useful at this time but I do feel progress is being made albeit slowly. -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
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In message 52fdf4eea8...@timil.com Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: In article 20121214122314.gg15...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: Thankyou for all your feedback. As some of you discovered there was no user interface to enable javascript so you would need to add: enable_javascript:1 to your configuration manually. Okay, that line added to top of Boot:Choices.WWW.NetSurf.Choices ? I found that adding that line (enable_javascript:1) to my Choices file /dis/abled javascript: commenting it out restored the status quo (i.e., partial operation of js). I'm running the #727 build. George -- george greenfield
RISC OS Javascript support
Thanks to Rob Kendrik, Chris Gransden and myself we now have NSPR and Spidermonkey libraries building in the NetSurf toolchain[1]. The CI system[1] has built the toolchain successfully and a copy of NetSurf for RISC OS with Javascript enabled[3]. I would be grateful if any interested users could test this build. The javascript support is still *very* limited and the performance is unlikely to be awe inspiring, please do not expect a great experience. I still have a *lot* of interfaces remaining to implement and we are a small development team lacking an active RISC OS maintainer. *** Please Note *** All the usual caveats of using a CI build apply, additionally, this is the first successful *experimental* build with these libraries. I have been personally unable to test on RISC OS. It might fail in all sorts of interesting (Chinese proverb style) ways and I cannot offer support if it does. [1] http://git.netsurf-browser.org/toolchains.git/ [2] http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/ [3] http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/riscos/NetSurf-gcc-json-727.zip -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
In message 20121213103541.gf15...@kyllikki.org Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: Thanks to Rob Kendrik, Chris Gransden and myself we now have NSPR and Spidermonkey libraries building in the NetSurf toolchain[1]. The CI system[1] has built the toolchain successfully and a copy of NetSurf for RISC OS with Javascript enabled[3]. It's good news to hear about the development of RISC OS Javascript support to NetSurf. Keep up the good work and seasonal greetings to all the developers. Regards, -- Graham Pickles www.whitbymuseum.org.uk Whitby Museum No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.455 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/5454 - Release Date: 12/12/12 18:35:00
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
On 13 Dec 2012 as I do recall,
Vincent Sanders wrote:
Thanks to Rob Kendrik, Chris Gransden and myself we now have NSPR and
Spidermonkey libraries building in the NetSurf toolchain[1]. The CI
system[1] has built the toolchain successfully and a copy of NetSurf
for RISC OS with Javascript enabled[3].
I would be grateful if any interested users could test this build.
[snip]
Results of very cursory test on eBay site:
Still get If you are seeing this page, your browser settings prevent
you from automatically redirecting to a new URL message on log-in (not
sure if this is JavaScript-related or not, but it's certainly not true!)
No longer get You must have JavaScript enabled to use My eBay warning
on visiting My eBay page
Clicking on 'Watch list and other lists' (javascript link) still does
nothing
Cling on Price range button still warns 'Button cannot be activated ' in
status
Clicking on 'Add to watch list' now works: (weirdly, now works in
non-JS version too: no longer necessary to log out in order to access
this feature from NetSurf! apparently they've *removed* a JavaScript
dependency?)
Still not possible to delete selected items from list ('button cannot be
activated')
'More actions' javascript link beneath top two actions for item in list
still has no effect
Clicking on 'Choose more...' link in order to see full range of
available filters for a given search (e.g. all shoe sizes) downloads a
file of what looks like JavaScript variables
({model:{values:[{title:UK 1,selected:false,disabled:false,
etc.) with a source URL ending in _jsoff=1
Sorry, not sure what sort of thing I ought to expect to be testing for.
This site is probably too complicated.
--
Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
Old Programmers never die. They just terminate and stay resident
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
In message 074271fd52.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Graham Pickles wrote In message 20121213103541.gf15...@kyllikki.org Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: Thanks to Rob Kendrik, Chris Gransden and myself we now have NSPR and Spidermonkey libraries building in the NetSurf toolchain[1]. The CI system[1] has built the toolchain successfully and a copy of NetSurf for RISC OS with Javascript enabled[3]. It's good news to hear about the development of RISC OS Javascript support to NetSurf. Keep up the good work and seasonal greetings to all the developers. Great news! Does the Javascript need to be switched O? I think it must be on by default: http://www.navweaps.com/ no longer displays a 'your javascript is switched off' notice. I have tried a few simple tests but my Javascript seem to be being ignored. Not necessarily (see above). Also, Barclays mobile internet banking now works (I can log in, which I couldn't before) and it now retains my name and reference number between logins, which was also not the case previously. Other sites: thetrainline.com now goes straight to train timetable info, previously it showed a 'your js is disabled, click here for the non-js page'; Streetmap's new Beta page does not work however, but this may be using Flash as well as javascript. George george greenfield
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:22:43 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: Great news! Does the Javascript need to be switched O? It is on by default, however if you've been running a non-JS build and have changed NetSurf's settings, you may find it has saved use_javascript:0 into your Choices file. Remove that line or change it to a 1 and JS will be enabled. If Steve is still around he should be able to add that to the GUI quite easily. Chris
Re: RISC OS Javascript support
Chris Young wrote On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:22:43 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: Great news! Does the Javascript need to be switched O? It is on by default, however if you've been running a non-JS build and have changed NetSurf's settings, you may find it has saved use_javascript:0 into your Choices file. Remove that line or change it to a 1 and JS will be enabled. If Steve is still around he should be able to add that to the GUI quite easily. Thanks Chris, the choices did have: enable_javascript:0 I have set it to enable_javascript:1 and the browser behaviour has changed. The message Your browser isn't running scripts. no longer appears. However, I have not yet found any actual javascript staements that work. -- John - http://mug.riscos.org/
