Re: Google and #spf
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:27:59PM +0100, Jim Nagel wrote: > Sure makes one wish for that "Javasccript on/off" button on the Netsurf > button bar that we've oft wished for! Please remember that there is no RISC OS front end maintainer for NetSurf anymore - nobody is working on the RISC OS front end beyond making it build with core changes. If anyone wants to volunteer for this please step forward! Some people have expressed interest in the past but have either vanished or discovered they did not have the spare time they thought. B.
Re: Google and #spf
In article <57f8148b3bd...@triffid.co.uk>, Dave wrote: > In article <5e2d0df857@6.abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel > wrote: [Snippy] > > Have never found a way of programming Keystroke to do this. If > > anyone has succeeded, please export the relevant Keystroke Selection > > file & share it. > Must confess I've tried with Keystroke a lot of times but never > succeeded. The only way to keep the JS setting on screen as a button is to 1. open choices 2. open content 3. minimise/put configuration on the iconbar 4. toggle JavaScript 5. click Set with Adjust 6. goto 4 -- Tim Hill Webmaster, www.timil.com websites : php : RISC OS
Re: Google and #spf
On 23 Sep, Brian Howlett wrote: > Titanium here, JS enabled - works but vv slow with Netsurf 4851 and the > previous version I had installed, 4845. Actually, I may have to take that back - although it certainly worked in 4845, it eventually had a problem in 4851 - it just prints the JS to the NS window, along with the text normally displayed on the page. Neither version displays the Google Doodle wither, just a pink rectangle which is a .png file. -- Brian Howlett "There ain't half been some clever bastards" - the late Ian Dury
Re: Google and #spf
On 23 Sep, Dave wrote: > I can confirm... > #4850 with Javascript enabled, google.co.uk doesn't work. > With Javascript disabled, google does work okay. > VRPC-DL running RISC OS 6.20 Titanium here, JS enabled - works but vv slow with Netsurf 4851 and the previous version I had installed, 4845. -- Brian Howlett -- This place would be a paradise tomorrow, if every department had a supervisor with a sub-machine gun.
Re: Google and #spf
In article <5e2d0df857@6.abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel wrote: [Snippy] > Have never found a way of programming Keystroke to do this. If anyone > has succeeded, please export the relevant Keystroke Selection file & > share it. Must confess I've tried with Keystroke a lot of times but never succeeded. Dave -- Dave Triffid
Re: Google and #spf
Dave Sine Surnomine wrote on 23 Sep: > #4850 with Javascript enabled, google.co.uk doesn't work. > With Javascript disabled, google does work okay. You're right! Sure makes one wish for that "Javasccript on/off" button on the Netsurf button bar that we've oft wished for! (Ancient Fresco had one, could pinch the icon from Fresco.) So much handier than repetitititive trips to iconbar Choices > Content > Disable Javascript > Set. Have never found a way of programming Keystroke to do this. If anyone has succeeded, please export the relevant Keystroke Selection file & share it. Or a "switch" that could be added to an URL file to set Javascript off, when relevant to that particular URL, as in this case. And thanks for looking into the problem, Daniel. -- Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk
Re: Google and #spf
In article , David Pitt wrote: > In message <20190923044637.GK1816@somnambulist.local> > Daniel Silverstone wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 01:27:52 +0100, Jim Nagel wrote: > >> For the past few days, telling Netsurf to go to http://google.co.uk > >> results in an endless loop and no joy. What's this all about? > >> > >> The Netsurf URL bar changes from what I typed to this: > >> http://www.google.co.uk/#spf=1569197185001 > >> The 13-digit number keeps changing, and the hourglass keeps running. > >> With or without Javascript enabled. > > Without JS enabled I'm not sure. > [snip] > #4850 is OK here with Javascript disabled as checked on a Titanium, > Raspberry Pi Mk1, and RPCEmu. > The recent 3.9 release is OK with Javascript enabled. I can confirm... #4850 with Javascript enabled, google.co.uk doesn't work. With Javascript disabled, google does work okay. VRPC-DL running RISC OS 6.20 Dave -- Dave Triffid
Re: Google and #spf
In message <20190923044637.GK1816@somnambulist.local> Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 01:27:52 +0100, Jim Nagel wrote: >> For the past few days, telling Netsurf to go to http://google.co.uk >> results in an endless loop and no joy. What's this all about? >> >> The Netsurf URL bar changes from what I typed to this: >> http://www.google.co.uk/#spf=1569197185001 >> The 13-digit number keeps changing, and the hourglass keeps running. >> With or without Javascript enabled. > Without JS enabled I'm not sure. [snip] #4850 is OK here with Javascript disabled as checked on a Titanium, Raspberry Pi Mk1, and RPCEmu. The recent 3.9 release is OK with Javascript enabled. -- David Pitt Titanium
Re: Google and #spf
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 01:27:52 +0100, Jim Nagel wrote: > For the past few days, telling Netsurf to go to http://google.co.uk > results in an endless loop and no joy. What's this all about? > > The Netsurf URL bar changes from what I typed to this: > http://www.google.co.uk/#spf=1569197185001 > The 13-digit number keeps changing, and the hourglass keeps running. > With or without Javascript enabled. Without JS enabled I'm not sure. With JS enabled it's a performance issue. I cannot replicate it on my laptop because it's so much faster than any RISC OS system, but I believe it'll be due to some JS trying to work stuff out and failing because it's too slow. I will attempt to root out the problem but it's quite possible I won't be able to for a week or more. We're aware of it as https://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2702 D. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged.Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69
Re: Google crash
In message <20151109232325.gd5...@kyllikki.org> Vincent Sanderswrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 03:31:58PM +, David Pitt wrote: > > Geoffrey Baxendale, on 9 Nov, wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I find that clicking in the search box on Google UK with JS enabled > > > crashes Netsurf CI 3055. It's OK with JS off. (RISC OS 6.2 on Kinetic) > > > > > > Has anyone else seen this or is it just me? > > > > Same here on two instances of OS4.39 VRPC on Windows 7, but not on my > > Raspberry Pi OS5.23 (09-Nov-15) where it is OK. > > > > It is already on the bug tracker. > > > > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2385 > > I think i fixed this, can people try and let me know? > Thanks Vincent, all OK with #3056. > > > > -- > > David Pitt > > > > > TTFN -- Geoff. Using Acorn StrongARM Kinetic RiscPC. Isn't that a pip?
Re: Google crash
Geoffrey Baxendale, on 9 Nov, wrote: > Hi, > > I find that clicking in the search box on Google UK with JS enabled > crashes Netsurf CI 3055. It's OK with JS off. (RISC OS 6.2 on Kinetic) > > Has anyone else seen this or is it just me? Same here on two instances of OS4.39 VRPC on Windows 7, but not on my Raspberry Pi OS5.23 (09-Nov-15) where it is OK. It is already on the bug tracker. http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2385 -- David Pitt
Re: Google crash
On 10 Nov 2015 "Chris Young"wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 23:23:25 +, Vincent Sanders wrote: >> I think i fixed this, can people try and let me know? > Working for me now, thanks Vince. Confirmed here too. Many thanks. Best wishes, Peter. -- Peter Young (zfc Os) and family Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
Re: Google crash
Vincent Sanders, on 9 Nov, wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 03:31:58PM +, David Pitt wrote: > > Geoffrey Baxendale, on 9 Nov, wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I find that clicking in the search box on Google UK with JS enabled > > > crashes Netsurf CI 3055. It's OK with JS off. (RISC OS 6.2 on Kinetic) > > > > > > Has anyone else seen this or is it just me? > > > > Same here on two instances of OS4.39 VRPC on Windows 7, but not on my > > Raspberry Pi OS5.23 (09-Nov-15) where it is OK. > > > > It is already on the bug tracker. > > > > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2385 > > I think i fixed this, can people try and let me know? It is fixed here, many thanks. -- David Pitt
Re: Google crash
In messageDavid Pitt wrote: > Geoffrey Baxendale, on 9 Nov, wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I find that clicking in the search box on Google UK with JS enabled > > crashes Netsurf CI 3055. It's OK with JS off. (RISC OS 6.2 on Kinetic) > > > > Has anyone else seen this or is it just me? > > Same here on two instances of OS4.39 VRPC on Windows 7, but not on my > Raspberry Pi OS5.23 (09-Nov-15) where it is OK. > > It is already on the bug tracker. > > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2385 > Thanks David. TTFN -- Geoff. Using Acorn StrongARM Kinetic RiscPC. Oxymoron of the day: "Working Holiday"
Re: Google crash
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 03:31:58PM +, David Pitt wrote: > Geoffrey Baxendale, on 9 Nov, wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I find that clicking in the search box on Google UK with JS enabled > > crashes Netsurf CI 3055. It's OK with JS off. (RISC OS 6.2 on Kinetic) > > > > Has anyone else seen this or is it just me? > > Same here on two instances of OS4.39 VRPC on Windows 7, but not on my > Raspberry Pi OS5.23 (09-Nov-15) where it is OK. > > It is already on the bug tracker. > > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2385 I think i fixed this, can people try and let me know? > > -- > David Pitt > > -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
Re: Google crash
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 23:23:25 +, Vincent Sanders wrote: > I think i fixed this, can people try and let me know? Working for me now, thanks Vince. Chris
Re: Google
In article 54c34a2274joh...@ukgateway.net, John Williams joh...@ukgateway.net wrote: In article 54c3467e90ris...@gotadsl.co.uk, Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: I've just tried Google again with Javascript off and a search works normally. Anyone able to confirm? Yes, it's fine again! Perhaps my feedback was noted! Message-ID: 54c0f9056fjoh...@ukgateway.net I have used the Send feedback link on the bottom of a search page to send this. I hope others will follow. Have done that but mainly thanking them for mending their broken code. If it goes belly-up again we can always use your rather clever Javascript control utility. Richard
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On 13 May 2015 as I do recall, Richard Ashbery wrote: In article 54c2328532joh...@ukgateway.net, John Williams I've just tried Google again with Javascript off and a search works normally. Anyone able to confirm? Excellent - I'm amazed. I was about to report a total lack of feedback via the Twitter route, but perhaps they actually took some notice of the various reports after all! -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do
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In message 54c34dbdb8brian.jord...@btinternet.com Brian Jordan brian.jord...@btinternet.com wrote: In article 54c3467e90ris...@gotadsl.co.uk, Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: In article 54c2328532joh...@ukgateway.net, John Williams joh...@ukgateway.net wrote: In article 1c3b90c054.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: I think it's absolutely essential that we have a javascript on/off button on the toolbar. If javescript is off google won't work and if it's on streetmap.co.uk won't work. I've just tried Google again with Javascript off and a search works normally. Anyone able to confirm? Seems to be true here as well. Same here (NS 3.4 Dev CI #2735). -- George
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In article 54c3467e90ris...@gotadsl.co.uk, Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: I've just tried Google again with Javascript off and a search works normally. Anyone able to confirm? Yes, it's fine again! Perhaps my feedback was noted! Message-ID: 54c0f9056fjoh...@ukgateway.net I have used the Send feedback link on the bottom of a search page to send this. I hope others will follow. John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Rites *
Re: Google
In article 54c3467e90ris...@gotadsl.co.uk, Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: In article 54c2328532joh...@ukgateway.net, John Williams joh...@ukgateway.net wrote: In article 1c3b90c054.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: I think it's absolutely essential that we have a javascript on/off button on the toolbar. If javescript is off google won't work and if it's on streetmap.co.uk won't work. I've just tried Google again with Javascript off and a search works normally. Anyone able to confirm? Seems to be true here as well. -- _ Brian Jordan Virtual RPC-AdjustSA on Windows 8.1 Pro RISC OS 6.20 _
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In article 54c2328532joh...@ukgateway.net, John Williams joh...@ukgateway.net wrote: In article 1c3b90c054.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: I think it's absolutely essential that we have a javascript on/off button on the toolbar. If javescript is off google won't work and if it's on streetmap.co.uk won't work. I've just tried Google again with Javascript off and a search works normally. Anyone able to confirm? Richard
Re: Google
Richard Porter wrote on 8 May: I think it's absolutely essential that we have a javascript on/off button on the toolbar. If javescript is off google won't work and if it's on streetmap.co.uk won't work. I fourth the motion. -- Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk
Re: Google
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 16:05:47 +0100, Chris Newman wrote: In article 6fb323c254@abbeypress.net, Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote: Richard Porter wrote on 8 May: I think it's absolutely essential that we have a javascript on/off button on the toolbar. If javescript is off google won't work and if it's on streetmap.co.uk won't work. I fourth the motion. I fifth, sixth, seventh nth the motion. I look forward to patches provided byone of Richard, Jim or Chris; or sponsored by them in some manner. D. (P.S. I think this is a fairly dodgy approach, but if it's what the users want then the users get to supply the fix) -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged.Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69
Re: Google
On 9 May 2015, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: In article 3145b6c054.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com, Roger Darlington roger...@freeuk.com wrote: On 8 May 2015, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: Another way of using Google is, for example http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Acacia Just double click on the link. Works from Pluto, StronEd and anything else which will launch a URL. But that doesn't work on Netsurf :-( It just oscillates the same :-( Once on the search, you can delete the search term and type in another. So it seems to be only from the first page. Weird! Sorry, I've confused myself by togling JS once too many times. The search script on my www site does work with JF off: Relevant bit is !-- Search Google -- PFORM method=GET action=http://www.google.com/custom TABLE bgcolor=#FF cellspacing=0 border=0 td INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=40 maxlength=255 value= INPUT type=submit name=sa VALUE=Google Search brinput type=radio name=sitesearch value= checked Search WWW /td/tr/TABLE /FORM !-- Search Google -- Save that as search/html, re-type is as faf (html) and use it Excellent Richard :-)) Now I'm back in business, using a 3-year old Netsurf :-) -- Cheers Roger If windfarms on hills are fine then put some on The South Downs too.
Re: Google
In article 60f3f4c054.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com, Roger Darlington roger...@freeuk.com wrote: I found a writable icon and wrote what I know about their broken code in it (which is nothing at all apart from what someone said on here). I have used the Send feedback link on the bottom of a search page to send this. I hope others will follow. quote I am sending this using a browser with Javascript turned on. If I attempt this with Javascript turned off, Google now goes into a recursive loop. This change occurred less than a week ago. A NetSurf browser developer has commented: Google have changed the non-javascript portion of their reply (the noscript entry) to contain completely broken html that simply causes the browser to refresh and fail to work usefully. We cannot do anything about this in NetSurf itself and need Google to unbreak their noscript, If you can get anyone there to listen that would be good! Thus I (and I hope others will follow) am drawing this to your attention. endquote I hope that this helps, John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Beneficiary *
Re: Google
On 9 May 2015 Harriet Bazley [mailto: li...@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk] wrote: The only contact details I could find was tweeting @google - looks as if they do respond to individual mentions on Twitter, though it mostly seems to be people complaining about disappearing Google+ accounts. Perhaps we could start a Twitterstorm? :-) I've tweeted @google too telling them they need to fix it. Like Tim Hill I make use of duckduckgo.com. And there is https://uk.search.yahoo.com which works with Netsurf. Google's loss! -- Chris
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In article 54c0f71aa9li...@torrens.org.uk, Richard Torrens (lists) But that doesn't work on Netsurf :-( It just oscillates the same :-( Sorry, I've confused myself by togling JS once too many times. The search script on my www site does work with JF off: Relevant bit is !-- Search Google -- PFORM method=GET action=http://www.google.com/custom TABLE bgcolor=#FF cellspacing=0 border=0 td INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=40 maxlength=255 value= INPUT type=submit name=sa VALUE=Google Search brinput type=radio name=sitesearch value= checked Search WWW /td/tr/TABLE /FORM !-- Search Google -- Save that as search/html, re-type is as faf (html) and use it I use an Image search - can it be modified to show these rather than the default text search or have I missed the whole point? Can some clever programmer offer to incorporate an icon in the NetSurf main window to disable Javascript instead of going through Choices? I think this has already been suggested - it sounded like a good idea? Richard
Re: Google
On 8 May 2015, Bernard Boase wrote: On 8 May, li...@torrens.org.uk typed: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? One suggestion would be to use https://startpage.com instead. But that doesn't work on the fastest Netsurf that I use (r12638) which is far smoother at scrolling long pages with images on, and is much faster at loading the pages in the first place than any of the Netsurfs released in the last 2 or 3 years. I know because I keep downloading new ones, and they all exhibit the problems just mentioned (and acknowledged by Netsurf developers themselves, because they altered the code to use some other method of displaying pages that works far slower) It gives the usual 'error setting certificate verify locations' It claims to: - be the world's most private search engine, - use Google in the background on your behalf anyway, and - not to record the user's IP address. We don't have to wait for Google to mend its ways. -- Cheers Roger The permanent way turned out not to be so permanent after all ~
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On 9 May 2015 Harriet Bazley wrote: The only contact details I could find was tweeting @google - looks as if they do respond to individual mentions on Twitter, though it mostly seems to be people complaining about disappearing Google+ accounts. I got this link from a device alert after signing in on my Mac (I delete all cookies, cache, etc on quitting Firefox): https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/device_alert_feedback?hl=en. I gave them some 'feedback' but I haven't heard any more. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a user experience - I just want stuff that works.
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On 9 May 2015 Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: The search script on my www site does work with JF off: Relevant bit is !-- Search Google -- PFORM method=GET action=http://www.google.com/custom TABLE bgcolor=#FF cellspacing=0 border=0 td INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=40 maxlength=255 value= INPUT type=submit name=sa VALUE=Google Search brinput type=radio name=sitesearch value= checked Search WWW /td/tr/TABLE /FORM !-- Search Google -- Save that as search/html, re-type is as faf (html) and use it Why only one radio button? The script I use to search a specific site is: td!-- SiteSearch Google -- form method=get action=http://www.google.com/search; input type=hidden name=ie value=iso-8859-1 input type=hidden name=oe value=iso-8859-1 input type=hidden name=domains value=minimarcos.org.uk input type=hidden name=sitesearch value=www.minimarcos.org.uk input type=text name=q size=20 maxlength=255 value= input type=submit name=btnG value=Search /font/form I guess the important difference is going to /custom instead of /search. On my local home page I have two radio buttons to search either www or the specified site. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a user experience - I just want stuff that works.
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On 8 May, b.bo...@bcs.org typed: One suggestion would be to use https://startpage.com instead. On 9 May, r...@minijem.plus.com typed: Also have you tried clicking Advanced? I think you can supply a domain to search but it becomes unusable on NetSurf. Agreed. Even where startpage.com works to start your own searches, sites such as ROOL's which have a search function that uses Google cannot then deliver results at present via Netsurf when Disable Javascript is ticked. To make it easier to switch Javascript, you can leave the Nesurf Configuration Content dialogue open on the desktop and use Adjust to Set it (or the Configuration window open and iconised for quick retrieval of its Content icon), until we get a button in the button bar. And thank you Richard Torrens for the workaround. -- Bernard
Re: Google
In article 3145b6c054.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com, Roger Darlington roger...@freeuk.com wrote: On 8 May 2015, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: Another way of using Google is, for example http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Acacia Just double click on the link. Works from Pluto, StronEd and anything else which will launch a URL. But that doesn't work on Netsurf :-( It just oscillates the same :-( Once on the search, you can delete the search term and type in another. So it seems to be only from the first page. Weird! Sorry, I've confused myself by togling JS once too many times. The search script on my www site does work with JF off: Relevant bit is !-- Search Google -- PFORM method=GET action=http://www.google.com/custom TABLE bgcolor=#FF cellspacing=0 border=0 td INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=40 maxlength=255 value= INPUT type=submit name=sa VALUE=Google Search brinput type=radio name=sitesearch value= checked Search WWW /td/tr/TABLE /FORM !-- Search Google -- Save that as search/html, re-type is as faf (html) and use it -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more!
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On 9 May 2015 Chris Dewhurst wrote: Like Tim Hill I make use of duckduckgo.com. And there is https://uk.search.yahoo.com which works with Netsurf. The problem I find with Yahoo! is that I can't download images. That used to be no problem with Google. Also you have to be very careful to make sure you're on the right link and not some Yahoo! link they want you to follow. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a user experience - I just want stuff that works.
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In article d57cefc054.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com, Roger Darlington roger...@freeuk.com wrote: On 8 May 2015, Bernard Boase wrote: On 8 May, li...@torrens.org.uk typed: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? One suggestion would be to use https://startpage.com instead. [Snip] It gives the usual 'error setting certificate verify locations' I've tried it a few times and I don't get that error message. When does it appear for you - at the start of a search or at some other point? Using NS 3.2 (26 August 2014) Alan [Snip] -- Alan Calder, Milton Keynes, UK.
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On 8 May 2015, Frank de Bruijn wrote: In article 54c08f864b...@timil.com, Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: In article 54c08c6513li...@torrens.org.uk, Richard Torrens (lists) li...@torrens.org.uk wrote: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? If you mean Google Search, in its stead I've been using DuckDuckGo with RISC OS for some time. https://duckduckgo.com/html/ Alternatively, if you prefer Google's search results, try https://startpage.com/ Which promptly gives: error setting certificate setting verify locations [at least on older Netserfs [which happen to work far faster, which is why I still use an old version]... This uses Google but has its own frontend, which seems to work fine whether JavaScript is on or not. Regards, Frank -- Cheers Roger If I were you I'd be me
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On 8 May 2015, Andrew Pinder andrew.pin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: [snip] Which version of NetSurf are we talking about here? I'm on 3.4 (Dev CI #2771) on RO 5.22 and haven't seen any problems with Google. Try tuning off JavaScript. Tony
Re: Google
In article 20150508125407.ga2...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? [Snip] We cannot do anything about this in NetSurf itself and need Google to unbreak their noscript, If you can get anyone there to listen that would be good as I have been unable to find someone to contact. This affects all non javascript browser (or those with it turned off) and cannot be worked around. Strangely, though, it continues to work just fine with Browse, Fresco, Oregano and Oregano 2! That's 'just fine' in that Google search works as expected - and very quickly in Browse, Oregano and Fresco - and not 'just fine' in the appearance of the fetched pages. Given that three of the above browsers make no attempt at any form of JS it puzzles me why it is that NetSurf (v3.2 no JS) just goes into a loop when Google is invoked. Alan [Snip] -- Alan Calder, Milton Keynes, UK.
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In article 20150508125407.ga2...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: It has been reported in the tracker as bug number 2314. Google have changed the non javascript portion of their reply (the noscript entry) to comtain completely broken html that simply causes the browser to refresh and fail to work usefully. We cannot do anything about this in NetSurf itself and need Google to unbreak their noscript, If you can get anyone there to listen that would be good as I have been unable to find someone to contact. This affects all non javascript browser (or those with it turned off) and cannot be worked around. I suspected as much ... Writing a browser is a somewhat Herculean task and keeping it operating with broken www sites is a never ending task. -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more!
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In article 54c08ebfb1joh...@ukgateway.net, John Williams joh...@ukgateway.net wrote: Or one of those record your button presses and menu items programs we used to have in the olden days. It's called KeyStroke, Alisdair Jørgensen, originally sold by Quantum software, now PD. It could indeed record such a train of button presses on menu items. I would Google a link for you but... KeyStroke also comes with various add-ons. Probably a button bar. I have a Search page on my own www site: I have just tried it and that call to Google works. www.torrens.org.uk/search.html -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more!
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In article 54c08c6513li...@torrens.org.uk, Richard Torrens (lists) li...@torrens.org.uk wrote: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? If you mean Google Search, in its stead I've been using DuckDuckGo with RISC OS for some time. https://duckduckgo.com/html/ -- www.timil.com web sites * multimedia * training
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In message 20150508125407.ga2...@kyllikki.org on 8 May 2015 Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? It has been reported in the tracker as bug number 2314. Google have changed the non javascript portion of their reply (the noscript entry) to comtain completely broken html that simply causes the browser to refresh and fail to work usefully. We cannot do anything about this in NetSurf itself and need Google to unbreak their noscript, If you can get anyone there to listen that would be good as I have been unable to find someone to contact. This affects all non javascript browser (or those with it turned off) and cannot be worked around. Which version of NetSurf are we talking about here? I'm on 3.4 (Dev CI #2771) on RO 5.22 and haven't seen any problems with Google. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Pinder
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On 8 May 2015, george greenfield george.greenfi...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: [snip] So a temporary workaround might be to enable JS, hotlist all regularly-visited/needed sites, then disable JS and avoid using the search page entirely. How is it possible to transfer an address, from the Google search page, to the NetSurf hotlist, without actually visiting the site? Tony
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In message 3d8ea4c054.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk Tony Moore old_coas...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 8 May 2015, george greenfield george.greenfi...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: [snip] So a temporary workaround might be to enable JS, hotlist all regularly-visited/needed sites, then disable JS and avoid using the search page entirely. How is it possible to transfer an address, from the Google search page, to the NetSurf hotlist, without actually visiting the site? Tony It's not possible. The procedure that seems to work here is: 1. Enable JS in Choices. 2. Open Google search page, enter desired site into Search field as usual. 3. Desired site loads - click Menu, select 'Utilities-Hotlist-Add to hotlist' and close Google search page. 4. Disable JS in Choices. 5. Click Adjust over NetSurf icon to open Hotlist, select desired site. Once a number of sites have been hotlisted they can be opened without requiring JS. And no, I don't understand how this works either -- George
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In message f28197c054.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk Tony Moore old_coas...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 8 May 2015, Andrew Pinder andrew.pin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: [snip] Which version of NetSurf are we talking about here? I'm on 3.4 (Dev CI #2771) on RO 5.22 and haven't seen any problems with Google. Try tuning off JavaScript. Tony With JS off, accessing the Google search page produces the problematic 'endless reloading' behaviour previously described; however, clicking on a previously hotlisted item works fine, even with JS off. So a temporary workaround might be to enable JS, hotlist all regularly-visited/needed sites, then disable JS and avoid using the search page entirely. [NetSurf 3.4 (Dev CI #2735)] -- George
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In message f28197c054.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk on 8 May 2015 Tony Moore old_coas...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 8 May 2015, Andrew Pinder andrew.pin...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: [snip] Which version of NetSurf are we talking about here? I'm on 3.4 (Dev CI #2771) on RO 5.22 and haven't seen any problems with Google. Try tuning off JavaScript. Sorry, I wasnt paying enough attention to spot that aspect! Regards Andrew -- Andrew Pinder
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On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? It has been reported in the tracker as bug number 2314. Google have changed the non javascript portion of their reply (the noscript entry) to comtain completely broken html that simply causes the browser to refresh and fail to work usefully. We cannot do anything about this in NetSurf itself and need Google to unbreak their noscript, If you can get anyone there to listen that would be good as I have been unable to find someone to contact. This affects all non javascript browser (or those with it turned off) and cannot be worked around. -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more! -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
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In article 54c08c6513li...@torrens.org.uk, Richard Torrens (lists) li...@torrens.org.uk wrote: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? It still works if you put JS on - but, of course, that bu**ers up StreetMap. Now more than ever we need that magic JS ON/JS OFF button people have been asking for for yonks. Perhaps if there was a simple handle to make NetSurf rescan its choices (which there may well be!), a third party add-on just for RISC OS would be possible by changing the choices file on the fly. Or one of those record your button presses and menu items programs we used to have in the olden days. Anyway, it's a pain having to do Menu, Choices, Content, Radio icon every time you want to switch, and, as it's RISC OS-only problem, it's unlikely to be fixed by the developers. So, some more lateral thinking called for! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Solar Fire *
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On 8 May 2015 Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? I think it's absolutely essential that we have a javascript on/off button on the toolbar. If javescript is off google won't work and if it's on streetmap.co.uk won't work. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a user experience - I just want stuff that works.
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On 8 May, li...@torrens.org.uk typed: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? One suggestion would be to use https://startpage.com instead. It claims to: - be the world's most private search engine, - use Google in the background on your behalf anyway, and - not to record the user's IP address. We don't have to wait for Google to mend its ways. -- Bernard
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In article 9118c3c054.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: [Snip] I use Google to provide a search facility on my own web site. Which of any of the other search engines or front ends allow you to create a form which specifies a particular site? https://duckduckgo.com/search_box -- www.timil.com web sites * multimedia * training
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On 8 May 2015 Frank de Bruijn wrote: In article 54c08f864b...@timil.com, Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: In article 54c08c6513li...@torrens.org.uk, Richard Torrens (lists) li...@torrens.org.uk wrote: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? If you mean Google Search, in its stead I've been using DuckDuckGo with RISC OS for some time. https://duckduckgo.com/html/ Alternatively, if you prefer Google's search results, try https://startpage.com/ This uses Google but has its own frontend, which seems to work fine whether JavaScript is on or not. I use Google to provide a search facility on my own web site. Which of any of the other search engines or front ends allow you to create a form which specifies a particular site? -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a user experience - I just want stuff that works.
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On 8 May 2015 Bernard Boase wrote: On 8 May, li...@torrens.org.uk typed: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? One suggestion would be to use https://startpage.com instead. It claims to: - be the world's most private search engine, - use Google in the background on your behalf anyway, and - not to record the user's IP address. We don't have to wait for Google to mend its ways. But startpage gives you Google results. The trouble with Google is that it now redirects search results via itself so you either have to wait while it responds or you have to dig out the embedded url or type it in manually. Actually it looks as though sp does extract the embedded url for results but it takes a while to do it. Also have you tried clicking Advanced? I think you can supply a domain to search but it becomes unusable on NetSurf. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a user experience - I just want stuff that works.
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On 8 May 2015 as I do recall, Vincent Sanders wrote: On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: Yesterday Google stopped working with Netsurf. Has anyone any cures or suggestions? It has been reported in the tracker as bug number 2314. Google have changed the non javascript portion of their reply (the noscript entry) to comtain completely broken html that simply causes the browser to refresh and fail to work usefully. We cannot do anything about this in NetSurf itself and need Google to unbreak their noscript, If you can get anyone there to listen that would be good as I have been unable to find someone to contact. The only contact details I could find was tweeting @google - looks as if they do respond to individual mentions on Twitter, though it mostly seems to be people complaining about disappearing Google+ accounts. Perhaps we could start a Twitterstorm? :-) -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == Flying is the art of throwing yourself at the ground... and missing.
Re: Google Books do not show pages any longer
On 31 Mar 2015, Harriet Bazley wrote: On 31 Mar 2015 as I do recall, Roger Darlington wrote: On 18 Feb 2015, Harriet Bazley wrote: [snip] For example, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssCpg=PA24 The intended display is hidden as .viewport div img {display:none;} /stylediv style=height:853px;width:575px;position:relative;margin- bottom:4px style type=text/css.html_page_image { background-image:url(https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssC ie=ISO-8859-1pg=PA24img=1zoom=3hl=ensig=ACfU3U1veGpmwlalmSlRUhFW AAUiHFXutw); width:575px;height:853px; top:0px;left:0px;position:relative}/style Click on *that*, and you can see the page, annoying though the workaround is I am puzzled by this Hilary. Firefox on Windows7 has no such trouble displaying google book pages without any rigmarole about finding some other link hidden deep inside it and clicking on that instead. Maybe Firefox ingnores display:none and background display and instead gets straight on with the proper business of displaying it? Much more likely that it is Firefox that supports the complicated obfuscation they are using to make the content of the book invisible to search engines/impossible to save out of Windows browsers (or whatever the purpose of this CSS may be), and Netsurf that ignores it. Let's hope that Netsurf can find a fludge fix for this problem soon, if they can't do a proper fix quickly. -- Cheers Roger A proton is for life, not just for Christmas
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On 18 Feb 2015, Harriet Bazley wrote: On 17 Feb 2015 as I do recall, Roger Darlington wrote: I suppose someone knows that Google Books does not show the pages any longer in any version of Netsurf I have. One 2 years old, NS 3.2, and a test build from today. It used to work fine, but Google must have put some spanners in their works. I think it's some kind of copy protection. The links to the images are still *there* in the source code, but specified as 'background'. The thing to do is to search for the string .viewport. For example, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssCpg=PA24 The intended display is hidden as .viewport div img {display:none;} /stylediv style=height:853px;width:575px;position:relative;margin- bottom:4px style type=text/css.html_page_image { background-image:url(https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssC ie=ISO-8859-1pg=PA24img=1zoom=3hl=ensig=ACfU3U1veGpmwlalmSlRUhFW AAUiHFXutw); width:575px;height:853px; top:0px;left:0px;position:relative}/style Click on *that*, and you can see the page, annoying though the workaround is I am puzzled by this Hilary. Firefox on Windows7 has no such trouble displaying google book pages without any rigmarole about finding some other link hidden deep inside it and clicking on that instead. Maybe Firefox ingnores display:none and background display and instead gets straight on with the proper business of displaying it? -- Cheers Roger The more information you have, the more likely it is to be wrong
Re: Google Books do not show pages any longer
On 31 Mar 2015 as I do recall, Roger Darlington wrote: On 18 Feb 2015, Harriet Bazley wrote: [snip] For example, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssCpg=PA24 The intended display is hidden as .viewport div img {display:none;} /stylediv style=height:853px;width:575px;position:relative;margin- bottom:4px style type=text/css.html_page_image { background-image:url(https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssC ie=ISO-8859-1pg=PA24img=1zoom=3hl=ensig=ACfU3U1veGpmwlalmSlRUhFW AAUiHFXutw); width:575px;height:853px; top:0px;left:0px;position:relative}/style Click on *that*, and you can see the page, annoying though the workaround is I am puzzled by this Hilary. Firefox on Windows7 has no such trouble displaying google book pages without any rigmarole about finding some other link hidden deep inside it and clicking on that instead. Maybe Firefox ingnores display:none and background display and instead gets straight on with the proper business of displaying it? Much more likely that it is Firefox that supports the complicated obfuscation they are using to make the content of the book invisible to search engines/impossible to save out of Windows browsers (or whatever the purpose of this CSS may be), and Netsurf that ignores it. -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == We are the knights who say NI!
Re: Google Books hasn't worked for months now on NS
In article afe056ab54.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com, Roger Darlington roger...@freeuk.com wrote: You wouldn't have thought Google would have changed the code so that it doesn't actually do anything on Netsurf now - didn't they donate some money to Netsurf once? Perhaps its time for them to now donate some code for it that enables it to read Google Book pages :-) You'll probably find the only way they will donate something will be if they are allowed access to it to track peoples behaviour. Note the recent revelation that they hacked into Safari. One reason I don't use Chrome. -- Stuart Winsor Tools With A Mission sending tools across the world http://www.twam.co.uk/
Re: Google Books do not show pages any longer
On 17 Feb 2015 as I do recall, Roger Darlington wrote: I suppose someone knows that Google Books does not show the pages any longer in any version of Netsurf I have. One 2 years old, NS 3.2, and a test build from today. It used to work fine, but Google must have put some spanners in their works. I think it's some kind of copy protection. The links to the images are still *there* in the source code, but specified as 'background'. The thing to do is to search for the string .viewport. For example, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssCpg=PA24 The intended display is hidden as .viewport div img {display:none;} /stylediv style=height:853px;width:575px;position:relative;margin-bottom:4px style type=text/css.html_page_image { background-image:url(https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssCie=ISO-8859-1pg=PA24img=1zoom=3hl=ensig=ACfU3U1veGpmwlalmSlRUhFWAAUiHFXutw;); width:575px;height:853px; top:0px;left:0px;position:relative}/style Click on *that*, and you can see the page, annoying though the workaround is -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == If your feet smell and your nose runs - you're built upside down.
Re: Google hanging
David Pitt, on 2 Jun, wrote: Alan Calder, on 2 Jun, wrote: In article mpro.n6k2ho001e3nr033m.pit...@pittdj.co.uk, David Pitt pit...@pittdj.co.uk wrote: Cristopher Dewhurst, on 2 Jun, wrote: Hi Using Netsurf v1940, seems to be ok here (Raspberry Pi RISC OS 5.21) Maybe a temporary glitch with Google, or perhaps something fixed in NS between 1932 and 1940? 1940 still hangs here. Don't know about all these historical dates but I'm having no problems with Google using NS v3.1 on SA RPC OS 4.39 Back to the future in the not too distant then! It must be a knack but I have just seen NetSurf 3.1 hang on both OS5.21 on the Pi and on VRPC OS4.39 on Windows 7. NetSurf 2.9 is OK on VRPC OS4.39 on the Mac. Another date, 1945 and victory. #1945 looks OK here. -- David Pitt
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In article 7f015b1154.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk, Harriet Bazley li...@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? (Netsurf v1932, JS disabled) I was experiencing it yesterday with 1929/1930, JS disabled. Plusnet. Thought it was just me! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- The Soul Criterion *
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In message 7f015b1154.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk Harriet Bazley li...@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Of recent weeks I've increasingly found that Google searches are not rendering in Netsurf, especially when you try to view a second or subsequent page of search results: the window just hangs there with the progress indicator moving instead of the usual almost instant return. Clicking on the same link again to force another fetch seems to be the only way to get the results. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? (Netsurf v1932, JS disabled) Yes, I have seen this for a while now. An annoying little trait. It was suggested that switching off JS might help. It doesn't or at best only marginally. (Currently Netsurf v1930, JS disabled). My ISP is demon but I doubt this is the problem. Regards, -- Graham Pickles www.whitbymuseum.org.uk Whitby Museum A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. (Saki)
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Harriet Bazley, on 2 Jun, wrote: Of recent weeks I've increasingly found that Google searches are not rendering in Netsurf, especially when you try to view a second or subsequent page of search results: the window just hangs there with the progress indicator moving instead of the usual almost instant return. Clicking on the same link again to force another fetch seems to be the only way to get the results. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? (Netsurf v1932, JS disabled) A quick test did reproduce this, v1920, Java Script not disabled, adverts hidden. Plusnet. -- David Pitt
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On 2 Jun 2014 David Pitt pit...@pittdj.co.uk wrote: Harriet Bazley, on 2 Jun, wrote: Of recent weeks I've increasingly found that Google searches are not rendering in Netsurf, especially when you try to view a second or subsequent page of search results: the window just hangs there with the progress indicator moving instead of the usual almost instant return. Clicking on the same link again to force another fetch seems to be the only way to get the results. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? (Netsurf v1932, JS disabled) A quick test did reproduce this, v1920, Java Script not disabled, adverts hidden. Plusnet. Has anyone reported this to he bug site? If nobody else does I'll do it later today. Best wishes, Peter. -- Peter Young (zfc W) and family Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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Peter Young, on 2 Jun, wrote: On 2 Jun 2014 David Pitt pit...@pittdj.co.uk wrote: Harriet Bazley, on 2 Jun, wrote: Of recent weeks I've increasingly found that Google searches are not rendering in Netsurf, especially when you try to view a second or subsequent page of search results: the window just hangs there with the progress indicator moving instead of the usual almost instant return. Clicking on the same link again to force another fetch seems to be the only way to get the results. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? (Netsurf v1932, JS disabled) A quick test did reproduce this, v1920, Java Script not disabled, adverts hidden. Plusnet. Has anyone reported this to he bug site? If nobody else does I'll do it later today. It would be useful if we could capture the stoppage in a log. Am I right in guessing that the numbers at the start of each log line are time from start. If so this may, or may not, be relevant. (62.23) content/llcache.c llcache_clean 2892: discarding stale cacheable object with no users or pending fetches (0x6599afa0) http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=elephanthl=en-GBgbv=1ie=UTF-8prmd=ivnsei=sTyMU9arK6iy0QWU-YCQBgstart=10sa=N (62.23) content/llcache.c llcache_object_destroy 855: Destroying object 0x6599afa0 (62.23) content/llcache.c llcache_clean 2892: discarding stale cacheable object with no users or pending fetches (0x659bdd18) http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=ISO-8859-1hl=en-GBsource=hpq=elephantbtnG=Google+Searchgbv=1 (62.24) content/llcache.c llcache_object_destroy 855: Destroying object 0x659bdd18 (62.24) content/llcache.c llcache_clean 2999: Size: 416906 (82.24) content/content.c content_destroy 388: content 0x65fbc100 x-ns-css:5 (82.24) content/llcache.c llcache_object_remove_user 321: Removing user 0x65c6ff30 from 0x65c6f8f0 (82.24) content/llcache.c llcache_object_user_destroy 277: Destroyed user 0x65c6ff30 I will dig a bit more. -- David Pitt
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On 2 Jun 2014 Harriet Bazley wrote: Of recent weeks I've increasingly found that Google searches are not rendering in Netsurf, especially when you try to view a second or subsequent page of search results: the window just hangs there with the progress indicator moving instead of the usual almost instant return. Clicking on the same link again to force another fetch seems to be the only way to get the results. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? I normally use Yahoo! because I don't like the way Google redirects every link through itself. Yahoo! does for some but I can either type in the visible URL or extract it if necessary. With Google alerts it's easy to select and launch the embedded link in Messenger Pro so I don't have to go through Google. However I haven't noticed any particular problems with it. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a user experience - I just want stuff that works.
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In message mpro.n6jc1m008jhy802fd.pit...@pittdj.co.uk David Pitt pit...@pittdj.co.uk wrote: David Pitt, on 2 Jun, wrote: [snip] I will dig a bit more. Bug 2136 now submitted. Thanks for submitting the bug. Something I hadn't got round to doing as I thought it might have been just me that was suffering from this effect. Regards, -- Graham Pickles www.whitbymuseum.org.uk Whitby Museum Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. (Peter de Vries)
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On 2 Jun, Richard Porter wrote: I haven't noticed any particular problems with it. Same here - been working fine - currently on #1940 on Iyonix RO 5.20 with JS on. -- Brian Howlett - People who live in glass houses should undress in the dark...
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Hi Using Netsurf v1940, seems to be ok here (Raspberry Pi RISC OS 5.21) Maybe a temporary glitch with Google, or perhaps something fixed in NS between 1932 and 1940? Chris In message 7f015b1154.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk Harriet Bazley li...@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Of recent weeks I've increasingly found that Google searches are not rendering in Netsurf, especially when you try to view a second or subsequent page of search results: the window just hangs there with the progress indicator moving instead of the usual almost instant return. Clicking on the same link again to force another fetch seems to be the only way to get the results. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? (Netsurf v1932, JS disabled) -- Chris
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Cristopher Dewhurst, on 2 Jun, wrote: Hi Using Netsurf v1940, seems to be ok here (Raspberry Pi RISC OS 5.21) Maybe a temporary glitch with Google, or perhaps something fixed in NS between 1932 and 1940? 1940 still hangs here. Chris In message 7f015b1154.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk Harriet Bazley li...@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Of recent weeks I've increasingly found that Google searches are not rendering in Netsurf, especially when you try to view a second or subsequent page of search results: the window just hangs there with the progress indicator moving instead of the usual almost instant return. Clicking on the same link again to force another fetch seems to be the only way to get the results. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? (Netsurf v1932, JS disabled) -- David Pitt
Re: Google hanging
In article mpro.n6k2ho001e3nr033m.pit...@pittdj.co.uk, David Pitt pit...@pittdj.co.uk wrote: Cristopher Dewhurst, on 2 Jun, wrote: Hi Using Netsurf v1940, seems to be ok here (Raspberry Pi RISC OS 5.21) Maybe a temporary glitch with Google, or perhaps something fixed in NS between 1932 and 1940? 1940 still hangs here. Don't know about all these historical dates but I'm having no problems with Google using NS v3.1 on SA RPC OS 4.39 Alan Chris In message 7f015b1154.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk Harriet Bazley li...@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Of recent weeks I've increasingly found that Google searches are not rendering in Netsurf, especially when you try to view a second or subsequent page of search results: the window just hangs there with the progress indicator moving instead of the usual almost instant return. Clicking on the same link again to force another fetch seems to be the only way to get the results. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? (Netsurf v1932, JS disabled) -- Alan Calder, Milton Keynes, UK.
Re: Google hanging
Alan Calder, on 2 Jun, wrote: In article mpro.n6k2ho001e3nr033m.pit...@pittdj.co.uk, David Pitt pit...@pittdj.co.uk wrote: Cristopher Dewhurst, on 2 Jun, wrote: Hi Using Netsurf v1940, seems to be ok here (Raspberry Pi RISC OS 5.21) Maybe a temporary glitch with Google, or perhaps something fixed in NS between 1932 and 1940? 1940 still hangs here. Don't know about all these historical dates but I'm having no problems with Google using NS v3.1 on SA RPC OS 4.39 Back to the future in the not too distant then! It must be a knack but I have just seen NetSurf 3.1 hang on both OS5.21 on the Pi and on VRPC OS4.39 on Windows 7. NetSurf 2.9 is OK on VRPC OS4.39 on the Mac. Alan Chris In message 7f015b1154.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk Harriet Bazley li...@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Of recent weeks I've increasingly found that Google searches are not rendering in Netsurf, especially when you try to view a second or subsequent page of search results: the window just hangs there with the progress indicator moving instead of the usual almost instant return. Clicking on the same link again to force another fetch seems to be the only way to get the results. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it my ISP? (Netsurf v1932, JS disabled) -- David Pitt
Re: Google Images search not working
On 24 Feb 2014, John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: For the past several years I have used NetSurf for finding images on the web via Google Images search. Google puts up a page of images for the search term. Then a click on an image used to bring up a web page with an option to see the impage full size. This no longer seems to work with NetSurf. Clicking on an image now leads to the web-page containing the image. As you say, the option of displaying the full-size image, without visiting the host web-page, is no longer available. The way that Google presents the image page has changed. It is still usable with Chrome on Linux. ... and with Firefox on Windows. Can anyone confirm this change and better still suggest how I can continue to use NetSurf for image searching? Netsurf _can_ still be used for image-search, it's just a little more tedious in having to retrieve the image from its host web-page. Tony
Re: Google + -Your Browser is no longer supported
In message ca7d9fe352.supe...@albenito.eclipse2k.freeserve.co.uk Allan Bennett alben...@eclipse2k.freeserve.co.uk wrote: There is a Tell us how we're doing feedback button - very quick to complete, though I don't know how much notice they will take... I took a screenshot, transferred it to a PC, posted it and submitted feedback, highlighting the screenshot. -- Jess
Re: Google + -Your Browser is no longer supported
In message ee9d9ee352.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Is this a good case for faking the User-Agent string? Possibly a good case for dismissing Google plus as an irrelevance. Facebook can be used with NS -- Jess
Re: Google + -Your Browser is no longer supported
Jess Hampshire wrote John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Is this a good case for faking the User-Agent string? Possibly a good case for dismissing Google plus as an irrelevance. Facebook can be used with NS I am trying to find a cloud based application for sharing files across several systems. These are: Iyonix RISC OS, HTC phone Android, 10 Tablet Android, Raspberry Pi linux and RISC OS, and an Intel machine running Lubuntu. Google + or rather Google Drive is one possiblility, Dropbox and EverNote are two others. While not expecting to be able to save and retrieve files owing to the lack of java Script, I was hoping at least to be to be able to see a list of the files put up from Linux. But if the message is to be believed Google Drive tests for specific Browser ids. -- John - http://mug.riscos.org/
Re: Google + -Your Browser is no longer supported
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:55:32 +0100, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: I am trying to find a cloud based application for sharing files across several systems. These are: Iyonix RISC OS, HTC phone Android, 10 Tablet Android, Raspberry Pi linux and RISC OS, and an Intel machine running Lubuntu. Google + or rather Google Drive is one possiblility, Dropbox and EverNote are two others. While not expecting to be able to save and retrieve files owing to the lack of java Script, I was hoping at least to be to be able to see a list of the files put up from Linux. But if the message is to be believed Google Drive tests for specific Browser ids. I like MyDrive (http://www.mydrive.net). It's WebDAV-based so a nice open standard that can potentially work on any OS. I know of virtual WebDAV filesystems for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android and AmigaOS (unfortunately I've been unable to locate one for RISC OS), and for others there is a web interface. MyDrive's web interface works fine under NetSurf for browsing and downloading files, however it is impossible to upload anything. Chris
Re: Google + -Your Browser is no longer supported
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:56:54AM +0100, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: A web page with the subject message appears when I try to access Google+ from NetSurf. https://plus.google.com/ Clicking on learn more the next page says: Google+ is supported in the following browsers: Windows: Chrome, Firefox 3.6 and beyond, Internet Explorer 8 ... Linux: Chrome, Firefox 3.6 and beyond Mac: Chrome, Firefox 3.6 and beyond, Safari 4 and beyond Is this a good case for faking the User-Agent string? Frankly, given the vast quantity of JavaScript and other DOM faffery which G+ does, I'm amazed it ever worked at all. There's nothing we can do until such time as we have our JS and DOM linked up, and a dynamic render engine sorted. D. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged.Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69
Re: Google + -Your Browser is no longer supported
In message ee9d9ee352.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: A web page with the subject message appears when I try to access Google+ from NetSurf. https://plus.google.com/ Clicking on learn more the next page says: Google+ is supported in the following browsers: Windows: Chrome, Firefox 3.6 and beyond, Internet Explorer 8 ... Linux: Chrome, Firefox 3.6 and beyond Mac: Chrome, Firefox 3.6 and beyond, Safari 4 and beyond Is this a good case for faking the User-Agent string? There is a Tell us how we're doing feedback button - very quick to complete, though I don't know how much notice they will take... -- Allan Bennett
RE: google custom search using Netsurf v2.7
Thank you everyone for the advise, I will try this tomorrow and let you know how it went. Rob From: netsurf-users-boun...@netsurf-browser.org [netsurf-users-boun...@netsurf-browser.org] on behalf of Tim Hill [t...@timil.com] Sent: 30 August 2011 07:29 To: netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org Subject: Re: google custom search using Netsurf v2.7 In article 277c4e0a52.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk, Michael Bell mich...@beaverbell.co.uk wrote: In message 520a42849bt...@netsurf-browser.org Michael Drake t...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: In article 5b13461198a73e4181c24862591b2b7776b...@ch1prd0102mb121.prod.exchangel abs.com, Mr Robin Lawrence lawre...@uqconnect.net wrote: [Snip] about Java.. [Snip] Netsurf may not have Java [Snip] I am not going to be the first pedant to point out that I think the problem is more likely with Javascript, not Java. Though it's fair to say NetSurf has neither. :-( An explanation of the difference is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/java-and-javascript [all browsers support them - the BBC should know better than to say things like that!] -- Tim Hill .. www.timil.com
Re: google custom search using Netsurf v2.7
In message 520a42849bt...@netsurf-browser.org Michael Drake t...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: In article 5b13461198a73e4181c24862591b2b7776b...@ch1prd0102mb121.prod.exchangel abs.com, Mr Robin Lawrence lawre...@uqconnect.net wrote: Hi there I haven't used my Iyonix for a while and today I tried to use Netsurf v2.7 with google custom search and I got the message about Java.. I looked at google and it said that this service was depreciated but will still have limited access. The version of google search used from the NetSurf homepage supplied with that version of NetSurf does not work. Either use a test build: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/riscos/testbuilds Or copy the homepage from the test build over the one in your NetSurf 2.7 installation. It is located in the !NetSurf.Docs.welcome directory. Netsurf may not have Java but it can be a lot quicker to search in Google using Netsurf. When I type the search term(s) into Google on my PC, which has all the latest upgrades, automatically installed) it wastes a lot time trying to guess what I am going to type and sometimes it replaces my search term with something completely different. Michael Bell --
Re: google custom search using Netsurf v2.7
On 29 Aug 2011 Michael Bell mich...@beaverbell.co.uk wrote: In message 520a42849bt...@netsurf-browser.org Michael Drake t...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: In article 5b13461198a73e4181c24862591b2b7776b...@ch1prd0102mb121.prod.exchangel abs.com, Mr Robin Lawrence lawre...@uqconnect.net wrote: Hi there I haven't used my Iyonix for a while and today I tried to use Netsurf v2.7 with google custom search and I got the message about Java.. I looked at google and it said that this service was depreciated but will still have limited access. The version of google search used from the NetSurf homepage supplied with that version of NetSurf does not work. Either use a test build: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/riscos/testbuilds Or copy the homepage from the test build over the one in your NetSurf 2.7 installation. It is located in the !NetSurf.Docs.welcome directory. Netsurf may not have Java but it can be a lot quicker to search in Java_Script_! It doesn't have Java, either, but JavaScript is the main missing bit. However, as for Michael, NetSurf works a lot quicker for me than Windows Firefox, if JavaScript isn't involved. Many thanks to all the developers. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Lu \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
Re: google custom search using Netsurf v2.7
In article 277c4e0a52.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk, Michael Bell mich...@beaverbell.co.uk wrote: In message 520a42849bt...@netsurf-browser.org Michael Drake t...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: In article 5b13461198a73e4181c24862591b2b7776b...@ch1prd0102mb121.prod.exchangel abs.com, Mr Robin Lawrence lawre...@uqconnect.net wrote: [Snip] about Java.. [Snip] Netsurf may not have Java [Snip] I am not going to be the first pedant to point out that I think the problem is more likely with Javascript, not Java. Though it's fair to say NetSurf has neither. :-( An explanation of the difference is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/java-and-javascript [all browsers support them - the BBC should know better than to say things like that!] -- Tim Hill .. www.timil.com
Re: Google error when using Netsurf??
On 28 Jul 2011, Rob Kendrick wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:18:39AM +0100, Roger Darlington wrote: Using Netsurf, r12629, but also tried a different one, when entering any text in the Google Search box, I get: 403 Thats an error. Your client does not have permission to get URL /cse?cx=!partner-pub-2827028264017539%3A8068601809ie=UTF-8q=helpbtn G=Google+S earch from this server. That's all we know. This is an issue with Google and AdSense that I am currently in the process of resolving. For the mean time, you'll have to use a normal google search box rather than the one on the welcome page. I have tried making the home page of Netsurf http://www.google.co.uk/ but when I run Netsurf, it says 'failed to load stylesheet', and doesn't show any Google typing in box, which is odd, because http://www.google.co.uk/ works when its not the home-page. Any ideas? -- Cheers Roger I'm a mitochondriac
Re: Google error when using Netsurf??
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:18:39AM +0100, Roger Darlington wrote: Using Netsurf, r12629, but also tried a different one, when entering any text in the Google Search box, I get: 403 Thats an error. Your client does not have permission to get URL /cse?cx=!partner-pub-2827028264017539%3A8068601809ie=UTF-8q=helpbtnG=Google+S earch from this server. That's all we know. This is an issue with Google and AdSense that I am currently in the process of resolving. For the mean time, you'll have to use a normal google search box rather than the one on the welcome page. B.
Re: Google error when using Netsurf??
On 28 Jul 2011, Rob Kendrick wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:18:39AM +0100, Roger Darlington wrote: Using Netsurf, r12629, but also tried a different one, when entering any text in the Google Search box, I get: 403 Thats an error. Your client does not have permission to get URL /cse?cx=!partner-pub-2827028264017539%3A8068601809ie=UTF-8q=helpbtn G=Google+S earch from this server. That's all we know. This is an issue with Google and AdSense that I am currently in the process of resolving. For the mean time, you'll have to use a normal google search box rather than the one on the welcome page. OK Rob, many thanks for swift response. -- Cheers Roger I suspect everyone, and yet, I suspect no-one Inspector Cleuseau
Re: Google Groups
In article 7925d3d551.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk, Harriet Bazley li...@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Have they changed the Google Usenet archive interface so that it is no longer possible to post to Usenet groups without Javascript? Something has changed. Using netsurf, I tried replying to a thread the other day got a message along the lines of... Could not post your message. If you think this is a fault contact Google Groups. I did they have not replied. Hey, ho. -- Chris
Re: google results page
On 05/05/2010 19:03, Tony Moore wrote: As of today [?] Google has changed the format of its search results page. NetSurf (RISC OS) displays most of the page correctly, but there is some confusion, and overwriting, in the top left hand corner. Does this warrant a bug report? I'm sure that all the developers can see the problem, themselves. Reporting bugs is like calling 999. Don't assume someone else has done it - it is better to have multiple reports, than none at all. Of course the bug reporting facility does have a search facility to allow to find an existing instance, which you can then add any new information to. Cheers -- David J. Ruck email: dr...@druck.org.uk phone: +44(0)7974 108301
Re: google results page
On 6 May 2010 David J. Ruck wrote: Reporting bugs is like calling 999. Don't assume someone else has done it - it is better to have multiple reports, than none at all. Of course the bug reporting facility does have a search facility to allow to find an existing instance, which you can then add any new information to. Unfortunately you can't add files to someone else's report, so it may be necessary to raise a duplicate report if there's a log or screenshot to upload. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com Confidentiality statement: Imagine 50 lines of pointless verbiage.
Re: google results page
On 6 May 2010 Jim Nagel wrote: Richard Porter wrote on 6 May: On 6 May 2010 David J. Ruck wrote: ... Of course the bug reporting facility does have a search facility to allow to find an existing instance, which you can then add any new information to. Unfortunately you can't add files to someone else's report, so it may be necessary to raise a duplicate report if there's a log or screenshot to upload. you could put the file in your own webspace and include the link in the textual info you add to the report. True. I have done that when the file was too big for Sourceforge and it was easier than splitting it up as I usually do. The only problem is that you don't know when the file has been collected or is no longer needed and can be deleted. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com Confidentiality statement: Imagine 50 lines of pointless verbiage.
Re: google maps
In message 50f8e9f8c3brian.jord...@btinternet.com Brian Jordan brian.jord...@btinternet.com wrote: In article eb1de7f850.old_coas...@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk, Tony Moore old_coas...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [Snip problem with r9799 and Google maps] Can anyone please confirm this problem. If so, does anyone know of a link to Google Maps which still works? Yes, I see exactly the same here. Sadly the same with me.. Alan --
Re: google maps
In article eb1de7f850.old_coas...@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk, Tony Moore old_coas...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [Snip problem with r9799 and Google maps] Can anyone please confirm this problem. If so, does anyone know of a link to Google Maps which still works? Yes, I see exactly the same here. -- _ Brian Jordan Virtual RPC-AdjustSA RISC OS 6.20 _
Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup
Rob Kendrick r...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:42:49 +0100 Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: As I said elsewhere, if the sky turns yellow with pink spots and 500 people commit to support a developer, it won't necessarily be me - the pledge is just worded that way. Is that clear now? As mud. Tim was, I think, saying that there quite simply _won't_ be 500 people coming forward to make a pledge. The point he was - obtusely - making is that users are happy to sit back and moan about how things they aren't paying for aren't being done the way they'd like, but not (enough would) offer financial support to make it more viable for someone to devote more time to it. Or something along those lines. I suspect. -- Vince M Hudd Soft Rock Software
Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup
In article gemini.kq9sby004sy9e03zw.vi...@softrock.co.uk, Vince M Hudd vi...@softrock.co.uk wrote: Rob Kendrick r...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:42:49 +0100 Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: As I said elsewhere, if the sky turns yellow with pink spots and 500 people commit to support a developer, it won't necessarily be me - the pledge is just worded that way. Is that clear now? As mud. Tim was, I think, saying that there quite simply _won't_ be 500 people coming forward to make a pledge. The point he was - obtusely - making is that users are happy to sit back and moan about how things they aren't paying for aren't being done the way they'd like, but not (enough would) offer financial support to make it more viable for someone to devote more time to it. Or something along those lines. I suspect. Quite. And not just because there are not 500 users that keen. Paying up front for stuff in /our/ marketplace is fraught with danger, whether it be for software, a magazine subscription, or a new laptop. Only 497 to go...
Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 16:10 +0200, Xavier Tardy wrote: I think it's important to keep alive important projects like the Netsurf browser for RISC OS. Then please do something about it. Of course if this is not even seen as important by the Netsurf team, then let's forget it. I have explained the NetSurf team's position multiple times in this thread alone. Please go and read those emails, instead of making assumptions about what we do or do not believe. It's likely the case that more development time has been wasted by this thread than would have been needed to make the RISC OS frontend work with the pending core changes. Oh, and I'm *still* waiting for someone who isn't a member of the NetSurf development team to thank our GSoC students for their hard work this summer. John.
Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup
In article 20090918232452.30c5f...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net, Rob Kendrick r...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:58:23 +0100 Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: Are there 500 user of the RISC OS version of NetSurf willing to donate £4 a month to support a developer? www.pledgebank.com/netsurf4riscos Can I ask what happens if your patches aren't accepted, for whatever reason? This is why we've never taken any money for development. Suddenly a hobby becomes a ball and chain. whoosh (That's the sound of the point being missed by nearly everyone.)
Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup
Hi all, Well despite Rob Kenricks's probably highly accurate description of how development for RISC OS is (hateful!), I am interested, and have expressed that interest on the developers' mailing list. And I'm not the only one. I've had quick responses to the (so far few) questions I've asked, and I believe that the existing NetSurf developers will continue to bend over backwards to help anyone with the time and inclination to maintain the RISC OS front end. They just haven't got the time or the inclination to do it themselves. I'm sure everyone here can understand that. Right now my time is very limited, just like most other people's. However, I am looking over the sources in the little free time I do have, and I'm starting to get a feel for things. I fully expect to be able to make a positive contribution to the project in time, but I can't just pick up such a large software project and start committing code without a pretty serious investment of time. So patience is required before I, or anyone else I should think, can get up to speed with the project and fill in the gaps. I would therefore understand if the core developers wanted to drop RISC OS support and merge their improvements for now to prevent this stall in development affecting the other platforms for any longer than it has already. That doesn't mean I or somebody else can't be working on getting the RISC OS front end back into shape at a later date, does it? It would just mean RISC OS autobuilds had to stop for a period, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong! WPB
Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup
In message 800994.16379...@web111312.mail.gq1.yahoo.com WP Blatchley willblatch...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, Well despite Rob Kenricks's probably highly accurate description of how development for RISC OS is (hateful!), I am interested, and have expressed that interest on the developers' mailing list. And I'm not the only one. I've had quick responses to the (so far few) questions I've asked, and I believe that the existing NetSurf developers will continue to bend over backwards to help anyone with the time and inclination to maintain the RISC OS front end. They just haven't got the time or the inclination to do it themselves. I'm sure everyone here can understand that. Right now my time is very limited, just like most other people's. However, I am looking over the sources in the little free time I do have, and I'm starting to get a feel for things. I fully expect to be able to make a positive contribution to the project in time, but I can't just pick up such a large software project and start committing code without a pretty serious investment of time. So patience is required before I, or anyone else I should think, can get up to speed with the project and fill in the gaps. I would therefore understand if the core developers wanted to drop RISC OS support and merge their improvements for now to prevent this stall in development affecting the other platforms for any longer than it has already. That doesn't mean I or somebody else can't be working on getting the RISC OS front end back into shape at a later date, does it? It would just mean RISC OS autobuilds had to stop for a period, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong! WPB I'm in exactly the same position as WPB. In time I hope to be able to contribute but currently I'm not a developer, I'm a software test engineer and although I write lots of code I've only ever developed RISC OS applications using Basic (because its excellent for achieving quick results in doing real work). I'll be trying to improve my C skills (which hopefully will also help my day job). As with seemingly everyone else, time is in short supply, but hopefully between us we can do enough maintenance to keep the RISC OS front end going. I might be sticking my neck out here but I have a feeling that many of the regular users of RISC OS (and thus frequent users of NetSurf) are actually old phogies (like me!) and perhaps feel they are past learning new skills. In fact somebody said that earlier in the thread. In my experience the 'young whippersnappers' move on to other platforms where there is masses of new stuff for them to get their teeth into and show off their skills. I use RISC OS all day, every day, to accomplish real work and its the easiest to use and most responsive and intuitive and time-efficient OS I use. Frankly, Windows and all the flavours of unix-like OSs keep annoying me by their over-feature-rich, cosmetically snazzy, but bloody awkward UIs. All I want is a reasonable browser on RISC OS (and I've been waiting 20 years for it!) NetSurf is good as far as it goes, but there is lots to do. As has happened with so much other RISC OS software, it looks like if its going to progress I'll have to do it myself (together with a few other willing bods). Now, ask yourself, how much code could have been written if contributors had not been raking over the coals in this thread? Shall we get on with the job now? For my part, I'm just looking through the sources and over the weekend will attempt to get it building. If that goes OK I'll look at something on the todo list that I feel I can do and take it from there. Finally, I would like to say how grateful I am to the NetSurf developers for getting it thus far. I'm disappointed that they don't feel inclined to maintain the RISC OS front end because I'm sure they could do a better job than me, but, as the creators of NetSurf, they are entitled to do what they like. Mike
Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup
In article 509c71f91eba...@e-allen.me.uk, Barry E Allen ba...@e-allen.me.uk wrote: Don't be silly. It is not a choice that I have to make. I rarely use Netsurf, preferring to use Google Chrome on my PeeCee or Firefox on my ASUS EeePC. Why would anyone use Netsurf when there are much more capable browsers to hand? Well, I use NetSurf for something at which it is far more capable. Not by design, true! I frequently need to keep a very close eye on foreign exchange rates, and I now use www.xe.com for this. The site updates rates automatically every 30s and it finances itself through advertising. The adverts tend to take much longer to load than the actual data, and they also reload frequently. AFAIK the adverts are loaded using Javascript, so with NetSuf they do not load. (This is nothing to do with NetSurf's Hide Advertisements option, which I do not have selected.) Until about 9 months ago the autoupdate on the page did not work in NetSurf either, but it does now, so I often have this page permanently on the desktop. Doing this with a PC browser results at times with everything coming to a stop while the page tries to reload its adverts. Equally, I now find that the majority of sites that I use for simple information display well with NetSurf, which was not the case a year ago. For other tasks requiring a browser I switch on the PC and use Firefox. In fact, I find I now need to revert to windows and Firefox more often for PDFs than for web browsing. -- Russell Hafter - Mailing Lists rh.li...@phone.coop Need a hotel? http://www.hrs.com/?client=en__bluecustomerId=416873103 (NB This link needs Firefox to work)
Re: Google Summer of Code Roundup
Rob Kendrick a écrit : On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:34:53 +0100 aw29...@gmail.com wrote: In all of this, our preference has been for option 1. It would, however, be remiss of us not to point out the inevitable result of option 1 not happening (i.e. option 2). One idea is doing what 99% of people never seem to do and advertising again for help at some point in the near future. It might reach different people or the same people in a different frame of mind on a different day. We've been asking for people to maintain the RISC OS front end for *months* if not years. Nobody has come forward. Perhaps it is time to accept that there is nobody available to do the work. If people don't like that, it's time to start learning software engineering and get involved, or learning to accept that RISC OS is dead. Choose one. B. Yet another burst of anger.