Re: history and hotlist not saved; CSS site

In article , Jim Nagel wrote: > Last night I was looking for tips on how to use CSS for something on > my website Jim - you might find the links in the middle column on this page useful:-

hijack of NetSurf Wiki

Has the NetSurf Wiki been abandoned? The link: http://wiki.netsurf-browser.org/Main_Page leads to an article "5 Ways to Make Money in Commodities". John -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx Foot it featly here and there And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. WS

Re: Missing images

Peter Young wrote > On 10 Mar 2016 Peter Slegg wrote: >> Using the recent Atari builds on this newspaper: >> http://www.express.co.uk/ >> the first few images are displayed but when I scroll down, the >> rest are missing. > The same on RISC OS, with #3434. Works

Re: JavaScript status indicator - request for a snippet of code

John Williams wrote > Can anyone who understands JS provide a snippet of JS code that I can > insert in the footer of my local HTML index page to conditionally print, > say, "JavaScript is enabled!" as a reminder of NetSurf's current JS status. > If anyone wants to "go the whole hog" and

Re: Big push on testing needed

Daniel Silverstone wrote > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 20:43:19 +0000, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> My javascript is now working. the problem was that the new interpreter >> does not like html comments between the and tags. > Have you reported this, along with an *attached* tes

Re: Big push on testing needed

>Dave Higton wrote > My reference suggests that an HTML comment is /not/ a legal Javascript > comment. Perhaps you should open a discussion with the author of the > above application. I would, of course, be very interested to know the > conclusion! Dave - below is an extract from the "Ecma

Re: Big push on testing needed

Dave Higton wrote > In message <57e4a64755.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk> > John Rickman Iyonix <rick...@argonet.co.uk> wrote: >>As far as I know javascript should ignore html comments and the >>javascript validator does not flag them as errors >&

Re: Big push on testing needed

Dave Higton wrote >> I am happy to download every day, or whenever a new version is >> available. >> Is there any information available about the current state of >> javascript? > That's impossible to answer in any way that is both simple and > meaningful. > The Javascript interpreter was

Re: Big push on testing needed

John Rickman Iyonix wrote >http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/testing/test5.html > I have now traced the problem to an error in my code. I need to fix > the problem and try again. My javascript is now working. the problem was that the new interpreter does not like html comment

Re: Big push on testing needed

Dave Higton wrote > Big news... > Current test (CI) builds are now release candidates. Yes, a new > release of NetSurf is imminent. > Please, everybody, download the latest test build (which will, > of course, change as bugs are found and fixed), give it a good > thrashing, and get your bug

Re: simple html pages slow to render

The cheetah is back! Thanks for fixing this problem John -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx No sé nada, y no estoy seguro de éso

Re: Segfault: issue 2381

Dave Higton wrote > (Last time I looked, the latest was 3053.) #3062 now -- John Rickman -

Re: Segfault: issue 2381

lists wrote > In article <68193746bbf.07b8d...@davehigton.me.uk>, >Dave Higton wrote: >> If any of you has seen NetSurf quit (the log shows a segfault) >> when you clicked in the window, I'd recommend that you get one >> of today's builds. (Last time I looked,

Re: Flickr

John Williams wrote > It always arrives with JS on regardless of what you set it to last time. > Why is this, and is it logical/user-transparent? Might instances such as > this mix-up be avoided if saved Choices actually reflected user's choices > and set it how the user wanted it! AIUI this

Re: Flickr

John Williams wrote > Attempting to view a photo of the PiTop at: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/andymarks1970/22992712162/ > does not render the photo, yet it has been pointed out to me that it does > work with NetSurf 3.1, and for me here with an old 3.0. .. > If anyone does have

Re: simple html pages slow to render

David Pitt wrote > Vincent Sanders, on 10 Nov, wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 08:12:18AM +, David Pitt wrote: >>> Vincent Sanders, on 10 Nov, wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 11:35:26AM +, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >>>>>

Re: simple html pages slow to render

Harriet Bazley wrote > On 7 Nov 2015 as I do recall, > John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> The problem was introduced between 28/11/2014 and 6/01/2015. >> (#2398) is fast, (#2509) is slow. >> >> If you have any builds between these two it would help t

simple html pages slow to render

The Gaydon online parish magazine is a single HTML file which references a common CSS file. http://www.gaydon.org.uk/mags.html It takes on average 31 seconds to load and display a magazine using NetSurf #3055 on an Iyonix. Javascript on or off makes no difference. Using NetSurf 3.2 the page

Re: simple html pages slow to render

Peter Young wrote > Not an answer to the question as asked, but with #3048 the page loads > in 0.2 seconds. Apologies, it was not clear from my post that the problem was with links to magazines on the quoted URL and not with the URL itself http://www.gaydon.org.uk/mags.html points to a list

Re: simple html pages slow to render

Harriet Bazley wrote > On 7 Nov 2015 as I do recall, > David Pitt wrote: >> "Chris Young", on 7 Nov, wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:35:26 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >>> >>>> The Gaydon online parish magazine is

Re: simple html pages slow to render

Chris Young wrote > On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 20:10:45 GMT, David Pitt wrote: >> (20.17) content/content.c:386 content_destroy: content 0x4e5f42a0 >> file:///%3CBootDisc$Root%3E/Work/Internet/Browsers/html/favicon.png >> >> (41.38) content/fetchers/curl.c:834 fetch_curl_done: done >>

Re: Facebook links

Chris Dewhurst wrote > Hi all, > It used to be the case that when you clicked on links to external > websites (e.g. when somone shares a BBC News story) it would stop at a > blank screen and I used to have to manually edit the URL to get there. > It seems the URL is now correctly parsed by

Re: Hot List

someone? wrote: It takes less than an hour to install the OS and get a NetSurf build going. Is it feasible to do this using an RasPi? (Pi 2 Raspian) john -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx If you are doing what you want you are not wasting your time, but you may be

Re: JavaScript

David Feugey wrote Hi. I worked on several appliances since 2000, and I'm now switching back to RISC OS. As I have total control on the applications, I would like to try to provide client appliances for these applications. I know that NetSurf has only a limited support of JavaScript. But

Re: Disc cache updates

Harriet Bazley wrote Down with categorical imperatives! Kant only had one. -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx siempre luchar contra el zeitgeist

Re: quick on-off for Javascript

Jim Nagel wrote Brian Jordan wrote on 23 Oct (in thread Maps): Strangely I have no black background problems here with build 3.3 (Dev CI #2193) if JavaScript is disabled. If JS is enabled the page doesn't render at all. Leads tme to ask: is there a quick way of switching Javascript on or

Re: Selecting text gone crazy

Dave Higton wrote Fred Bambrough nets...@ypical-daemon.co.uk wrote: John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: #2023 when I try to select some text as soon as I click on the page everything from the click to the end of the article is highlit. This has been happening since

Re: web page is blank with new vwersion on NeSurf

John Williams wrote Fred Bambrough nets...@ypical-daemon.co.uk wrote: Ah, having seen what it's supposed to be on my Mac... yes, it's blank. It broke between 1932 and 1935. Thanks to all who tested and confirmed the problem. I will report it as a bug. John -- John Rickman -

web page is blank with new vwersion on NeSurf

Since moving to #1959 the following page is blank. It should show three columns of text. http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx/lynxweb.html It works as expected with #1785 and all earlier versions. Would someone please check that this problem is reproducible on a machine other that my Iyonix. I

downloads always set to filetype F80

NetSurf downloads always set filetype of F80 (XML?) and I have to retype to ZIP, PDF etc as appropriate. Is this just happening on my machine? John -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx John Rickman - http://www.gaydon.org.uk/

Re: downloads always set to filetype F80

Rob Kendrick wrote On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:56:41PM +, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: NetSurf downloads always set filetype of F80 (XML?) and I have to retype to ZIP, PDF etc as appropriate. Is this just happening on my machine? Always? From everywhere? For every file type? From

Re: downloads always set to filetype F80

John Rickman Iyonix wrote From this URL - http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/software/float/ On RISC OS RaspBerry Pi the file, float036.zip is downloaded and saved as float036 and given a filetype of F80. (NS #1702) On the Iyonix the .zip suffix is retained but the file type is still set

Re: NetSurf friendly alternative to GoogleGroups?

Martin Bazley wrote The following bytes were arranged on 16 Nov 2013 by Gavin Wraith : Is there a NetSurf friendly alternative to GoogleGroups? http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/ Thanks for that. I have added it to my hotlist. -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx Tout

Re: Invisible JPEG (OT)

lists wrote I get a very large image of a guitar (#1292). Yes, it's of the make and model that I own. I was sending the link to a friend who didn't even know 12-string guitars existed. Nice guitar. -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx Infinity is Sad. God is infinite.

Re: NS 3.1 json Dev C1#1171 - 2 problems

Roger Darlington wrote I can check checkboxes written in java, but nothing happens if I click on the 'Search Using Checkboxes' icon (nor on the [RESET] icon. Support for mouse events eg mouseover, on select etc are not implemented yet. Your page uses the jquery library. This, along with

Re: copy and paste urls from webpage

Tony Moore wrote On 26 Mar 2013, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: On 26 Mar 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote: Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get it into the clipboard? No. I use Object Link Save Text and drag to !Edit on the icon bar

Re: Find !Fetch_NS

Brian Jordan wrote But a good day happens about one in three. More common is that it forces NS to quit, deletes the current NS then fails to find the new one. So I have to complete the job manually. Try having your de-archiving program (SparkFS or whatever) loaded and on the icon bar

Mailing list archives

Is there anyway to search the NetSurf mailing list archives:- http://vlists.pepperfish.net/pipermail/netsurf-users-netsurf-browser.org/ I am trying to find a thread that occurred sometime 2009-2010 and am opening each month at a time. It is a bit slow. -- John Rickman -

Re: Mailing list archives

Vince M Hudd wrote John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Is there anyway to search the NetSurf mailing list archives:- http://vlists.pepperfish.net/pipermail/netsurf-users-netsurf-browser.org/ I am trying to find a thread that occurred sometime 2009-2010 and am opening each

favicon confusion

I am trying to find the best strategy for getting a favicon to appear on various web sites that I maintain. The problem is that every browser seems to have its own way of handling them. Some time ago all you had to do was put a file called favicon.ico into the root directory of the web page

Re: favicon confusion

John Rickman Iyonix wrote FWIW on my web site I have favicon.ico in the root directory, and Netsurf displays it to the left of the address bar. This is using a recent development version of Netsurf - which version are you on? This does not seem to work for me on NetSurf. I am using #962

#956 fixes back button and history bug

I would like to thank Michael Drake for his prompt fix to the bug with the history list. -- John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx Ein nasser Vogel fliegt nicht bei Nacht - Das ist der Sinn des Lebens.

Re: Failure to follow on-page links

Richard Porter wrote On 26 Feb 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote: I suspect that NS can't cope with local links in a scrolling pane with absolute positionning in CSS. NS does not do absolute positioning. Yes of course it does. The frames are located by absolute positioning, not tables

Re: Failure to follow on-page links

Richard Porter wrote On this page and similar ones on the site http://www.rdtev.de/aktuelles.html the navigation links on the left work fine but the on-page links in the lower right hand pane (which scrolls) do not work. The layout is defined in the css file. There is no javascript. If

Re: Failure to follow on-page links

Graham Pickles wrote In message ff7a292453.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Richard Porter wrote On this page and similar ones on the site http://www.rdtev.de/aktuelles.html the navigation links on the left work fine

Re: rendering of Wikipedia page

Jim Nagel wrote I've wondered for a long time what it is about Wikipedia's layout (or something) that makes its pages so slow to render in Netsurf, compared to the time to render the same page in Firefox or Chrome. (Netsurf #891 here at the moment, but the wondering goes back a lot

Re: viewing CSS

Rob Kendrick wrote On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:23:46AM +, Tim Hill wrote: It would be useful if NetSurf had a View CSS.. menu option, but I have no idea how much work this would involve. More than very occasional use by a very few of us would warrant, I imagine. Given a web page can

NetSurf html events

Are any of the html mouse events working in NetSurf? eg click, mouseover, mouseout, mousemove. The final item on the page for the link below, mouse event tests works on Firefox but not on NestSurf. http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/testing/index.html Is there any more detailed documentation

Re: Ctrl-arrow keys confused

Jim Nagel wrote In Netsurf #891 and #616, and in 2.9 (on both Ro 5.18 and 4.39) -- Ctrl-up works as expected Ctrl-down does nothing Ctrl-left takes you all the way RIGHT Ctrl-right takes you all the way LEFT It is the same in Netsurf #898 john -- John Rickman -

new clipboard niggle

Clicking on the body text in NetSurf no longer gives the window focus. Pressing F8 gives the message Clipboard is empty instead of loading the source. Clicking on the title bar does not give focus either. You have to click in the URL area to get focus. I am not sure if this is a bug or it

Re: new clipboard niggle

Michael Drake wrote In article 45d38f1d53.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk, John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Clicking on the body text in NetSurf no longer gives the window focus. Should be fixed in CI build #890. Thanks Pressing F8 gives the message Clipboard is empty

Re: New textareas and text inputs

Michael Drake wrote In article 531d105167cvj...@waitrose.com, Chris Newman cvj...@waitrose.com wrote: In article 531ce7d6b0t...@netsurf-browser.org, Michael Drake t...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: More new features: - Double click in a textarea selects a word. - Triple click

Re: Clipboard not working #824

Martin Bazley wrote The following bytes were arranged on 21 Jan 2013 by John Rickman Iyonix : However, I have just downloaded the postings for Jan 2013 but cannot read them. They are in an archive file - called 2013-January/txt/gz My copy of SparkFS wont unpack it and my copy of SparkPlug

Clipboard not working #824

There appears to be a problem with the clipboard in 3.0 #824. Within a NetSurf window ctrl-c and ctrl-v work as normal but anything put on the clipboard from outside the NS window does not get inserted into writable icons using ctrl-v. The Clipboard works properly in 2.9 john -- John Rickman

Re: Clipboard not working #824

Steve Fryatt wrote On 21 Jan, John-Mark Bell wrote in message 1358761082.31757.14.camel@duiker: On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 09:35 +, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: There appears to be a problem with the clipboard in 3.0 #824. Within a NetSurf window ctrl-c and ctrl-v work as normal

Re: Scroll wheel speed

Richard Porter wrote On most applications, including messenger Pro, the speed of the pointer in relation to the scroll wheel on the mouse is just about right, but on NetSurf it is much too fast so it's almost impossible to use on long web pages. Is there any way to adjust the scroll wheel

Re: Scroll wheel speed

Richard Porter wrote Are you using HID? NetSurf scroll speed on Iyonix is fine with it. HID? Sorry that doesn't mean anything to me apart from 'high intensity discharge'. I bought it from RComp some years ago for 15 pounds here is an extract from the helptext:-

Re: Javascript and Fonts

Peter Young wrote Looks more complete on linux raspberry Pi Chromium Chromium browser. On RISC OS the accented characters appear as hex couplets. It's all Greek here (and Greek to me!) on an ARMini, RISC OS 5.19. Perhaps you don't have the necessary font? Probably:-( I have DoulosSIL which

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

Re: RISC OS Javascript support

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.

Re: Javascript and Fonts

Harriet Bazley wrote On 15 Dec 2012 as I do recall, Gavin Wraith wrote: Using NetSurf 3 #739. Wonderful to have some Javascript working, enough at least to show Greek text in http://memiyawanzi.wordpress.com/ . That's not Javascript... that's just Unicode :-) Seeing the same

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

Re: Full Save not setting of CSS files

David Pitt wrote John Rickman Iyonix, on 29 Nov, wrote: When you run a NetSurf Full Save application it does not act on the the CSS information because the CSS file is given a type of Text. The css file is correctly typed here on the ARMini, mimemap does have the css entry. Thanks

Full Save not setting of CSS files

When you run a NetSurf Full Save application it does not act on the the CSS information because the CSS file is given a type of Text. This is on an Iyonix 5.19, NetSurf #674. I think it used to work but am not sure. As an example open:- http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/ do a Full

Re: Full Save not setting of CSS files

John Rickman Iyonix wrote: When you run a NetSurf Full Save application it does not act on the the CSS information because the CSS file is given a type of Text. This is on an Iyonix 5.19, NetSurf #674. eg http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/ do a Full Save, then run the resulting

Re: CSS position not supported workaround

Michael Drake wrote In article 970f2cef52.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk, John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: I would like to be able to fix some heading content on a page so that when the page is scrolled the heading stays on the screen. ... Is there anyway to do

Re: small problem with raspberry pi site

John Rickman Iyonix wrote Version 2.9, and version 3.0 (2012-10-03_19-43-06) of NetSurf mess up the top menu line of the raspberry pi home page by overlaying the text, Skip to primary content over the menu items. http://www.raspberrypi.org/ Problem still happening today on CI #607. I have

Re: small problem with raspberry pi site

Michael Drake wrote In article db3a73ea52.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk, John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Problem still happening today on CI #607. I have now submitted a bug report. Fixed. I am speechless:) but as Obi-Wan Kenobi might have put it: What took you so

Re: NetSurf running out of memory

Brian Howlett wrote On 3 Nov, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: [snip] Not so with the links I reported unfortunately. They still fail on #571. However the message has changed from out of memory to unknown. eg You can see this with the following minimal example. These two files

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

Google + -Your Browser is no longer supported

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,

Re: NetSurf running out of memory

Rob Kendrick wrote The out of memory error almost never means you're out of memory. It's just caused by the vagueries of how some parts of NetSurf handle errors and other parts not being expressive enough. Yes, we're working on that, too. I have tracked down the cause of at least some of

Re: NetSurf running out of memory

Alan Leighton wrote John Rickman Iyonix rick...@argonet.co.uk wrote: I have hit three more pages that give the out of memory message using the latest test version (netsurf-2012-10-07_21-57-22/zip) click on: http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/kinder.htm This will show a page

Re: NetSurf running out of memory

Alan Leighton wrote Could you confirm that http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/songaf.html which also gives me an out of memory message works for you? It is fine Thanks - what hardware/software are you using? -- John - http://mug.riscos.org/

Re: User feedback requested (esp. RISC OS)

Any attempt to load this page :- http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/songaf.html using netsurf-2012-10-03_19-43-06 pops up a message from NetSurf saying: NetSurf is running out of memory. Please free some memory and try again. Tasks shows NS is using 6800K, Free 422772, Dynamic areas NS

small problem with raspberry pi site

Version 2.9, and version 3.0 (2012-10-03_19-43-06) of NetSurf mess up the top menu line of the raspberry pi home page by overlaying the text, Skip to primary content over the menu items. I don't have the expertise to be able to tell whether this is this a bug in NetSurf or is caused by a

Re: Crashes on GMail

Ma Xiaojun wrote I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.5, NetSurf 2.9. ... I'd like to use GMail, I don't mind it is just mobile view only. However, all the following addresses gave me a crash: www.gmail.com mail.google.com g.illinois.edu No problem on Iyonix 5.18 with 2.9 I link to:-