Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:52:19 +0100, Harriet Bazley wrote: surely you can work together to either produce a patch, or to persuade someone who might already know how to code in C to produce a patch. I'm not sure it's very realistic to expect a random C coder out of the kindness of his

Re: Cookie dates

2015-04-29 Thread Harriet Bazley
On 27 Apr 2015 as I do recall, Gavin Wraith wrote: In message 392690ba54.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk Harriet Bazley li...@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: I've been told by a webmaster that Netsurf doesn't log into his site properly because the timestamps on the cookies

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Harriet Bazley
On 29 Apr 2015 as I do recall, Daniel Silverstone wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:52:19 +0100, Harriet Bazley wrote: surely you can work together to either produce a patch, or to persuade someone who might already know how to code in C to produce a patch. I'm not sure it's

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Richard Torrens (lists)
In article 20150429101112.GY23045@somnambulist.local, Daniel Silverstone dsilv...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: I'm not sure it's very realistic to expect project maintainers to continue to support a platform which none of them run and which has no active maintainer to help -- where despite

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Harriet Bazley
On 27 Apr 2015 as I do recall, Daniel Silverstone wrote: [snip] surely you can work together to either produce a patch, or to persuade someone who might already know how to code in C to produce a patch. I'm not sure it's very realistic to expect a random C coder out of the

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:52:19AM +0100, Harriet Bazley wrote: I'm not sure it's very realistic to expect a random C coder out of the kindness of his heart to download the source to a program of the complexity of a web browser, work out how one specific piece of it currently functions, and

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 29 Apr, Rob Kendrick wrote in message 20150429135240.gl11...@platypus.pepperfish.net: On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 02:42:43PM +0100, cj wrote: In article 54bbe96175li...@torrens.org.uk, Richard Torrens (lists) li...@torrens.org.uk wrote: write a request to comp.sys.acorn.programmer

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 29 Apr, Harriet Bazley wrote in message b2c0dbbb54.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk: On 27 Apr 2015 as I do recall, Daniel Silverstone wrote: surely you can work together to either produce a patch, or to persuade someone who might already know how to code in C to produce a patch.

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:02:11PM +0100, Andrew Pinder wrote: In message 54bbf0d883ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk on 29 Apr 2015 cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: One question I have mused over for some time is what is the fraction of NetSurf users that are RISC OS users and what fraction

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Nick Roberts
In message 20150429135240.gl11...@platypus.pepperfish.net Rob Kendrick r...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 02:42:43PM +0100, cj wrote: In article 54bbe96175li...@torrens.org.uk, Richard Torrens (lists) li...@torrens.org.uk wrote: write a request to

Re: Hot List

2015-04-29 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:36:35PM +0100, Nick Roberts wrote: I spent some time writing a HOWTO document outlining how to set up a cross-compiling environment using a virtual machine (so it can be done on Windows machines as well as on Linux). Sadly few people seem to have taken advantage