Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Learning Partners
On 27 Feb 2013 Martin Bazley wrote: If you're still using 2.9, you don't need to be told. Simply open WWW.NetSurf.Log in your computer's ScrapDir (note: this only works when NetSurf is *not* running) and it should be right there in the first few lines. Thanks for the information. I

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Richard Porter
On 7 Mar 2013 Learning Partners wrote: As someone who requires a stable version I am still using 2.9. I worked round the problem by redirecting the BBC link to the mobile desktop page which gave access to standard BBC content. But now in their wisdom the BBC have deleted this so I am back to

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Chris Young
Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: Considering their clucking over the raspberry pi you would think no large organisation, different hands, no co-ordination! Richard, you could let them know that apparently very large numbers of the little wonders have been sold which might help

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:03:55PM +, Richard Porter wrote: Please note that the issue was once again escalated to Future Media and finding that your browser is NetSurf running under RISC OS 6.16 running on a StrongARM powered RiscPC informed that this is old technology and may explain

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Alan Calder
In article 49380.86.154.45.205.1362660717.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk, Learning Partners lp.bo...@argonet.co.uk wrote: On 27 Feb 2013 Martin Bazley wrote: If you're still using 2.9, you don't need to be told. Simply open WWW.NetSurf.Log in your computer's ScrapDir (note: this only

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Tim Hill
In article 5328c00187alan_cal...@o2.co.uk, Alan Calder alan_cal...@o2.co.uk wrote: Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I assume to be the mobile version. Not pretty but it is usable. Similarly, and for reasons of functionality, I have been known to use

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Learning Partners
On Thu, 7 March, 2013 3:56 pm, Tim Hill wrote: In article 5328c00187alan_cal...@o2.co.uk, Alan Calder alan_cal...@o2.co.uk wrote: Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I assume to be the mobile version. Not pretty but it is usable. Similarly, and for

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Richard Porter
On 7 Mar 2013 Alan Calder wrote: Just tried using the BBC News link on Netsurf's home page (the out of the box version) NS 2.9. Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I assume to be the mobile version. Not pretty but it is usable. That is precisely the

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Peter Young
On 7 Mar 2013 Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: On 7 Mar 2013 Alan Calder wrote: Just tried using the BBC News link on Netsurf's home page (the out of the box version) NS 2.9. Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I assume to be the mobile

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Alan Calder
In article 5328da581e...@timil.com, Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: In article 49255.86.154.45.205.1362675722.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk, Learning Partners lp.bo...@argonet.co.uk wrote: [Snip] Thanks for the summary. This may have been available for ARM based tablet users.

Re: BBC News websites

2013-02-28 Thread Richard Porter
On 27 Feb 2013 Martin Bazley wrote: If you're still using 2.9, you don't need to be told. Simply open WWW.NetSurf.Log in your computer's ScrapDir (note: this only works when NetSurf is *not* running) and it should be right there in the first few lines. Thanks for the information. I hadn't

Re: BBC News websites

2013-02-27 Thread Richard Porter
On 15 Jan 2013 Michael Drake wrote: In article out-50f5c18e.md-1.4.17.chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk, Chris Young chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk wrote: I'm not sure I necessarily agree with this workaround - a website deciding that everything running ARM must want

BBC News websites

2013-01-15 Thread David H Wild
I see that we now have normal access to the BBC news websites. Whether this is something done by the Netsurf team or someone at the BBC taking note of complaints I am pleased to see it happen. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk

Re: BBC News websites

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Porter
On 15 Jan 2013 David H Wild wrote: I see that we now have normal access to the BBC news websites. Whether this is something done by the Netsurf team or someone at the BBC taking note of complaints I am pleased to see it happen. I raised it as a technical problem twice, then as a complaint

Re: BBC News websites

2013-01-15 Thread Martin Bazley
The following bytes were arranged on 15 Jan 2013 by David H Wild : I see that we now have normal access to the BBC news websites. Whether this is something done by the Netsurf team or someone at the BBC taking note of complaints I am pleased to see it happen. It's something NetSurf did

Re: BBC News websites

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Drake
In article out-50f5c18e.md-1.4.17.chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk, Chris Young chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk wrote: I'm not sure I necessarily agree with this workaround - a website deciding that everything running ARM must want the mobile version of a page is making a