Re: Hot List

2015-05-01 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 19:56:38 +0100, Dave Higton wrote: would it be practicable to sponsor support of the the RISC OS side of NetSurf under the ROOL sponsorship scheme? I should be glad to contribute if such a scheme were to be implemented. Financial incentives don't appear to have

Re: Hot List

2015-05-01 Thread Brian
In article 20150501083236.GF23045@somnambulist.local, Daniel Silverstone dsilv...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 19:56:38 +0100, Dave Higton wrote: would it be practicable to sponsor support of the the RISC OS side of NetSurf under the ROOL sponsorship scheme? I should

Re: Hot List

2015-05-01 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 11:42:23 +0100, Brian wrote: would it be practicable to sponsor support of the the RISC OS side of NetSurf under the ROOL sponsorship scheme? I should be glad to contribute if such a scheme were to be implemented. Financial incentives don't appear to have

Re: Hot List

2015-05-01 Thread Richard Torrens (lists)
In article 0fc224ac3bf.03edd...@davehigton.me.uk, Dave Higton d...@davehigton.me.uk wrote: I've become aware over the years since then that the big difference between children and adults is their attitude. No-one tells children that they can't learn, and so they go through all their

Re: Hot List

2015-04-30 Thread lists
In article mpro.nnl86r015p1x201yb.li...@stevefryatt.org.uk, Steve Fryatt li...@stevefryatt.org.uk wrote: What you're asking for isn't hugely difficult, and would be a nice introductory project for someone wanting to get involved with the RISC OS front-end. The offers of guidance that I

Re: Hot List

2015-04-30 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
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: Hot List

2015-04-30 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:27:06AM +0100, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: 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) Yes. However you will not be able to use our pre-built

Re: Hot List

2015-04-30 Thread Dave Higton
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:02:42 +0100 Stuart Winsor wrote: I just wish I was able to work on NetSurf because I think it is the one piece of software that everybody in RO land uses and is the most beneficial to the community as a whole. It is also the achilles-heel that deters new adopters and

Re: Hot List

2015-04-30 Thread Dave Higton
In message 54bc7ed240bbai...@argonet.co.uk Brian bbai...@argonet.co.uk wrote: would it be practicable to sponsor support of the the RISC OS side of NetSurf under the ROOL sponsorship scheme? I should be glad to contribute if such a scheme were to be implemented. Financial incentives

Re: Hot List

2015-04-30 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 04:33:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: In article 54b9784cbfli...@torrens.org.uk, Richard Torrens (lists) li...@torrens.org.uk wrote: Could you change the saving of the hot list? At present it only saves when NS is quit - a pain if you have just made changes and NS quits1

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: 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

Re: Hot List

2015-04-27 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 22:25:07 +0100, Harriet Bazley wrote: It either needs a Menu Item: Save Hot List or it should save automatically when changed. Seconded. Well, with two of you wanting it, surely you can work together to either produce a patch, or to persuade someone who might already

Re: Hot List

2015-04-26 Thread Harriet Bazley
On 24 Apr 2015 as I do recall, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: Could you change the saving of the hot list? At present it only saves when NS is quit - a pain if you have just made changes and NS quits1 (i.e. crashes!) It either needs a Menu Item: Save Hot List or it should save

Hot List

2015-04-24 Thread Richard Torrens (lists)
Could you change the saving of the hot list? At present it only saves when NS is quit - a pain if you have just made changes and NS quits1 It either needs a Menu Item: Save Hot List or it should save automatically when changed. -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy