prove the future quality of the software.
Thank you very much for taking the time to evaluate NetSurf for Puppy
Linux, the project looks interesting (to me anyway) and I wish you luck.
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there in response to your issue.
> But Rob Kendrick says the cache isn't a problem! So where is the problem?
That's what we need to determine. Does a commandline request for the
page (E.g. using wget or cURL result in a correctly downloaded uncached
page?
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tracker for us to think about.
You might get a 'Closed: WontFix" but at least then it'll be recorded
somewhere structured should another person come along complaining of the
same thing.
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is not in one of the above formats,
recompress it and reattach it to the bug report.
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is one often used site which is now ruled out for
> RISC OS :o(
I can use eBay (although admittedly not as far as actually bidding on
something since I was just testing) with NetSurf. Including logging in
and navigating my account.
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going through. OTOH, I doubt Apple will attempt to stop
NetSurf from adding such features should our userbase demand them.
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the tracker first, and
include a URL to the tracker in your posting. Then others who may gather
more data can put it on the bug rather than on the list where it can get
lost/forgotten by the developers.
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oposal).
Perhaps someone will later in the year.
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on't officially know about the issue.
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t the time of your question, it was around 100 revisions behind,
any one of which could have been the fix to the bug you were
encountering. You should *always* test with an up-to-date version if you
want to report a bug against the development releases.
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On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:55 +, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> Binary patching of the !RunImage could be possible, with the likes of
> rsync. I'll try to investigate over the weekend.
If rsync turns out to be too tough, we can look at bsdiff/bspatch
although they may be slower.
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please use _blank
Remember, the whole string matters, not just the prefix. Otherwise if I
were to create a site which relied on a browsing context of '_newbury'
then perhaps that'd be spawning fresh windows where it should be reusing
them.
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:40:17AM +0100, John McCartney wrote:
> > > Does anyone know what's happened?
> > Without more details, no.
> > What, exactly, happens when you try to visit that site?
> Sorry, I [wrongly] assumed you would have NetSurf running
> under RISC OS and could see from the link.
asm.lib.so :-)
Perhaps you should learn to name libraries properly?
Or, more usefully, instead of winding up the few people prepared to work
on NetSurf, why not instead look at assisting?
Also, please correctly address mails to the list, *to* the list.
Daniel.
(libdrippings
opriately if it won't break anything else.
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:45:16AM +0100, David J. Ruck wrote:
> Daniel Silverstone wrote:
>> That thunderbird only provides the former of those is a deficiency in your
>> chosen mail client and something that you will have to work around. The
>> mailing list is configured c
obably version of freetype for example) etc. Also ensure you acquire a log
if NetSurf is crashing or behaving oddly and include a gzipped copy of that (or
relevant excerpt thereof) in your posting.
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:00:01AM +0100, David J. Ruck wrote:
> Daniel Silverstone wrote:
>> Also ensure you acquire a log if NetSurf is crashing or behaving
>> oddly and include a gzipped copy of that (or relevant excerpt
>> thereof) in your posting.
> Please DO NOT po
hen it's quite possible that
NetSurf can no longer divine the purpose of the links. Unfortunately without
proper JavaScript support; NetSurf will be unable to predict reliably the
purpose of clicking the link.
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likely to have the kind of mind which can
cope with the job.
I'm not trying to put people off; just to make it clear that it's not the sort
of job for someone who was a casual BASIC programmer and has now read a C book.
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:16:47PM +, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> > How much work is involved for some one who knows no C at all.
> That entirely depends on the person.
> When I learned C, it took me about a week of evenings to become reasonably
> competent.
To put this in
written by myself and my colleague and fellow NetSurf
developer, Vincent.
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rowser.org/r9801/libcss" would not
> work. Please help.
Assuming that your understanding here is purely a lack of familiarity with
subversion; I shall give you some help:
1. cd into the directory which contains your libcss checkout.
2. make clean
3. svn update -r9801
3. rebuild and
isabled behaviour still appears in the menu.
PDF Export is disabled because porting it to the new content/cache model was
seen as too much work to achieve by 2.5's release deadline.
We would like to re-enable the functionality, but we have more pressing things
to deal with right now.
Regards
hen consider contacting Steve Fryatt and
persuading him of your correctness.
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out it.
3. If your complaints generate more wasted bandwidth than the attachment did, I
reserve the right to ban you from the list.
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g is not reproducable on Linux/GTK and appears to be related to frames.
Unfortunately it'll need to wait for one of the RISC OS enabled developers to
have a gander.
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:44:09PM +, Dr Peter Young wrote:
> Internal Server Error
Could you please let us know which URL is causing this error, and whether or
not it still does?
Thanks.
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:18:09PM +0300, Sertac TULLUK wrote:
> Result is : http://pastebin.com/W5z2Uett
This looks like you don't have libpng in your cross built environment.
Either add libpng to the cross-env, or put:
override NETSURF_USE_PNG := NO
In your Makefile.config
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Those files should be able to go in the ~/.netsurf to override the main files.
A restart of NetSurf may be required before they will be picked up.
> Does 'max_cached_fetch_handles' refer to max persistent connections?
No, it refers to cURL handles.
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:42:00AM +0100, Mike Hobbs wrote:
> Well, thats it then... Google requires javascript !!
Works for me. What doesn't work for you?
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h lets us gather microdonations via
google adverts which appears to be javascript-dependent now.
For now, I'd just set my homepage to google.co.uk if that's what you want.
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e while doing so. I've received
complaints, so that thread stops now, or I start forcibly unsubscribing people.
Keep the focus guys.
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know about the major issues with the trunk, it might
be easier for you to stick to the most recent release version for now (2.9).
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ipt 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.
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, we're all volunteers. A tad less cheek please.
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all the time :-(
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;re targetting 1.8.5 I'm afraid.
We've gotten NSPR building but we're stuck at sorting out mozjs because it gets
confused between the host and the target NSPR installs.
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before NetSurf seems to have
lost entries, you could use copies of those backups to do the test. If the
problem manifests repeatably, then copies of the offending hotlists would go a
long way to helping us diagnose and fix the fault.
Many thanks,
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:43:24AM +, Tony Moore wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2012, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> [snip]
> > We did recently rewrite the hotlist code,
> What was the first #number of this change?
I do not recall. It was done not long after the hack weekend though, so you
d the Mobile site is if the U-A string contains 'Mobile'.
(Note, I hate this method, but it's the 'accepted' approach)
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locker.
I have confirmed this bug and posted a potential cause as a comment to the bug
tracker.
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e JS support itself is more advanced than that in NS 3.0.
The JS support in the current builds is very likely to be identical to the 3.0
build.
As for the 'choices bug' we have no idea what's going on there. Again I don't
think we've touched anything in
nd popped as an attachment to a
bug report on our Sourceforge project, detailing your notes about timings and
reproduction techniques.
It would also help if you ran with nothing which would differ from a totally
fresh install. i.e. move your choices, hotlist, urldb etc out of the way.
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ith some logging and would appreciate it if
you would do the trivial test of loading NS and quitting it, and then emailing
me the log file. Obviously you should use the latest CI build of NetSurf
(#1172 or later).
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ks, then bonus for you. If it doesn't, that's expected at this point
and you're unlikely to gain friends by reporting bugs about it just yet :-)
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On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:52:51PM +0100, Peter Young wrote:
> Presumably this means that people without a Sourceforge account can't
> submit bug reports any more, which is a pity,
At least we get identifying marks and a way to contact the author with every
bug report now though.
D.
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 16:10:24 +, Richard Porter wrote:
> I tried again with release 2.9 and all was well.
> Is anyone else seeing this problem?
This is a bug in a huge form rewrite which occurred at the hack weekend. It
ought to be fixed by later tonight.
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hard for the developers to use and stopped
being accessible from NetSurf entirely thanks to SourceForge fecking up.
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rmore, it took about half an hour
> to show up after posting.
>
> What's going on?
Some mail systems cannot cope with lines of text starting 'From ' and as such
will put a > in front of the line. This is common, especially on mailing
lists.
As for the d
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 15:55:45 +0100, Michael Einhoff wrote:
> Sorry, of course I would say the framebuffer frontend!
Could you ask this on the -dev mailing list rather than the -users list?
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closes the strange
> little window.
Could you please provide a clean log, and ideally some kind of reproduction CGI
or similar? (I happen to be an upstream for Cherokee, so a cherokee config
file would help too if it won't reveal too much)
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real-life does intrude for us. If you're running CI versions of NetSurf you
can expect issues from time to time which may take a while to fix.
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an simply
increasing the maximum size of the RAM cache in the browser?
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p for being a frontend developer then it'd be awesome to see some progress
on sorting out features like this.
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I'd guess you might see new builds after Boxing day when we all start to get a
little fed up with 'family' :-)
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meone who might already know how to code in C
to produce a patch. None of the core developers use RISC OS day-to-day and
Steve Fryatt has been super-busy and unable to contribute properly for some
time.
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site skills, noone can be found to provide
what little support would be needed to keep the project on-track. But I suppose
that's how platform support atrophies and is eventually removed.
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centives don't appear to have made any difference so far.
Quite frankly, unless there was enough money to actually properly employ an
engineer, most people are low on time rather than low on motivation. (At least
regarding anything a few quid could resolve)
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few quid could resolve)
> Then the ROOL sponsorship scheme is quite pointless, yes??? 8-(
For the NetSurf core devs -- yes. For others -- who can say?
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me 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)
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l. Harriet did the correct thing and filed a bug in the BTS which
I have responded to.
http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2343
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nd Vince included) have been spending a huge amount of our
time on this, we're not leaving you in the lurch; and John-Mark has been
instrumental in helping track down the UNIXLib issue.
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 09:31:36 +0100, David Pitt wrote:
> Daniel Silverstone, on 14 Aug, wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 22:56:41 +0100, Gerald Dodson wrote:
> > > Has any one else had this version fail?
> >
> > It is distinctly likely that current CI
/longjmp() to do exception management and I think this is possibly
the hardest those routines have been exercised on RISC OS in quite some time.
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s which are marginally more wide-ranging
than his work. This means I may have cocked things up dramatically. The test
case in the bug report seems to work, so I'm confident I've not made *that* bug
worse, but more testing for fun and profit if you all will :-)
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Until then, keeping a couple of different verisons around is probably best. I
would never give a CI build of software to my mum and not expect problems --
she's a bug magnet :-)
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ly have :-)
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ow the issue number?
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0 Build/MMB29M)
> AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/4.0
> Chrome/44.0.2403.133 Safari/537.36
>
> Observations, please!
NetSurf is not telling lies. In addition, browser name sniffing is considered
harmful because of how many extensions exist wh
ition, POST
data is nominally unlimited though I believe we have a similar four gigabyte
limit.
So if you want to store any possible URL plus POST data you'd need eight
gigabytes per allocation.
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on, and you can visit http://linuxbox:someport/
If you're stuck developing the site on RiscOS, then consider using a RAM disc
or similar because then your site would be a $ on the FS.
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:30:08 +, Richard Ashbery wrote:
> Is there anyway of showing Javascript driven drop down menus?
JavaScript-driven and CSS-driven dynamic content are not supported in NetSurf's
render engine at this time.
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build properly, and nobody has stepped
up to offer a clean way to sort it out. The core team don't have Atari
systems nor any way to ensure correctness, so can't do it alone.
If you know anyone who can offer the assistance needed, then we'll gladly
talk it over on the netsurf-dev lis
have done literally nothing to make that
be fixed. I imagine it must have been a local hiccough on your system.
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to our bug tracker. I would appreciate
such issues being raised because this is all using very new internal features
in the browser which we hope to use for other functionality in the future and so
we need it well tested.
Further discussion on the topic of these two dialogs may come in time.
Th
n 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.netsu
This code is CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT
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nonsense,
> there are gigabytes available.
> Can anyone diagnose what is going on here?
Can you please enable logging and provide a log? Also is your scratch
directory full?
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s, please contact me *off list* and I'll do my best to
allay them.
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If you have further discussion on this topic, I also suggest you use the
developers mailing list rather than this users list (use
netsurf-...@netsurf-browser.org instead)
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