On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:06:17 +0000 (GMT), John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I make a further plea for developers to address the problem (logged) > which makes it impossible to use (RISC OS) NS for my local pages.
As Rob has said, please do quote the relevant bug report number(s) when talking about issues -- it's impossible for us to remember the full details of every single bug report. Also, please change the subject line when you change the topic being discussed (or, even better, just start an entirely new thread). > Druck has pointed out that this is related to CSS files being sequentially > loaded (or not, as the case may be). > > This arrived between the version of 7th April 2007 and the subsequent > version, and should thus be not too difficult to isolate. Were it that simple, it would have been fixed long ago. As it stands, however, it is anything but simple. Essentially, it boils down to an interaction between NetSurf and WebJames which causes NetSurf to wait (until it times out) for data that WebJames never serves. Causing NetSurf to poll the Wimp at every opportunity during fetching (rather than polling at centisecond intervals) appears to solve the problem. However, without an explanation as to _why_ this has any impact upon things, I'm unwilling to consider this for inclusion into any public build of NetSurf. Without a suitable explanation, the modification of polling behaviour may simply be working around the true cause of the problem (which is not remotely helpful, in the long run). > I have attempted to raise its priority, but have been 'knocked back'. I don't quite know what you mean by 'knocked back' but the bug's current status reflects the fact that a significant amount of time (weeks, fwiw) has already been expended on hunting down the cause, a hacky workaround is known about and, without further information, little further progress will be made. The status also reflects that the person who was investigating the issue (i.e. me) no longer has a RISC OS machine and is thus not in a position to seriously investigate further. Put simply; there are more important things to be working on. John.
