Re: BBC News websites
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:12:32 + (GMT), Michael Drake 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 pretty big assumption > > I decided there was no good reason for leaking processor architecture > information anyway. Some sites use it to determine the correct download to offer. For example, www.opera.com. Under Linux, if you artificially add "; ppc" where the processor information used to be, the download page will give the Linux PowerPC version instead of the Linux x86 one. Chris
Re: BBC News websites
In article , Chris Young 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 pretty big assumption I decided there was no good reason for leaking processor architecture information anyway. -- Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
Re: BBC News websites
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:13:04 + (GMT), 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. Build #812 removed the processor from the user-agent string. 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 pretty big assumption - but it's better than being redirected to the mobile versions of sites in perpetuity. Chris
Re: BBC News websites
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. It no longer includes the CPU architecture in the User-Agent string, because some cretin at the BBC decided that the only web browsers running on ARM computers were those running on mobile phones. -- __<^>__ "Start off every day with a smile and get it over with." / _ _ \ - W.C. Fields ( ( |_| ) ) \_> <_/ === Martin Bazley ==
Re: BBC News websites
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, and after they sent me an automatic response after ten days because they couldn't meet the target for replying I complained again. Looks like a few others did too! I still haven't had a reply. -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
BBC News websites
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: Controlling Javascript -- button suggestion
On 15 Jan 2013, Tim Hill wrote: > In article , Tony > Moore wrote: > > On 14 Jan 2013, Tim Hill wrote: > > > In article <89e6ff0d53.c.n@virgin.net>, ChrisF > > > wrote: > > > > In message <2f9bf20d53@nails.abbeypress.net> Jim Nagel > > > >wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > A wee handy-feature suggestion (if it's not a lot of > > > > > programming effort): A "Javascript on/off button" on the > > > > > toolbar. > > > > > > > . like Webster has. > > > > > > . or a shortcut keypress which could be added to Buttonbar. > > > A menu option would be needed for ButtonBar, or Keystroke, to work. > > I don't know about Keystroke but that's not true for Buttonbar. If a > keypress is understood by an application but not in its menu, it still > works. Just tested it with PageUp/Down for NetSurf and they work but > are not in the menu structure. Sorry, I misunderstood your comment. Having read it more carefully, I agree with you. (My NetSurf ButtonBar already has the same PageUp/Down.) Tony
Re: Controlling Javascript -- button suggestion
In article , Tony Moore wrote: > On 14 Jan 2013, Tim Hill wrote: > > In article <89e6ff0d53.c.n@virgin.net>, ChrisF > > wrote: > > > In message <2f9bf20d53@nails.abbeypress.net> Jim Nagel > > >wrote: > [snip] > > > > A wee handy-feature suggestion (if it's not a lot of programming > > > > effort): A "Javascript on/off button" on the toolbar. > > > > > . like Webster has. > > > > . or a shortcut keypress which could be added to Buttonbar. > A menu option would be needed for ButtonBar, or Keystroke, to work. I don't know about Keystroke but that's not true for Buttonbar. If a keypress is understood by an application but not in its menu, it still works. Just tested it with PageUp/Down for NetSurf and they work but are not in the menu structure. -- Tim Hill .. www.timil.com
