# link problem
I could make a ten minute movie of NetSurf trying to get to a post at the bottom of one of my forum threads. It seems to spend most of its time and processing power reformatting the page after every one or two images have been fetched. But the real killer is, if I try to scroll up to see how far it's got, it throws me down to the bottom again. I have to wait until it's finished thrashing about before I can use the vertical scroll bar. A contributory problem is that it first formats all images according to the space needed for the 'alt' text and then when it's got the image it reformats the page again using the image dimensions. It does this even if it's given the width and height in the tag. There has to be a better way. For a start, if the user scrolls the page then forget about any on-page name/id tags you were trying to get to - the user has taken control. Otherwise finish formatting the page and only then jump to the name tag. Secondly, forget about the 'alt' text unless fetching the image fails, and then format the text within the image dimensions if known. Better still, display the alt text in the "About this object" window (Object > Object > Info). Time for a feature request! -- Richard Porterhttp://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
Re: Hotlist display silly
The following bytes were arranged on 29 Dec 2010 by Tony Moore : > On 29 Dec 2010, "Steve Fryatt" wrote: > > That seems to always have been the case: I've finally understood what > > the scroll code was (or wasn't) doing. It's the kind of thing that > > could well fall under the work I'm doing away from the trunk at > > present, so it's noted but any fix may not appear in test builds > > immediately. > > Another minor problem: The scrollbar can no longer be controlled using > the page-up, page-dn or arrow keys. While we're at it, Adjust-double-click on an entry no longer closes the window, which is far more annoying. -- __<^>__ Follow me on Twitter! --> http://twitter.com/swirlythingy / _ _ \ (Or, um, don't. It's a free country and all that.) ( ( |_| ) ) \_> <_/ === Martin Bazley ==
Re: Hotlist display silly
On 29 Dec 2010, "Steve Fryatt" wrote: > On Tue, December 28, 2010 7:50 pm, David H Wild wrote: > > > I have found a "silly" in the display of hotlist entries. > > > > If you click on the scrollbar to move down whole screen, the entry > > after the present lowest one is missed and the new display starts > > with the entry two after the present lowest. > > That seems to always have been the case: I've finally understood what > the scroll code was (or wasn't) doing. It's the kind of thing that > could well fall under the work I'm doing away from the trunk at > present, so it's noted but any fix may not appear in test builds > immediately. Another minor problem: The scrollbar can no longer be controlled using the page-up, page-dn or arrow keys. Tony
Re: Hotlist display silly
On Tue, December 28, 2010 7:50 pm, David H Wild wrote: > I have found a "silly" in the display of hotlist entries. > > If you click on the scrollbar to move down whole screen, the entry after > the present lowest one is missed and the new display starts with the entry > two after the present lowest. That seems to always have been the case: I've finally understood what the scroll code was (or wasn't) doing. It's the kind of thing that could well fall under the work I'm doing away from the trunk at present, so it's noted but any fix may not appear in test builds immediately. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England Wakefield Acorn & RISC OS Show Saturday 16 April 2011 http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/ http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/
