Re: history and hotlist not saved; CSS site
In message <8c1f76e355.harr...@blueyonder.co.uk> Harriet Bazley wrote: > On 23 Nov 2016 as I do recall, > Jim Nagel wrote: > > > Does Netsurf not save its hotlist and history till the user quits > > the program? > > > No, it doesn't. > An attempt to avoid constant unpredictable disc accesses, I assume, > and it's not a problem until the program crashes, but it would be > nice at least if editing the hotlist physically updated the relevant > file - it's not something that happens all that often, unlike opening > new pages, and unlike in other programs there's no way to 'save your > work' manually. It's a bit counter-intuitive that the only way to > ensure that changes to the program data are preserved is to quit the > program immediately after making them! This is a particular problem for BookMaker. If the user adds any pages to the hotlist, BookMaker registers that the hotlist has changed, and the "Save" button on the toolbar becomes active. But if you save the hotlilst and then quit Netsurf, Netsurf very kindly overwrites the version you've saved from BookMaker with its own internal copy. This got so frustrating that now BookMaker won't let you save a Netsurf hotlist if Netsurf is still running. This does have one advantage - if/when Netsurf crashes, you can then save the (updated) hotlist from BookMaker. Eventually, I plan to add a patch to Netsurf, so that it checks on exit for the use of a foreign hotlist manager, and avoid saving the hotlist if one is in use. It's a bit daunting, as I'm going to have to start from building a GCC environment on a virtual machine. -- Nick Roberts tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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Using NetSurf #3782 on RO 5.23 on Rpi2. I note that the last few issues of NetSurf do not seem to be able to process http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html in a reasonable amount of time. Some loop somewhere? Chrome on Raspbian on Rpi3 displays it almost instantaneously. -- Gavin Wraith (ga...@wra1th.plus.com) Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/
Re: history and hotlist not saved; CSS site
In article , Jim Nagel wrote: > Last night I was looking for tips on how to use CSS for something on > my website Jim - you might find the links in the middle column on this page useful:- http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx/lynxweb.html John -- John Rickman
Re: history and hotlist not saved; CSS site
On 23 Nov 2016 as I do recall, Jim Nagel wrote: > Does Netsurf not save its hotlist and history till the user quits the > program? > No, it doesn't. An attempt to avoid constant unpredictable disc accesses, I assume, and it's not a problem until the program crashes, but it would be nice at least if editing the hotlist physically updated the relevant file - it's not something that happens all that often, unlike opening new pages, and unlike in other programs there's no way to 'save your work' manually. It's a bit counter-intuitive that the only way to ensure that changes to the program data are preserved is to quit the program immediately after making them! -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == Confession is good for the soul, but bad for the career.
Re: history and hotlist not saved; CSS site
In article , Jim Nagel wrote: > Last night I was looking for tips on how to use CSS for something on > my website [snip] On balance, I find www.w3schools.com better than HTML.com YMMV -- Tim Hill www.timil.com web sites * multimedia * training
Re: history and hotlist not saved; CSS site
In article , Jim Nagel wrote: > Back to original Q about when Netsurf saves its hotlist. On quitting, same as its cookies. So if you want to do different user stuff, NetSurf has to be quitted before changing the Choices location. I do this to access my wife's FaceBook and GMail - with her permission, of course. on a machine I can do something sensible with the data on! Things like save out pictures full size, print off tickets etcetera. For simplicity I have separate complete Choices files and a change-user script which checks if NS is running and stops to warn me if it is. Quitting NS automatically seemed a bit like overkill - it helps to remember what's going on if you have to do it yourself! John -- | John Williams | joh...@ukgateway.net Names for Soul Band:- Soul Doubt *