Re: Netsurf refresh -- frames

[Vince M Hudd]

Jim Nagel  wrote:

[...]

[^F5 apparently doesn't work with frames]

> Is there any way to cause a frame to reload?  Do the powers of ^F5 etc
> need to be extended?

Before suggesting a possible workaround, did you click on the individual
frame before hitting ^F5 ? I don't know if that'll make a difference, but it
seems plausible that you might need to tell NetSurf precisely what you want
reloaded.

Failing that, if it definitely doesn't work with frames, a possible
workaround might be to load the page into a new window (adjust click on the
link that loads the page into the frame) then, if the rendered page is the
old one, ^F5 on that.

If you need to see it in the context of the frameset, after doing that close
the new page then ^F5 on the whole again. Hopefully, it'll now reload the
whole frameset - but with the new page, since that's the last version it
used.

As with clicking on the individual frame first, I don't know if this'll work
- since I don't use frames, so I've never hit on the problem - but it seems
logical.

-- 
Vince M Hudd
Soft Rock Software

Re: Netsurf refresh -- frames

[Jim Nagel]

Jim Nagel  wrote on 13 Apr:
> I recently updated the home page of my own website.  Then tested
> viewing it with Netsurf.  It kept serving up the old page, despite my
> clicking Netsurf's Reload button -- with Select (to reload page), then
> again with Adjust (to "reload page and all the objects it contains").

Did some further updates on the Archive site today, and again came up 
against this fails-to-reload problem.  Neither ^F5 or ^R or the 
buttonbar route do the trick: old page always reappears.

Then an Aha moment.  My change was to the contents of a FRAME within 
the page.

Is there any way to cause a frame to reload?  Do the powers of ^F5 etc 
need to be extended?

Still using Netsurf #3433 here, on Armini 5.22 and ArmX6 5.23 -- I 
promise to fetch newest version this weekend.


(As for frames, I see their disadvantages.  The Archive site was 
maintained for 15 years by a volunteer member, who designed it when 
frames were in fashion.  Sad to say, he died at Christmas.)

-- 
Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk