Re: Long URL annoyance

2013-03-07 Thread Dave Symes
In article 53286a1e80t...@netsurf-browser.org, Michael Drake t...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: In article 9527682853.zen44...@zen.co.uk, Simon Smith simon_sm...@zen.co.uk wrote: A fix which would mitigate matters is if the proportion of the lower scroll bar (or, even better, the

Re: Long URL annoyance

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Drake
In article 53288e1557d...@triffid.co.uk, Dave Symes d...@triffid.co.uk wrote: That's interesting, the default on my NetSurf install is 5000 or 50% and I've never changed it. (Ever). It's been 66.67% since 2006 (a year before NetSurf 1.0 was released):

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Learning Partners
On 27 Feb 2013 Martin Bazley wrote: If you're still using 2.9, you don't need to be told. Simply open WWW.NetSurf.Log in your computer's ScrapDir (note: this only works when NetSurf is *not* running) and it should be right there in the first few lines. Thanks for the information. I

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Richard Porter
On 7 Mar 2013 Learning Partners wrote: As someone who requires a stable version I am still using 2.9. I worked round the problem by redirecting the BBC link to the mobile desktop page which gave access to standard BBC content. But now in their wisdom the BBC have deleted this so I am back to

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Chris Young
Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: Considering their clucking over the raspberry pi you would think no large organisation, different hands, no co-ordination! Richard, you could let them know that apparently very large numbers of the little wonders have been sold which might help

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:03:55PM +, Richard Porter wrote: Please note that the issue was once again escalated to Future Media and finding that your browser is NetSurf running under RISC OS 6.16 running on a StrongARM powered RiscPC informed that this is old technology and may explain

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Alan Calder
In article 49380.86.154.45.205.1362660717.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk, Learning Partners lp.bo...@argonet.co.uk wrote: On 27 Feb 2013 Martin Bazley wrote: If you're still using 2.9, you don't need to be told. Simply open WWW.NetSurf.Log in your computer's ScrapDir (note: this only

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Tim Hill
In article 5328c00187alan_cal...@o2.co.uk, Alan Calder alan_cal...@o2.co.uk wrote: Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I assume to be the mobile version. Not pretty but it is usable. Similarly, and for reasons of functionality, I have been known to use

Re: Long URL annoyance

2013-03-07 Thread Tim Hill
In article out-5137dc2c.md-1.4.17.chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk, Chris Young chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk wrote: [snipped] A better fix might be for the end of the URL to be given priority (aka right-justify), or some shortening technique where the domain and the end

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Learning Partners
On Thu, 7 March, 2013 3:56 pm, Tim Hill wrote: In article 5328c00187alan_cal...@o2.co.uk, Alan Calder alan_cal...@o2.co.uk wrote: Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I assume to be the mobile version. Not pretty but it is usable. Similarly, and for

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Richard Porter
On 7 Mar 2013 Alan Calder wrote: Just tried using the BBC News link on Netsurf's home page (the out of the box version) NS 2.9. Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I assume to be the mobile version. Not pretty but it is usable. That is precisely the

Re: Long URL annoyance

2013-03-07 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 6 Mar, Simon Smith wrote in message 9527682853.zen44...@zen.co.uk: One longstanding UI gripe I have with NetSurf (in fact, I think it's about my only serious remaining gripe) arises whenever a link has an overlong URL. The first part of the URL appears to the left of the bottom scroll

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Peter Young
On 7 Mar 2013 Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: On 7 Mar 2013 Alan Calder wrote: Just tried using the BBC News link on Netsurf's home page (the out of the box version) NS 2.9. Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I assume to be the mobile

Re: BBC News websites

2013-03-07 Thread Alan Calder
In article 5328da581e...@timil.com, Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: In article 49255.86.154.45.205.1362675722.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk, Learning Partners lp.bo...@argonet.co.uk wrote: [Snip] Thanks for the summary. This may have been available for ARM based tablet users.

Re: Long URL annoyance

2013-03-07 Thread Martin Bazley
The following bytes were arranged on 7 Mar 2013 by Tim Hill : Or, scroll the URL from one end to the other. And back. But I want to see the whole thing at the pointer. A tooltip which pops up when you hover over a link for more than a couple of moments would cut down on eyestrain. i.e. It

Re: Long URL annoyance

2013-03-07 Thread Chris Young
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 20:32:36 +, Steve Fryatt wrote: The front-end doesn't seem to know anything about the status bar content (beyond that it's some text), so it might be pretty stupid. Intelligence such as Send form to http://foo.com/...bar/wibble.php; would probably require some very