se the right hand scroll
bar for the whole caboodle. However, it's not a situation you come
across very often these days.
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e item per line.
The table in section 4 seems to have gone awry too. NS seems to be
getting confused by the wretched span tags.
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Could that be because NetSurf is a web browser and isn't designed to
handle Windows BMP files? Why were you trying to load it into NetSurf?
Wouldn't an image processing app like !DPlngScan be more appropriate?
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On 17 Oct 2011 John-Mark Bell wrote:
> NetSurf has full support for BMP images.
You're right it does!
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I don't want a "user experience&qu
dure then surely NetSurf developers would wish to know, yes?
I think that one's been answered for you. If you want to be sure that
the majority of browsers can display your images stick to GIF, JPEG
and PNG. I now realise that NetSurf does render BMPs so I don't know
w
On 19 Oct 2011 Richard Porter wrote:
> On 18 Oct 2011 Brian Bailey wrote:
>>> OK. But an html message or web page shouldn't contain BMP images.
>> On what basis shouldn't it, please? It's the first time I've seen a BMP
>> file employed in this wa
nk's services?
I don't think the log file contains any login details. I usually do a
search in !Edit for my passwords and usernames if I've been accessing
any secure sites but they don't appear.
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he best of it rather than barf at it. The page renders in
Oregano 1.10 though not with the intended formatting.
It is a nuisance that in this situation you can't shift-drag or
ctrl-drag the URL, although you can copy it to the clipboard.
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should only be as far as ricp.dat so is the request
being sent in such a way that it thinks the whole lot is part of the
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I don't want a "u
Not you? Log in here" links
have a similarly ineffective result.
It's not a Javascript problem because I can't see any, so is it an NS
bug or a compatibility problem with the site? The pages concerned
validate successfully.
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though there should be a space. On the
other hand there are cases where there is no white space and NetSurf
can wrap a word over two lines at a tag e.g. 1st can get
split after the 1. I probably raised a bug report in the dim and
distant past.
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This has probably got more to do with First Group redesigning their
web site than NetSurf, but http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/ fails
to render anywhere close to what it should look like. Mind you the
home page has 36 validation errors.
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On 31 Dec 2011 Dave Symes wrote:
> Anyone else had the return of this old problem?
Yes, I had it with anoter site - I don't use Lloyds TSB. It could have
been amazon.co.uk.
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g list, because nobody ever gets this right.
Could you just bounce any messages with a subject starting "Re:
netsurf-users Digest"? Better still, those who receive only the digest
should have posting disabled because even if the subject is changed
the message th
asy just to
ignore topics that you're not interested in. With digests you have to
plough through everything, and then of course you have the problem of
how to post a reply.
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g, mailing lists, threading, etc. I agree that digests
should be regarded as read-only.
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
o..., you might argue). RO does have some
good email clients though.
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
page is displayed. If you
scroll down it stops; if you scroll back up so that most of the image
is shown it starts again. If you're working in another window over the
top it stops. If you bring NetSurf to the top it resumes. What's going
on?
Currently using r13534.
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On 26 Apr 2012 Tony Moore wrote:
> On 26 Apr 2012, Richard Porter wrote:
>> When Netsurf is displaying the following page and others on the same
>> site the pointer starts flickering 2 or 3 times a second between a
>> pointing hand and an hour glass.
>>
>> ht
the flicker but moving it back restarts the flickering.
> I don't get this problem here (RO5). Richard, are you on RO6 too?
Yes. (RPC with vPod)
> David/Richard, what's your memory cache size set to?
> (NetSurf iconbar menu, Choices Cache, Size)
5MB
On 26 Apr 2012 Michael Drake wrote:
> In article <5286a279dbdhw...@talktalk.net>,
>David H Wild wrote:
>>> David/Richard, what's your memory cache size set to?
>> 6.4 meg.
> Could you retry after increasing it to 20 MB or so?
No difference. Brian'
the missing image. I have tried setting the cache to 0.0 MB.
I also tried Navigation > Reload this page ^F5 but to no avail. The
page now displays correctly in other browsers.
Using r13571, RPC, RO6
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It's back again. Presumably they've fixed the fault.
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wo things but have not managed to discover the
> intended procedure.
Just drag the !Boot from the NetSurf archive into the parent directory
of !Boot on HardDisc4 (i.e. the root directory of HardDisc4). You
should have the "newer" filer option set. You don't actually need to
d
On 29 Sep 2012 Michael Drake wrote:
> It would help us if people could test the new builds and let us know how
> you get on.
A heading with font size=6 comes out massively smaller than it did in
earlier versions.
I haven't had any lockups yet.
RO6.14
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lect a folder to password-protect. The problem is repeatable.
The 23rd March build is fine.
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On 1 Oct 2012 Michael Drake wrote:
> In article <8806ded752.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>,
>Richard Porter wrote:
>> We seem to have got the old "Netsurf is running out of memory" bug
>> back again. I have 71MB of free memory. This is occurring in cPanel
>
On 1 Oct 2012 Bryn Evans wrote:
> In a mad moment - Richard Porter mumbled :
>> Yes. It fails with or without all the images and css.
>> I've sent you the html source from a full save.
> Tried the second Sept 30th release and seems ok -
> RiscPC, StrongArm, RO4·02,
which are the same length. I'd left out the "type=text" on one form
but previously it made no difference so I hadn't noticed the error.
With the new version that particular field came out half the width of
the others. I've now corrected the page.
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On 2 Oct 2012 Chris Newman wrote:
> In article <1a4c5dd852.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>,
>Richard Porter wrote:
>> On 2 Oct 2012 Steve Joyce wrote:
>>> Tried just a few websites. Looks ok on Demon and Amazon. Amazon site
>>> appears to work ok. Howev
ing about altering the readme file to reflect what is in the zip
> file and not complaining about faults in the program.
I'm grateful to have the latest test versions. I'm not worried about
the ReadMe file or the System and Boot files unless they change. In
fact the additional resources c
5.19 (16 May 2012).
Same with RiscPC Kinetic 300, OS 6.16 (Segfault at 200118b0)
I've saved the log file but I assume one of you will have submitted a
bug report.
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additional resources out of the zip file
altogether and either make them available separately or provide links
to them elsewhere? Like Chris I only update !Boot and !System when I
need to - if !NetSurf complains or if I'm notified via this list.
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On 11 Oct 2012 Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:42:05AM +0100, Richard Porter wrote:
>> Why not just take the additional resources out of the zip file
>> altogether and either make them available separately or provide links
>> to them elsewhere? Like Chris I
site.
> My system details: My details: NS-2012-10-07_21-57-22,
> RPCEmu089/RO4.02 (256MB RAM), Win7 (64-bit). NetSurf 3.0 #417..
Works OK on kinetic rpc/RO6.16/NS#417 so looks like emu problem.
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NS #488 repeatedly aborts when trying to reply to a comment in The
Register.
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On 16 Oct 2012 Michael Drake wrote:
> In article <64a096df52.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>,
>Richard Porter wrote:
>> NS #488 repeatedly aborts when trying to reply to a comment in The
>> Register.
> Log file please.
Now uploaded with bug
on the line below. The wrap was caused by an image on the
right.
I'm using NS #488.
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
here is also a nasty gotcha where if you drag a
text file into the textarea NS just opens the file in the main window
thereby losing the form that you were completing.
I have raised bug reports in the dim and distant past but I guess
there hasn't been anyone available to work on this area.
-
On 26 Oct 2012 Jess Hampshire wrote:
> In message
> Richard Porter wrote:
>> Yes, there are long-standing problems with editing in a textarea,
>> especially if you try to cut and paste text. The cursor sits on the
>> line below where the text would go, wh
window aside content will be
revealed. However if you just put the window to the back it will leave
white space where it was.
#596 on RO6.16
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I don't want
On 6 Nov 2012 Michael Drake wrote:
> In article ,
>Richard Porter wrote:
>> Open the following web page:
>> http://www.studiospares.com/search?q=tascam&perpage=10&ivtype=soundcards
>> #596 on RO6.16
> Fixed.
Thanks.
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On 6 Nov 2012 Michael Drake wrote:
> In article ,
>Richard Porter wrote:
>> Open the following web page:
>> http://www.studiospares.com/search?q=tascam&perpage=10&ivtype=soundcards
>> #596 on RO6.16
> Fixed.
I'm not sure if this is related, but
On 6 Nov 2012 Richard Porter wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is related, but now go to:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/06/credit_card_sized_mobile_made_
> for_pensioners/
> The picture is just a large pink square with a red border. You can
> save the object as a jpe
"armv4l" - I
> see exactly the same as Peter.
>> NetSurf on x86 linux gets the desktop site.
I suggest we all send feedback to the BBC News site and if that
doesn't work raise a complaint.
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
ect page
> clicking on 'News'.
It seems to have gone right again. Maybe they got the message!
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rect page
> clicking on 'News'.
I spoke too soon. I think cookies are coming into play here. It was
working OK, I deleted all the bbc cookies and it went wrong again,
even for the main bbc web site.
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e-over".
It usually tells you at the bottom of the window if a form cannot be
submitted or if a button links to javascript. Of course I would love
to have a mechanism to submit a form where there is no text input
field or submit button.
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On 5 Dec 2012 Harriet Bazley wrote:
> Is it just me, or is everyone who leaves bug reports getting a string of
> spam notifications?
I haven't noticed any.
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On 21 Dec 2012 Brian Bailey wrote:
> Serious error and crash,
> http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/presets-the-trick-to-getting-good-prints/
> RISC OS 4.02 NetSurf #749
OK with #739 OS6
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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.
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tSurf independently of the global settings? Mouse movement
itself is OK.
RiscPC, OS 6.14, NS #822
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On 19 Jan 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote:
> Richard Porter wrote
>> On most applications, including messenger Pro, the speed of the
>> pointer in relation to the scroll wheel on the mouse is just about
>> right, but on NetSurf it is much too fast so it's almost imposs
ation. No I haven't got !HID. I have WindowScroll
but not WimpScroll. I can set the scroll speed globally through
!Configure but not for a single task.
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
. The forum
scripts haven't changed. Could this be something in NetSurf or could
it be caused by some security change on the server. Most of my hosting
problems are traced to mod-security settings.
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
forum scripts
have not changed. The only other possibility is a security change by
the hosting company (eUKhost). Most of my hosting problems are caused
by changes to ModSecurity settings.
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On 30 Jan 2013 John-Mark Bell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 21:22 +0000, Richard Porter wrote:
>> I log into my eBlah forum permanently using a cookie. Previously when
>> I visited the forum I would be logged in automatically, but for the
>> last couple of weeks or so I hav
I tried to report a bug on SourceForge and got the following response
after submitting the form:
XSRF Attempt Detected!
What is an XSRF attempt?
Using #856 on RO6.14.
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NS does a bit of processing but leaves the page unchanged.
There are name tags with both name and ID specified.
I suspect that NS can't cope with local links in a scrolling pane with
absolute positionning in CSS.
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he page layout is OK but NS won't jump to on-page name
anchors within the scrolling text.
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
oblem still affects version 2.9 if not the latest dev versions.
Can you tell me what the useragent details are (or were)?
Richard
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
anks for the information. I hadn't thought of looking there.
I normally use a recent development version, currently #942, but that
doesn't exhibit the redirect to mobile problem so I used 2.9 to
illustrate it. My original complaint to the BBC was raised last
November.
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I have already told them that the complaint did not relate to iPlayer
which I don't expect to run on RISC OS, though I may have mentioned
that it produces totally misleading error messages if you try.
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is precisely the problem. We want the desktop version, not the
mobile version. If I want m.bbc.co.uk I can request m.bbc.co.uk.
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I don't want a "use
ites (including localhost) and it
works fine with NetSurf #953 (including in subdirectories) and Safari
but not with Firefox 19.0.2.
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
an outstanding feature request to add
Menu > Object > Link > Copy to clipboard
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On 26 Mar 2013 Tony Moore wrote:
> On 26 Mar 2013, Richard Porter wrote:
>> On 26 Mar 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote:
>>
>>> Is there an easy way to select an url on a webpage in order to get
>>> it into the clipboard?
>>
>> No. I use Object >
rf will break the line before the -
> effectively in the middle of a word.
I've had a bug report out on this for years. It's always been a
problem for as long as I can remember. NS will wrap lines at any tag
or escaped character or possibly any non-alphanumeric character where
there
hite space and no hyphen.
> I put in a bug report a few days ago because it will wrap at
> apostrophes.
My report was no. 1458451 raised on 25-03-2006.
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I
inus sign.
A hyphenated word can be split after the hyphen, not before.
> Any other place?
None that I can think of.
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I don't want a "user experience&
move them around. Would it be possible to resize the images
once when they are downloaded and then hold them at the required
display size?
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I don'
On 21 Apr 2013 Brian Jordan wrote:
> In article ,
>Richard Porter wrote:
> [Snip]
>> The problem is that as soon as these images hove into view the page
>> becomes incredibly slow and clunky to move around. I would hazard a
>> guess that NS is continually stru
On 21 Apr 2013 Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Richard Porter wrote:
>> I don't think there's anything I can do other than that. I was
>> wondering whether there's a design reason why NS doesn't keep a copy
>> of the resiz
se the whole page is scaled up or down, not just specific
images, but I don't know what approach is taken to that problem.
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t any escaped
character, tag or non-alphanumeric character regardless of whether it
represents white space. There's no harm in raising another bug report
though. You could try using though I expect someone will say
it's deprecated.
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t reported it on 25th March 2006 (1458451 still open). More like
0.x! I wasn't aware that it ever worked correctly. However that report
wasn't specific to .
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http://classiccarmag.net/classic-cars-for-new-drivers/
I've recently upgraded to Organizer 2.20 which might be relevant.
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I don't want a "user experience&
On 8 May 2013 Peter Young wrote:
> That's Organizer complaining that the machine is running low on
> memory. It's configurable in Organiser's Choices > General; "Flash if
> free memory below ...".
Thanks. I've reduced the threshold and will see what
please speak up now!
I have NS installed on OS 10.7 Lion (Intel) not that I use it much.
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
I've noticed that since quite recently NS has been preserving visited
link status over several sessions instead of starting from scratch
each time. Is this related to the site history duration in the
Security choices?
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On 6 Jun 2013 Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:03:25AM +0100, Richard Porter wrote:
>> I've noticed that since quite recently NS has been preserving visited
>> link status over several sessions instead of starting from scratch
>> each time.
> This
e old interface.
In particualr it makes it harder to extract the map images from a
saved draw file.
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On 14 Jun 2013 Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 09:58:17AM +0100, Richard Porter wrote:
>> On 13 Jun 2013 Bernard Boase wrote:
>>
>> NetSurf 2.9 will render the maps; the latest dev versions won't.
>> I've complained to streetmap about th
y and closed the
resulting blank window. NetSurf crashed with a segmentation fault. I
can supply a log if necessary, except that I can't attach it to
someone else's bug report (and I can't do anything with the new
Sourceforge interface).
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What's happened to Sourceforge? It's virtually unusable now. The help
page tells me to click on "Submit new" but it's nowhere to be found on
the bugs page.
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sight?!? If grey, I presume it
> is controlled by something in CSS.)
That sort of thing is annoying. I like Oregano's option to disable
"Use document colours". Pity we haven't got something similar in NS. I
probably raised it as a feature request in the dim an
lot of problems with pages on The Register, mainly with
images and/or text in the main pane overlapping the right hand pane.
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
on_28870kit.jp
I get a very large image of a guitar (#1292). The top left hand part
is white so that's what you may be looking at. This is bad web design
- it's a 300dpi image which gets rendered at 90dpi in NetSurf.
Btw, you need a 'g' on the end of the URL.
ause it reads in the file on loading and writes it
out again before quitting.
If NetSurf crashes then it won't rewrite the cookies file so any new
cookies or deletions in the current session will be lost.
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It seems to be repeatable to get NetSurf to crash with a Segmentation
fault by requesting a page and then closing the window while it is
fetching the page.
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I
On 24 Jul 2013 Jim Nagel wrote:
> Richard Porter wrote on 24 Jul:
>> I prefer to delete cookies straight out of the cookies file after
>> quitting Netsurf because it reads in the file on loading and writes it
>> out again before quitting.
>> If NetSurf crashes then i
clear if this is a bug or a side-effect of my mousing/typing style,
> but it happens quite often. It used to cause a crash and the loss of
> all data, but now only causes the loss of a section of the text. :-)
F8 undoes the last action, but I guess there's a limit to the
s unable to upload the log file because of
problems with Sourceforge but if so I can usually provide them by
email (I have 280 on file). I hope that this is no longer a problem
now that we have the new system in place so I'll resume bug reporting.
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convenient just to double-click on the app although in practice the
main reason I use "full save" is to save all the image files in one go
in which case a normal directory would do. The 'large' filer icon is
really too small to be useful as a thumbnail but I don't
tting a completely grey page but a large amount of grey
space either above or below the page content. (#1543)
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
ved as two separate files.
Netsurf saves the inventory so this could be avoided.
Just wondering of this behaviour is a) deliberate and b) desirable?
The reason is that I commented out some lines specifically to avoid
getting duplicate images and it didn't work.
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ked and a different
(the last) icon was selected.
Resubmitting with the tick box unticked and/or "none" selected
produced exactly the same result.
I tried again with release 2.9 and all was well.
Is anyone else seeing this problem?
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On 6 Jan 2014 Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 16:10:24 +0000, Richard Porter wrote:
>> I tried again with release 2.9 and all was well.
>> Is anyone else seeing this problem?
> This is a bug in a huge form rewrite which occurred at the hack weekend. It
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