Re: Link colour

2009-03-15 Thread Tim Hill
In article 85d3403c50.da...@david.wanadoo.fr, David J Worden aux.au...@free.fr wrote: [snip] Whatever its shortcomings may be, I have graduated via Fresco, Oregano and Oregano2 to NetSurf and I now use it exclusively under RISC OS (other than when checking that my websites work

Re: Link colour

2009-03-15 Thread Bryn Evans
In a mad moment - John-Mark Bell mumbled : [snip] Re.my suggestion of disabling CSS LibCSS is a new CSS parser and selection engine. It fixes the issues with NetSurf's current CSS parser (and many others, besides). It offers efficient selection of styles for the components in a

Re: Link colour

2009-03-14 Thread jess hampshire
2009/3/14 Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com: with all other browsers in that respect. Compatibility problems arise when background colours are specified in html and foreground colours in CSS, or vice-versa. Netsurf seems to guarantee problems for any straight html site with a dark

Re: Link colour

2009-03-14 Thread Michael Drake
to our new CSS engine. This is simply because it would not be sensible to spend a lot of time tinkering with the current code when it will soon be replaced with a better solution which should ultimately fix far more issues than just this link colour issue. Michael -- Michael Drake (tlsa

Re: Link colour

2009-03-14 Thread Richard Porter
doubt this particular issue will be fixed before we move to our new CSS engine. This is simply because it would not be sensible to spend a lot of time tinkering with the current code when it will soon be replaced with a better solution which should ultimately fix far more issues than just this link

Re: Link colour

2009-03-14 Thread Tim Hill
In article 7ea8523b50.da...@david.wanadoo.fr, David J Worden aux.au...@free.fr wrote: In a two-language website for a friend I have used the colour red on English pages and blue on French pages (in headings, etc., at her request), and so I have specified the link colour as green rather

Re: Link colour

2009-03-14 Thread Keith Hopper
In article nsebf4f33b50.b...@yo.rk, Bryn Evans nets...@bryork.freeuk.com wrote: [snip] A long while ago (2years?) I suggested that the ability for the user to disable CSS via a Choices selection might be a useful feature. Since then a lot of work has advanced things muchly and I had

Re: Link colour

2009-03-14 Thread John-Mark Bell
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 22:05 +, Richard Porter wrote: On 14 Mar 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: Disabling CSS makes absolutely no difference to the need for both of the parts of the rendering engine. So! It would seem merely a 'surface' option which placates a user but makes absolutely no

Re: Link colour

2009-03-14 Thread David J Worden
on English pages and blue on French pages (in headings, etc., at her request), and so I have specified the link colour as green rather than the default blue. I hope I'm not teaching you to suck eggs... No, you're not. I did start to look into CSS at one point(*), but my personal 'style

Re: Link colour

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:49:25 +0100 David J Worden aux.au...@free.fr wrote: MSIE and FireFox on Windows do as I have specified, but NetSurf insists on keeping the link colour as blue. Is this a known fault? It seems a very fundamental thing to be so complicated that it has been left until

Link colour

2009-03-13 Thread David J Worden
In a two-language website for a friend I have used the colour red on English pages and blue on French pages (in headings, etc., at her request), and so I have specified the link colour as green rather than the default blue. MSIE and FireFox on Windows do as I have specified, but NetSurf

Re: Link colour

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Porter
On 13 Mar 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:49:25 +0100 David J Worden aux.au...@free.fr wrote: MSIE and FireFox on Windows do as I have specified, but NetSurf insists on keeping the link colour as blue. Is this a known fault? It's a long-standing bug. It seems a very

Re: Link colour

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:20:02 GMT Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: Evidently, but I can't help thinking that it might have been easier to do the basic html support first, and then add the CSS support, rather than the other way around! We've been here before. You may think that all

Re: Link colour

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Porter
On 13 Mar 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote: We've been here before. I'm well aware of that! NetSurf is a modern browser, unlike many others that have long histories. But many web sites have long histories too! Implementing HTML first and then CSS later would be the wrong approach; it'd result in

Re: Link colour

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Porter
On 14 Mar 2009 Rob Kendrick wrote: I invite you to look at the source code and formulate a patch to implement this functionality. You have done so a few times, but I wouldn't dream of starting with the source code. I'd want to familiarise with the functional specification and design

Re: Link colour

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:10:03 GMT Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: I invite you to look at the source code and formulate a patch to implement this functionality. You have done so a few times, but I wouldn't dream of starting with the source code. I'd want to familiarise with