Long URL annoyance

2013-03-11 Thread Simon Smith
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 bar. But if the URL is obnoxiously long, as often happens, the right part is

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: 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: 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: 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

Re: Long URL annoyance

2013-03-06 Thread Michael Drake
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 absolute size in pixels) allocated to the horizontal scroll was configurable and/or persistent from window

Re: Long URL annoyance

2013-03-06 Thread Chris Young
On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:40:00 GMT, Simon Smith wrote: A fix which would mitigate matters is if the proportion of the lower scroll bar (or, even better, the absolute size in pixels) allocated to the horizontal scroll was configurable and/or persistent from window to window. You can configure it