Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-17 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 16 Jan, Steve Fryatt wrote in message : > That may be true, but I've asked groups of RISC OS users to take on some > of the more "paper shuffling" tasks that I've been doing for the platform > over the last six months, to free up the time that I required for looking > at NetSurf. They were

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-16 Thread Brian Jordan
In article , Steve Fryatt wrote: > On 15 Jan, Michael Bell wrote in message > <9d6e16da50.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>: > > In message <20100115131610.5b82a...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> > > Rob Kendrick wrote: > > [Snip] > That may be true, but I've asked groups

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-16 Thread James K White
In message Steve Fryatt wrote: > That may be true, but I've asked groups of RISC OS users to take on some of > the more "paper shuffling" tasks that I've been doing for the platform over > the last six months, to free up the time that I required for looking at > NetSurf. Golly, I'll t

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-16 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 16 Jan 2010 Steve Fryatt wrote: > On 15 Jan, Michael Bell wrote in message > <9d6e16da50.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>: >> In message <20100115131610.5b82a...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> >> Rob Kendrick wrote: >> >>> Perhaps 5 to 10 years of experience to learn C a

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-16 Thread Michael Bell
In message Steve Fryatt wrote: > On 15 Jan, Michael Bell wrote in message > <9d6e16da50.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>: >> In message <20100115131610.5b82a...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> >> Rob Kendrick wrote: >> >>> Perhaps 5 to 10 years of experience to lea

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-16 Thread Kevin Wells
In message Steve Fryatt wrote: >On 15 Jan, Michael Bell wrote in message ><9d6e16da50.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>: > >> In message <20100115131610.5b82a...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> >> Rob Kendrick wrote: >> >> > Perhaps 5 to 10 years of experience to lea

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-16 Thread Steve Fryatt
On 15 Jan, Michael Bell wrote in message <9d6e16da50.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>: > In message <20100115131610.5b82a...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> > Rob Kendrick wrote: > > > Perhaps 5 to 10 years of experience to learn C and using the WIMP from C > > before you start

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-15 Thread Michael Bell
In message <20100115164601.gc5...@digital-scurf.org> Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:29:28PM +, David Pitt wrote: >> Maybe the missing ingredient in the RISC OS community is youth. > It's exceedingly hard to persuade youth to latch onto a community which > cu

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-15 Thread Michael Bell
In message <20100115131610.5b82a...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:57:37 GMT > Kevin Wells wrote: >> In message <20100115003457.0d6d2...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> >> Rob Kendrick wrote: >> >>> >>>Absolutely. Just because w

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-15 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:29:28PM +, David Pitt wrote: > Maybe the missing ingredient in the RISC OS community is youth. It's exceedingly hard to persuade youth to latch onto a community which currently lacks it. > I had a bit of a google to try to get some background to a Netsurf > develope

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-15 Thread David Pitt
Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:16:47PM +, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > > > How much work is involved for some one who knows no C at all. > > > That entirely depends on the person. > > > When I learned C, it took me about a week of evenings to become > > reasonably com

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-15 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:16:47PM +, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > > How much work is involved for some one who knows no C at all. > That entirely depends on the person. > When I learned C, it took me about a week of evenings to become reasonably > competent. To put this in context; when I le

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-15 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:57:37PM +, Kevin Wells wrote: > >Absolutely. Just because we're dropping it now doesn't mean we'll > >refuse it later. Although the longer it is left, the more work will be > >required. > How much work is involved for some one who knows no C at all. That entirely d

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-15 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:57:37 GMT Kevin Wells wrote: > In message <20100115003457.0d6d2...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> > Rob Kendrick wrote: > > > > >Absolutely. Just because we're dropping it now doesn't mean we'll > >refuse it later. Although the longer it is left, the more work

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Wells
In message <20100115003457.0d6d2...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> Rob Kendrick wrote: > >Absolutely. Just because we're dropping it now doesn't mean we'll >refuse it later. Although the longer it is left, the more work will be >required. How much work is involved for some one who kn

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-14 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:31:15 GMT Bryan Hogan wrote: > > NetSurf 2.5 is likely to be the last release for RISC OS. > > :-( > > I take it none of those who were looking at taking on the RISC OS > frontend were able to commit the necessary time to it? Indeed. There is a shortage of people who

Re: NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-14 Thread Bryan Hogan
In message <50d979b0e4t...@netsurf-browser.org> Michael Drake wrote: > The NetSurf developers plan to release NetSurf 2.5 at the > Wakefield RISC OS Show this year. Excellent, something to look forward to! > We also hope for speed improvements in parsing of HTML and CSS, > as well as

NetSurf at Wakefield Show 2010

2010-01-14 Thread Michael Drake
The NetSurf developers plan to release NetSurf 2.5 at the Wakefield RISC OS Show this year. http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/ The release is expected to have many bug fixes over the current release version (NetSurf 2.1), in addition to major new features, such as: + Rewritten and more ca