Re: Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"

2018-11-06 Thread Richard Porter
On 6 Nov 2018 David Pitt wrote: > Richard Porter, on 6 Nov, wrote: >> Anyone else getting this? I've had it from one or two addresses, for >> example: http://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/ideas-bank.ashx >> >> gives me the error "Couldn't resolve hostname" yet the host name

Re: Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"

2018-11-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 06/11/2018, Richard Porter wrote: > Anyone else getting this? I've had it from one or two addresses, > for example: > http://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/ideas-bank.ashx > > gives me the error "Couldn't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears > to be OK. What's more if I

Re: Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"

2018-11-06 Thread David Pitt
Richard Porter, on 6 Nov, wrote: > Anyone else getting this? I've had it from one or two addresses, for > example: http://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/ideas-bank.ashx > > gives me the error "Couldn't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears > to be OK. What's more if I delete

Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"

2018-11-06 Thread Richard Porter
Anyone else getting this? I've had it from one or two addresses, for example: http://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/ideas-bank.ashx gives me the error "Couldn't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears to be OK. What's more if I delete the last element NetSurf does resolve the

spurious grey areas on displayed page

2014-12-09 Thread Jim Nagel
I see this more and more often of late: large grey areas on a web page as displayed by Netsurf. Drag a menu (or other window) over the grey, and the trail goes white. You never know what content is never shown. Example: http://www.cnet.com/products/hp-color-laserjet-cp2025/specs/ Is it

Re: spurious grey areas on displayed page

2014-12-09 Thread Richard Ashbery
In article 7fed4f7354@abbeypress.net, Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote: I see this more and more often of late: large grey areas on a web page as displayed by Netsurf. Drag a menu (or other window) over the grey, and the trail goes white. You never know what content is never

Another spurious 'out of memory' error

2012-10-09 Thread Martin Bazley
I get the infamous NetSurf is running out of memory error when clicking the following URL: http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/ NetSurf #417, ARMini/RISC OS 5.19. NS 2.9 works. Typing in the .co.uk equivalent (which blogspot.com addresses now redirect to) also fails, so it must be something in

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-03-03 Thread John-Mark Bell
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 14:07 +, Richard Porter wrote: On 18 Feb 2009 Michael Drake wrote: Let's stay on topic (NetSurf), please. OK, what about Google maps? It contained an unclosed comment. We reported it to Google and they've fixed it. This is not a bug in NetSurf. John.

Re: Deprecated elements [was Re: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread JJ van Poll
In message 502f57db9easg...@inspire.net.nz Keith Hopper asg...@inspire.net.nz wrote: In article 502f456d69...@timil.com, Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: In article ca253e2f50.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread David J. Ruck
Keith Hopper asg...@inspire.net.nz wrote: In article ca253e2f50.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: [snip] I'm trying to imagine just how you would intonate 'emphasised' and 'strong' so as to differentiate them. In fact I don't really know what

Re: Deprecated elements [was Re: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Porter
On 18 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: In article 502f456d69...@timil.com, Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: In article ca253e2f50.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: The element which should be used is the 'em' element

Re: Deprecated elements [was Re: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Porter
On 18 Feb 2009 JJ van Poll wrote: In message 502f57db9easg...@inspire.net.nz Keith Hopper asg...@inspire.net.nz wrote: In article 502f456d69...@timil.com, Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: In article ca253e2f50.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:21:08 + David J. Ruck dr...@druck.org.uk wrote: The sort of modern natural voice synthesisers we are using in screen readers for the visiually impared, have all sorts of parameters which you can use to change the emphaisis. They actually read passages of text

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Porter
On 18 Feb 2009 David J. Ruck wrote: The sort of modern natural voice synthesisers we are using in screen readers for the visiually impared, have all sorts of parameters which you can use to change the emphaisis. They actually read passages of text superbly well with, and honestly, sometimes

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Drake
In article 6553812f50.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: On 18 Feb 2009 David J. Ruck wrote: The sort of modern natural voice synthesisers we are using in screen readers for the visiually impared, have all sorts of parameters which you can use to

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread David J. Ruck
Rob Kendrick r...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: A friend of mine makes use of the Dolphin stuff; the synthesiser that shipped with it was pretty dreadful. We don't like to talk about that, it's utter sh*te, but we managed to ease out the director responsible last year, and are rapidly elimating

Re: Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-18 Thread David J. Ruck
Richard Porter wrote: OK, what about Google maps? You mean some of the most complex javascript ever written and specifically tailored for each major browers it runs on? Would you like to guess which side of hell freezing over it will work on Netsurf? Cheers ---Dave -- Email:

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-17 Thread Roger Darlington
On 16 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: In article 920b6d2e50.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com, Roger Darlington roger...@freeuk.com wrote: On 1 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: In article e45ef42650.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: [snip] Yes, but

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-17 Thread Keith Hopper
In article 4cd5fa2e50.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com, Roger Darlington roger...@freeuk.com wrote: On 16 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: In article 920b6d2e50.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com, Roger Darlington roger...@freeuk.com wrote: On 1 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: In article

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Porter
On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: The element which should be used is the 'em' element and, instead of the 'b' element, use 'strong'. The reason for the others being deprecated is a desire to separate styling from the reason that a content needs a particular style - 'i' and 'b' imply a

Content, styling and media [was: spurious newlines

2009-02-17 Thread Keith Hopper
In article ca253e2f50.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: [snip] I'm trying to imagine just how you would intonate 'emphasised' and 'strong' so as to differentiate them. In fact I don't really know what 'strong' means in this context. Neither do

Deprecated elements [was Re: spurious newlines

2009-02-17 Thread Keith Hopper
In article 502f456d69...@timil.com, Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote: In article ca253e2f50.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: On 17 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: The element which should be used is the 'em' element and, instead of the 'b' element,

Re: Extra Space (was: spurious newlines in lists in tables)

2009-02-16 Thread Roger Darlington
On 16 Feb 2009, Tim Hill wrote: In article ef3d6d2e50.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com, Roger Darlington roger...@freeuk.com wrote: On 3 Feb 2009, Tim Hill wrote: Just to follow-up this issue of Netsurf generating extra space, I have found an even simpler case: html.(iitalic/i

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-16 Thread Keith Hopper
In article 920b6d2e50.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com, Roger Darlington roger...@freeuk.com wrote: On 1 Feb 2009, Keith Hopper wrote: In article e45ef42650.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: [snip] Yes, but Netsurf still inserts a space after an

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-02 Thread Tim Hill
In article 5026fac702asg...@inspire.net.nz, Keith Hopper asg...@inspire.net.nz wrote: In article e45ef42650.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: On 1 Feb 2009 Tim Hill wrote: [Snip] Netsurf still inserts a space after an end tag - so that an end tag

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-01 Thread Richard Porter
On 1 Feb 2009 Tim Hill wrote: I thought browsers ignored white space and in no way thought that would be the problem. Other browsers obviously must not translate white space into an extra newline where none is needed. Sometimes Netsurf does. Any white space should translate into a single

Re: spurious newlines in lists in tables

2009-02-01 Thread Keith Hopper
In article e45ef42650.r...@user.minijem.plus.com, Richard Porter r...@minijem.plus.com wrote: On 1 Feb 2009 Tim Hill wrote: I thought browsers ignored white space and in no way thought that would be the problem. Other browsers obviously must not translate white space into an extra

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Gavin Wraith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On 11 Aug 2008 Kevin Wells wrote: It is definitely not mismatched and but I have narrowed down the problem. One of the forms has an 'action' attribute which, including encoded ampersands, quotes, etc. is 257 characters long. If I move the closing

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Richard Porter
On 12 Aug 2008 Gavin Wraith wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On 11 Aug 2008 Kevin Wells wrote: It is definitely not mismatched and but I have narrowed down the problem. One of the forms has an 'action' attribute which, including encoded ampersands, quotes, etc. is 257

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Tony Moore
On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] This fault is extremely sensitive to what else is on the page. Try running the html through Tidy. The RISC OS port is at http://www.archifishal.co.uk/software/riscos/tidy.shtml and a user guide by Dave Raggett is at

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Richard Porter
On 12 Aug 2008 Tony Moore wrote: On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] This fault is extremely sensitive to what else is on the page. Try running the html through Tidy. The RISC OS port is at http://www.archifishal.co.uk/software/riscos/tidy.shtml and a user guide

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Tony Moore
On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Aug 2008 Tony Moore wrote: On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] This fault is extremely sensitive to what else is on the page. Try running the html through Tidy. The RISC OS port is at

Re: Spurious

2008-08-12 Thread Richard Porter
On 12 Aug 2008 Tony Moore wrote: On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Aug 2008 Tony Moore wrote: On 12 Aug 2008, Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] This fault is extremely sensitive to what else is on the page. Try running the html through Tidy. The

Spurious

2008-08-11 Thread Richard Porter
I've found a very curious problem. At the bottom of a long table which contains several forms I get a spurious character. I have made a change but I can't see a missing or missing quote or anything that would likely to cause it. When I stick in a /tabletable at any point between table rows

Re: Spurious

2008-08-11 Thread Kevin Wells
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found a very curious problem. At the bottom of a long table which contains several forms I get a spurious character. I have made a change but I can't see a missing or missing quote or anything that would

Re: Spurious

2008-08-11 Thread Richard Porter
On 11 Aug 2008 Kevin Wells wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found a very curious problem. At the bottom of a long table which contains several forms I get a spurious character. I have made a change but I can't see a missing or missing