Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Barry . Allen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the pointer is moved over links the URI is displayed in the > status icon but some links are incredibly long. Would it not be > better to display the URI (and/or descriptive text) in a pop-up > bubble? An alternative i

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Porter
On 5 Nov 2007 Michael Drake wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 5 Nov 2007 Michael Drake wrote: >>> Surely saving a link URL like that is as convenient as Shift+Select >>> clicking on a link to force a download of the link target, which is

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Drake
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Nov 2007 Michael Drake wrote: > > Surely saving a link URL like that is as convenient as Shift+Select > > clicking on a link to force a download of the link target, which is > > common enough on RISC OS browsers. C

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Porter
On 5 Nov 2007 Michael Drake wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 5 Nov 2007 Michael Drake wrote: >>> Sometimes you may come across a link that's so long it wouldn't fit on >>> your screen. If you want to check the destination before followi

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Drake
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Nov 2007 Michael Drake wrote: > > Sometimes you may come across a link that's so long it wouldn't fit on > > your screen. If you want to check the destination before following > > such a link, the best way to see t

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Porter
On 5 Nov 2007 Michael Drake wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Mike Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When the pointer is moved over links the URI is displayed in the >> status icon but some links are incredibly long. Would it not be >> better to display the URI (and/or descriptive te

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Barry . Allen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John McCartney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Barry.Allen > > It must be a different D-day though, the one I'm thinking of is 62 > > years ago not 35. Pray tell me about the one 35 years ago? > Decimalisation Day. Ah! Thank-you. I do r

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread John McCartney
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Barry.Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5 Nov 2007 Barry.Allen wrote: You will of course > > have checked the feature requests and noticed no. > > 1432059 raised on 2006-02-15 (e

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Barry . Allen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Nov 2007 Barry.Allen wrote: > You will of course have checked the feature requests and noticed no. > 1432059 raised on 2006-02-15 (exactly 35 years after D-day)? Of course not! Life is too short and for me the majorit

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Hodgkinson
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Michael Drake wrote: > NetSurf's user interface is designed to try to give you all the > information and functionality you want and use as much of the screen as > possible for the main function of the browser [...] You could use the interactive help protocol to broadcast link

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Drake
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the pointer is moved over links the URI is displayed in the > status icon but some links are incredibly long. Would it not be > better to display the URI (and/or descriptive text) in a pop-up > bubble? You can resize t

Re: Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Porter
On 5 Nov 2007 Barry.Allen wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Mike Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When the pointer is moved over links the URI is displayed in the >> status icon but some links are incredibly long. Would it not be >> better to display the URI (and/or descriptive text

Status display sometimes too small

2007-11-05 Thread Mike Hobbs
When the pointer is moved over links the URI is displayed in the status icon but some links are incredibly long. Would it not be better to display the URI (and/or descriptive text) in a pop-up bubble? An alternative improvement might be gained by moving the horizontal scroll bar onto a separate ro