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Re: Midland show report - and Firefox 2 feedback?

druck <n...@druck.freeuk.com>

On 25 Nov 2006 Peter Naulls <pe...@chocky.org> wrote:

> Even though I couldn't be there, thanks to Druck and co for organising
> the show, and Druck for being able to demonstrate Firefox on my behalf.
> Anyone care to comment on the show in general?

Full credit should go to The ARM Club's Ralph Sillett who single handled
arranged the show, and the members of the Midlands User Group that helped out
on the day.

Despite the atrocious weather in the morning and various road accidents
slowing progress, there was a good flow of people through all day. The
venue was an ideal size and very pleasant. To all accounts it was enjoyed
equally by visitors and exhibitors alike.

> Also, if anyone has any feedback after trying out Firefox 2, I'd
> appreicate it - both good and bad.

Sorry I was not able to give a better demo, but without and internet
connection at the show, I was only able to show a few pages saved with
NetSurf's full save option. (I do know about the --mirror flag to wget
now).

People did seem to be impressed that FireFox 2 port was already up to, if not
slightly beyond the state that 1.5 reached, rather than being a less
complete port of the new code. So the good news is all the work from now on
will be improving the usability, stability, and implementing missing features
from the versions running on other platforms.

I'm sure Peter will want to pass his thanks on to those who donated cash
towards future development at the show, and the fund will be another £200
up after I get to the bank on Monday.

> I'm not going to endlessly defend obvious flaws it has; I have better
> things to do.  I'd prefer comments here in order to avoid repetition,
> rather than emailing me.

Well the observations so far are:-

* It needs the spelling mistake highlighting (well I need it!)
* The picture of the keyboard on www.drobe.co.uk isn't displayed
  correctly and wiping a window over it results in partial redraws and
  then a crash.
* Closing a window before its fully drawn causes a crash.
* Some of the graphics at the top of www.iyonix.com not show.

> I think also the NetSurf developers would appreciate something similar,
> if you haven't seen that in action in a while.

Well a couple came up for that, which I'm sure will be put in the NetSurf
bug tracker by those who mentioned them.

* The history window is blank on the Iyonix, but apparently works on the A9
* Sexed quotes aren't displayed unless the page character set is strictly
  correct. This should be relaxed so they are show for pages in the standard
  Windows encoding.

---druck

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