Re: Oregano 1 question

David Pitt wrote:

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Graham Pegg <Dad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Dave <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11 Sep 2007 S G <nwsgrp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Apart from turning javascript off; is there any way of stopping
"The layer does not exist...." message window popping up, centre
stage with tedious regularity in Oregano 1?
No, you are stuck with it. You should have upgraded to O2 which
supports more of the DOM. Little point now though, its only slightly
less out of date than O1.

Funny, I have never seen that message!

Sounds like a web site generated error, not one that Oregano would be creating itself. You could try reporting as a different user agent, or maybe try toggling the fake layer support option.

I have. Every time I try to access Novatech's website. It formats
horribly, too.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/

Oregano1 does come up with that wonderful error, Oregano2 falls over
with old faithful, "no stack for trap handler". Both Oreganos do display
the page with scripting turned off.

NetSurf only displays the top banners, there is no content. There are
too many </html> tags in the source.

The lastminute.com site used to do that a lot. It looked like they were just pasting entire HTML files that did what they wanted into the main index.html file!

Still, they are a supplier of Windoze computers...

What is wrong with Windows, it is a fine platform on hardware that
leaves RISC OS standing. Whether we like it or not the days of strictly
correct HTML are long gone, browsers need to cope with that, as Firefox
2.0.0.6 and Internet Explorer 7 do.

Was there ever a time when strictly correct HTML was the norm?

In my view NetSurf is being over-hyped on this thread. It is far and
away the best browser on RISC OS. Its major shortcoming is always given
as its lack of javascript but as this example shows "bad" html is a
problem too.

The Oreganos put us in our place, those scripting errors never got fixed
for our insignificant platform. It's a shame, they are not bad browsers
otherwise.

Well never is a very long time.... http://www.mybigideas.co.uk/images/NovaTech.png


Oh no, the browser issue just got another airing!

*runs and hides*

Leo

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