Thursday, 7 March 2013

Re: BBC News websites

On 7 Mar 2013 Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:

> On 7 Mar 2013 Alan Calder wrote:

>> Just tried using the BBC News link on Netsurf's home page (the out of the
>> box version) NS 2.9.

>> Works fine, taking me automatically to http://m.bbc.co.uk/news , which I
>> assume to be the mobile version. Not pretty but it is usable.

> That is precisely the problem. We want the desktop version, not the
> mobile version. If I want m.bbc.co.uk I can request m.bbc.co.uk.

FWIW the development versions access the "proper" BBC sites with no
problem. I can't remember the last time I had a catastrophic failure
with these versions, and the occasional failure to access a site can
be useful to the developers, as long as one files a bug report.

With best wishes,

Peter.

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