Re: links no longer work

On 22 Oct 2014, Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <68164b5a54.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>,
> Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> > Using RiscPC, RO 6.20, NS #2190, the links no longer work
>
> > To see this, load a page, eg
> > file:///NetSurf:/Resources/en/welcome.html and hover the pointer
> > over a link. The pointer remains a select-arrow and doesn't change
> > to hand-pointing, as it should. Clicking on the link does nothing,
> > and the status bar remains blank.
>
> > Moving the pointer around, shows that the active location for each
> > link is displaced by about three lines above the link.
>
> > Does anyone else see this bizarre problem?
>
> Tony, the answer is no.
> SARPC RO 6.20 and NetSurf #2190
>
> Here the links all produce the hand pointer, and clicking on a few of
> them at random, they all work and produce the required pages.

Many thanks for the response.

Here, NS #2136 behaves correctly, however NS #2190 doesn't.

I think that the problem has something to do with the font size. In
Choices > Fonts, the default, and minimum, font sizes are both 12 pt.

file:///NetSurf:/Resources/en/welcome.html opens at 100% scale but the
fonts, apart from the headline, are displayed at 14 pt, however it seems
that the locations of the active areas may have been determined assuming
a display 12 pt. This results in the active areas being displaced to the
left, and upwards. Both displacements are proportional to the distance
from the top-left corner of the page.

Increasing the display scale to 110% causes the fonts to be displayed at
12 pt and the active areas then match the link locations. Reverting to
100% scale causes the fonts to become smaller than 12 pt, but the active
areas still match the link locations.

Other pages are also affected, but a workaround seems to be to increase
/decrease the display scale.

Tony