Re: links no longer work

In article <60d1905a54.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>,
Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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

That's interesting Tony.
I played around with the Def Font sizes, including to match yours but it
didn't make any difference, NS #2190 continued to work okay.

Not much help I appreciate, but worth noting.

BTW. My computer Font manager is "EasyFont Pro" Version 5.18u.

Dave

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Dave Triffid