[iyonix-support] Re: Netsurf Printing; !Unicode.

In article <4e6c6dfa00gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gary Locock <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> In article <e7f55c6c4e.acld75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, george
>    <george.greenfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In message <4e6c51d852alan_calder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Alan Calder
> >           <alan_calder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > In article <7d744d6c4e.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David J. Ruck
> > >    <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > >> TAKE THIS ELSEWHERE.
> > > 
> > > Yes, I take your point but I still maintain that it is an Iyonix
> > > issue - no decent browser so how do we 'sell' the machine to
> > > sceptical users outside the RISC OS bubble?

> [Snip]

> > Dave, you're right in principle BUT: the members of this group are
> > here because we own Iyonixes. However, some of us see a situation
> > where the continued use of our machines as standalone, general purpose
> > home computers is becoming increasingly difficult due to one glaring
> > inadequacy - lack of a decent browser.

> [Snip]

> Now here I agree with Druck.  Castle can't fix the browser situation on
> their own, and so it isn't a helpful support issue (though definitely a
> marketing issue, as you rightly say)

I absolutely understand this but where do we actually raise the issue then
if not here - is there an 'Iyonix problem discussion list'?  If so I stand
corrected.  As it is raising it anywhere else is just fragmentation -
something that Druck and Peter Naulls and others have rightly complained
about in the past.  

Putting it baldly - there is no way that Firefox will ever run at more than
demonstration speed on less than an Iyonix so we have to get it to a
reasonable state for that machine.  And then there is the question of
Netsurf and Javascript and the question of Unicode.

Lack of a decent browser may be 'a marketing issue' but without a market
what use is a support list?  Unless one takes the view that is more fun to
mess with machines that can't actually do anything useful because they have
ceased production.

Cheers

Alan

[Snip]

-- 
Alan Calder, Milton Keynes, UK.

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