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X-UA-Compatible

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:39:01 GMT

found this on the web http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype
appears you just need ......"IE=7"

Marvellous! That works perfectly

Posted by Phil Mellor (monkeyson2) in Programming
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X-UA-Compatible

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:01:35 GMT

found this on the web http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype
appears you just need ......"IE=7"

Posted by David Jackson (Jacko) in Programming
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X-UA-Compatible

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:49:32 GMT

I had to do it on one of our software products - I did it by changing the web server configuration to automatically put it in as a header, rather than as a meta-tag.

I also found that IE8 in compatibility mode wasn't as compatible as IE7 native, but you've already found it's okay for you.

Posted by Jason Tribbeck (tribbles) in Programming
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X-UA-Compatible

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:35:05 GMT

I've got a CMS web site which has a few edit mode bugs in IE8, but is perfectly happy in IE7, Chrome, etc.

Now, I know the correct solution would be to make it work properly in IE8 but I don't have the time to do this - and I have no control over the majority of the HTML, CSS and javascript.

I do, however have the option of adding the X-UA-Compatible meta tag to the edit pages to tell IE to work in IE7 standards mode.

But it doesn't do anything! The developer toolbar indicate that it's still in IE8 Standards mode - if I switch to IE7 Standards using the dev toolbar or backwards compatibility it all starts working.

I've tried both

{meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=IE7" /}

and

{meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /}

The DOCTYPE is

{!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"}

and I've changed the pointy tag brackets to curly braces to make sure I can post them safely here. I'm not that nuts!

Any ideas why it doesn't work?

Posted by Phil Mellor (monkeyson2) in Programming
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low memory malloc?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:32:29 GMT

It looks ideal to me, thanks. I'll give it a go as soon as I get a chance.

Posted by Simon Willcocks (Stoppers) in Programming
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List of Acorn Archimedes Games

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:01:09 GMT

You could always put on a link to my Acorn youtube videos as well(If I've recorded the game of course)

Posted by P Scott (vanpeebles) in Games
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List of Acorn Archimedes Games

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:51:26 GMT

Keith - good luck with this. Is the idea to include your own guide for each game or to just link to sites containing guides? The trouble with the latter is sites can go down and will vary in quality.

The idea is to include links to my guides for the certain games, if possible. However, I may link to the FAQ section of gaming websites (such as GameFAQs/Neoseeker/etc) if they offer a guide for a game that I have not wrote a guide for.

If you're going to do that, then you could remove Equinox - unless there was another Equinox released (although I did register !Equinox successfully).

Thanks, will do.

Posted by Keith Kelly (Games) in Games
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Free - VTi Printer Port Sampler

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:37:09 GMT

Well, about 40 of them actually!

Just getting a feel for this, but if anyone wanted one for the price of postage (stamped address envelope), do they want one?

It'll have disks (one for Sonor [version 1.07], the other for Talking Canvas Junior), manual, microphone and obviously the unit itself.

They should work on all Acorn RISC OS machines (the machines post-Acorn, I'm not sure on).

I ended up with them after Argogroup and ArgoNet split up, and I don't have a need for them

I'll find out the weights tomorrow once I've put all the various parts together.

I think I've also got a fair number of microphones in addition to that, so they're going as individual items too. And the floppy discs and manuals (but they're less desirable) - it's only the sampler units that I have lower numbers of.

Note: The microphones ... I wouldn't use them in a studio environment is probably the best way to describe them...

Posted by Jason Tribbeck (tribbles) in General
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List of Acorn Archimedes Games

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:55:30 GMT

Thanks for that link. Need to update the list to remove one of the PD games

If you're going to do that, then you could remove Equinox - unless there was another Equinox released (although I did register !Equinox successfully).

Posted by Jason Tribbeck (tribbles) in Games
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low memory malloc?

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:53:18 GMT

If it helps, I do have some malloc-like routines I wrote to replace the Acorn ones

That'd be great, as long as I can release them under the LGPL.

I had intended to release under LGPL, but under RISC OS at the time separate linked libraries were impossible, so I released under the artistic license.

I'm quite willing to relicense it for you - just have a look and see if it does what you need; if you're happy, I'll do you an LGPL licensed version. I can't say it's totally bug free, but I have used the code for quite a while. It doesn't do a great deal (it's under 200 lines)!

http://www.rovlib.com/

And the particular component is probably the GenHeap bit.

http://www.rovlib.com/api/genheap-frame.html

I've just had a look at the code, and I have done a better version somewhere else.

The better version uses the concept of small and large blocks, and puts small blocks into large blocks, so if you free up all the small blocks in a large block, it frees the large block too - the idea is to prevent fragmentation.

If I remember what I did it in, and I can release it, I'll send it on (this should get you going at least).

- but you'd need to do the "get a chunk of space in low memory" code yourself.

Linux seems to start allocating at the top of memory, so it's just a matter of using mmap with the appropriate parameters, which I had to do to give BASIC its workspace, anyway.

Whether that will work with ARMLinux, I don't know, but I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.

A mate of mine ported a version of Prolog to the Inmos Transputer. The primary problem he had was that NULL on a Transputer was 0x80000000, and the program was littered with things like:

void* chunk = malloc(1024);
if(!chunk)
{
//...
}

0x00000000 was a valid area of memory to be allocated (but pretty rarely).

Posted by Jason Tribbeck (tribbles) in Programming
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