Iris Browser

Thanks – glad you’re enjoying it :)

Recently, Iris has not downloaded some files from some websites: An icon for the file appears in a save box and, after dragging it to a filer window, a window appears showing progress of the download; but, almost immediately, this is followed by a message saying download cancelled by user!
I am used to the problem of downloading files when they are streamed and then nothing happens, but this is different.

Regarding my experience, as long as downloads are saved in the root ($) of a drive it should work. However, saving downloads to a directory will fail with such error message.

There is a known issue (resolved in the latest internal test build) when destination folders have top-bit-set characters in them. I wonder if this is the issue?
It might explain why Ralf has found that it is OK in the root, but not in sub-folders?

I made some further tests to figure out which (physical) drives or sub-directories can downloads be saved to.

Saving downloads will work as long as no spaces or no ‘strange/unusual’ characters like ‘»’ are used in the file name:

• in the root of the drive where Iris is installed on.
• in sub-directories of the drive where Iris is installed on.

Otherwise you’ll get the error message ‘User cancelled the download’.

Saving downloads to the Fat32 partition (Loader) located in !Boot – after mounting the Fat32 partition by clicking with the left mouse button onto the related boot drive icon – the same behaviour applies as above.

Saving downloads to a physical drive drive different to the one where Iris is installed on does NOT work at all. The error message ‘RISC OS error (0×11a9f Not same disc)’ appears.

Examples

The drive where I have Iris installed on is ‘SCSI::Pi4_EVO860’ which is my main RISC OS drive (boot drive and applications). The second one, SCSI::ToshibaSSD, was my former RISC OS drive and is mainly used for data storage now.

When saving to

RISC OS ROM version is 5.29 dated 29 June 21.

HardDisc4 version is dated 27 June 21.

There is a known issue

And unfortunately some more. Google.fr doesn’t even work here.
On the other hand wikipedia.fr does not work on NetSurf too.
France seems to be the test bed for the next JavaScript everywhere websites.