Re: Avant Portable ver 11.43 - several comments

de hummingbird 01/13/2007 03:34

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:39:26 +0200 'michail iakovou yos'
posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:

>Hello.... this focus thing you keep saying.. I have not really understood
>what it is..
>I have not seen any strange behaviour...

It's where you have a webpage in view - maybe one you've just loaded
or brought to the foreground - but using the cursor keys to scroll
up/down does nothing until you mouseclick somewhere on the page to
give it focus. It's also an intermittent problem which makes it even
more irritating.

Clicking can be a problem if you do so in the wrong place and find
yourself disappearing off to a hidden link, as sometimes happens.

So the solution is to fix the focus problem.

>You can always go to the avant forum and post your ideas for fixes-
>enhancments..
>I think that the developer has an open mind and will listen.

I e-mailed the author 18 months ago about the focus problem and
numerous other users have raised it too. I concluded long ago that
the author probably doesn't know how to solve the problem.

>anyway...
>
>for RSS I have tried everything, and concluded to the using stand alone
>dedicated RSS reader, that is free end very good>>>
>
>http://www.curiostudio.com/

One of the main reasons I went to Avant and stay with it is because
of its built-in RSS feed which works well. But that tool has now been
downgraded in later versions as I described, God knows why.

>"hummingbird" <RHBIYDTNPPAX@spammotel.com> wrote in message
>news:kmjhq2d3kh79s37cahff2camiku2bnpg52@4ax.com...
>>I d/l and tried the latest portable version 11.43 but have several
>> dislikes with it; the main one being the way in which it handles
>> RSS feeds.
>>
>> The older non-portable version 10.1.40 which I still use has a menu
>> button marked 'Feeds' which accesses all my personal RSS feeds.
>>
>> This button has disappeared on later versions. RSS feeds can now only
>> be incorporated into Bookmarks as a seperate folder or accessed by
>> that new wretched left-side-bar which I don't like much. Added
>> problems are that there seens no way to transfer RSS feeds from the
>> older version to the new version and the favicons can't be customised
>> like before. This is possibly due to the different format now used.
>>
>> The other problem is that although it says that menu bars can all be
>> customised there seems to be limitations on this which affect me.
>> Notably I couldn't get the menu items to appear on the same line as
>> the menu icons like I can under the older version and the menu items
>> can't be positioned on their line as before.
>>
>> I'm also not sure if the author has solved the problem of a tab losing
>> focus or not getting it in the first place - a very irritating issue.
>>
>> Bottom line: I'll continue using 10.1.40 on my PC and only use the
>> portable version only if I have a need for its portability.