Re: Google Books do not show pages any longer

2015-03-31 Thread Roger Darlington 
On 18 Feb 2015, Harriet Bazley  wrote:
 On 17 Feb 2015 as I do recall,
   Roger Darlington  wrote:


 I suppose someone knows that Google Books does not show the pages any
 longer in any version of Netsurf I have. One 2 years old, NS 3.2, and
 a test build from today.

 It used to work fine, but Google must have put some spanners in their
 works.

 I think it's some kind of copy protection. The links to the images are still
 *there* in the source code, but specified as 'background'.   The thing to
 do is to search for the string .viewport.

 For example, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssCpg=PA24
 The intended display is hidden as

 .viewport div img {display:none;}
 /stylediv style=height:853px;width:575px;position:relative;margin-
 bottom:4px
 style type=text/css.html_page_image {
 background-image:url(https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssC
 ie=ISO-8859-1pg=PA24img=1zoom=3hl=ensig=ACfU3U1veGpmwlalmSlRUhFW
 AAUiHFXutw);
 width:575px;height:853px; top:0px;left:0px;position:relative}/style

 Click on *that*, and you can see the page, annoying though the workaround
 is


I am puzzled by this Hilary.

Firefox on Windows7 has no such trouble displaying google book pages 
without any rigmarole about finding some other link hidden deep inside 
it and clicking on that instead.

Maybe Firefox ingnores display:none and background display and instead 
gets straight on with the proper business of displaying it?



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Roger
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Re: Google Books do not show pages any longer

2015-03-31 Thread Harriet Bazley 
On 31 Mar 2015 as I do recall,
  Roger Darlington  wrote:

 On 18 Feb 2015, Harriet Bazley  wrote:

[snip]

  For example, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssCpg=PA24
  The intended display is hidden as

  .viewport div img {display:none;}
  /stylediv style=height:853px;width:575px;position:relative;margin-
  bottom:4px
  style type=text/css.html_page_image {
  background-image:url(https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VL5wUgW0RssC
  ie=ISO-8859-1pg=PA24img=1zoom=3hl=ensig=ACfU3U1veGpmwlalmSlRUhFW
  AAUiHFXutw);
  width:575px;height:853px; top:0px;left:0px;position:relative}/style

  Click on *that*, and you can see the page, annoying though the workaround
  is


 I am puzzled by this Hilary.

 Firefox on Windows7 has no such trouble displaying google book pages
 without any rigmarole about finding some other link hidden deep inside
 it and clicking on that instead.

 Maybe Firefox ingnores display:none and background display and instead
 gets straight on with the proper business of displaying it?

Much more likely that it is Firefox that supports the complicated
obfuscation they are using to make the content of the book invisible to
search engines/impossible to save out of Windows browsers (or whatever the
purpose of this CSS may be), and Netsurf that ignores it.

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unreadably narrow column in rendering of page

2015-03-31 Thread Jim Nagel 
These pages from local newspaper takes ages in the fetching-processing 
stage, and then finally displays its text in a pane that is too narrow 
to read.
http://www.centralsomersetgazette.co.uk/Just-doctor-ordered/story-26229361-detail/story.html
http://www.centralsomersetgazette.co.uk/Street-schoolgirl-gains-place-national-theatre/story-26181050-detail/story.html

Dunno if the fault is Netsurf or the designer of the page.

The wife (voice teacher for pupils in stories) is not impressed.

Netsurf #2644 on Iyonix (RiscOS 5.18).

-- 
Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk