On 31 Mar 2015, Harriet Bazley wrote: > 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=VL5wUgW0RssC&pg=PA24 >>> The intended display is hidden as >> >>> .viewport div img {display:none;} >>> </style><div 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-8859-1&pg=PA24&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=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. Let's hope that Netsurf can find a fludge fix for this problem soon, if they can't do a proper fix quickly. -- Cheers Roger A proton is for life, not just for Christmas
