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=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=ACfU3U1veGpmwlalmSlRUhFWAAUiHFXutw"); 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.... -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == If your feet smell and your nose runs - you're built upside down.