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.
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Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
We are the knights who say "NI!"
