Re: Google Books do not show pages any longer
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;}
.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}
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.
Re: Google Books do not show pages any longer
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=VL5wUgW0RssC&pg=PA24
> The intended display is hidden as
> .viewport div img {display:none;}
>
> .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}
> 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?
--
Cheers
Roger
The more information you have, the more likely it is to be wrong
Re: Google Books do not show pages any longer
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;}
> >
> > .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}
>
> > 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.
--
Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
We are the knights who say "NI!"
Re: Google Books do not show pages any longer
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;}
>>>
>>> .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}
>>
>>> 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
