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Warning: engaging cranky old codemonkey mode. Here's a functional website with the same PDF: https://archive.org/details/frostflowersonwi00albe/page/n1/mode/1u

by t8sr 4y ago

Warning: engaging cranky old codemonkey mode. Here's a functional website with the same PDF: https://archive.org/details/frostflowersonwi00albe/page/n1/mode/1up?ref=ol https://archive.org/details/frostflowersonwi00albe/page/n1/m... You'd think a website about public domain PDFs would be able to load the PDFs, but no. Both Chrome and Safari greet me with multiple load errors, probably because the scan is being embedded in an IFRAME and loading as a full-fledged HTML page from another domain. Oh, but it manages a pop-up asking me to subscribe to their newsletter. Just use an <img>, why does everything have to be 10 layers of javascript and iframes? If it's a PDF, then just link it. That's what the 'H' in HTML is for.

CharlesW 4y ago
> Both Chrome and Safari greet me with multiple load errors… FWIW, all appears to work fine for me in current versions of both Safari and Chrome. I wonder what the difference might be?
- BizarroLand 4y ago
  Worked well for me in Firefox with a boatload of extensions. I wonder if they are using some extension that the site doesn't like?
  - t8sr 4y ago
    It loaded eventually - Chrome blocked a couple of cross site iframe loads, even without any extensions, but after a few reloads it started working. I am on 1gbps fiber with an M1 Max, I don’t know what the issue is.