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;}
</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....
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