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Posted by news on March 10, 2005, 12:44 pm
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Steve Pugh wrote:
> >news@celticbear.com wrote:
> >> I'm working on a new site for my wife's college art organization:
> >> http://www.ie-studios.net/mci/
> >> and I'm having a problem where a PDF in an IFrame is supposed to
go
> >> "invisible" (and in fact is supposed to be hidden by default) but
it's
> >> always there.
>
> The PDF is being displayed by a separate application, not by the
> browser. The fact that it's embedded in the page (for some users
> depending on browser, plugins, and configuration - for me the PDF
> opens in a normal Acrobat Reader window leaving a very empty looking
> web page) makes no difference. Often items that are displayed with a
> separate application are layered on top of the page and are hence
hard
> to hide.
>
> That said the iframe containing the PDF hides and unhides perfectly
> okay in IE6 and Opera (though in Opera it's a blank white square -
the
> PDF having already opened in a Acrobat Reader window). I guess that
> you're problem is with Gecko browsers?
>
> >> Any alternatives would indeed be appreciated, as is any advice. =)
>
> Convert the contents of the PDF to HTML.
Thanks for the feedback.
Looks like I have no choice, I'll need to make them separate pages,
probably with HTML with links to PDF perhaps.
Yeah, I was testing with Firefox which does the inline iframes just
fine, and keeps the PDF in the defined parameters. In Opera it does
exactly what you described...another reason I'm going to have to eschew
the idea of PDF's in layers altogether.
>
> You can, if the iframe contained a web page rather than something
that
> required an external application then it could be hidden in Gecko as
> well as in IE and Opera.
>
> >z-index is also deprecated (3 ct)
>
> Source?
I'm interested in that as well. Even if I don't use PDF's I'll probably
still use frames.
Anyway, W3C.org passed my HTML validation.
>
> >btw .. nice comment you inserted :
> ><quote>If you can read this, you have an old browser! Update for
> >goodness sake! Or, you have inline frames (iframes) turned off.
There's
> >no reason for that. Go into your options and turn IFrames back on.
> ></quote>
>
> Yep, very nice. Nice display of ignorance and arrogrance bundled into
> one.
>
Uhm, yeah, er, *koff koff* I uh wrote that a few years ago for another
page back before XML and CSS took over and I thought I knew everything
*grin* and then just copy-n-pasted it over from that page to this new
one.
So uh, sorry about that. =)
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Posted by Martin! on March 10, 2005, 3:12 pm
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>>z-index is also deprecated (3 ct)
>
> Source?
>
i am completely wrong here, not deprecated at all, part of css2 and
unalterred in css2.1
it applies only to positioned elements, and thus correctly applied by OP.
source: w3c.org
i own somebody 3ct,
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Posted by kchayka on March 10, 2005, 2:04 pm
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news@celticbear.com wrote:
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> http://www.ie-studios.net/mci/
> and I'm having a problem where a PDF in an IFrame
It is really rude to open a PDF without warning the visitor. Either
convert it to HTML, or use a plain link to the PDF and make it really
obvious what the file is.
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Posted by Adrienne on March 10, 2005, 8:56 pm
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> news@celticbear.com wrote:
>>
>> http://www.ie-studios.net/mci/ and I'm having a problem where a PDF in
>> an IFrame
>
> It is really rude to open a PDF without warning the visitor. Either
> convert it to HTML, or use a plain link to the PDF and make it really
> obvious what the file is.
>
Agreed, I have my browsers set up to NOT open PDF in the browser. I don't
like the way the browser hangs.
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Posted by news on March 10, 2005, 2:24 pm
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Adrienne wrote:
writing in
> >
> > It is really rude to open a PDF without warning the visitor. Either
> > convert it to HTML, or use a plain link to the PDF and make it
really
> > obvious what the file is.
> >
>
> Agreed, I have my browsers set up to NOT open PDF in the browser. I
don't
> like the way the browser hangs.
Thanks all!
That's what I needed. It's evident that I'm going to need to get some
convertible-to-HTML copy of the documents and use those. Then
everything will be hunkydory and nearly 100% universally compliant. =)
Thanks for the feedback!
Liam
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