Epiphany Browser

Epiphany silently ignores iframe with PDF

Bug #1633995 reported by Thierens on 2016-10-17

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Epiphany Browser	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

For school, I have an online platform with some documents on it. Some of them are pdf. Other browser display the pdf inline or they download the file, but Epiphany just shows an empty screen. The HTML structure is an iframe, the src attribute is a php webpage that just gives the pdf.

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Thierens (brent-thierens) wrote on 2016-10-17:

view of webpage and relevant HTML Edit (120.4 KiB, image/png)

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2016-10-18:

Can confirm this issue using this website https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/iframe-pdf.html

Changed in elementaryos:
status:	New → Confirmed
affects:	elementaryos → epiphany

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Zisu Andrei (matzipan) wrote on 2016-11-03:

This issue seems to be present in Epiphany on 3.22 (flatpak) as well.

The most popular example (and really bad design on the side of the web developers) is IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp), the library system used to read papers published by IEEE.

affects:	epiphany → epiphany-browser
summary:	- epiphany doesn't display iframe with pdf + Epiphany doesn't display iframe with PDF
summary:	- Epiphany doesn't display iframe with PDF + Epiphany silently ignores iframe with PDF