Linking to book pages at archive.org in 1up mode just stopped working
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Internet Archive BookReader |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I use linking to individual book pages at archive.org extensively, using “1up” (single-page, scrolling) mode, but this seems to have stopped working in the last 24 hours or less. Linking in “2up” mode is still working.
e.g. The links in this page of mine:
http://
should take you to the particular section of the book, but they have all stopped working and instead take you to the first page of the book. I added two test links, labelled “2up”, with red background, and these work ok.
More importantly, I have constructed pages indexes to 25 old dictionaries at archive.org, accessible via Multidict at multidict.net, and these have all stopped working. e.g. This dictionary no longer works:
http://
whereas this dictionary, where I have experimentally changed to using “2up” mode, does work and looks up the Gaelic word “ruadh”:
http://
I could change all the dictionaries to use “2up” mode, and I’ll have to do this soon if the bug can not be cured, but I don’t really want to, because “1up” mode is more specific, allowing you to find the word faster within a single page, and scrolling is better than page-turning, because it allows you to see the whole of an entry which spans two pages.
When reading a book in “1up” mode, you can change the page number manually in the url in the browser address bar, and this still works. But if you try to copy and paste the url to a new tab, this has stopped working.
Since writing the above, I have added a patch at http:// multidict. net/ to make Multidict use 2up mode for all Internet Archive dictionaries, so as get dictionary lookup working again. (Hopefully this patch will only be required temporarily, because 1up mode is better for dictionaries than 2up mode.) I have left the mirror site http:// test.multidict. net/ unpatched and this is still exhibiting the behaviour I described above.