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aomar
aomar

Reputation: 510

IFRAME has a lot of problems with iPad safari

i am developing a java web application which will be browsed using iPad safari through 3G\VPN connection, i have an IFRAME its SRC is a url to a servlet that sends a pdf file to the IFRAM 

<iframe src="documentviewer?docid=#{viewIncomingBean.incoming.id}" width="610px" height="5000px"></iframe>

problems with IFRAM on iPad Safari are:

1 -after calculating the time taken on server side to flush the pdf file in the output stream to the client i found that the IFRAME takes a very long time to getting rendered and the pdf file loaded on client side (please have a look Using Iframes Sparingly).

2 - on iPad Safari the IFRAME can't be scrolled using regular one finger touch style, you must use two fingers to scroll the IFRAME up and down (please have a look ipad and iframe problem).

is there is any other better way to load the pdf file in a web page ????

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3293

Answers (1)

tony
tony

Reputation: 84

I had to develop a pdf viewer for an ipad site we were working on. We could not make the scroll work with other thing but the two fingers.

What we did was to use http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js

it is a javascript renderer for pdf documents. It works great ... of course, if you dont use IE.

another solution is to use the document reader of google ... https://docs.google.com/viewer

Upvotes: 1

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