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I was rather disappointed the other day to find out that Essex libraries
have stopped subscribing to the BSOL web site for BS documents. Hence no ability to get easy access to copies of standards any more. Anyone know of another source? Is the BSOL site still using silverlight? -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 17/06/2016 22:09, John Rumm wrote:
I was rather disappointed the other day to find out that Essex libraries have stopped subscribing to the BSOL web site for BS documents. Hence no ability to get easy access to copies of standards any more. Anyone know of another source? Is the BSOL site still using silverlight? You used to be able to create an online account with Lancashire Library without needing to live in Lancashire. They provided access to British Standards, etc. I haven't used it for a while, so don't know whether anything has changed. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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John Rumm wrote:
I was rather disappointed the other day to find out that Essex libraries have stopped subscribing to the BSOL web site for BS documents. Hence no ability to get easy access to copies of standards any more. Anyone know of another source? Manchester Central Library (they'll let you join regardless of where you live) Is the BSOL site still using silverlight? No thank god, it seems like a HTML5 based PDF renderer now, works in Firefox, downloading the actual PDF isn't enabled. |
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On 17/06/2016 22:34, Andy Burns wrote:
John Rumm wrote: I was rather disappointed the other day to find out that Essex libraries have stopped subscribing to the BSOL web site for BS documents. Hence no ability to get easy access to copies of standards any more. Anyone know of another source? Manchester Central Library (they'll let you join regardless of where you live) Yup, that seems to work, and you don't even need a library card. Thanks. Is the BSOL site still using silverlight? No thank god, it seems like a HTML5 based PDF renderer now, works in Firefox, downloading the actual PDF isn't enabled. Just trying to work out if the PDF is rendered server side or client side... -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 17/06/2016 23:59, John Rumm wrote:
On 17/06/2016 22:34, Andy Burns wrote: John Rumm wrote: I was rather disappointed the other day to find out that Essex libraries have stopped subscribing to the BSOL web site for BS documents. Hence no ability to get easy access to copies of standards any more. Anyone know of another source? Manchester Central Library (they'll let you join regardless of where you live) Yup, that seems to work, and you don't even need a library card. Thanks. Is the BSOL site still using silverlight? No thank god, it seems like a HTML5 based PDF renderer now, works in Firefox, downloading the actual PDF isn't enabled. Just trying to work out if the PDF is rendered server side or client side... ok, sussed it. Client side, but then rendered in a JS document viewer, with the content streamed into it rather than downloaded in the traditional sense. So downloading the PDF may not be enabled, but that can be worked around ;-) -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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John Rumm Wrote in message:
On 17/06/2016 23:59, John Rumm wrote: On 17/06/2016 22:34, Andy Burns wrote: John Rumm wrote: I was rather disappointed the other day to find out that Essex libraries have stopped subscribing to the BSOL web site for BS documents. Hence no ability to get easy access to copies of standards any more. Anyone know of another source? Manchester Central Library (they'll let you join regardless of where you live) Yup, that seems to work, and you don't even need a library card. Thanks. Is the BSOL site still using silverlight? No thank god, it seems like a HTML5 based PDF renderer now, works in Firefox, downloading the actual PDF isn't enabled. Just trying to work out if the PDF is rendered server side or client side... ok, sussed it. Client side, but then rendered in a JS document viewer, with the content streamed into it rather than downloaded in the traditional sense. So downloading the PDF may not be enabled, but that can be worked around ;-) -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ Sounds good John Hope you will post the solution to this one Phil -- ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 18/06/2016 23:03, TheChief wrote:
John Rumm Wrote in message: On 17/06/2016 23:59, John Rumm wrote: On 17/06/2016 22:34, Andy Burns wrote: John Rumm wrote: I was rather disappointed the other day to find out that Essex libraries have stopped subscribing to the BSOL web site for BS documents. Hence no ability to get easy access to copies of standards any more. Anyone know of another source? Manchester Central Library (they'll let you join regardless of where you live) Yup, that seems to work, and you don't even need a library card. Thanks. Is the BSOL site still using silverlight? No thank god, it seems like a HTML5 based PDF renderer now, works in Firefox, downloading the actual PDF isn't enabled. Just trying to work out if the PDF is rendered server side or client side... ok, sussed it. Client side, but then rendered in a JS document viewer, with the content streamed into it rather than downloaded in the traditional sense. So downloading the PDF may not be enabled, but that can be worked around ;-) Sounds good John Hope you will post the solution to this one Sure, anyone who needs it, drop me an email (to save over exposing it) -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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