Learning Report 6

Displaying a PDF File on Your Web Page

I thought I would fiddle around with adding a PDF file into my website. I have seen other sites do this--mostly the BYU-I web site. I know it can be done and I will try the same approach Bro. Robertson explained on his website for the video link.

Resources

Brother Robertson's example of a streaming video site linked to Youtube. I don't know if this will work well; I might have to find another source too.

What I Learned

Implementation

First, I copy the link for the video site that I will do in a couple of weeks (just kidding, I'm doing this report late, so LR8 is already done).

Then we change all links to the video so they point to the PDF we want to display.

Now we get rid of any params that refer to video-type stuff like 'fullscreen'.

Now we see how many errors we get.

Wow! No errors and a clean display in firefox, but IE will not show the pdf. I guess this is why people like firefox huh?

Taking the rest of the param tags out didn't seem to do anything. This is where we search online for definitions of the param tag and find out how we tell IE that this is a PDF file.

Ultimately, you must write two separate links for your pdf file. Internet explorer and firefox use different details inside the object tag. You must write separate commands for each browser, but one of these commands can be inside the other. The only probles is that this flags as an error on the w3 validation page, so I can't post it here quite yet. I will keep looking into it and see if there are any ways to satisfy both browsers without the system flagging.