Honestly, Elsevier is the worst. They tease you with those section snippets, so I scroll from the abstract and can start reading the introduction…scroll a bit more and it’s unceremoniously cut off mid-sentence. Then I rage because the article is newer than 2022 (no Sci-Hub) and my institution gets cheaper every year.
I can’t view papers I’ve published in some journals anymore. When I see this, I think: “Why don’t we subscribe to papers we are actively publishing in?? Why aren’t all of the papers I want to read published in open access journals?? Why did I contribute to a journal that wasn’t open access??”
Turun@feddit.de 11 months ago
It’s the only proper way .
Fuck your website all my homies use their preferred PDF reader.
marcos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The proper way is to send the PDF, with the correct mime, and let the browser deal with it any way it decides to.
The stupid way for a site to act is to tell the browser to download the file instead of displaying it. And the stupid way for a browser to act is to do whatever the site tells it to do instead of what they user wants. The OP seems to have picked a stupid pair of tools.