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 6 months ago
It’s the only proper way .
Fuck your website all my homies use their preferred PDF reader.
marcos@lemmy.world 6 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.