Viewing a url on iPad - strange thing happening

RideForever

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Lately, strange occurrences.
1. My spouse would send me an article to read on the Times Colonist. Click on the link in the email on MAIL on iPad, see a quick view of the TC website and then it would jump to the article. The back arrow was not actionable (greyed out) and there was nothing you could do except read the article and delete the page. I thought the TC had introduced a new anti-browsing feature unless you were a paid subscriber.

2. Emails from others (like the Globe & Mail, an investing website etc), the same thing is occurring. Only that article would be available and all you can do is delete the page.

3. I opened a new page on iPad to open VMUG's website, home page - for about 1-2 seconds at most you could see it and then it changed to the attached with no other alternatives to do anything available.

I have not changed any settings in a long, long time and this is recent. I am not sure where to look to undo whatever change might have occurred. Any thoughts would be most welcome.
 

chas_m

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Nothing attached, so hard to say. Copying and pasting one of these links would also be helpful to see if anyone can duplicate the effect you're seeing.

At present, the only guess I can offer is that the link puts the iPad in "Reader Mode," which presents the article sans any other content apart from accompanying pictures (no ads, no sidebars, no nothing but text and pictures in an easy-to-read format). If that's the case, then the mystery is solved -- a "reader mode" only lets you close the page when you're done or print the page, nothing else.
 

RideForever

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Not sure why the attachment did not take (maybe because it was a .png file) but tried as a jpeg and that does not work so will drop it in place. How do you get out of reader mode if that is what it is?

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chas_m

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You're in Reader Mode. Clicking on the "aA" in black at the top of the address bar will take you out of reader mode.

That said, anytime anyone sends you a link to *a specific page* on the website, or you open a link in a separate window, there won't be a back or forward button available because you've only opened the one page (whether you're in Reader mode or not).
 

RideForever

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You're in Reader Mode. Clicking on the "aA" in black at the top of the address bar will take you out of reader mode.

That said, anytime anyone sends you a link to *a specific page* on the website, or you open a link in a separate window, there won't be a back or forward button available because you've only opened the one page (whether you're in Reader mode or not).
Very interesting - thank you very much. Until just recently, I have never seen or experienced this.
 
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