PDF Viewer support in mobile browser (iPhone & Android)
Solution 1
If embedding isn't important to you you could just link to the PDF on a seperate page.
Safari (and UIWebViews) supports the rendering of PDFs, im not a 100% sure about Android but I suspect its a similar story.
Solution 2
No browsers can support native rendering of PDF files without a plugin (except Google Chrome as claimed here).
But you can you Google Docs Viewer to display PDF files inside a webpage like explained here.
Pinoy2015
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Updated on July 27, 2020Comments
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Pinoy2015 almost 4 years
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<object>tag widely supported in mobile browser?! I'm trying to embed a PDF file but it seems that it is not supported.I'm using the following html for viewing PDF
<object data="pdf/sample.pdf#view=Fit" type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="400px"> <p>It appears you don't have Adobe Reader or PDF support in this web browser. <a rel="external" href="pdf/sample.pdf">Click here to download the PDF</a></p> </object>and using the PDFObject but both of them are not working in mobile browsers!