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This is kind of related to #179: like PDF and other non-text file formats, we can’t diff MS Word documents. BUT! Both Google and Microsoft offer iframe-embeddable renderers for Word docs, so we could use that to display the contents of the file, even if we can’t diff it.
We should see if these viewers work for Powerpoint and Excel files, too.
And of course we should also see if we can figure out a way to actually diff them, but this is an easy short term solution that’s better than displaying nothing at all.
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For this, you’ll probably want to create a new view that renders a word document using one of the above methods. See SandboxedHtml for an example, although this view will hopefully be much simpler.
This is kind of related to #179: like PDF and other non-text file formats, we can’t diff MS Word documents. BUT! Both Google and Microsoft offer iframe-embeddable renderers for Word docs, so we could use that to display the contents of the file, even if we can’t diff it.
Google: https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://edgi-versionista-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/versionista2/74286-6216580/version-14182260.doc&embedded=true
Microsoft: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=https://edgi-versionista-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/versionista2/74286-6216580/version-14182260.doc
We should see if these viewers work for Powerpoint and Excel files, too.
And of course we should also see if we can figure out a way to actually diff them, but this is an easy short term solution that’s better than displaying nothing at all.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: