Preview Panel

[JuanPalomo]

Jack,

Just only as an idea.. would it be possible to add a "preview panel" like we have in the notes client? (i don't know if this is hard to develop...)

(Of course i understand this is not an high priority in your long task list..but i am only asking...)

Thanks in advance

[jratcliff]

This is a great idea and we need this. I'm not sure how difficult it is to do so I'll add it to our list and will investigate it with Rich.

~Jack R.

[JuanPalomo]

Jack, if you want i can attach the database that i develop with the preview view.. the only think is that it's develop with ext 1.1

Maybe it can help you.. (but please remember it's a different version)

[Zakaroonikov]

I think the main difficulty will be the use of iframes for read mode. Since when you open up a document it opens in an iframe it has to load all the css and scripts everytime. Putting that into a preview pane will make previewing documents fairly slow.

We have been playing around with a preview pane and have started to alter our system to open up our documents via ajax instead of iframes in read mode. Since these documents are no longer self-contained, you cannot then use non-unique id attributes on any elements you want to show in read mode.