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Federico P.3's avatar
Federico P.3
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11 years ago

preview my files in iframe using http core api

Hi, i am developing an application that let user browse his file inside my web application. I'd like to let user preview his file inside an iframe of such webapp as such as it is done in dropbox ...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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11 years ago

I don't believe iframes support data: URIs as src, so you'd have to host the data at a URL like I mentioned in my last reply.

As far as browser support for different file types are concerned, that would depend on the specific file type and browser capabilities, unrelated to Dropbox itself. For example, I don't believe most browsers can natively display word documents, and would instead offer to download the file.

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