Great, yet more formats that I have to try and get around Google Docs with. Worst of all is PDF: Some of us have browsers and platforms that don't hate the format, and viewing PDFs natively in Safari/Chrome is a million times better than sending them through Google Docs for mangling.<p>Easily my most despised GMail "feature", that.
Awesome. We've had it on Mibbit for some time now to view pdf, ppt and doc files.<p>(Inline viewing next to chat, see screengrab)<p><a href="http://blog.mibbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Picture-2.png" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mibbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Picture-2....</a><p>Excellent we can now pass on support for the others.
It's a shame it's so chatty. Unless you're using it as a simple IFrame embed, it will fall over on xss errors.<p>In Twiddla, for example, we'd like to include a bit of custom script to detect when you click the "next page" button so that we can keep everybody synced up. That means we have to proxy it through our server and mess with the markup a bit. That's easy to do in Scribd's viewer, and it actually worked fine in Gdocs' view before October last year.<p>Then they changed things & got all fancy. Shame.
I found a couple people surprised by this in another context, so I'll include it here: while nice and featureful, Google Docs requires viewers to be logged into Google. This is a problem for some curmudgeons like myself, so if at all possible, try to have at least some alternate means of providing the data.
Very cool. I wish I could use it:<p><i>Google Docs is not available for jedsmith.org. Learn more about Google products you can use with jed@jedsmith.org.</i><p>I love the Google Apps Unified Account, but it seems like every now and then I run into yet another service that hasn't been "migrated" yet.
I have just tried to open a word file and it was impossible since Google Docs support Word files only up to 1MB! This is a big limitation in case that somebody would like to co-edit scientific articles.
The Illustrator and Photoshop formats are what caught my eye.<p>What happens if you try to view an Illustrator file in Google Docs Viewer?<p>Does it render the file just as Illustrator would?<p>Since Google Docs offers the ability to export to PDF, it would be impressive if you could open an Illustrator file in Google Docs and export it to PDF format without the need to own a copy of Illustrator.