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If you serve PDFs with public URLs that Google can GET, you can use this in your web app.

• patio11 17y ago
  I think he is talking about it being risky to assume that the undocumented cross-site embedding is a feature Google is committed to supporting in the coming years and not, say, a wee unintended data leak that any engineer in their megacorp could plug at any time, including smack-dab in the middle of your public launch.
  • blasdel 17y ago
    But it didn't do this before -- you used to have to explicitly upload the files to a Google Docs account. Someone explicitly added this feature, and I imagine that it will replace the lame "View as HTML" links on SERPs very soon. This ain't going away.
    • ars 17y ago
      It won't replace view as HTML because it's images of the text, not the text itself.
      • blasdel 17y ago
        It does contain the selectable text where available. The real problem is that it's an empty-window UI -- it does nothing without Javascript on.
  • jules 17y ago
    You can always replace it with an <object> tag.