Perhaps, a preview...

submitted by kokolokoNightcrawler from self.IdeasForSaidIt

Howdy ya'll. I was asked by d3rr to present here a halfbaked idea of having an iframe (sandbox) preview for not only Youtube, Streamable, imgur and etc...but for all other webpages and articles linked as posts on all the subs... Maybe, this iframe could also have popups and other things disabled, but leave in JS... Thank you d3rr, I'd try to do it myself if I was more confident in deving

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It could be cool and it's not that much work. So in addition to seeing a little 'JPG' button link after image urls, to expand them where they are in the post or comment, the proposal is a new 'PAGE' or 'IFRAME' button link after random urls, that will load arbitrary links/web pages in full, in an iframe.

Our chat widget is an iframe, for example, if you're not familiar, it's an embedded other web page in this page. Your browser loads the crap directly.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep, I imagine it shouldn't be too many lines of to grab the url and put it in a collapsing iframe, sandboxed or not...I personally don't like clicking away from saidit when i wanna quickly check some content out...I dunno if it's the same for others? It should also positively influence the scoring of posts by users who are still reading the content on Saidit instead of on the other platform. Anyways ,Thanks for your time man.