[xwiki-users] [ANN] WebViewers, a way to view and edit attachments in XWiki (and other webapps!)

Hi guys, I am proud to announce WebViewers are now available for XWiki. As part of the Resilience research project, I and others have been working on a compatible solution for interfacing the variety of Javascript file viewers and editors with the many available web application frameworks. The first few WebViewers are available now on http://webviewers.org/ and as self-contained archive files, are installable on any system supporting the API. More interestingly, the first few WebViewers to be ported are now available as XWiki Extensions on http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ExtensionCode/ExtensionSearch?sp… and while they are largely prototypes, one which is useful right now is the PDF WebViewer based on Mozilla's pdf.js. http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/pdf+webviewer This is of course installable with the Extension Manager and supports XWiki versions 5.1 or newer. With this you will be able to both view in a preview window and embed in a wiki page, the content of a PDF attachment. Viewing of the attachment is done by clicking on the magnifying glass shown next to the PDF attachment and embedding a PDF attachment in the page is done using the {{embed}} macro (part of the XWiki WebViewers extension). You can see the embedded viewers and example uses of the {{embed}} macro here: http://webviewers.org/xwiki/bin/view/Viewers/Demo And you can see the magnifying glass icons next to the attachments here: http://webviewers.org/xwiki/bin/view/Viewers/Demo#Attachments If anyone has any questions or comments about WebViewers or the XWiki Extensions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks, Caleb