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Render word docs using Google or Microsoft embedded renderers #186

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This is kind of related to #179: like PDF and other non-text file formats, we can’t diff MS Word documents. BUT! Both Google and Microsoft offer iframe-embeddable renderers for Word docs, so we could use that to display the contents of the file, even if we can’t diff it.

Google: https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://edgi-versionista-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/versionista2/74286-6216580/version-14182260.doc&embedded=true

https://docs.google.com/gview?url={URL here}&embedded=true

Microsoft: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=https://edgi-versionista-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/versionista2/74286-6216580/version-14182260.doc

https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src={URL here}

We should see if these viewers work for Powerpoint and Excel files, too.

And of course we should also see if we can figure out a way to actually diff them, but this is an easy short term solution that’s better than displaying nothing at all.

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