Awesome. Thanks for the feedback and the scenarios:
Here’s a quick sneak preview of what we’re with respect to embeds…
A read-only doc: https://codepen.io/adeneui/pen/JeqGjV
A doc you can play with (but, the edits don’t actually go anywhere): https://codepen.io/adeneui/pen/mQYVPP
These actually work whether you have a Coda account or not, and also allow non-Chrome browsers access to view the content as well.
We’re working on the in-product experience for exposing this capability right now (along with documentation), but you can actually try this out on docs you have authored right now if you’re curious what it will look like
- Go into Google Drive, and find the Coda doc you want to embed
- Change the sharing permissions to allow anyone with the link to have access: see https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2494822?hl=en&ref_topic=7000947
- Author an
<iframe src="https://coda.io/embed/DOC_ID>, whereDOC_ID` is internal ID we use for docs. An extractor tool to help you find this is available at https://coda.io/developers/apis/v1beta1#section/Using-the-API/Resource-IDs-and-Links. - You’re done.
Let me know what you think!