Using Review Board for HTML reviews

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Jonathan Winer

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Jan 14, 2022, 4:15:27 PM1/14/22

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We're evaluating code review tools and trying to determine if we use a documentation tool such as madcap flare which produces HTML output, can we view the rendered HTML within your code review tool? Trying to find a way to review the rendered output so that it is reader friendly vs the markup since this would be used for the documentation team, not the development team.

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Christian Hammond

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Jan 17, 2022, 6:24:18 PM1/17/22

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Hi Jonathan,

We don’t currently have support for reviewing rendered HTML, at least not in any ideal way. This is mostly because of the security issues involved with hosting user-provided HTML content.

We do offer the ability to download the file, view it locally in your browser, and write a file-level comment, but that’s not the best experience.

Trick with HTML is that you often still need the CSS and images at a minimum, and possibly some JavaScript with it.

If you don’t mind printing to PDF, you can use Power Pack’s PDF review capabilities to render it (https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/), which might be a viable option. That would provide the experience I think you’d want, though with the print-to-PDF step.

Christian

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 13:15 Jonathan Winer <jwin...@gmail.com> wrote:

We're evaluating code review tools and trying to determine if we use a documentation tool such as madcap flare which produces HTML output, can we view the rendered HTML within your code review tool? Trying to find a way to review the rendered output so that it is reader friendly vs the markup since this would be used for the documentation team, not the development team.

Thanks.

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