add a preview option+discussion

Preview is even more important when doing something like submitting forms that the user doesn't have permissions to view -- in this case there is no way for the user to see what the posting is going to look like.  I've found it a problem when submitting tickets.


+1 - I'd love to have a preview option!

  --eidosabi.....Mon Jun 04 04:57:48 +0000 2012


+1 - A preview option also makes versioning more simple when we write content. What's the point of saving a version just to visualize the result? I like to save my writing each time it has reached a new level. So thumbs up for preview!!!

--Jean-François Noubel


Ethan from elsewhere: "The challenge with previews is that rendering involves a bunch of cache lookups (especially of plus cards), and those cards aren't in the db or the cache yet. I think the solution is to make it so that we temporarily populate the local cache, but this will involve some design and is not yet ready to act upon."

--John Abbe.....2013-05-08 13:17:11 +0000

changed to ticket. medium pri, but likely not until after 2.0.

--Ethan McCutchen.....2013-09-12 20:53:29 +0000