Originally Posted by
RayC
Perhaps I wasn't clear. The idea is to display files via the website without having to download the file first. When you click on a .jpg, for instance, normally it is downloaded to your computer and then displayed. This happens in the background, but it is still in the browser cache. Alternatively, you can right-click and save the file to your hard drive.
For security reasons, we do not want the files downloaded, either into browser cache or deliberately, but still allow site visitors to view various files that have been uploaded. Hence the file viewer idea.
Hope that is clear.