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> Why not just directly open the 3rd party app in a new tab when you click on an entry in a side menu?

Because you lose the ability to give tags, attributes, page comments, document feedback. For example, there is no comments in a Google Sheet, by embedding them in a page with comments, you can have comments, you can also give it tags and all ...

> While they might appear to work normally initially

Even Github doesn't allow iframe embedding. The goal is to facilitate discovery, if you need to use the app, you would open it in its own tab. A chrome extension would help going back to Dokkument from Github, or add a github file into dokkument and also bypass the iframe protection.

The whole point of the app is to facilitate discovery and sharing following a common framework, we are only a hub and redirect users



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