tritium-legal's online editing bid never makes it over the line
The fork points to a useful idea: let a browser open the original file, not just a pre-rendered version.
The proposed change would have created a direct route for file contents to reach the front end. That matters because online editing needs the original document data, whereas a rendered preview is mainly useful for reading.
The work was aimed at an integration that would use those new access points, and the relevant area was reportedly checked with build or test tooling. But the pull request was closed without being merged, so this is a signpost to an unfinished direction rather than a capability users can rely on today.
So what Legal product teams considering browser-based document editing may find the design direction worth examining on GitHub, but should treat it as a proposal, not shipped functionality.
Spotted something wrong? Or know the PR text has fresher detail than the writeup above?