View changes in submitted draft against live version?

[gglnx]

Question

Is it somehow possible to view changes of a submitted draft against the live version? https://verbb.io/blog/workflow-2#compare-entry-changes is only possible after a reviewer made changes and only these changes be compared against the draft.

We have a form where users can submit changes for entries. Currently I can not see the changes in the Workflow interface with the split-view (only if I open the draft I see the changes fields). This split-view would be really improved if texts fields (including Redactor) would include a diff on word-level.

Additional context

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[engram-design]

It's only possible to view the diff between the one submission to another. This means that for the first submission from an editor, the diff is between those changes, and the already-existing entry (or if a brand new entry, it cannot be compared). As the submissions go on, you can only really compare with the direct previous submission.

We'd need to introduce a dropdown to be able to select what entry/draft/submission to compare against.

As for diff's in Redactor, or any other fields, that's certainly advanced behaviour and not something I'm considering. That would be a lot of work to maintain, and not to mention tricky with comparing HTML (likely buggy). Maybe one day down the track.