Choose a band — Header, Page, Footer — and set its horizontal and vertical padding. Which WIDTH you are
setting is decided by the Desktop / Tablet / Mobile buttons already in the bar:
Mobile 390 base every width
Tablet 834 md 768 and up
Desktop 1440 lg 1024 and up
That mapping is Tailwind's own and it lines up with the three preview widths exactly. Editing all three
at once would be six controls per section, five of them for a width you are not looking at; this way
you switch to Mobile, see the phone, and change the padding you can see changing.
INHERIT AND ZERO ARE DIFFERENT OPTIONS, because they are different instructions. Unset takes the
smaller breakpoint's value — which is what makes "one padding everywhere" a single choice rather than
three — and zero means no padding HERE even though the smaller width has some. The select says which
value is being inherited rather than leaving it to be worked out, and at the smallest width it says
"None", since there is nothing below to inherit from.
An emptied breakpoint is REMOVED rather than stored as `{}`, so "inherit everything" stays an absence
instead of becoming a thing that has to be told apart from one later.
One Save for both endpoints. The alternative was a second Save for spacing, which means somebody
changing a colour and a padding presses two buttons and is told about unsaved work by one of them.
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Making Typefaces one row equalised the two tabs by luck, not by construction — the labels and the hints
under the selects still differed, and any tab that grows a row would put the jump straight back.
So every panel now sits in the SAME grid cell. The block is as tall as the tallest of them and stops
moving entirely, and it stays right when a tab is added or one of them grows.
Measuring instead would have meant a ResizeObserver, a re-measure after every edit, and a wrong answer
for one frame after each. `col-start-1 row-start-1` gets the same number out of the layout engine for
nothing.
`invisible`, not `hidden`. An invisible element still takes its space, which IS the mechanism — and it
is out of the tab order, so the controls behind the front panel cannot be reached by keyboard. The Tabs
root is controlled now, because visibility is decided here rather than by Radix unmounting.
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The one-row change was committed and never deployed, so it had not been seen at all. And the breakpoint
was lg — 1024 — which four short selects had no reason to wait for. The breakpoint here is the browser
window's rather than the panel's, and the panel is wide in every window the admin runs in.
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Two columns made Typefaces twice the height of Colours, so switching tabs moved everything below it and
resized the preview above. A tab strip whose contents jump is one that has to be re-read every time it
is used — which is the opposite of what tabs were for here.
Four across on a wide panel, two on a narrow one, and the hints truncate rather than wrapping into the
second row of height they were really costing.
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?mode=edit
docs/navigation-audit.md draws the line: anything ADDRESSABLE goes in the URL, and whether you are
editing a page or looking at it is exactly that. It survives a reload, it can be sent to somebody, and
a link to a page being edited is a different thing from a link to the page.
`mode`, not `view`. The parameter names the AXIS and the value names the state, so the pair reads
`mode=edit` and `mode=view` rather than the tautological `view=view`. Absent means View — the default
and the common case — so an ordinary link carries nothing and the parameter appears once somebody has
chosen.
The DEVICE deliberately stays in React state. It is a way of looking rather than a thing being looked
at, and nobody has wanted to send one. Worth keeping that distinction deliberate rather than letting
both drift into whichever place was convenient.
COLOURS AND TYPEFACES ARE TABS. They were two stacked cards taking as much height as both together, and
every pixel of it came off the preview — which is the thing being judged. One at a time costs a click
and gives the page back most of the panel.
The 55% cap on the controls is gone with them: one tab is short enough not to need capping, which is
the other thing this bought.
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The content column's edges were drawn only by the page builder, and they answer a question the Layout
section has just as much: the page is held to max-w-7xl and centred, so on a wide screen the content
stops well short of the window and nothing marks where.
`paintMeasure` is its own function now, called by both. The builder also draws sections, columns and a
drop zone; none of those belong in Layout, whose bands are code and cannot be rearranged from there.
What the two share is exactly the measure and nothing else.
Nothing in View, for the same reason as the builder: chrome of any kind means you are not looking at
the page.
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`?page=about` instead of `?page=2`. A URL that names the page can be read, sent to somebody, and still
means the right thing after a database is restored from a dump with different ids — which happened
once in this project already, earlier today.
Home needs a word, because its slug is empty by design: that is the check constraint, and it is what
makes `/` fall out of joining a slug to the root. An empty string is no use in a query parameter that
has to name a page unambiguously, so the admin says `home` — and the site's API now REFUSES that slug,
which is what makes the mapping total in both directions rather than merely usual.
One reserved address costs nothing. Anybody who wanted /home wanted the front page, which they have.
One place maps a page to its URL value and back — pageParam and pageFromParam — so the nav, the detail
panel and the builder cannot disagree about what `?page=` means.
`record` is deleted on every navigation. It belonged to the per-page record panels, which are
unreachable now; nothing reads it, so it was not a bug, but every URL anybody copied carried a
parameter naming a row in a section that no longer exists.
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Every column gets Add component; every component in one gets Edit and Delete, drawn ON the rendered
thing rather than replacing it. An editor that swaps content for a placeholder is showing you the
editor, not the page — and free text with nothing in it renders as nothing, so the outline is the only
thing saying it is there.
Add component opens the editor STRAIGHT AWAY. Free Text is the only kind, and one option is not a
choice: a picker offering it would be a click asking to be got past. The picker arrives with the second
kind, which is when it starts meaning something.
The add button is quieter than Add section. This is the inner loop, and a control as loud as the one
that adds a whole band would make every column shout.
── The dialog, and the limitation worth naming ──
Editing happens in a modal, not in the page. In-place is the obvious idea and a much bigger one: the
toolbar would have to live in a document the site owns, the site's typography would fight it, and every
keystroke would cross into another document. The dialog is where a working editor already exists, and
it costs a modal instead of a rewrite.
So what you type is not laid out in the page until you save. The preview reloads immediately after, so
the loop is short — but it is a loop, and direct manipulation is what a page builder eventually wants.
The editor is keyed on the stored html, so opening a different component rebuilds it rather than
reusing one still holding the last component's document. Empty text saves: clearing a paragraph is
deleting its words, not abandoning the edit.
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The same bar Layout has, from the same opt-in: the section says it has a preview and the controls
appear. Pages — the list — still says nothing, because there is nothing there to view at tablet width.
VIEW paints nothing at all. Not dimmed chrome or hidden buttons: no injection, so the frame holds
exactly the document the site served. That is what View has to mean here — the outlines, the labels and
the drop zone are the editor's, and a preview that keeps any of them is not showing you the page.
Done by putting `mode` in the callback's dependencies rather than by branching on it somewhere else.
Switching hands SitePreview a new function; its effect runs the previous paint's cleanup and then does
nothing. The chrome goes without a reload and without a second code path that could disagree with the
first.
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An empty section renders as nothing. That is correct on the public site and useless in an editor:
somebody who has just chosen "two columns" sees a blank page and has to take it on trust.
So the canvas outlines every band it finds, names it, says its shape, and offers Delete — and outlines
the columns inside it, because a one-column band and a two-column band are identical until something is
in them, which is exactly when it is too late to notice the wrong choice.
The site provides three attributes and no behaviour: data-page-empty, data-section-id, data-column.
Markers rather than classes, so they cannot be mistaken for styling, cannot be purged by a build that
has never heard of this file, and read as what they are. That is the whole contract — one attribute on
the public site buys the entire editor.
Section names and layouts are FETCHED, not read out of the DOM. The markup says which row a band came
from and nothing else; inferring the layout from its classes would be the admin reading the site's
stylesheet, which is the coupling all of this exists to avoid.
── The race, and why the fix is not another ref ──
Creating a section starts two things that do not finish in a fixed order: the frame fetches a new
document, and the panel fetches the sections to draw on it. Painting only on load meant painting with
whatever had arrived by then, which after a create was usually the data from before it existed.
So SitePreview re-runs the injection when EITHER moves — `loaded` is state, `onDocument` is a
dependency, and whichever arrives second triggers the paint that counts. The caller then controls
repainting through its own useCallback dependencies, which is what those are for.
The handlers still go through a ref, and the data does not. Callbacks are rebuilt every render and
would repaint on every one; the sections are the thing being drawn and should be exactly what decides
when to redraw.
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Pressing the button drawn inside the page opens a dialog: a name, and a choice between one column and
two, then Create section. The row lands in the database and the frame re-renders to show it.
The layouts are DRAWN rather than named. "One column" is words for a shape, and a shape is faster to
recognise than to read; the words stay underneath for anybody the picture does not reach.
The name is asked for and not generated. It never appears on the site — it exists so a page of eight
bands is navigable, and "Section 4" tells nobody anything, which is exactly the state a generated name
would leave every page in. Asked at the only moment somebody knows what they are about to build.
The frame is remounted after a write rather than the admin drawing the new band itself. The site
renders from the database; the admin does not know how to render a page, and if it learnt it would be
a second implementation of the very thing this preview exists to avoid.
The canvas now finds the empty-page placeholder by its `data-page-empty` marker instead of taking
`firstElementChild`. That was right for exactly as long as an empty page was the only kind — the moment
a page has a section, the first child IS that section, and it would have hidden the thing being edited.
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A component that lives at the PLUGIN level and appears on the site's page: an empty drop zone with an
Add section button, injected into the frame at runtime. Nothing of it exists in the website's source,
so the site never carries code only an editor would see, and the builder can change without the site
being rebuilt.
It works because the preview frame is SAME ORIGIN — through the platform's dev proxy, on Officer's own
host — so contentDocument is readable and writable. That single fact is what the page builder rests on,
and it is why swapping this plugin's hand-rolled cross-origin proxy for the platform's mattered beyond
the bugs it fixed.
SitePreview grew one prop, `onDocument`, called with the frame's document after every load and
returning a cleanup that runs before the next one. So a reload never leaves two sets of controls
behind, and nothing injected outlives the document it went into.
Plain DOM rather than React. Portalling would mean running a reconciler against a document that reloads
underneath it whenever the dev server rebuilds; these are a handful of elements with a click handler,
and this way a reload is a document that no longer exists rather than a tree React still thinks it owns.
Inline styles, not classes. The frame carries the SITE's stylesheet, built by scanning the site's own
templates — a class invented in this file was never scanned and would silently do nothing. The button
takes its colours from --site-fg and --site-bg, so it belongs to whatever theme the site is wearing.
The page's existing content is HIDDEN rather than removed, so the same call will leave real blocks
visible once there are any.
The panel counts the presses for now. That is the only visible proof the wire runs both ways, and it
becomes the section picker when there are sections to pick.
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Three changes to the page list.
MENU ITEM, ADDRESS, PAGE TITLE — the order somebody fills them in. The menu item is what you type first
and the address falls out of it, so they sit together. The title is last because it is the one that
usually stays as it is: it is the browser tab and the search result, not anything on the screen.
THE ADDRESS DERIVES FROM THE MENU ITEM, while the two still AGREE.
"Unless it was changed after" needs to know whether it was changed, and there is no such flag in the
database. There does not need to be: an address that still equals what the menu item would produce has
plainly not been given one of its own, and one that differs plainly has.
That distinction is the whole value. Renaming "Collabs" to "Collaborations" moves /collabs, which is
what anybody would expect. Renaming "Exclusive Drops" does NOT move /drops — somebody chose that
address, and every link to it would break silently. The rule tells those apart without being told.
HOME HAS NO ARROWS, rather than two dead ones, and the first movable row cannot climb past it. A
disabled control invites somebody to work out why; there is nothing to work out.
The slug rule is a copy of the server's, and the kind worth having: the alternative is a request per
keystroke to be told what the address will be. It is only ever a suggestion — the server slugifies
again on the way in, so a disagreement produces a tidier address, never a wrong one.
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The nav already said it: Pages is a section, and the pages are rows under it. Two things, two screens.
The detail panel was showing one screen with a row lit up, which made the list the answer to both
questions.
?section=pages the list — what exists, what it is called, where it lives, in what order
?section=pages&page=4 that page — what is on it
Both addressable, which is why the distinction is a query parameter rather than state.
Pressing PAGES itself now clears `page`. Without that the section row and the row for whichever page
was last open lead to the same screen and there is no way back to the list but the browser's back
button. Scoped exactly like `media`, and for the same reason: a parameter belonging to one section
should not ride along into the others.
The list stops having a selection — selecting a page leaves the screen entirely — so its rows are
plain rows again and the panel no longer reads or writes the URL at all.
Adding a page deliberately does NOT open it. The next thing anybody does is name it, and the name lives
on the list; jumping into the builder would mean coming straight back.
SitePreview is now shared, lifted out of LayoutPanel with the dev-port lookup beside it. Layout passes
the theme it is editing; a page passes nothing and just gets its own page. The builder shows the real
page at its real address today, which is what the blocks will be judged against when they exist.
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The section is real, and the nav draws the site's pages as rows beneath it. That is the one place this
admin has a hierarchy and it earns it: a page is a thing you go to, and the list of them is the site.
Drawn whether or not Pages is the open section — hiding the list until you click makes the nav a menu
of menus.
Three kinds of change, saved three different ways, and the split is deliberate. TEXT — a title, a menu
label, an address — is drafted and written by the one Save in the bar, because typing is something
people do halfway and change their minds about. ADDING, DELETING and REORDERING are immediate: each is
a single deliberate gesture with an obvious result, and holding them in a draft would put a list on
screen that does not exist yet, then leave Save to decide what order to apply three kinds of change in.
Only the rows that actually changed are sent, so a save touches what somebody edited and nothing else.
A failed save reloads from the server rather than leaving the typed values on screen, where they would
look saved.
Home's address and delete button are ABSENT, not disabled. A greyed control invites somebody to work
out why they cannot use it; there is nothing to work out, the front page is always `/`.
The two panels share the list through a channel rather than both fetching it. They are siblings and
neither can pass the other a prop, and two fetches means two lists that agree until somebody renames a
page. Selection stays in the URL — `?page=` — because that is addressable and the list is not.
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No save, no request, no reload. The panel sets the CSS custom properties on the frame's own <html> and
the page restyles itself, because those are the variables it already reads.
This is only possible because the frame is SAME ORIGIN — it comes through the platform's dev proxy on
Officer's own host. It is the payoff from dropping this plugin's hand-rolled cross-origin proxy, and
the reason that swap was worth making beyond the bugs it fixed.
`removeProperty` where a value is null, not an empty string. Setting the variable to nothing is not the
same as unsetting it: the page's `var(--site-bg, #fff)` fallback would never come back, so choosing
"default" would fail to restore the default — the one case somebody would test.
Applied on load as well as on change, because a reload replaces the document and the properties go with
it. Keyed on the serialised theme rather than the object, which is a new identity every render — the
same trap that hung this component on "Connecting…", one level down.
The property names mirror themeStyle() in the site's layout.tsx and cannot share code across the two
repositories, so this is a copy that can drift. Said so in the file, with the check: the saved page is
rendered by the site's own function, so if live and post-save disagree, this copy is the wrong one.
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It was capped at the device's own height, on the reasoning that a 390x844 phone drawn 1200 pixels tall
is not a phone. That was wrong, and the empty band under the preview in View was the tell.
Media queries answer WIDTH. The layout at 390 is the phone's layout whatever the height, so a taller
frame shows more of the page rather than a different device — a scroll position, not a viewport class.
Width stays the device; height is now simply the room there is.
DEVICES carries widths only. The heights had exactly one consumer, and it was the cap.
One consequence, and it is the right one: the footer is min-h-dvh, so it sits at the bottom of the
FRAME. A taller frame puts it lower, exactly as a taller browser window does.
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Edit put a fixed 420px band above a scrolling column, so the preview was a letterbox in the mode where
changes are actually being made — and there was empty panel below the controls while the thing being
judged was squeezed.
One column now, for both modes, and it never scrolls as a whole. The preview is flex-1, so it is always
as tall as whatever is left. The controls are shrink-0, so they are exactly as tall as their content
and no taller. Edit takes height from the preview and only as much as it needs.
Capped at 55% with their own scroll, because shrink-0 alone would let a short window hand the controls
everything and leave the preview at nothing — the same failure in the other direction.
The frame is also capped at the device's real height. A 390x844 phone in a 1200px panel would otherwise
be drawn as a phone 1200 pixels tall, which is not a phone. Past that it stops growing and the space
stays empty, which is honest: there is no device that shape.
Two modes were two return paths; now switching modes hides a block rather than rendering a different
component.
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"Default" told somebody nothing. The question they are asking of that dropdown is "what is it now, and
what would I be changing it from" — so the empty option now reads "Martian Title (site default)", from
the stylesheet that actually decides it.
A label that refuses to answer makes people change the setting to find out, which is the one action
that loses the answer.
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The bar is three groups now: how you are looking at it, at what width, and what to do with it. The
middle is centred against the BAR rather than against its neighbours, because the outer two change
width as sections come and go and a middle that drifted with them would never be in the same place
twice.
A section OPTS IN, the same way it opts into Save. Most have no preview — Media is a file browser,
Administration is a connection form, Messages is an inbox — and offering to view any of them at tablet
width offers something that means nothing. A control that does nothing teaches people that controls do
nothing.
The widths are REAL viewport sizes and the frame is SCALED to fit, never squeezed into whatever the
panel has. That distinction is the whole point: an iframe given the panel's width has the site's own
media queries answering the PANEL's size, so "Desktop" in a narrow panel renders the tablet layout and
labels it desktop — the one thing a preview must not do. Never scaled up either: a 390px phone blown
up to fill a wide panel is a phone nobody has, and every judgement made against it is wrong in the
direction of "looks fine".
390 is the iPhone width slots.ts already assumes. 834 is iPad portrait, deliberately above the site's
md: breakpoint at 768 so it shows the desktop nav rather than the drawer — 768 exactly sits on the
boundary and is the least informative width available. 1440 is past the 1280 the content column caps
at, so the margins either side are visible rather than implied.
View gives the preview the whole panel. That is what makes it worth having: at edit height a phone is
a letterbox, and a phone is the width somebody most wants to look at properly.
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The header and the footer are designed — they belong to whoever writes the site's code, not to whoever
edits its content. A panel offering to rearrange them offers a power that should not exist, and every
use of it would be a decision made in the wrong place.
What is left in Layout is the part that really is a content decision: the colours and the four typeface
roles. The preview above them is still the real page, so what the code decides is visible here even
though nothing here can change it.
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`useClient()` rebuilds its verbs on every render, so `get` has a new identity each time. It was in the
effect's dependency list, so the effect re-ran on every render — and its first act is setReady(false),
which renders again, which builds another `get`, which re-runs the effect. The frame never mounted.
Through a ref instead, with the effect depending only on the port.
This trap is documented in CLAUDE.md and it is the same one that silently disabled every playback
report in the Jellyfin player. The platform's own Preview panel sidesteps it by depending on neither
the client nor the URL, which is what this now does.
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The preview went through a proxy written into this plugin. The platform already had one —
/api/dev-proxy/:port/* — and it is better in exactly the ways the copy was worst.
Authentication. An iframe navigation cannot carry an Authorization header, and the copy answered that
by putting a token on the URL and on every asset the page then requested. The platform's answer is a
short-lived cookie obtained by an ordinary authenticated request, and its own comments say why: a
token on an iframe URL is a guess about which key the browser stored it under. It had been tried
there and rejected before this plugin repeated it.
Coverage. The copy rewrote URLs with a regex over the markup, which catches only what is written into
the document. The platform injects a script that patches fetch, XMLHttpRequest and WebSocket, so URLs
the page BUILDS at runtime are moved as well — which is most of them in a modern dev server. It also
normalises `..`, forwards HMR, and has nineteen tests behind it.
So the plugin's proxy is gone, previewUrl with it, and the panel does what the platform's Preview
panel does: ask for the session, then mount the frame at the dev port.
No sandbox attribute, for the reason that panel gives. Without allow-same-origin a frame has an opaque
origin and no storage; with allow-same-origin and allow-scripts it can reach up and remove its own
sandbox attribute. Claiming a protection that does not hold is worse than not claiming it.
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Two mistakes, and the second would have bitten immediately after the first was fixed.
The iframe pointed at /fofos-admin/preview/layout. But /fofos-admin is a FRONTEND route — the
single-page app owns it, and anything under it no router claims is answered with the app's own
index.html. So the iframe was served Officer. The plugin's API is mounted at /api/fofos-admin, which
every other call already knew: useClient defaults its base to /api, and thumbnail.ts spells the full
path out for <img> tags that cannot use it.
And an iframe cannot send an Authorization header. Neither can the stylesheet, the fonts or the images
the page goes on to request — those are all Officer requests now, so all of them need ?token=, the
same reason every <img> in this plugin carries one. The token comes off the iframe's own query string
and is propagated into every URL the rewrite touches, with the separator decided per URL because many
already carry the site's ?v= stamp.
It is stripped before the request reaches the site. The token is Officer's and the site has never
heard of it.
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The panel drew its own header and footer in React. It looked plausible and it was wrong — the site's
header has a logo hanging past a rule and a nav in the content column — and worse, it was a second
implementation of the layout, so it would have gone on being wrong differently every time either side
moved.
So the admin embeds the site's own `/layout` route instead: the real shell with no page in it. A
designer changing the header in code changes what the admin shows, with no admin change at all. That
is the bridge.
Proxied through Officer rather than linked, because everything this plugin knows about where the site
lives is loopback — 127.0.0.1:<devPort> and nothing else. There is no public hostname stored anywhere
and adding one would be a second fact about the same thing, kept in step by hand. The request goes the
way every other request here goes, server-side, and the browser talks only to Officer.
Same origin, which is also what keeps the door open: the day the page builder wants to draw handles on
top of the real page, it can. A cross-origin iframe never could.
The rewrite is narrow and its limits are the interesting part. The site writes root-relative URLs and
those resolve against Officer's root inside the iframe; a <base> tag does not help, because it moves
relative URLs and leaves root-relative ones exactly where they were wrong. So href, src, srcset and
CSS url() are moved under the prefix — and `//` is excluded deliberately, because that names another
host and prefixing one would turn it into a path on this server.
Only HTML is rewritten. Stylesheets, fonts and images are returned as they came: rewriting bytes we do
not understand is how a proxy corrupts a font.
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The admin was a section each for Home, About Us, Collections, Gallery, Collabs, Drops and Services,
because the site's pages were a constant in site-map.ts and a developer was the only one who could add
one. A page builder is going to replace that, so the nav stops enumerating pages.
What is left is the two things a page is NOT: Layout — the shell every page renders inside — and Pages,
listed but not built. Layout is first because it is first in the work: building pages before the frame
they sit in means building them twice.
The panel is a sketch of the page with the controls under it. Menu across the top, a body, the footer
at the bottom, in the chosen colours and typefaces — the same principle the header editor already
follows, where the admin renders the structure as the page will show it. It is honest about being a
sketch: drawing the logo and the rules would be a second implementation of the layout, and the two
would drift the first time either changed.
Fonts are a mapping, not free text. styles.css already declares four ROLES — body, sub, title,
display — and every template asks for a role rather than a typeface, so choosing a font is choosing
which of the four faces the build subsets plays each part. The list travels with the payload rather
than being copied here, because a picker offering a face the build never subsets renders as a fallback
nobody chose.
The per-page panels are NOT deleted. AboutPanel, HomePanel and RecordsPanel are still in the tree and
still work; they are unreachable, which is a line in sections.ts rather than a rewrite. The page
builder is not finished, and removing the only way to edit the live site's content before its
replacement exists would leave a gap with nothing in it.
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The wireframe puts two blocks of text on the header picture. The page had one `phrase`, drawn under it.
`header_overlays` is a jsonb list — `[{ text, x, y, size, color, align }]` — rather than a pair of
`header_text_1_*` columns. The design asks for two today; a third is then data rather than a migration,
and nothing has to decide what an empty second block means. `headerPhrase` is left alone: folding them
together would silently move somebody's existing copy on top of a photograph.
Everything is relative and has to be. x and y are percentages of the picture, so a position means the
same thing on a phone and a desktop. `size` is a percentage of the picture's WIDTH, because a headline
set at 40px is a headline on a laptop and a caption on a large screen. The preview renders that with
container query units against the picture's own box, which is exactly what the percentage means — the
page will do the same, so the two cannot drift.
The editor is the picture with the text on it, at the shape the page uses, because where a line sits on
a photograph is not a decision anybody can make from two number fields.
The API clamps every field rather than rejecting: a position into the picture, a size into something
legible, the colour to a hex triple. A caller sending nonsense gets a usable overlay instead of a 400,
and the page can never be handed a position that puts text off the edge of its own header.
Pushed to both databases and verified by querying information_schema rather than by reading db:push's
exit code, which is documented to lie.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
"The About page, in the order it is shown: a header, the text about you, the product, and the
manifesto." above four bands headed Header, About us, Product and Manifesto. "The photograph at the top,
and the line over it" above a photograph at the top and a line over it. "Who you are" above a box headed
About us.
Every one was a caption for something already visible, and together they were most of the vertical
space before any content — so the actual work started below the fold on a laptop.
The person using this is not a developer and is not a child. A heading names a thing; a sentence
underneath saying what the thing is says it twice and trusts them less each time.
Removed from About, Home, Galleries and the record sections. What stays is anything reporting STATE
rather than describing furniture — a count of photographs, a loading line, an error, a save
confirmation — because those say something the screen does not.
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A photograph is rarely the shape of the slot it goes in, so something decides which part survives. It
was a centred crop and no way to change it.
Dragging the picture slides the window; the wheel zooms, anchored to the pointer so the thing under the
cursor stays under it. Both write the site's own format — `x,y,w,h` in percentages of the ORIGINAL —
which is resolution-independent and survives the file being re-encoded.
Zooming in is the window getting smaller: w and h shrink together, keeping the slot's shape. Fit is the
floor, because you cannot show more of a photograph than there is, and at exactly fit the crop is
cleared rather than written as the centred value — a null crop and a crop that happens to be centred
should not be two states.
── The preview is not object-cover ──
It draws the rectangle: the picture scaled to `100/w` of the box and offset so the chosen corner lands
at the origin. object-cover shows the largest window of the slot's shape that fits and nothing else —
it can be panned and it cannot be zoomed, so a preview built on it would silently ignore half of what
this control produces.
── Also here ──
buildSite now hands the site an av-club URL and user. That is the first piece of publishing images
cropped rather than cropping them in the browser with CSS: the plugin knows the sidecar registry, the
site knows a URL. Inert until the site uses it.
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It was a read-only text box holding a path and a Browse button beside it. A path is not what anybody is
choosing — somebody picking the header photograph is choosing a PHOTOGRAPH, and reading
`ABOUT US/HEADER.jpg` to find out whether you picked the right one is doing the computer's job for it.
MediaField is the slot: empty, it is a dashed box at the page's own aspect ratio that you click or drop
onto; filled, it is the picture, with Change and Remove appearing over it on hover. The panel also stops
changing height as things are chosen, so a page with three slots starts to look like the page rather
than like a form.
── The aspect ratio is a prop and has to be ──
The header is 21:9, the product video 16:9, a gallery slot square. The component cannot know that and
must not guess: the SITE decides what shape a slot is, and a component that guessed would be a second
opinion to keep in step with the stylesheet. Both callers name the ratio their partial draws.
── Dropping ──
It accepts a drag from Officer's own file browser, which carries paths under
`application/x-officer-files` — the same payload that moves files between windows. So dragging a
photograph out of Media onto a slot is one gesture and no upload.
It does not accept a file from the desktop. That is an upload into originals/, a different operation
with its own failure modes, and the Media section already does it properly.
── Also ──
`thumbUrl` was copied into GalleriesPanel and RecordsPanel and was about to be copied a third time. It
is a module now: three copies of a URL shape is three places to be wrong about the rung when the ladder
changes, which it did four times in a day.
A file that has gone since it was chosen falls back to the empty state rather than a browser's
broken-image glyph, and says so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every section had its own Save buttons — four on About, two on Home, one per record — and on a page
long enough to scroll, the button you wanted was the one that had just left the screen.
Now there is one, beside Publish, pinned above the scroll. The section announces whether it has unsaved
changes, whether it is busy, and how to save; the bar renders that. Neither knows what the other is,
which is what keeps DetailPanel a map of keys to components rather than a place that has to know what
each section can do.
── What this replaces ──
The per-card saves existed because the API treats an absent key as "leave it alone", so a Save carrying
everything meant a half-written manifesto shipping with a photograph somebody meant to change. With one
Save that is the model rather than an accident: one press writes the page you are looking at.
The cost, stated plainly: there is no longer a way to commit one part of a page and leave the rest.
Nothing here needed that, and if something ever does it wants its own verb rather than four buttons all
called Save.
── Dirty is a comparison, not a flag ──
Against what the server last returned, field by field. A flag says "something was typed" and stays true
after you undo it by hand; a comparison says "this differs from what is stored", which is the question
a Save button is actually answering — and it is what lets the button be dead when there is nothing to
do, which is the whole value of having one.
The gallery picker on Home is deliberately outside it and still writes on selection: a <select> that
needs a second press to mean anything is a control people believe they have already used.
Sections with nothing to save render no button rather than a dead one. A permanently disabled control
invites a press and teaches that pressing does nothing.
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Four sections could not be scrolled: About, and Gallery, Drops and Collabs, which are three
configurations of one panel. Both of those panels were written yesterday with `overflow-auto` and no
height, so they grew to fit their content and ran off the bottom of the workspace instead of scrolling
inside it.
`overflow-auto` only does something on an element with a height to overflow. DetailPanel gives its
child `min-h-0 flex-1` inside a `size-full` column, so a panel that says `size-full` fills exactly that
box and scrolls within it — which is what Home, Galleries and Administration were already doing and
what these two were copied from without.
Messages had the same fault in a different shape. Its list is a flex child with `flex-1 overflow-auto`,
and a flex child defaults to `min-height: auto` — it refuses to shrink below its content, so the list
grew the panel rather than scrolling. `min-h-0` is what lets it shrink, and therefore what makes the
overflow mean anything.
Audited the rest rather than fixing the reported ones: every panel with an `overflow-auto` now pairs it
with a height, and the two that have none are centred single screens with nothing to scroll.
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Four bands in the order the page shows them, which is the sitemap's shape exactly: a HEADER of a
photograph and a phrase, then ABOUT US, then PRODUTO with a video beside its text, then MANIFESTO.
No schema change and no API change — `about_content` already carries every one of those columns and
`aboutRouter` already reads and writes them. This is the screen that was missing, not the data.
One save per band, the rule Home follows and for the same reason: `take()` treats an absent key as
"leave it alone", so a single Save carrying every field would let a half-finished manifesto ride along
with a photograph somebody meant to change.
Both media slots go through MediaPicker rather than a text field. A path somebody types is a path that
is wrong by one character and renders as a broken image. One picker serves both, with `picking` naming
which slot asked — two would be two copies of a modal that already knows how to browse originals/.
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Three sections, one panel, configured — the same split the site's API already makes. Each is a titled
record with an ordered list of media hanging off it, and the only real differences are what the title
is called and which extra fields the record carries.
The htmx admin had three screens and that was defensible there, because each carried its own markup as
well. There is no markup to differ here, so three panels would be three places to fix one ordering bug.
The `fields` list in records.ts is the FORM for what the server allows, not a second authority over it.
What may actually be written is decided by `valuesFrom` in the site's sections.ts, per section, as an
allowlist — a key added here that the server does not accept is an input that silently saves nothing.
Which record is open lives in `?record=<id>` beside `?section=`, per docs/navigation-audit.md, and the
detail is loaded from that id rather than carried over from the list. That is what makes a typed or
reloaded URL work, and it is guarded against a slow response for a record nobody is looking at any
more overwriting a fast one for the record they opened next.
Ordering sends every id in the order it should be, so two items cannot claim one position. Media is
added one path at a time because the server appends, and a parallel add would land in whatever order
the requests happened to finish.
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Managing items on the page would be a second editor for something that already
has one, and the two would drift — a caption fixed in one place and not the
other. The page chooses; the Galleries section arranges; every page using that
gallery changes with it.
The list of galleries is read from the section that owns them rather than
embedded in the home payload, because a copy there would be stale the moment
somebody edited one.
While no gallery is chosen the old per-page rows still render, and the panel says
so — a carousel that appears to come from nowhere is worse than a sentence.
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An <img> cannot send an Authorization header, which is why user-middleware and
the permission gate both already accept `?token=` — it is exactly what the file
browser's own thumbnails do.
Built without it, every picture 401'd while the layout looked perfectly correct:
the space was reserved, the rows were right, and nothing appeared. The route was
fine and had been tested with a bearer token, which is precisely the case the
browser cannot reproduce.
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The thumbnail comes from the DERIVED ladder, which is the point of the whole
pipeline: most of these are HEIC and a browser cannot display the original at
all. 320 is the smallest rung and still sharp at this size.
Served by this plugin from disk rather than by the site. The panel talks to the
plugin and the catch-all forwards everything to the site's /api/admin, which is a
different route — and more importantly, looking at a gallery should not require
the development server to be running. Editing the site is not the same as
reading it.
Not under /_config, because that prefix is owner-only and a thumbnail is not a
credential: a member who can open the section can see the pictures in it, which
is what the section is. Registered before the catch-all, or the catch-all would
forward it to fofos.
Path traversal is refused by resolving first and comparing against the directory
plus a separator — a bare startsWith accepts `derived-old` for a root of
`derived`.
An item whose conversion has not run has no rung, and the thumbnail hides rather
than showing a broken-image glyph, which reads as corrupt rather than pending.
Captions save on blur. A caption is a sentence somebody is in the middle of, and
a request per keystroke would be wasteful and a race with itself.
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The section reads the site's own admin API, so it requires a CONNECTION where
Media beside it requires only a root. The difference is real rather than
copy-paste: Media is a file browser over a folder on this disk, while a gallery
is a row in the site's database — opening it without the site answering would be
a screen where every action fails.
The context action hands its selection over in the URL and sends you to the
panel rather than opening a dialog of its own. Naming a gallery, seeing the slug
it will get and watching the items land belongs on the screen that owns
galleries, not in a modal over a file browser that would then have to explain
where the result went.
It offers itself only inside originals/, because a gallery item is a path
relative to that folder and an entry that appears everywhere while working in one
place is worse than one that appears where it works. The test is on the PATH, not
on which panel is open — the same browser is mounted in several places and only
the path says where it is pointed.
A mixed selection is refused. A folder among files is either a mistake or a
request to recurse, and neither is something to guess from a right-click.
The handoff is consumed once and stripped from the URL. Left there, a refresh
would create the gallery again, which somebody discovers as four copies.
Nothing is written until Create: the folder's name is a suggestion in the field,
not a decision already taken.
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Nobody knows the path of a file they uploaded from a phone, and a text box
invites a typo that fails silently as a broken image on the live site. Browsing
`originals/` means the only values that can be stored are ones that exist.
The modal is the platform's file browser in pick mode — the same listing,
breadcrumb, sorting and thumbnails as everywhere else, with one branch changed.
It browses ORIGINALS and the site renders DERIVED, and that indirection is the
point of the pipeline: what somebody picks is the .mov or the 12-megapixel HEIC
that came off the camera, and what a browser can display is the ladder av-club
built beside it. Storing a derived file directly would pin the site to one
rendition, so the day the ladder changes every stored reference names a file that
is no longer the right one to serve.
The path is stored relative to `originals/`. The root is a setting and moves
between machines, so an absolute path would be a fact about one installation
written into content that outlives it.
No pathParam and no panelId on the modal's browser: its folder is not something
to put in a URL or remember, and both would leak a transient choice into shared
state.
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The page reads hero-then-intro and this deliberately does not. The intro is the
thing that gets edited; the hero is a path that changes once a season. Ordering
by what somebody came to do beats mirroring the layout of the page they are
describing.
One PATCH per card, carrying only that card's field. `take()` on the server
treats an absent key as leave-it-alone, so sending the whole object from either
card would have each one saving the other's unsaved edits — a half-finished
intro riding along with a hero somebody meant to change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two things.
`?media=` is Media's own folder and now goes when you leave it. It survived
every navigation, so `?section=home&media=GALLERY/CALAVERA+1` was an ordinary
URL — a parameter naming a folder in a section that is not open, carried into
every link and shared or bookmarked that way.
And the intro is a tiptap editor rather than a textarea of raw HTML. HTML in and
HTML out, because that is already what the site's database holds and renders —
introducing a second format would buy a migration and a round-tripping bug class
for nothing.
Declared as the PLUGIN's npmDependencies, not added to the platform's
package.json. That lockfile is frozen and shared, and npm-deps.ts exists for
exactly this: everything lands in plugins/node_modules/, so a plugin's editor
cannot move a version the platform depends on.
The toolbar is only what the site's stylesheet can render. Anything more would
produce copy that looks right while editing and wrong when published, which the
person only discovers after saying it was done.
The content effect compares against getHTML() before writing back, and that
comparison is the whole thing: while somebody types the two already agree, so
nothing is pushed in and the caret stays put. Without it this is the classic
controlled-contentEditable bug where the cursor jumps to the end on every
keystroke.
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Hero, intro and an ordered gallery — the shape the old htmx admin had, as a
panel here.
Every write returns the WHOLE payload and this never patches its own state from
what it sent. That matters more than it looks: the server clears the hero crop
when the hero changes, because a rectangle describing a region of a different
picture would crop the new one somewhere arbitrary. A client keeping its own
copy would go on showing a framing the server had already discarded.
Ordering sends every id rather than one item's position, which is what makes it
impossible to end up with two things claiming the same place.
Thumbnails load through this plugin's proxy rather than straight from the dev
server, so they arrive with the session instead of requiring the browser to
reach a port on the host.
It edits DEVELOPMENT, because production is a directory of static files with no
API to write to. An edit lands on dev immediately and becomes public when
somebody presses Build.
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