The grip drags and the row is the drop target — a Link is draggable by default
and drags its URL, so making the row itself draggable fights the browser for what
the gesture means.
The list rearranges as the pointer crosses a row rather than on drop, and the
write happens once at the end: PUT /pages/order takes the whole set, because an
order is a property of the set.
/fofos-admin/pages was a list of cards beside a nav that already lists the pages.
Two lists of the same thing, and the one you were looking at was never the one
you had clicked. It redirects to the first page now.
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Top Menu, Content and Footer were a hierarchy the screen does not have — all
three are edited by the same controls at the same time, so clicking one changed
the URL and nothing else.
The pages were announced by PagesPanel and only by PagesPanel, which mounts when
Pages is open. So they were invisible in the nav until you had already been to
the page that lists them. The nav fetches them itself when nobody has said yet;
the channel stays, and is still why a rename shows here the moment it is typed.
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"Inherit (default)" answers a question nobody asked. What somebody wants from
that dropdown is what it is now — and a label that will not say makes them change
the setting to find out, which is the one way to lose the answer.
It reads Default (4xl) at the smallest width and Inherit (2xl) above it. The
stylesheet's own sizes come from the API, which reads them out of styles.css.
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Officer's session is the only place the acting user is known, and fofos writes it
into its own change history. An email in X-Actor, because that database has no
users to point at.
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The room between a band's columns: gap-8 in a two-column section, gap-x-24
gap-y-10 in the footer. Both were written into the template that drew them.
The canvas now SKIPS a utility nothing has chosen instead of stripping it. The
old rule lied twice — a section's own padding vanished while the panel was open,
and a band with no chosen gap lost the site's default.
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A container query on the scroller, once, so a new section is responsive by being
in the column rather than by remembering to say so. Below 320px the two-column
sections stack instead of truncating every select to "Martia…".
Colors stays flex-wrap: three swatches in a two-column grid is 2 and 1.
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Fonts and Font Sizes are the same four things, so they now read in the same order
under the same names — Menu, Titles, Headings, Body — from one list.
font_display is the largest statements and font_title is a section heading, which
is the reverse of what the words suggest. The labels say what the reader sees.
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A fifth section between Fonts and Spacing. The same four roles the families use,
so a template asks for a role and gets both — and a role used at two sizes on
purpose collapses to one, which was the trade taken over a separate list of text
roles.
The live preview builds the same stylesheet the site renders, because a size is
three values and an inline style cannot carry a media query.
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Every field in there writes one breakpoint, chosen by the tabs at the top of the
panel. Without the name the same six selects mean six different things depending
on something above them.
One span, not two: the trigger is justify-between and puts the chevron last.
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The line under every nav row, the line under every font select, and the caption
under the preview. Each explained a control to somebody who has already found
it, and the caption was wrong as well — there is no Save to press.
The nav rows are one line now, so they centre.
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text-xs was the size of the labels under it, so the three headings read as one
more row of form furniture. Bigger and heavier — weight is the signal that
survives at this density without adding a second thing to look at.
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A container query, not a screen one: this sits in a workspace panel whose width
is a divider somebody drags, so the window says nothing about the room. Below
240px the icons stand alone and the word is the tooltip.
Every editor section starts open. It opened on one, from ?tab=, which is what
tabs want — these are not tabs, and a collapsed column asks somebody to go
looking for the setting they came for. ?tab= is gone with it.
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Icons alone told three things apart by proportion at 12 pixels. Full width, one
of three filled, and the word from DEVICES.
The `size` prop is gone with the bar that needed the small one, and so is the
second copy inside Spacing — the panel header scopes the whole editor now.
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It sat across the top of the detail panel with Sync, Build and Publish — three
things that act on the site, beside one that decides how you are looking at it.
The toggle belongs with the settings it scopes: a spacing is chosen per width,
so the control saying which width is the first thing in that column.
Sync, Build and Publish are unmounted until they have a place of their own.
ViewModeProvider stays; it was never the bar's.
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The Save button is gone, and so is the SaveTarget context that announced it.
Every screen here is a preview of the thing being edited, so a change is already
visible before it is written — a button then asks somebody to confirm what they
can see.
useAutosave debounces a burst into one request. It takes the unsaved state as a
string rather than a flag, so a failed save is not retried on the next render,
and it flushes on unmount so a section change loses nothing.
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The frame took all the room the panel had, so a short page left a band of white
under the footer with the measure guides running down through it. An iframe has
no height: fit-content, so the page is measured inside it and the frame follows.
The wrapper, not the body — body is min-h-screen, so measuring it would ask the
frame how tall the frame is.
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The platform hands over the whole subtree under the mount. Which paths exist and
what they mean is web/routes.ts.
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The admin declares its routes in the manifest, so /fofos-admin/layout/header and
/fofos-admin/pages/home are real URLs. One reader takes the two segments after
the mount; links carry no query string at all, so nothing leaks between
sections.
What stays in the query is how you are looking — device, tab, view — rather than
at what.
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Space between became Vertical padding: space-y hangs its margin below the box,
and the box's bottom border is the separator, so the room never landed above a
rule. The canvas now rewrites both axes on a band.
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Top Nav, Sections and Footer each get their own horizontal padding, plus the
one space that band owns: the room under the rule, the gap between bands, the
room above the footer.
The preview marker now names its band, so a change moves one band and not all
three.
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The three columns became one select. Which breakpoint it writes comes from the device control above it,
so the value you see is the value for the view you are looking at.
Spacing's settings are per width, so the section has to say which width it is editing — and the answer
must be the one the preview is already showing, not a second selector able to disagree with it.
It reads `?device=` rather than the ViewMode context, and that is not a preference. The editor is a
SIBLING panel: an element built inside the detail panel resolves context where it is RENDERED, so a
toggle handed over would look up a tree with no provider in it and quietly show the default forever.
The URL is the shared state, which means there is nothing to share. Three components read one
parameter, so they cannot disagree, and the preview follows without being subscribed to anything — it
reads the same value. More editor sections can take the control by rendering it.
The bar's own toggle is now the same component. It had its own copy of the options and the handler,
which is exactly how two controls for one thing start to differ.
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The heading only. What it does is unchanged for now — the word is widening ahead of the behaviour,
which is the right order: the section is about to hold more than one kind of space, and Padding names
only one of them.
Pressing Layout while a band was open gave `?section=layout&band=footer`, so the row for the whole
section led to one part of it. Pressing a section carried whatever the last one had left behind.
Every link built a copy of the current query string and deleted the parameters known to be scoped —
`media`, then `page`, and `band` would have been the third. That is a list of exceptions that has to
grow every time a section gains a parameter, and it fails silently when somebody forgets: the link
still works, it just goes somewhere more specific than it says.
Starting from an empty query string inverts the default. A parameter survives a navigation only if the
link says so, which is one decision at each link rather than a list of everything that must not leak.
So a section row is `?section=x`, and a sub-item is that plus its own `band` or `page`. Nothing else
rides along, including the device and the open tab — both are restored to their defaults by the panel
that owns them, which is where a default belongs.
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The two headings take the site's own spelling and the shorter word. "Typefaces" is the more precise
term and "Fonts" is the one everybody reaches for; a section heading is a signpost, not a definition.
The fonts go two by two. Four across existed to keep this section the same height as Colours, because
as tabs they shared one grid cell and a taller panel moved everything below it. Stacked sections do not
have that constraint — each is as tall as it is and nothing above it moves — so the reason expired with
the tabs.
What four across cost was the labels: in a panel this narrow every select truncated to "Martia…", so
the row said four times that a font had been chosen and never which one. Two columns give each the room
to be read, which is the only thing the control is for.
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Three tabs became three collapsible sections in a column, because there are going to be more than
three. A tab strip works while the names fit on one line and degrades the moment they do not — it wraps,
or it scrolls, and either way the set stops being visible at a glance.
`type="multiple"`, so more than one can be open. Tabs enforced exactly one, which is right when the
panels are alternatives and wrong when they are parts of the same thing: the colours and the padding of
a layout are read together as often as separately.
The grid overlay went with them. Every panel shared one cell so the block stayed as tall as the tallest
and did not jump when the tab changed — a real problem that stacked sections do not have, because a
section that is closed occupies nothing and one that is open is as tall as it is.
`?tab=` still seeds which section starts open, so an old link keeps working and lands on the thing it
named.
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It sat just inside the left guide, which is on top of the page — over the logo, on this site — and it
is not part of the page. The margin is the one strip on screen belonging to the editor rather than to
the site, so the number describing the measure lives there.
Right rather than left: the eye reads the guide and then the width, so the label is the answer to the
line beside it, and the right margin is the one a wide frame has room in.
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Two things, both asked for after looking at it.
The tint came out. Shading the margins was meant to say "the page does not use this", and against a
white page it read as a blue background — a colour the site does not have, on the screen that exists to
show the site's colours. The two hairlines say the same thing without claiming anything.
And Desktop is fluid. `width: null` means the frame takes whatever the panel gives it, which is the
honest answer for a device that has no width: a desktop is whatever window somebody opened. 1440 was a
guess that then had to be centred and scrolled inside the panel — a page rendered at one width and
looked at inside another, with dark room either side of it.
Tablet and mobile stay pinned, because 834 and 390 are claims about real devices and pinning them is
the only way the preview can answer "what does this look like on a phone".
Fluid, the frame IS a desktop window: the site's media queries answer the panel's real width, and the
measure guides mark where the content stops in the pixels you are actually looking at.
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Two hairlines said where the measure ends and left the reader to notice that everything outside them
was empty. The margins are tinted now, faintly, so the unused width reads as what it is — room the page
does not occupy, which is the question somebody widening a gutter or judging a desktop layout is
actually asking.
Faint on purpose: it is absence, and anything stronger competes with the content for the eye. Nothing
is drawn at all when the frame is no wider than the measure, which is the existing early return.
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`1 | [1 | 1]`, and the brackets are a real container this time.
Nesting them as a GROUP was the first attempt and looked identical — a horizontal group inside a
horizontal group renders three columns, because that is what it is. All it bought was which divider
moved what, which is invisible until you drag one.
So the pair is a panel whose component hosts its own WorkspaceView, the way DashboardPreview does. It
has its own chrome, its own divider and its own persisted sizes, and the root layout has two children
rather than three: the shape on screen is now the shape in the file.
`useAuthoredLayout` rather than `useDashboardState`, and its own key beside the root's. The structure is
the author's and comes from source every render; only sizes are the user's. Sharing one key would have
the inner and outer trees persisting over each other's sizes.
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`1 | 1 | 1` became `1 | [1 | 1]`, and the nesting is the whole difference.
Three siblings means every divider sits between two of them: widening the editor took from the preview,
and dragging the nav re-proportioned all three. Three panels that could only be sized against each
other.
Nested, the outer divider moves the nav against THE WORK and the inner one splits the work between
looking and changing. Those are the two questions somebody actually has — "give me more room" and "I
need more of the controls right now" — and each is one drag that leaves the other answer alone.
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Colours, Typefaces and Padding sat below the preview and took their height from it — the same trade the
page builder's editors made, and undone for the same reason: this screen exists to be looked at, and
the controls were eating the thing being judged.
Announced through the same slot, so the panel still holds nothing and still knows nothing about what a
layout is.
One thing that does not survive the move: a JSX comment cannot be an argument. The block carried its
own `{/* … */}` above the tabs and it had to become an ordinary comment on the effect, which is where
the reasoning belongs anyway now that the element is announced rather than rendered in place.
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The spacing and free-text editors rendered below the preview, so they took their height from the thing
being edited: choosing a spacing shrank the page you were choosing it for, and on a laptop two
dropdowns cost a third of the frame.
They are a third panel now, to the right of the preview. The workspace already knows how to size and
move panels; a drawer was a second, worse layout system living inside one of them.
The panel holds nothing. Whichever panel owns a selection BUILDS the editor and announces it through a
`useGlobal` slot — the two are siblings and neither may own the other, and a provider around both would
mean something above them knowing they exist.
The slot carries the ELEMENT, not a description of one. A descriptor plus a switch would move every
editor's loading, saving and cancelling into a panel that would have to learn what a section is — a
second place that understands the page builder, kept in step by hand. SaveTarget makes the same trade
for the same reason.
The hazard is real and worth naming: an element captures the props it was built with, so the announcing
effect must depend on everything the editor DISPLAYS. The save handlers sit in refs so they cannot drag
that list wider — depending on them would re-announce on every keystroke, and omitting them without
refs would announce a stale one.
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`element.style.margin = '2.5rem 0'` on every section — 40 pixels above and below every band that the
real page does not have. It was there to make room for the band's label, which sat above it.
So the preview overstated the spacing of every page in the site, on the screen whose entire purpose is
to show what a page looks like. It was reported as "there is a lot more space between the logo and the
text in the admin", and that is exactly what it was. I had looked at the component tools, found them
absolutely positioned, and said nothing the editor draws takes layout space. The section margin was two
lines above the thing I read.
The label moved inside the band it names. It is hover-only, so overlaying the first line for as long as
the pointer is there costs nothing — and lying about the layout costs the preview its whole point.
What remains is absolutely positioned or an outline, neither of which takes space. The add-section
zone keeps its margin: it is the editor's own element at the end of the page, spacing only itself.
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The bar offered Edit and View, and View existed to see the page without the builder's outlines and
handles on top of it. It was the DEFAULT, which put a click in front of every arrival at the one panel
whose job is editing — and it put a branch in every painter that did nothing but wait for that click.
So the mode is gone rather than defaulted the other way: no toggle, no `?mode=`, no guard. The clean
page is still one click away and always was — it is the site, on its own URL. What the admin owes is
the editing surface, always.
The left group in the bar stays, empty. The middle one is centred against the BAR rather than against
its neighbours, so removing the left group would let Desktop/Tablet/Mobile drift as the right group
changes width.
The preview's caption stays too. It reads as a duplicate of the device buttons and is not: they say the
width, and it says which SERVER — development, not production — which nothing else on the screen does.
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Top Menu, Content, Footer — the layout IS a page, and those are the only three things on it. They were
reachable by scrolling and by knowing which tab held what; as rows they take the shape the nav already
teaches with the pages under Pages, and the open one is `band` in the query string.
Fixed rather than fetched, unlike pages. A band cannot be added or removed from the admin — only the
code that draws it can — so reading them from the database would be a query that can only ever return
the same three rows in the same order.
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Two rows, one of them marked `soon`, for a distinction that was never the editor's to make. The path
names a real file and what that file IS is a fact about it — the site reads it off the extension the
way a gallery item always has. So the picker asks for a file and stops asking what kind.
`video` is gone from what an editor can create and still legal in the database. Every row was migrated;
one written by something older should still be editable rather than open nothing, which is why the
edit path answers to both.
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The config is a JavaScript template literal, and the comment added with the /crops/ rename quoted the
paths in backticks. They closed the string, `crops` became a bare identifier, and the plugin failed to
build: "crops is not defined".
What that looked like from the outside is the part worth recording. The plugin did not mount, so every
/fofos-admin call 404'd, so useReady's catch — which deliberately reports "cannot tell" as not-ready —
locked all nine sections behind "Set a root location below to begin." A build error wearing the
costume of a setup problem, and the honest suspicion was that the gate had gone wrong rather than the
thing behind it.
The gate is right. It is one line of a log away from being diagnosable, and the log said so.
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The site's crop store was renamed — see its own commit for why the name was wrong. This is the fourth
place that had to move with it: the constant, the development route, the build's copy target, and this
cache rule.
The rule itself is unchanged. A year and immutable is still EARNED here rather than assumed: the
filename is a hash of the original, its stamp, the framing, the slot and the width, so the bytes at a
given URL can never legitimately change.
A site published before the rename carries /images/ in its HTML and no longer has the files behind it.
The fix is a publish, which rewrites every one of those URLs anyway.
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Measured from the RUN, not from the press. `startedAt` is stamped by the server when the pass begins,
so the number is right for somebody who opened the modal halfway through, reloaded the page, or was
not the one who started it — the watcher starts runs too. A timer anchored to the click would read
zero in all three cases and be wrong by however long the run had already been going.
It freezes at `finishedAt` rather than counting up beside a finished run, because the total is the
useful number: it is what tells you the next full sync will also take forty minutes.
`tabular-nums`, so a digit changing every second does not shift the words beside it.
Clock skew is the one thing that can make this wrong, by exactly its error — both times are absolute,
so a timezone cannot. The alternative, anchoring locally the first time a run is seen, is exact for
whoever pressed the button and silently zero for everyone else.
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The counters said how MUCH and never which file, so a run that was working normally and one that had
wedged produced the same screen: `done` stops moving either way. A photograph is around thirty encodes
and a video is three plus a poster ladder, and none of that was visible from outside.
So the run keeps a transcript and the button opens it.
Every rung reports itself by CONSTRUCTION. Ten `variants.push` call sites became one `add`, which is
the point — a rung added later is described without anybody remembering to describe it. The slow
stages that produce nothing until they finish say so BEFORE they start instead: the HEIC decode, each
video rung, the poster frame. Those are the pauses that read as a hang.
`?since=<n>` is what keeps it cheap. The transcript is thousands of lines and polls once a second, so
sending all of it every tick would be the same megabyte over and over; the client keeps what it has
and asks for the rest. No `since` means everything, which is what a modal opened mid-run wants.
The transcript lives in the shared slot, not the modal, so closing it does not throw away the run —
somebody who looks, closes, and looks again is watching one run rather than two. `startedAt` is what
identifies a run, because `n` restarts at 1 and appending across a boundary would interleave two.
Polling, not a socket. Each line transfers once and the events are seconds apart, so a second
transport to open, authenticate and reconnect would buy nothing.
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It sat under the two folders it acts on, which was right while it was a detail of setting fofos up. It
is not one: a stale `derived/` is why a picture is missing from a page somebody is looking at, and the
fix was three sections away in a card about where the site lives. Beside Build and Publish it reads as
what it is — the third thing you do to a site, and the one that has to happen first.
The card keeps what needs room: the progress bar, the failures, the run history.
Shared through `useGlobal`, keyed `['fofos-admin','media-sync']` — a slot in the app-wide query cache,
so no provider has to wrap the bar and the panel together and a third reader is one line. Not a
context: this codebase has one for Save because a SECTION owns that state and announces it upward.
Nobody owns this one; it is a fact about a folder, which is what a keyed slot is for.
`useGlobal` shares the value and not the work, so the fetching is a separate hook with exactly one
caller — the button. The bar is mounted whenever the plugin is open and the Administration card is
mounted only sometimes, so the thing that is always there is the thing that asks. Two callers would
poll the same endpoint twice a second.
Gated on `rootSet`, not `ready`: sync reads a folder on this machine and never speaks to fofos.
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publish-crop has emitted AVIF for cropped placements since it was written, and `render()` has returned
<picture> sources for them. The older derived ladder — which serves every UNCROPPED photograph, every
square thumbnail and every video poster — was WebP only. This closes that, so the site has one answer
about what formats it ships rather than two.
Measured on a 256px gallery thumbnail, from the master, no generation loss: 18,186 bytes as WebP at
quality 74, 14,381 as AVIF at matched quality. Around 20% on every photograph, which is the reason to
build a second file per rung — not the seven kilobytes it happens to save on one page.
The two quality numbers are publish-crop's own, so the site encodes one format pair rather than two
opinions about what AVIF is worth.
Not for a drawing. `lossless` is chosen by prefersLossless for line art, where WebP's lossless mode
beats any lossy encoder — the note there records a logo whose lossy rung came out two and a half times
the size of the original. AVIF is a second lossy answer to a question already settled, so it is not
asked, and those ladders carry no sources and render exactly as they did.
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`WEBP_QUALITY` (82) is what a rung is worth when somebody opens it and looks at it. Nobody opens a
poster: it fills the frame for about a second and is then covered by the video it belongs to. Paying
photograph quality for that is paying for a second that ends.
Measured on the same pixels with the same encoder, at 768 wide: 22,906 bytes at 82, 17,738 at 74. That
is 23% off the Largest Contentful Paint for a difference nothing is on screen long enough to show.
Not lower than the small rungs use. It IS the LCP, so its first impression is the page's, and 74 is
what every thumbnail on the site already ships at — measured further down, 68 and 62 buy 1.2 and 2.7
KB more and start costing something a still frame will show.
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They were never in CONTENT_TABLES, so publish copied every table it knew about and none of the page
builder's. The symptom is the exact failure this list's own comment warns about: nothing failed. The
copy succeeded, the build rendered production faithfully, and the home page came out as the
empty-page placeholder — because production held the seeded layout and no content.
Parents before children, and first: a section belongs to a page, a component to a section. `galleries`
stays below them because a gallery block names a set by id carried in JSON rather than as a foreign
key — nothing enforces that order, which is why it is written down.
`site_layout` too. Production had no row at all, which reads as "the defaults" and is
indistinguishable from a setting nobody has changed.
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Both hold nothing, so adding one opens no editor: a dialog with no field on it is a step that exists
only to be got past. The picker itself answers the opposite way for the kinds that DO have a choice
to make, which is the distinction worth keeping.
The canvas draws no Edit button for them either — an Edit that opens nothing is worse than no Edit.
It asks the panel rather than holding a list of kinds, because which kinds are editable is the same
knowledge that decides which editor opens, and that already lives there. Absent means editable, so a
caller that has never thought about it gets what it had.
The Spacing dialog's label became a map. It was two kinds and readable as a ternary, then three and
not.
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A built page is full-bleed now, so each band can draw a separator the width of the window, and each
holds its own content to the measure. `[data-content-column]` is therefore no longer one element
wrapping every section — it is one per section, and appending the drop zone to the first match put
"add a section" inside section one.
So it goes in `main`, with its width taken from a column rather than from a constant: the measure is
Tailwind's `max-w-7xl` and this file has no business knowing that. No sections, no column to ask, and
full width is right anyway — there is nothing to line up with.
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The picker listed it as `soon` beside Image. It is not soon any more — the set, its ordering and the
carousel that draws it were already built on the site, so the block is a reference to one and the
admin's whole job is choosing which.
`GalleryPicker` chooses a SET and nothing else. Editing what is IN the set stays under Galleries: a
block that could also rearrange its own pictures would be a second place to do one job, and the two
would disagree. No thumbnails — every stored path names an original a browser cannot display, and the
plugin has no way to address a rendition, so the name and the count identify it instead.
Saved on choose, like a video and for the same reason: picking one thing is one act with one outcome,
so there is nothing to draft and nothing to cancel out of.
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A Spacing handle on the section bar and in the component tools, opening an editor below the preview —
the same place the text editor goes, and for the same reason: a dialog covers the thing being spaced.
The device toggle picks the breakpoint. Two axes across three widths is six controls, 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 watch changing. The site's GUTTER is the exception and shows all three at once, because it is one
axis and one value and it is a progression judged as a whole.
Inherit and 0 stay separate options, and the select names the value it is inheriting rather than leaving
it to be worked out.
Written IMMEDIATELY rather than drafted. A step is one choice from a short list and the effect is on
screen before the menu closes; a Save for it would be a second thing to remember on a panel whose other
verbs already act.
Spacing sits before Delete in the section bar, ordered by how often each is wanted rather than how they
read — the destructive one furthest from where the hand arrives.
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Editing one paragraph silently un-aligned the others. A right-aligned line lost its alignment because
somebody justified something else — which reads as the alignment buttons applying to the whole document
rather than the selection, and is not that at all.
THE ROUND TRIP WAS LOSSY IN ONE DIRECTION. The editor emits `style="text-align: right"`; the site's
sanitiser refuses style attributes — one is a way to position something over the rest of the page — and
converts alignment to `class="rt-right"`. That half always worked.
Coming back out, tiptap parses styles and knows nothing about those classes. So a document loaded from
the database arrived with every alignment already gone, and the next save wrote the loss back. Whatever
you set in the current session survived; everything set before it did not.
Converting classes to styles as the editor is seeded makes the two ends symmetric, and the conversion is
the sanitiser's own table read backwards. The comparison in the re-seed effect had to move into the
editor's dialect too, or every load looks like a change: the stored html and getHTML() never match.
`rt-font-*` is not converted, and that is a known gap rather than an oversight — this editor has no font
control, so a stored font class has nothing to become and would be dropped either way. It wants a font
button before it wants a parser.
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A modal covered the thing being edited, which for a page builder is the whole subject: you are choosing
how words sit in a column, and a dialog in front of the column answers a different question. It sits
under the preview now, the way the Layout section's controls already do.
AND THE TEXT LANDS IN THE PAGE AS IT IS TYPED. The panel writes each change straight into the
component's node in the frame, so the loop stops being "type, save, look" and becomes looking. That is
the same door everything else here goes through — the frame is same origin — and it is what the modal
made impossible rather than merely awkward.
The node's children are replaced and the injected tools put back. Those live inside the component and
belong to the admin, so an innerHTML that forgot them would take the Edit button away mid-edit.
Not sanitised while typing. The server cleans on write, so what is on screen can be marginally more
permissive than what is stored — and the difference shows the moment it is saved, which is the right
place to find out.
Cancel reloads the frame rather than restoring the markup by hand. The node has been written into on
every keystroke, and putting it back correctly means remembering what was there before the first one; a
reload is the same answer with nothing to get wrong.
The editor is capped and scrolls, so a long piece does not push the page off the top of the panel.
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The picker offers it now, and choosing it opens the media picker rather than a dialog. A video is a
PATH, saved as soon as it is chosen: free text needs a draft because writing is something people do
halfway, and picking a file is one act with one outcome.
Edit means whatever editing that KIND means. The canvas draws one button; which door it opens is decided
in the panel, where the kinds are known — so Edit on a video reopens the picker and Edit on text opens
the editor.
Image and Gallery stay named and disabled. Both are things the site already has.
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All of them: the outline, the name, the shape, Delete, the column outlines and the button that adds to
them. A page with four bands was four labelled boxes at rest, and the page underneath was the one thing
you could not see — which is what an editor is for.
A COMPONENT keeps its own hover rather than inheriting the section's. A band with three paragraphs would
otherwise show three sets of Edit and Delete at once, and none of them would say which one it belonged
to.
Opacity, not display, so nothing moves when it appears. The controls hold their space whether visible or
not, and the page does not reflow under the cursor — which in an editor is worse than the noise it would
be fixing.
The outlines moved from inline styles into the stylesheet, because that is the only place `:hover` can
reach them. The section's MARGIN stays inline: it is layout and has to hold whether or not anything is
hovered.
`:focus-within` on both, so a keyboard reaches everything a cursor does.
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`rt-justify` has been in the sanitiser's allowlist all along, and styles.css gives it `text-align:
justify` with `hyphens: auto` — hyphenation being what stops justified text opening rivers of white
space between words. Only the toolbar was missing it.
The four are now a list beside the toolbar rather than a ternary chain, and the comment says what it has
to match: ALIGN_CLASSES in the site's rich-text.ts. A fifth offered here would be stripped on save,
silently, leaving somebody pressing a button that appears to do nothing.
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Edit and Delete sat permanently at the top-right of whatever they belonged to, on top of the text — and
on a paragraph that fills its column there is nowhere for them to go that is not on top of something.
So they are hidden until the component is hovered, which is when they are wanted and the only time they
are. The outline goes the same way: an editor should show the PAGE, with the handles arriving under the
cursor. One that outlines everything permanently is showing you the editor.
The tools also moved out of the component's corner into the gap above it, so even while visible they are
beside the content rather than over its first line.
The section's Delete gets the same treatment; its NAME stays, because that is what tells you which band
you are looking at, and it already sits above the section rather than on it. A destructive verb does not
need to be on screen at all times.
Done with one injected stylesheet rather than listeners on every node — `:hover` is the one thing inline
styles cannot express, and it is the only reason this file now has a <style> in it. `:focus-within` and
`:focus` keep both reachable by keyboard.
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It opened the text editor straight away, and I had argued for that: Free Text is the only kind that
works, so a picker offering it is a click asking to be got past.
That was wrong in the way a shortcut usually is. It optimised the state of the app today and hid its
shape — somebody adding a component could not see what a component IS, or that there will be others,
and the day the second kind lands the interaction changes underneath them.
It is also the pattern this admin already uses. The nav lists unbuilt sections as `soon` rather than
hiding them, because a list of only what is finished gives no sense of what the thing is for. The same
argument applied here and I had not noticed.
Image, Video and Gallery are named and disabled. Those three are things the site already HAS — media,
video and galleries all exist as concepts here — which is the difference between saying what is coming
and inventing a roadmap.
The list lives in the plugin rather than the API. The API decides what may be STORED; this decides what
may be OFFERED, and it has to be here because every kind needs a label, an icon and an editor that only
exists in this plugin. A kind the server would accept and this has never heard of is not creatable
anyway.
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CHANGES APPEAR IMMEDIATELY. Colours and typefaces go into the frame as CSS custom properties because
that is what the page reads them as. A gutter cannot: only a class can carry a breakpoint, and there is
no variable to set instead. So the classes are swapped on the three elements marked `data-gutter`.
That works for one reason worth stating — the classes are in the SITE's stylesheet, which the frame
already has, and the site safelists every step. A class invented in the admin would silently do
nothing, which is the failure this whole arrangement keeps circling.
Only gutter classes are touched. Those three elements carry the gutter and nothing that looks like it —
a section's own padding lands on the <section> and the band padding on <header> — so stripping `px-N`
from them is safe where doing it to an arbitrary element would not be.
Driven by the dependency list rather than a second code path: `gutter` is a dependency of onDocument, so
changing it hands SitePreview a new function, whose effect runs the previous application's cleanup —
putting the original classes back — and then applies the new ones.
THE TAB IS IN THE URL. `?tab=padding`, same rule as the mode and the device: it is addressable. "Look at
the typefaces" is a link somebody sends, and a reload that drops you back on Colours loses the place you
were working in. Absent means Colours.
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One control, three values, horizontal only — Mobile, Tablet, Desktop on one row, smallest first because
that is the direction they cascade.
Not tied to the device toggle, and the difference from the per-band control is the reason. That one has
two axes and three bands, where showing every width would be eighteen inputs, so it writes to whichever
width the preview is showing. Here there is one axis and one value, so all three fit — and seeing them
together is the point. A gutter is a progression, 4 then 8 then 12, judged as a whole; reading it off
three separate visits to the same control is how a site ends up tighter on a tablet than on a phone.
Inherit still says what it is inheriting, and Mobile still says "None", because there is nothing below
it to inherit from.
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Not a per-band control. The header, the content column and the footer share one measure and should
share one number at its edges — three sections' worth of controls would be three ways to disagree about
the same decision.
PaddingTab is untouched and stays. It is the per-band control and it is right for the pages, where a
band genuinely does want its own spacing. This panel just is not where that decision belongs.
Same interaction as everything else here: the device toggle picks the breakpoint, Inherit and 0 are
separate options because they are separate instructions, and the select says which value it is
inheriting rather than leaving it to be worked out.
Saved with the colours and the typefaces, because it is a field of the same row — so the per-band write
path this panel had briefly is gone with it.
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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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A classic scrollbar — Linux, Windows — is laid out INSIDE the element, so it takes width from the
frame. The preview then shows less than the device width it claims to be, and at tablet the last menu
item ran off the edge of a page that fits perfectly well at 834.
It cascades, too: a horizontal bar costs height, which can force a vertical bar, which costs more
width, which is how a page that fits ends up not fitting.
Hidden with the same trick the site uses in its own stylesheet, for the same reason. The cost is the
same and worth stating: wheel, trackpad and touch still scroll, and what goes is the visual position
indicator on the platforms where scrollbars are always classic.
Found by looking for a fixed gap between the menu items that turned out not to exist — the nav has no
horizontal gap at all, and justify-between was already doing exactly what it should.
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?mode=edit&device=mobile
I had argued this one should stay in React state — a way of LOOKING rather than a thing being looked at
— and the distinction did not survive contact with the obvious use. "Here is what it does on a phone"
is exactly the link somebody wants to send, and a URL that drops the width sends them the desktop.
docs/navigation-audit.md already said addressable state goes in the URL. Both of these are addressable.
The rule was right; my exception was not.
Absent means desktop, as absent means view: an ordinary link carries neither parameter, and each
appears once somebody has chosen it.
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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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Two things the guides made visible the moment they existed.
THE SKELETON CROSSED THE LINES. Add section was appended to `main`, which is the full width of the
page — the content column is what holds it to its measure. So the drop zone ran edge to edge and
straight past the guides, describing a place a section could go that no section will ever occupy. It
goes in the column now, falling back to main for a page that opts out of the measure, where the column
genuinely is the page.
The section outline had the same fault in miniature: `outline-offset: 4px` puts it OUTSIDE the element,
so a band filling the column drew its edges past the guides. Inset now. Editor chrome that overflows
the thing it describes is chrome that lies about it.
THE VIEW WAS LEFT-ANCHORED. Narrowing the panel showed the left margin and the start of the content —
the least informative part of a centred layout and never the part anybody is looking at. The scroller
now starts in the middle, because the page is centred on a real screen and the preview should be too.
On the scroller, not a transform. A transform is the scaling this just stopped doing.
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TWO CHANGES, and the first is an argument I got wrong.
The frame was scaled to fit the panel with a transform. That made the preview change apparent size as
the panel was dragged, so the same page looked different at every panel width and nothing could be
judged against anything. A preview is 1:1 or it is not a preview.
So it stays at the device's real width and OVERFLOWS when there is not room — a scrollbar rather than a
lie. The width was never negotiable anyway: the site's media queries answer it, so a frame given the
panel's width renders the tablet layout and calls it desktop. What changes is only what happens when it
does not fit, and scrolling is the honest answer.
THE MEASURE, as two fixed lines and a width in pixels.
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 says where. That is invisible until something is placed against the edge and turns
out to be in the wrong place — which is the moment it becomes expensive.
Fixed rather than absolute, so they stay while the page scrolls; a guide that scrolls away is a guide
for the top of the page only. Not drawn at all when the column IS the full width, because two lines
against the window edges are noise claiming to be information.
One more site marker: data-content-column. Four attributes now, still no behaviour.
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The iframe's ref was an inline callback that reset `loaded` to 0 when called with null. React treats an
inline ref as a DIFFERENT ref on every render, so it detaches and reattaches each time — calling the
callback with null, then the node. So `loaded` went back to 0 on every render, which re-rendered, which
reset it again. The injection never survived long enough to run and the page came up with no controls
at all.
An object ref again, and the reset moved into an effect keyed on `reloadToken`, which is the thing that
actually means "a new document is coming".
Same lesson as `useClient` two files along, and the third time this session: a value rebuilt every
render must not be the thing something else keys on.
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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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Opening a section is nearly always to LOOK at something — to check what a change did, or to see where
the site stands before deciding anything. Editing is the deliberate act, so it is the one that should
cost a click. Defaulting the other way puts a wall of controls in front of the thing they act on.
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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 cropper needs an encoder, and only the build was told where one is. That made development the one
place the old behaviour survived: the framing approved in the admin, the picture dev showed, and the
file that shipped would have been three different things — which is the class of bug this whole change
exists to remove.
The port is ephemeral by design, so it is read at start rather than written to a file. av-club moving
leaves dev pointing at a port that has gone; restarting dev from the panel fixes it, and startServer
already deletes and re-creates precisely so a changed port is picked up.
/images/ gets a year and immutable in the nginx config. Earned rather than assumed: the filename is a
hash of the original, the framing, the slot and the width, so the bytes at a URL cannot legitimately
change. That is the difference from /derived/, which is rewritten in place and therefore capped at
thirty days.
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The palette was not enough colour, and it was never going to be. What it replaced — the browser's own
picker — is the full colour space with an eyedropper in it, and it only ever failed because of WHERE it
was: at the right-hand edge of a narrow panel, where its popup opened off the side of the window.
So the controls move to the block instead of the picker being rebuilt. A toolbar pinned to the selection
frame, in the middle of the picture, where the native popup has room. Above the frame, or below it when
the block sits near the top edge — a toolbar drawn off the top is the same unreachable control again.
Everything is on it now: size, alignment as three buttons rather than a select, colour, and delete. The
row per overlay under the canvas is gone. It was a second place to look — the block up here, the thing
that changes it down there — and every adjustment cost a glance each way.
The text is typed where it appears. Double-click, or the pencil. The contentEditable is uncontrolled on
purpose: re-rendering its children from state replaces the text node the caret stands in, so the caret
jumps to the end on every keystroke. The DOM owns the text while it is being typed and the effect only
writes back when the two have genuinely diverged.
Three things that follow from editing in place. A press on a block being edited places the caret and
does not start a drag. Enter is prevented, because a <br> does not survive textContent and the break
would vanish on save — width decides the breaks, as it already did. Paste is forced to plain text,
because a contentEditable takes markup whole and none of it can be stored or drawn.
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It was `<input type="color">`, and the browser's own picker is a window-level popup positioned by the
browser. In a panel near the right edge it opened off the side of the window and could not be reached —
and nothing in CSS can move it, because it is not in the document.
Swatches and a hex field instead, in a panel anchored to the RIGHT of its trigger so it grows inward
and cannot leave the screen the same way.
Deliberately not a gradient area and a hue strip. That is what the native control does well, and
rebuilding it badly to fix a positioning problem would be a worse control than the one being replaced.
Text over a photograph is white or black almost every time; the hex field is there for the times it is
not.
Closes on `pointerdown` anywhere else rather than `click`, so it closes on the way down and a press
meant for something behind it does not land twice. Captured, because a control below may stop
propagation for its own reasons.
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Clicking a block selects it: an outline appears, its row below highlights with it, and a handle on the
edge it grows from resizes the box. Clicking the picture deselects, which is how somebody says "none of
them" without hunting for a button.
Only the selected one is outlined. Every block framed at once turns the picture into a wireframe and
hides the thing actually being judged, which is how the text looks ON the photograph.
The block now has a width, and that is what fixes the dragging. Without one it was as wide as its
longest line, so it changed shape as it was typed and there was nothing stable to take hold of. Text
wraps inside the box now, so a line break is a decision rather than an accident of the current text.
The handle follows the alignment — on the left for a right-aligned block — because it belongs on the
edge the box grows from, and dragging it inwards would otherwise shrink from the wrong side. Its grab
area is four times the visible bar: a 3px target is a target nobody hits.
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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.
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"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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It multiplied by 1.25, which compounds: the same button was a 0.25x step at fit and a 1.75x step at 7x,
so the first press did almost nothing and the last threw the picture across the frame.
Added rather than multiplied, so every press is the same amount of change — which is what somebody
nudging a crop into place is asking for, and it makes the number beside the buttons predictable, which
a factor never is.
Rounded to a tenth, because floating point turns 1 + 0.1 + 0.1 into 1.2000000000000002 and the label
shows it.
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