Adds the recursive paths: schema and the cascade walker that threads
ancestor virtual contributions through to descendant levels.
Schema:
paths:
"*": # literal-segment or "*" segment-wildcard key
paths: # recursive — each step matches one segment
archive:
paths:
"*":
paths:
incoming:
title: "demo"
Each on-disk .zddc and the embedded defaults can declare paths:; the
walker collects every matching subtree and merges its contributions
into chain.Levels[depth] using mergeOverlay (per-field overlay with
on-disk most specific). The matched glob descends one segment at a
time; the value's own paths: becomes a new virtual source for deeper
matches.
Semantics:
- matchGlob: literal key first (case-insensitive on segment),
"*" wildcard fallback.
- mergeOverlay: top wins per-field on scalars; maps merge key-by-
key with top overriding; lists concat-dedupe; Paths replaces
(recursive walker threads it through naturally).
- inherit:false at any on-disk level drops accumulated ancestor
virtual sources AND zeroes chain.Embedded — the operator owns
every rule from that level outward.
- Behaviour is bit-identical when no .zddc declares paths:; the
walker reduces to the prior linear cascade.
Eight new tests cover the glob match table, ancestor-paths
contribution, on-disk-wins override, paths-absent bit-identical
behaviour, and inherit:false dropping ancestor paths: contributions.
All existing tests still pass.
Phase 3 next: populate defaults.zddc.yaml with the canonical
ZDDC convention via paths:, and replace apps.DefaultAppAt /
AppAvailableAt / AutoOwnCanonicalNames / VirtualOnlyCanonicalNames /
IsProjectRootFolder / IsArchivePartyFolder with cascade lookups.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First step of the .zddc-first-configuration rollout: pure plumbing
that makes the future move-everything-out-of-Go work mechanically
possible without changing any current behaviour.
New pieces:
1. zddc/internal/zddc/defaults.zddc.yaml — a real YAML file in the
repo. Single source of truth for the baked-in baseline; intentionally
minimal in Phase 1 (just title + empty acl) so existing deployments
stay bit-identical until Phase 2 starts populating the schema.
2. //go:embed (defaults.go) bakes the bytes into the binary so
shipped deployments don't need the file. Operators who want a
starting point export with:
zddc-server show-defaults > /var/lib/zddc/root/.zddc
3. PolicyChain gains an Embedded ZddcFile field. EffectivePolicy
layers in the embedded defaults as a baseline below the on-disk
chain. Consumers that want the full effective view consult both;
existing consumers that only read chain.Levels keep working
bit-identically (the new field is additive).
4. New top-level `inherit:` key on ZddcFile. Default true. Set
`inherit: false` on any on-disk .zddc to zero out chain.Embedded
— the operator owns every rule from that level outward. Useful at
the on-disk root to fully reject the embedded defaults; useful at
deeper levels for sandbox subtrees.
5. `zddc-server show-defaults` (also accepts --show-defaults) subcommand
dumps the embedded bytes to stdout — same shape as --print-rego.
No flag plumbing needed beyond the existing args walk.
6. Tests: parse-roundtrip on the embedded file, presence in chain by
default, inherit:false drops it, explicit inherit:true is a no-op
versus the default.
Phase 2 (next): add a `paths:` recursive map + `default_tool:` /
`auto_own:` / `virtual:` keys, populate defaults.zddc.yaml with the
canonical ZDDC convention, and migrate apps.DefaultAppAt /
AutoOwnCanonicalNames / VirtualOnlyCanonicalNames to cascade lookups.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three coupled fixes:
1. landing MDL card: Open button now navigates to /<project>/archive/
<party>/mdl (no trailing slash) so the tables tool loads. The
slash form would route to browse instead, which is not what users
want when they click "Open MDL".
2. zddc-server canonical-folder fallback extended to
archive/<party>/{mdl,incoming,received,issued}. New
zddc.IsArchivePartyFolder() recognises any of the four party
folders at depth 4. fs.ListDirectory returns [] for missing
on-disk variants (mirroring the project-root behavior added in
commit 3fc3717); the dispatcher routes slash forms to
ServeDirectory and the no-slash mdl form to ServeTable, with
non-mdl no-slash forms 302'ing to the slash form.
So /Project-N/archive/<party>/incoming/ now lands on an empty
browse listing rather than 404 when nobody has dropped files yet.
3. Fixture seeded with 3 files per party under incoming/ — naming
intentionally NOT in transmittal-envelope form, so classifier
(loaded automatically by browse's grid mode at /incoming/
per the URL-driven view convention) has something to rename.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The shared header strip pointed Working/Staging/Reviewing at the slash
form (working/, etc.), which now serves browse per the slash/no-slash
convention established earlier. The user expected those links to open
the stage's tool (mdedit for working, transmittal for staging, etc.) —
which is what the no-slash form serves.
Also drops the .html suffix from the archive target: <project>/archive
(no slash) → archive tool, same as the other stages. The currentStage
recognizer still accepts /archive.html as a fallback for any direct
URLs that survive in bookmarks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User report: project root listings showed both "Archive" (PascalCase on
disk) and "archive (empty)" (lowercase virtual) — confusing duplicates.
This sweep:
1. Test fixture migrated to lowercase canonical folder names.
tests/data/test-archive.sh now creates archive/, received/, issued/
on disk. Three projects also get human-friendly .zddc titles
("Wabash Industrial Refit — Phase 1", etc.), and Project-3 carries
a display: override demonstrating the new map. Party names
(PartyA/B/C) stay unchanged — non-canonical.
2. New .zddc display: schema. Maps a child entry's on-disk name to a
human-friendly label. The on-disk name stays canonical (lowercase
for project-root folders); only the rendered label changes. Match
is case-insensitive. Example:
display:
archive: "Records"
working: "In-Progress"
No upward cascade — a parent .zddc doesn't relabel grand-children;
each directory sets display: on its own children.
3. listing.FileInfo gets a DisplayName field. fs.ListDirectory reads
the directory's .zddc display map and stamps DisplayName per entry.
The field is omitempty so listings without overrides stay
byte-identical to before.
4. Virtual canonical project-root folders (archive/working/staging/
reviewing) are now emitted by zddc-server (fs.ListDirectory) at any
project root where the on-disk variant is absent in any case. This
replaces the client-side injection in browse and lets the display:
map apply to virtual entries the same way it applies to real ones.
Browse drops its withVirtualCanonicals helper; the loader carries
display_name through from the server's listing.
5. Archive app project picker dropdown shows the .zddc title of each
project (sourced from ProjectInfo.Title in the server's project
list), falling back to the folder name when no title is set. When
they differ, the folder name is rendered in muted mono after the
title for traceability. data-name still carries the canonical
folder name so URL state stays stable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two related routing fixes:
1. /<project>/archive/<party>/mdl[/] now follows the slash/no-slash
convention uniformly with the rest of the system:
- mdl (no slash) → tables app (default tool for mdl/)
- mdl/ (slash) → browse (ServeDirectory empty-listing fallback)
Previously the slash form auto-redirected to mdl/table.html, which
forced the user into the table view from any party-folder click and
produced a confusing "Unrecognized table URL" error when the
redirect race-conditioned. tableRowsRedirect now only redirects
when a real on-disk table.yaml exists; the default-MDL virtual case
stays in browse via the convention.
New zddc.IsArchivePartyMdlDir helper recognises the canonical
<project>/archive/<party>/mdl pattern at depth 4 (relative path).
fs.ListDirectory uses it to return [] for the missing-on-disk case
so browse renders the empty workspace cleanly. Test updated
(TestServeDirectoryRedirectsDefaultMdl → TestServeDirectoryDefaultMdlNoRedirect).
2. <dir>/.zddc URLs now work at every directory depth.
The dispatcher previously 404'd anything beginning with a dot
(except /.archive and /<dir>/.zddc.html). New IsZddcFileRequest +
ServeZddcFile handlers carve out the raw .zddc leaf so an operator
can navigate to /Project-1/archive/PartyA/mdl/.zddc and inspect
the rules effective at that depth.
Semantics:
- Method: GET / HEAD only. Writes go through the existing admin-
gated form at <dir>/.zddc.html (unchanged).
- ACL: parent directory's read permission gates access; 404
(not 403) is returned to non-readers so existence isn't leaked.
- On disk: file bytes served verbatim with
Content-Type: application/yaml and X-ZDDC-Source: file:<rel>.
- Virtual: when no file exists at this level, a synthetic
placeholder body is returned with a YAML-comment cascade
summary so the reader sees exactly what rules apply here from
ancestors. X-ZDDC-Source: virtual:zddc distinguishes it.
The virtual body parses as valid YAML (`{}` after the comments) so
downstream tooling that consumes the URL isn't confused.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four user-reported items:
1. landing: remove the standalone-tool strip from the site picker.
Per user, it was awkward — links pointing at zddc.varasys.io
releases from inside a deployment is a layering confusion. The
nav.tool-strip block in landing/template.html and its CSS are
gone.
2. zddc-server: route /Project/archive/<party>/mdl[/] to the tables
app for the virtual-MDL case where the on-disk folder doesn't
exist yet. Previously fell through to 404 because the dispatcher
only routed virtual mdl/ via the IsDir branch — the IsNotExist
branch was missing the equivalent check. Now both shapes (with
and without trailing slash) hit RecognizeTableRequest's default-
MDL fallback and ServeTable serves the embedded tables.html.
3. browse: re-layout the markdown editor to mirror mdedit's layout.
Was: sidebar on right with TOC top + front-matter bottom.
Now: sidebar on LEFT with YAML front matter top + Outline bottom,
content on RIGHT with an informational header (file title +
save controls + status + source) above the Toast UI editor.
New horizontal resizer between the front-matter and outline
sections inside the sidebar (drag the row boundary; arrow keys
step by 24 px). Browse test selectors updated.
4. zddc-server reviewing aggregator: extend to depth ≥ 2 so the
user can preview files inside virtual reviewing/<tracking>/
received/ and staged/ folders. IsReviewingPath now returns a
sidePath ("received[/rest]" or "staged[/rest]"); ServeReviewing's
depth-2 branch proxies the underlying real folder's listing,
emitting folder entries with virtual reviewing/ URLs (so
navigation stays in the aggregator) and file entries with
canonical archive/ or staging/ URLs (so byte fetches resolve
directly). ACL is enforced against the real path; depth-1
received/ + staged/ URLs are now virtual too (was canonical),
so the user smoothly descends into the depth-2 listing.
Tests updated for the new IsReviewingPath signature and the depth-1
URL shape.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wires up live alpha-dev iteration on bitnest. With this change a
`.zddc apps: <tool>: <path>` entry overrides the embedded copy for any
of the eight tools, not just five.
Two coupled fixes:
1. zddc.AppNames had a five-entry list (archive/transmittal/
classifier/mdedit/landing) — predating browse/form/tables.
ResolveWithOverride's `if !IsKnownApp(app)` gate silently rejected
those three before ever looking at the cascade, falling back to
embedded with an "unknown app" error.
2. handler.ServeDirectory hard-coded `apps.EmbeddedBytes("browse")`
for the HTML directory-listing fallback, bypassing the apps
subsystem entirely. Now takes an optional *apps.Server and
delegates to appsSrv.Serve(w, r, "browse", chain, absDir) when
wired, so the cascade is honored at bare directory URLs too
(the most common way browse gets surfaced).
Both call sites in main.go and the test signatures in
directory_test.go updated. ValidateFile error message now lists all
eight known apps.
Verified end-to-end on bitnest with a root .zddc apps cascade
pointing at /srv/.zddc.d/source/<tool>/dist/<file>: every `./build`
on the host is now immediately visible after a hard refresh. Iteration
loop is `./build` (or `sh tool/build.sh`) then reload — no container
restart needed, since the apps subsystem reads the path source on
each request.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Above the Groups / Projects cards, a horizontal strip of one link per
tool — each pointing at the latest stable single-file build on the
canonical release host (zddc.varasys.io/releases/<tool>_stable.html).
Useful for "try this tool" / offline use without first picking a
project.
Seven links (Archive, Transmittal, Classifier, Markdown, Browse, Form,
Tables). Landing itself is omitted from the strip — clicking landing
from landing is a no-op. Each card has the tool name in the display
serif and a short sans hint underneath. Wraps on narrow widths instead
of scrolling horizontally; sits inside pickerView so it auto-hides on
the per-project landing view.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Only transmittal had any @media (max-width) rules; the other seven
tools silently break below ~900px. Adds a baseline shared rule that
every tool inherits — desktop-first stays the same, but a tablet in
landscape or a window split next to a document remains usable.
@media (max-width: 800px):
- tighter header padding + gaps
- .app-header__title drops 18px → 16px
- .build-timestamp inside .header-title-group hidden (it's
traceability info, not a primary affordance — still reachable
via help panel)
- header text buttons get a smaller padding so they fit
@media (max-width: 480px) phone-width:
- .app-header switches to column layout
- .header-left and .header-right each span full width with
justify-content: space-between
prefers-reduced-motion was already covered for the page-load stagger.
Each tool can still override in its own css/layout.css; this is the
shared floor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The header is the first thing a user sees. A short staggered fade-in
(logo → title → action button → right-side icons over ~360ms) turns the
instant-pop-in feel into a subtle "the tool is composing itself" beat.
Pure CSS @keyframes (no JS), cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.7, 0.2, 1) for the
"settle in" easing curve. Respects prefers-reduced-motion. Total budget
~260ms before everything is visible — well under the threshold where it
becomes a perceptible delay.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
System-default font stack ('-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI,
…') is the textbook generic admin-tool look. The tools have a real point
of view (engineering documents, traceability, immutability); the
typography should reflect that.
Picks:
--font → IBM Plex Sans (400 + 600). UI body text. Distinctive
engineering sans with tabular nums and proper figures.
--font-display → Source Serif 4 (600). Headings, page titles,
.app-header__title. Reads as "document" not "UI label."
--font-mono → unchanged. Platform mono fonts are already excellent
and engineering tools rarely benefit from a custom mono.
Wiring:
- Raw .woff2 files live in shared/fonts/ (~60 KB total, latin subset,
SIL OFL 1.1 — both families)
- shared/fonts.css is base64-inlined data URIs for those three fonts
(~80 KB after b64 overhead). Generated once from the snippet in
shared/fonts/README.md.
- Every tool's build.sh prepends shared/fonts.css before shared/base.css
so @font-face is parsed before any rule references the family names.
- Headings (h1-h6) and .app-header__title now use var(--font-display);
.app-header__title bumped 17→18px and letter-spacing reset since the
serif doesn't need the original sans-text tightening.
- table/code/.tabular-nums get font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums so
tracking-number columns align vertically.
"Ship the record player with the record": zero CDN dependency at render
time. Tools render identically offline and online. Per-tool dist sizes
grew by ~80 KB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
There are 76 alert() call sites across the eight tools — three different
ad-hoc error-surfacing patterns (alert, console.error, classifier's own
showToast). Touching every site is a sweep with no judgment payoff:
every alert is "something went wrong, the user should know," which is
exactly what toast at level='error' is for.
Shim is one if-block at the bottom of shared/toast.js. It saves the
native window.alert as window.alertNative (so any truly modal-blocking
call site can opt back in by name), then replaces window.alert with a
function that forwards through window.zddc.toast(msg, 'error'). Effect
is global — every existing alert in every tool becomes a non-blocking,
ARIA-announced (aria-live=assertive) toast that the user can click to
dismiss.
handler/tables.html refreshed by ./build as a side effect (it bakes the
current tables/dist/ into the binary every build).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tree's underlying setSort API was carried forward from the old
table-with-clickable-headers UI but had no widget driving it after
the layout reshape. Adds an explicit dropdown in the toolbar:
Sort: [Name (A→Z) ▾]
[Name (Z→A) ]
[Modified (new→old) ]
[Modified (old→new) ]
[Size (large→small) ]
[Size (small→large) ]
[Type (A→Z) ]
Implementation:
- new tree.setSortExplicit(key, dir) — sets both axes in one call
(the existing tree.setSort toggles direction on repeat-clicks,
which is the right semantics for column-header clicks but wrong
for an explicit dropdown).
- events.js parses the dropdown value as "<key>:<asc|desc>" and
calls setSortExplicit. The dropdown is initialised to reflect
the current sort state on mount.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the markdown plugin's deferred v2 items:
1. TOC pane
A third pane to the right of the Toast UI editor lists every heading
in the current document, hierarchically indented by level. Click an
item → editor scrolls to that heading (markdown-mode uses
setSelection + preview scroll; WYSIWYG mode uses DOM text matching;
the target heading flashes briefly via primary-light background).
The TOC re-renders on every editor change (debounced 250ms) so it
stays in sync with edits.
Heading parser supports ATX-style `^#{1,6}\s+` lines, strips inline
markdown emphasis/code/links/strike from the displayed label.
Empty file → "Empty file." Headingless file → "No headings."
2. FS-API writes
Saves now route to whichever source the file came from:
- node.handle + createWritable available → FileSystemWritableFileStream
(local folder picker). The user's chosen file gets overwritten
via the browser's File System Access API.
- node.url + server source → PUT to the server URL (as before).
- zip-virtual file → save disabled (no writable stream from JSZip).
- Anything else → save disabled with a tooltip.
Save status surfaces via the existing toolbar (`Saved 10:42:18`) AND
a shared toast notification ("Saved readme.md" / "Save failed: …")
so the success/failure is visible regardless of whether the user is
looking at the toolbar.
Source-hint chip on the toolbar shows "local" / "server" /
"read-only (inside zip)" so the user knows which write path is
active before they make changes.
CSS additions in browse/css/tree.css for .md-toolbar, .md-split,
.md-editor-host, .md-toc-pane, .toc-list, and the .toc-level-1..6
indentation rules.
A new Playwright test exercises the markdown plugin end-to-end:
mounts the editor on a .md click, asserts the three DOM regions are
visible, verifies the TOC contains the three expected headings from
the test fixture's markdown content, and confirms the source hint
reads "local" for FS-API mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reshape browse from "tree-as-table with popup preview" into a unified
file-experience tool with three layered behaviors:
Phase A — Two-pane shell
Phase B — Markdown plugin (Toast UI inline)
Phase C — Grid mode (classifier workflow)
Phase D — Deprecation banners on standalone classifier + mdedit
= Phase A: two-pane shell + lightweight preview plugins =
Browse's table view becomes a tree-pane on the left + preview-pane on
the right with a draggable resizer. Click a folder → expand inline.
Click a file → render in the right pane. The previous popup window
becomes an explicit "⤴ Pop out" button in the right-pane header for
users with a second monitor.
Preview rendering reuses shared/preview-lib.js (PDF iframe, image
<img>, TIFF, ZIP listing, text <pre>). Unknown types show a download
link. browse/js/preview.js refactored into renderInline (default) +
renderInPopup (Pop out button); both share the same plugin
dispatch logic.
Filter rows were already removed earlier this session. Sort columns
likewise — the tree is alphabetical by default; the underlying
setSort API still exists for future re-introduction.
= Phase B: markdown plugin =
New browse/js/preview-markdown.js: when a .md or .markdown file is
clicked, the right pane mounts a Toast UI editor (initial-value =
file contents) with a small toolbar containing Save + dirty indicator
+ status text. Save sends PUT through the file API for server-mode
files; non-server sources are read-only for now (deferred to a
follow-up that wires zddc-source.js writes too). Ctrl+S / Cmd+S
inside the editor saves.
Toast UI Editor (~700 KB JS + ~160 KB CSS) was previously bundled
only in mdedit/vendor/. Moved to shared/vendor/ so browse and mdedit
both pull from one location.
= Phase C: grid mode =
View-mode toggle [Browse | Grid] in the toolbar. Grid mode loads the
classifier tool as an iframe scoped to the current directory (server
mode at working/staging/incoming locations) — classifier's full
bulk-rename workflow without leaving browse. v1 implementation; a
future iteration could bundle classifier's modules directly into
browse for tighter integration. Hostile cases (file:// origin, paths
outside working/staging/incoming) show a friendly explanation
instead of a blank iframe.
new browse/js/grid.js handles the activation logic.
= Phase D: deprecation banners =
mdedit and classifier standalones gain a "this tool is being absorbed
into Browse" advisory banner. Both standalones remain fully
functional and continue to ship — they're useful for offline single-
file editing and air-gapped environments. The banner just points
users toward the unified browse experience.
= Files =
+ browse/js/preview-markdown.js (markdown plugin)
+ browse/js/grid.js (grid-mode plugin)
M browse/template.html (two-pane layout, view toggle, banners)
M browse/css/tree.css (two-pane CSS, replaces table styles)
M browse/js/init.js (state additions: selectedId, viewMode)
M browse/js/tree.js (rowHtml: <tr>+<td> → <div>)
M browse/js/preview.js (renderInline / renderInPopup split)
M browse/js/events.js (toggle wiring, resizer, click handlers
adapted from <table> to <div>)
M browse/build.sh (Toast UI vendor + new modules)
R mdedit/vendor/toastui-* → shared/vendor/ (one bundle, two tools)
M mdedit/build.sh (paths)
M mdedit/template.html (deprecation banner)
M classifier/template.html (deprecation banner)
M tests/browse.spec.js (selectors updated for new layout +
new "click file → preview" test)
Bundle sizes after this commit:
browse: ~1020 KB (was ~290 KB; added Toast UI ~700 KB)
classifier: ~1470 KB (unchanged from prior baseline)
mdedit: ~2140 KB (unchanged; vendor location moved but not added)
What's deferred:
- TOC + front-matter pane in browse's markdown plugin (mdedit has
these; browse v1 uses just the editor).
- FS-API writes from browse's markdown plugin (server PUT works).
- Classifier modules bundled directly into browse (v1 uses iframe).
- Sort UI in the new tree (model still supports it; no widget yet).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The .app-header__logo SVG was decorative on every tool. Web's
strongest convention is "click logo → go home" — so users tapping
it expecting that fallback got nothing. Now the logo is wrapped in
an anchor whose href reflects the URL the page was loaded from:
file:// → no wrap (no server home to point at)
/ → wrap, href=/ (deployment root)
/index.html / /<tool>.html → wrap, href=/ (root, no project)
/<project>/... → wrap, href=/<project> (project landing)
The wrap happens client-side at DOMContentLoaded via shared/logo.js,
loaded by every tool's build.sh after toast/nav. Idempotent — a
template-supplied anchor or a second mount call is a no-op.
The companion shared/logo.css adds a subtle hover/focus affordance
(opacity 0.82, focus ring) so the logo reads as clickable without
otherwise altering its visual weight. Tools opt out by setting
window.zddc.logo.disabled = true before DOMContentLoaded (e.g. for
deployments that pin the logo to an external destination).
Five Playwright tests (tests/logo.spec.js) lock the contract:
no-wrap on file://, href=/ at root, href=/<project> in project
subtree, aria-label matches target, idempotent re-mount.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Beta cut of the eight HTML tools into zddc/internal/apps/embedded/*
and the unified form/tables bundle into zddc/internal/handler/tables.html.
Each tool's on-page label changes from alpha → beta-stamped bytes;
no source changes beyond the build label itself.
The dev image (Dockerfile, devshell, ZDDC_REF=main) and the bitnest
test container both pick this up automatically — bitnest's path-unit
fired on the rebuild of zddc/dist/zddc-server-linux-amd64 and
restarted the container with the new embedded apps:
embedded_apps=archive=v0.0.17-beta browse=v0.0.17-beta
classifier=v0.0.17-beta form=v0.0.17-beta
landing=v0.0.17-beta mdedit=v0.0.17-beta
tables=v0.0.17-beta transmittal=v0.0.17-beta
Source-side commits since the previous beta:
feat(landing): single-project click → <project>/archive.html
feat(shared): non-blocking toast helper
feat(shared): lateral project-stage strip
feat(form): standalone empty-state welcome
fix(tables): keepalive on beforeunload save path
refactor(mdedit): drop window.* TOC globals
refactor(archive): remove dead debounce
style(transmittal): tokenize utility classes, drop !important block
style: replace inline styles with CSS
test(shared): zddc-source.js + toast + nav specs
test(browse): smoke spec
docs: tool counts + state pattern + polyfill gaps
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a thin nav strip directly under the app-header showing the four
canonical lifecycle stages from the transmittal-workflow spec:
archive · working · staging · reviewing. Each is a link to that
stage's directory under the current project. Current stage is
highlighted (bold + primary color, aria-current="page"). Strip
mounts as a sibling of .app-header on DOMContentLoaded — no
template changes needed in any tool.
Render rules (shared/nav.js shouldRender):
- location.protocol must be http: or https: (file:// has no project
structure to navigate within)
- a project segment must be detectable as the first path segment
(when it isn't a tool HTML file like /index.html or
/archive.html?projects=A,B). Multi-project view at the deployment
root therefore shows no strip.
Stage URL targets:
- Archive → <project>/archive.html (project-root archive view)
- Working → <project>/working/ (directory listing — mdedit auto-served)
- Staging → <project>/staging/ (directory listing — transmittal auto-served)
- Reviewing → <project>/reviewing/ (directory listing)
Convention-driven, not probed: if a deployment doesn't have one of
these folders the link returns 404. Operators on non-standard layouts
can opt out by setting window.zddc.nav.disabled = true before
DOMContentLoaded.
This pairs with the previous landing-tool change (single-project
click → <project>/archive.html). Together they give the user
both URL-bar manipulation AND visible navigation across the four
canonical project stages.
Five Playwright tests in tests/nav.spec.js exercise:
- non-render at deployment root
- render + active stage on <project>/archive.html
- render + active stage deep inside <project>/working/foo/mdedit.html
- canonical link targets
- mount position is sibling of .app-header
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Promote classifier's local toast (classifier/css/base.css + showToast
in classifier/js/excel.js) into shared/toast.{js,css}. Every tool's
build.sh now concatenates them, so window.zddc.toast(msg, level, opts)
is callable from any tool.
API:
window.zddc.toast('Saved.', 'success');
window.zddc.toast('Could not load: ' + err.message, 'error');
window.zddc.toast('Note', 'info', { durationMs: 3000 });
Levels: info (default) | success | warning | error. Single-toast
policy — a second call replaces the first. Click anywhere on the
toast to dismiss. ARIA: error → role=alert/aria-live=assertive,
others → role=status/aria-live=polite.
Class prefix is .zddc-toast (BEM-ish) to avoid colliding with any
tool-local .toast rules. Classifier's existing showToast now
delegates to window.zddc.toast — call sites in excel.js +
selection.js are unchanged. Classifier's local .toast CSS block
deleted in favor of the shared one.
This commit only EXPOSES the API. Replacing the ~25 alert() call
sites scattered across archive/transmittal/mdedit/classifier with
toast calls is left as follow-up — each alert needs per-call review
to decide if it's truly non-blocking.
Five Playwright tests in tests/toast.spec.js lock the contract:
API exposure, level mapping, ARIA roles, single-toast replace,
click-to-dismiss.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The TODO at save.js's unload handler was "switch to keepalive on save
for the unload path." flushAllDrafts() kicks off saveRow() per dirty
row when the page is being navigated away from, but those fetches were
not flagged keepalive — modern browsers can cancel them mid-flight as
the page unloads, dropping the user's last typing.
saveRow() now accepts an opts.keepalive flag that is passed through to
fetch(). flushAllDrafts() passes {keepalive: true} so the unload path
gets the keepalive guarantee. Normal saves are unaffected (keepalive
imposes a 64 KB body cap per the Fetch spec — only worth that trade
on the unload path).
Also refreshes the embedded zddc/internal/handler/tables.html bytes via
./build, which folds in this change plus the form welcome-state CSS
from c585112.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per the reference doc at zddc.varasys.io/reference.html#tracking-numbers,
a tracking number is composed of: originator, [phase], project,
[area], discipline, type, sequence, [suffix]. The default Master
Deliverables List now surfaces every component as its own column,
plus the standard MDL metadata (title, plannedRevision,
plannedDate, status, owner). Columns appear in the canonical
filename order so the table reads left-to-right like the tracking
number itself.
Optional components ([phase], [area], [suffix]) render in the
table even when blank — keeps the layout consistent across rows.
Projects on a schema that doesn't use them hide the columns by
overriding (see customization).
Form schema (default-mdl.form.yaml):
- One JSON Schema property per tracking-number component, plus
the deliverable metadata. originator / project / discipline /
type / sequence are required; phase / area / suffix are
optional. The schema is intentionally permissive — free-text
strings on every component, no enums or regex constraints.
Projects pick their own conventions for originator codes,
discipline vocabularies, etc.; a default that imposed a
fixed set would just get in the way.
- Phase 2's editable-cell widget factory derives the right
per-cell editor from this schema: text inputs for the
components, the existing select for `status` (which keeps
its enum), date input for `plannedDate`, textarea for
`notes`.
Customization (the "way for end users to customize"):
- Drop your own table.yaml and / or form.yaml into the rows
directory (archive/<party>/mdl/, or any directory hosting a
table). Operator-supplied files override the embedded defaults
ATOMICALLY — there's no field-level merge, the operator file
wins entirely. This matches every other "spec on disk wins"
convention in zddc-server.
- Hide a column: omit it from the columns: list.
- Rename a column header: change `title:`.
- Add a column: append a {field, title} entry AND add a
matching property in form.yaml's schema.properties.
- Tighten constraints: use `enum:`, `pattern:`, `minLength:`
etc. on form.yaml properties.
- Pre-filter rows on load: defaults.filter[<field>].
The whole rows-directory is self-contained — copying mdl/ to a
new project takes the spec, the form, and every row YAML
together.
Documentation:
- AGENTS.md "Tables system" gains a paragraph on the default-MDL
column set + the customization mechanism + a pointer to the
embedded source files.
- tables/template.html help panel rewrites the body to cover:
* What the directory IS (spec + form + row YAMLs together).
* Editable-cell keyboard shortcuts (the Phase 1-5 sequence
we just shipped — arrows, Tab, Enter, F2, Delete, Ctrl+D /
R / C / V / Z, Shift+arrow / Shift+click for ranges).
* The auto-save model + per-row state swatch colors.
* The customization model with a worked file-tree example.
Replaces the obsolete pre-Phase-1 wording that referenced
`*.table.yaml` parent files and click-to-navigate-row UX.
Tests: no schema test changes — the default YAMLs are loaded
through the same RecognizeTableRequest / RecognizeFormRequest
paths that already cover the fallback. Full Playwright + Go
suites green (44 + 13).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Final phase of the editable-cell sequence. Adds linear undo
(Ctrl/Cmd+Z), range selection (Shift+arrow, Shift+click), bulk
delete (Delete/Backspace), and fill-down/right (Ctrl+D / Ctrl+R)
across the selected range. Skips redo, drag-fill handle, and
formulas — those were the deferred items from the architecture
report's "build what spreadsheet refugees miss most in week one"
recommendation.
Undo (tables/js/undo.js):
- Linear command stack, depth 50, session-local. Each Command
is { cells: [{rowId, field, oldValue, newValue}, ...] }.
Single edits push a one-cell Command; bulk operations push
one Command spanning all affected cells so a single Ctrl+Z
reverts the whole group.
- Replay logic: for each cell in the popped command, compare
oldValue to the row's stored data. If they match → clear the
draft (the user's edit reverts to baseline). Otherwise →
setDraft to oldValue (intermediate state). Then app.repaint().
- Hotkey: document-level keydown for Ctrl/Cmd+Z. Bails when the
active element is an INPUT / TEXTAREA / contentEditable so
the browser's intra-input undo wins inside a focused editor.
- Pushed by every edit path: editor.commit, editor.bulkClear,
editor.bulkFill. Phase 4's clipboard.applyPaste path will
push from a future iteration — current paste tests don't
cover undo, but the wiring is symmetric.
- Why local-only and no redo: per the architecture report —
shared undo is conceptually broken under last-writer-wins;
redo is a power-user nicety we can add later as a parallel
forward stack (~10 lines).
Range selection (tables/js/editor.js):
- New state: app.state.range = {anchor, focus} | null. Anchor
is the cell where the range started; focus is the current
edge. The cell at focus also has tabindex=0 (the keyboard
focus owner).
- Shift+ArrowDown/Up/Left/Right: extends focus by one cell,
re-applies --in-range class to every cell in the bounding
rectangle.
- Shift+click on a cell: extends the range from anchor to the
clicked cell. Plain click clears the range.
- Escape clears both selection and range.
- Visual: --in-range cells get a fainter background; the
--selected cell (focus) keeps its bright outline so the
anchor/focus distinction is visible.
Bulk delete:
Delete or Backspace in nav mode (no editor mounted) clears
every cell in the current range, setting each to null in the
draft buffer. One undoable Command spans the whole range so
Ctrl+Z restores all cells together.
Fill-down / fill-right:
- Ctrl+D fills the top row's value down through the range
(Excel/Sheets convention). Each cell in the column below
the source row picks up the source row's effectiveCellValue
for its column. Cross-column variation preserved.
- Ctrl+R fills the left column's value right through the
range. Symmetric to Ctrl+D.
- Both push a single multi-cell Command.
Bug fix shipped alongside:
editor.commit and editor.cancel now ev.stopPropagation() in
addition to preventDefault. Without it, the input's keydown
on Enter bubbled up to the table's onCellKey listener AFTER
setSelected moved focus to the next row, which then re-fired
enterEdit on the new cell — a confusing "I committed but
landed back in edit mode" UX. The probe-driven test for the
single-cell undo path surfaced this; same root cause for any
focus-on-target-then-bubble pattern. Tab and Escape get the
same treatment for symmetry.
Tests (7 new Phase 5 specs, total 44 in tests/tables.spec.js):
- Ctrl+Z reverts a single cell edit to prior value — types in
one cell, asserts the draft applied, presses Ctrl+Z, asserts
the cell returned to its original AND the draft buffer is
empty (returned to baseline → no draft).
- Shift+ArrowDown extends range selection — verifies two cells
carry --in-range class.
- Shift+click extends range from anchor to clicked cell —
verifies a 2x3 selection produces 6 in-range cells.
- Delete clears every selected cell — verifies a 2x2 selection
produces 4 null drafts.
- Ctrl+D fills the top row down through the range — verifies
the second row's title cell takes the first row's title.
- Ctrl+Z reverts a bulk fill in one step — verifies a single
Ctrl+Z restores the original value AND clears the draft.
- undo stack depth caps at 50 — pushes 60 commands, asserts
depth saturates at 50 (oldest 10 dropped).
Bundle size: 138 KB → 144 KB.
Files:
- tables/js/undo.js (new) — command stack, undo, Ctrl+Z hotkey.
- tables/js/editor.js — extendRange, ensureRange, clearRange,
rangeCells, bulkClearSelection, bulkFill; commit pushes undo;
Shift+arrow / Shift+click handlers; Delete + Ctrl+D + Ctrl+R
in onCellKey; setSelected respects keepRange opt; Enter/Tab/
Escape stopPropagation fix.
- tables/js/app.js — state.range field.
- tables/build.sh — undo.js in concat list.
- tables/css/table.css — --in-range styling.
- zddc/internal/handler/tables.html — regenerated bundle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bidirectional clipboard interop with Excel, Google Sheets, and any
other spreadsheet that uses RFC-4180-ish TSV on the text/plain
clipboard mime. Pasted cells write straight into the draft buffer
the same way per-key edits do; row-level save (Phase 3) picks them
up on the next row-blur with the same If-Match optimistic-
concurrency flow.
TSV parser (clipboard.js parseTSV):
- Tabs separate columns, \\n / \\r\\n separate rows.
- Quoted fields ("...") may contain tabs and newlines verbatim.
- Doubled \\"\\" inside a quoted field escapes a literal \\".
- Trailing empty row from a final \\n is dropped (Excel sends
this; matching the convention avoids a phantom blank row at
the end of every paste).
Apply-paste (clipboard.js applyPaste):
- Anchor = currently selected cell.
- 1×1 clipboard into selection → writes that one cell.
- N×M clipboard → SPILLS from the anchor down/right to
(anchor.row + N - 1, anchor.col + M - 1). Cells past the end
of either axis are silently dropped with a toast count.
- Each pasted value goes through coerceCell, which checks the
column's row-schema property type:
* number / integer → Number()
* boolean → "true"|"yes"|"1" → true; "false"|
"no"|"0"|"" → false
* everything else → raw string
Drafts hold the right JS type so the row-PUT body matches the
JSON Schema the server validates against.
Copy (clipboard.js onCopy):
- Single-cell selection: Ctrl/Cmd+C writes the cell's
effectiveCellValue (draft if dirty, else stored) as text/plain
via formatCell (RFC-4180 quoting on tab/newline/quote).
- Range copy is Phase 5 (depends on range-selection landing).
Event wiring:
- document.addEventListener('paste'/'copy') so events bubble
from any cell with focus. Phase 1's roving tabindex moves
focus around; per-cell binding would have to be re-applied
after every paint.
- onPaste bails when an editor input is mounted (the input
owns its own paste — typing into a cell editor that was just
populated with a chunk of TSV would be a footgun).
Toast for partial pastes:
When applyPaste skipped any cells, a small message in
#table-status: "Pasted N cells; M dropped (out of bounds)".
Auto-clears after 4s. Coexists with Phase 3's stale-row prompt
(toast doesn't fire if a prompt is already up; prompt outranks
toast).
Tests (6 new Phase 4 specs, total 37 in tests/tables.spec.js):
- parseTSV handles tabs, newlines, and quoted fields — covers
the parser edge cases including embedded \\n inside "..." and
doubled "" escapes.
- paste single value into selected cell — the 1×1 path; verifies
the draft buffer entry.
- paste 2×2 grid spills from anchor — the N×M spill semantic.
- paste coerces numeric/boolean values via row schema —
verifies the draft holds typeof===number for an integer column
and === true for a boolean column.
- paste out-of-bounds drops cells silently with toast — drives
via dispatched ClipboardEvent('paste') (the only way to
exercise onPaste end-to-end including the toast).
- copy single cell writes value to clipboard — synthesizes a
ClipboardEvent('copy') with a writable DataTransfer payload
and asserts the cell value lands in text/plain.
Bundle size: 134 KB → 138 KB.
Files:
- tables/js/clipboard.js (new) — parseTSV, formatTSV,
applyPaste, onPaste/onCopy, toast helper.
- tables/build.sh — clipboard.js in concat list.
- zddc/internal/handler/tables.html — regenerated bundle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cell edits now actually persist. Row-level batch save fires on
row-blur (selection moves to a different row); the request is one
PUT with the full merged row (server-side data + client drafts)
and If-Match: <etag> for optimistic concurrency. Conflict and
validation responses are surfaced inline; drafts are NEVER silently
discarded — when the server says no, the user's typing stays put
until they explicitly reload or replay.
Architecture (per the research synthesis from earlier in this
sequence):
- ETag tracking: context.js readRows captures the per-row ETag
from HttpFileHandle's response header on the initial GET.
Stashed at row.etag alongside row.data and row.yamlUrl. Phase 3
reads it; later phases (undo replay) inherit it.
- Row-blur trigger: editor.js setSelected calls a new
notifySelectionChanged() hook after selection lands. save.js's
onSelectionChanged tracks _previousSelectedRowId; when it
changes AND the previous row had drafts, fires saveRow(prevId).
Fire-and-forget — don't block the user's flow on the network.
- save.saveRow flow:
1. mergeRow(row.data, drafts) → full updated row.
2. js-yaml dump → wire body.
3. PUT row.yamlUrl, body, headers={Content-Type, If-Match}.
4. Branch on response status:
- 200/201 → success: clear drafts + invalid marks, capture
new ETag from response, replace row.data with merged.
- 202 → outbox queued (downstream client offline):
clear drafts (the outbox owns them now), mark row queued.
- 412 → stale: drafts STAY; mark row stale; show
status-bar prompt with [Use mine] / [Reload] buttons.
- 422 → server validation failed; body has
{errors: [{path, message}]}; mark each cell invalid via
a red-corner CSS marker + title-attribute tooltip.
- other → mark errored; drafts stay.
- Conflict resolution UX:
- "Use mine" replays the user's drafts onto fresh server
state. Re-GETs the row to learn the new ETag + new server
data, replaces row.data with the fresh server values, then
re-PUTs the merge of fresh + drafts. This is client-side
field-level last-writer-wins: fields the user did NOT
touch get the server's new values automatically; only
fields the user changed override server state. No JSON
Patch endpoint required — pure client logic on top of the
existing whole-row PUT path.
- "Reload" drops drafts entirely, re-GETs the row, repaints.
- Validation error display: per-cell red-corner triangle
(Excel-style) plus title-attribute tooltip on hover. Marker
keyed off data-col-idx + the column's field; survives until
the next edit on that cell or the next paint() cycle.
- beforeunload safety net: any rows with drafts at unload time
get one fire-and-forget save attempt. Modern browsers limit
what beforeunload can do; a follow-up could add fetch's
keepalive flag for a more reliable last-shot.
UI surfaces:
- Per-row state classes drive a left-border swatch in the first
cell:
--dirty subtle blue (uncommitted changes)
--saving muted grey (PUT in flight)
--queued warm yellow (outbox accepted)
--invalid orange (server 422)
--stale warning amber (server 412 — also tints row bg)
--errored red (other failure — also tints row bg)
These re-apply across re-paints via save.markAllDirtyRows()
called from main.js's paint() hook (innerHTML='' wipes them).
- #table-status doubles as the conflict prompt host. When a row
goes stale, the bar shows
"This row was changed by someone else. [Use mine] [Reload] [×]"
and the row-id it's bound to is stored on data-row-id so a
successful reload of that row dismisses the prompt.
Outbox (downstream client) interaction:
The cache layer's PUT-replay queue intercepts saves transparently.
On local network failure the cache returns 202 with
X-ZDDC-Cache: queued; we treat 202 as "succeeded for now" —
drafts clear (the outbox owns them and will replay), but the
row stays marked --queued so the user knows the write hasn't
reached upstream yet. When the cache replays and gets a
real 200/201/412/etc., the row state will reflect that on next
read (next paint cycle / page refresh).
Tests (4 new Phase 3 specs, total 31 in tests/tables.spec.js):
- row-blur fires PUT with merged drafts + If-Match. Edit a
cell in row 0, Enter (commits + moves to row 1). Verifies
PUT went out with the right URL, the merged YAML body
contains the new value AND the unchanged fields, and the
If-Match header carries the original ETag.
- 412 conflict marks row stale + shows status prompt. Verifies
the row gains the stale class, the status bar appears with
both [Use mine] and [Reload] buttons, AND the draft is
preserved (never silently dropped on conflict).
- 422 validation errors mark cells invalid. Verifies multiple
field errors → multiple red-corner cells.
- Reload button drops drafts and refreshes. Verifies the bar
hides and drafts clear after a successful reload GET.
Setup: a small page.route helper intercepts http://test.local/*
PUTs and GETs, lets each test queue the next response via
window.__nextResponse, and captures requests at
window.__capturedRequests for inspection. Test fixtures use
absolute http URLs in row.yamlUrl so the route catches them.
Bundle size: 127 KB → 134 KB.
Files:
- tables/js/save.js (new) — saveRow, useMine, reload, status
prompt, row-state markers, beforeunload flush.
- tables/js/editor.js — notifySelectionChanged hook.
- tables/js/context.js — etag + yamlUrl on each row.
- tables/js/main.js — paint() re-applies dirty markers via
save.markAllDirtyRows; exposes app.repaint for save callbacks.
- tables/build.sh — save.js in concat list.
- tables/css/table.css — row-state classes + invalid-cell corner
+ status-bar prompt styling.
- zddc/internal/handler/tables.html — regenerated bundle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the always-text-input cell editor with a per-property
widget factory keyed off the row's JSON Schema (form.yaml). The
table view now picks the right editor for each cell automatically:
strings get text inputs, enums get dropdowns, integers get number
inputs with min/max, dates get date pickers, booleans get
checkboxes, multi-select arrays get a multi-select. Cells whose
schema is a complex type (nested object, generic array, oneOf /
anyOf / allOf) can't be inline-edited and punt to the row's
form-mode editor on Enter / double-click.
Schema discovery:
context.js walkServer fetches <currentdir>/form.yaml as a
companion to <currentdir>/table.yaml — same file the form-mode
renderer already loads, just from the table view's perspective.
Best-effort: a directory with table.yaml but no form.yaml still
renders as a sortable/filterable table; cells just fall back to
plain text inputs without per-property hints. The schema is
exposed as ctx.rowSchema and consumed by the editor's
propertySchemaFor() helper, which walks dot-separated field
names through schema.properties to locate each column's
property schema.
Editor factory (editor.js):
- propertySchemaFor(col) — schema lookup keyed by col.field.
- isComplexSchema(s) — true for nested object, generic array,
oneOf/anyOf/allOf. Multi-select-friendly arrays
(string-enum + uniqueItems) are NOT complex; they get an
inline multi-select widget.
- makeWidget(propSchema, col, initialValue) — dispatches to one
of the widget builders below based on schema type / format /
enum + column-spec hints (col.format / col.enum) for tables
without a form.yaml.
Widget builders, each returning {element, getValue, focus}:
- widgetText — plain <input type=text>, default fallback.
- widgetTextarea — for string with maxLength > 200 (long
narrative fields).
- widgetTyped(type) — typed inputs the browser can help validate;
used for date / date-time / email.
- widgetNumber — <input type=number> with min/max/step
derived from schema.minimum/maximum/
multipleOf. Integer schemas force step=1.
getValue returns Number, not string, so
the draft buffer holds the right type for
JSON serialization later.
- widgetCheckbox — <input type=checkbox>; getValue returns
bool. initial value coerces from "true"/
true string-or-bool.
- widgetSelect — <select> with empty placeholder + one
option per enum choice; getValue returns
the chosen string or null.
- widgetMultiSelect — <select multiple> with size = min(6, N);
getValue returns the array of selected
values (preserves order in the option list).
Complex-type cells:
isComplexSchema(propSchema) → enterEdit calls navigateToRowForm,
which routes to row.url (already the <id>.yaml.html re-edit URL
the row tracker holds). Phase 5 may swap this for an inline
side-panel mount of form-mode in the same bundle, but the
current navigate-out path delivers the same eventual UX without
needing the side-panel scaffolding.
Type-aware draft equality:
The pre-Phase-2 commit treated every value as a string and
compared via String() equality, which would mark any number-
column edit dirty even when the user re-typed the same number.
The new sameValue() helper handles bool/object via JSON-string
equality and falls back to loose string compare so 42 == "42"
isn't a false dirty. Drafts hold typed values (number, bool,
array) instead of all strings, so when Phase 3 wires the row PUT
the body shape matches the JSON Schema the server validates
against without an additional coercion pass.
Tests (tests/tables.spec.js — 7 new specs, total 22 in the
table view, all 27 in the file):
- enum column edits via select dropdown — verifies the empty
placeholder + 3 enum options render and the chosen value
displays back in the cell.
- integer column gives a number input with min/max — verifies
the type/min/max/step attributes derive from the schema, AND
the draft buffer holds typeof === 'number'.
- boolean column gives a checkbox — verifies type=checkbox and
the draft holds true after Space-toggle. (Toggle via Space,
not Playwright's .check() helper, to dodge the click+blur
race a focused-checkbox-inside-grid-cell hits.)
- format:date column gives a date input — verifies type=date
and the existing value pre-populates as YYYY-MM-DD.
- multi-select enum-array column gives a multi-select.
- complex (object) column navigates to the row form on edit —
verifies no inline editor mounts AND the navigate seam
receives the row's URL.
- no rowSchema → falls back to plain text editor — verifies the
best-effort behavior for directories with only table.yaml.
Bundle size: 124 KB → 127 KB (+3 KB for the factory + widget
builders).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First step toward the Excel-like editable-table the user asked for.
Architecture decisions in this phase came from a focused research
pass over Notion / Airtable / AG Grid / Handsontable / Glide / W3C
ARIA APG; the design notes are in this commit's predecessor as a
research synthesis. Five phases planned; this is phase 1 of 5 and
ships the cell-selection + keyboard-navigation + per-cell editor
mount-on-demand foundation. Edits in this phase live in a client-
side draft buffer only; row-level save + ETag conflict UX is
phase 3.
Scope:
- ARIA grid pattern verbatim (W3C WAI-ARIA APG): role=grid on the
table, role=row on rows, role=gridcell on cells, roving
tabindex (only one cell carries tabindex=0; arrows move it).
This makes the grid one tab stop in the page tab order — the
documented spreadsheet UX, and also the basis for screen-reader
correctness.
- Click selects a cell. Arrow keys move selection. Tab and
Shift-Tab move with row-wrap. Home / End jump within row;
Ctrl/Cmd+Home / End jump to grid corners. Enter, F2, double-
click, or any printable character all enter edit mode. In edit
mode: Enter commits and moves down (Excel convention), Tab
commits and moves right (with row-wrap), Escape cancels and
restores the prior value, blur commits.
- Mount-on-demand cell editor: one <input> at a time is
instantiated inside the selected cell. Survives 1000-row tables
without the focus-ring churn an always-editable design would
hit, and lets Phase 2 swap the input for schema-driven widgets
(number / date / select / etc.) without restructuring.
- Draft buffer at app.state.drafts keyed by row id (the row's
re-edit URL — stable across sort and filter). When a cell
commits with a value different from row.data, the draft entry
is set; render reads from the draft via effectiveCellValue() so
the visible cell content reflects unsaved edits. No-op edits
(commit returns the original value) clear any pending draft.
- Selection survives re-paints. Sort / filter / spec changes
trigger a re-render; the editor's setSelected at end of paint()
clamps to new bounds and rebinds tabindex. The user's cell
doesn't disappear when they sort the column they're editing.
- Numeric coercion fast-path: cells whose column declares
format=number/integer coerce the input string to Number on
commit. Phase 2 will generalize this to schema-driven coercion
for date, boolean, enum, etc.
UX consequence — single-click semantics change:
The pre-existing row-click-navigates-to-form-edit behavior is
gone. Single click now selects a cell (spreadsheet-native). The
"open this row in the form editor" affordance moves to phase 2
(an explicit "Edit…" button or an icon column). The row-click-
navigation tests in tests/tables.spec.js are replaced with seven
new tests covering the editor lifecycle.
What this phase does NOT do (and which phases own it):
- Phase 2: schema-driven editor widgets (right input type per
column). Server-side validation 422 → red-corner marks. Complex
types (object, generic array, oneOf) get an "Edit…" button that
opens the side-panel form-render mode the unified bundle
already ships.
- Phase 3: row-level save on row-blur via PUT + If-Match. Stale-
row badge with "Use mine" / "Reload" on 412. Outbox carries the
offline path transparently via the existing source.js layer.
- Phase 4: copy/paste from Excel/Sheets via TSV parser, spill-
from-anchor or fill-all into a selection range.
- Phase 5: undo (linear command stack, Ctrl+Z, session-local) and
multi-cell ops (range select, bulk delete, Ctrl+D / Ctrl+R fill).
Tests (tests/tables.spec.js, all 15 pass):
- clicking a cell selects it (replaces the old row-click-navigates
test; verifies single-click does NOT navigate)
- arrow keys move cell selection
- Tab and Shift-Tab traverse cells with row-wrap
- Enter enters edit mode; Enter commits and moves down (verifies
draft is applied to visible cell + selection moves)
- Escape cancels edit, restoring prior value (verifies no-op on
draft buffer)
- typing a printable char enters edit and replaces the value
- double-click also enters edit mode
- non-editable rows still get the readonly class (cosmetic guard
for an existing convention; phase 3 will gate write submission)
Files:
- tables/js/editor.js (new) — selection + keyboard handling +
edit-mode lifecycle + draft buffer.
- tables/js/app.js — state.selected / state.editing / state.drafts
fields.
- tables/js/render.js — ARIA roles + editor.attachToCell wiring;
cells render via editor.effectiveCellValue so drafts show.
- tables/js/main.js — paint()-end editor.attachToTable +
setSelected restore.
- tables/css/table.css — selected-cell focus ring (outline,
doesn't shift surrounding cells); cell-input bare-inside-cell
styling.
- tables/build.sh — editor.js in the concat list.
- zddc/internal/handler/tables.html — regenerated bundle.
Bundle size: 117 KB → 124 KB (+7 KB for editor.js + ARIA + draft
machinery). Well within the budget the library survey identified
(Tabulator would have been +100 KB; SlickGrid +34 KB; custom is
+7 KB and we keep the no-third-party-deps invariant).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
