Three tools (archive, browse, classifier) independently implemented
an empty-state pattern with three different CSS class naming
conventions and slightly different rules:
archive: .empty-state + .empty-state-content (BEM-less)
browse: .empty-state + .empty-state__inner (BEM)
classifier: .empty-state + .empty-state-content (BEM-less)
Same visual intent ("nothing's loaded yet — here's a welcome card
with instructions"), implemented three times with subtly different
spacing, no shared body styling for h2/p/ul/li, and incompatible
class names that prevented a future tool from copy-pasting the
pattern.
Promote a single consolidated rule set to shared/base.css using
BEM naming throughout:
.empty-state — base (flex centered, padding)
.empty-state--overlay — modifier: position absolute,
top 50px to clear app-header,
z-index 10. Used by archive
and classifier (their empty
states sit OVER the main
layout).
.empty-state__inner — content card (left-aligned,
text-muted, max-width 640)
.empty-state__inner--centered — modifier: tighter max-width
500, centered text, 2rem
padding. Used by tools whose
welcome screen reads as a
centered card.
.empty-state__inner h2/p/ul/ol/li — typography defaults
.empty-state__inner .note — italic small-print
.welcome-list — bullet list with left-aligned
text + auto margins; safe to
nest inside a centered card.
Per-tool changes:
- archive/template.html, archive/js/app.js: rename
.empty-state-content → .empty-state__inner empty-state__inner--centered;
add .empty-state--overlay to the outer .empty-state container.
Also the runtime-injected unsupported-browser markup in
showUnsupportedBrowserMessage() and the showHttpErrorState
selector.
- classifier/template.html: same renames.
- archive/css/layout.css + components.css: delete .empty-state*
and .welcome-list rules (now in shared).
- classifier/css/layout.css: same. Keep .empty-state.drag-over
locally — classifier is the only tool whose empty state acts
as a drop target.
- browse/css/base.css: delete .empty-state* (shared covers it).
browse's template was already using .empty-state__inner so no
template change needed.
LOC: shared/base.css gains ~70 lines; per-tool overrides lose ~85
combined. Net -15. More importantly, future tools can reuse the
pattern by adding two divs and (optionally) the --centered or
--overlay modifiers; no copy-paste required.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five tools (browse, transmittal, landing, form, tables) were rendering
their headers as vertically-stacked blocks — the .app-header flex
container correctly laid out its left/right groups, but those groups
themselves had no display:flex rule, so their children (logo, title,
build label, action button) defaulted to block-level stacking.
Three tools (archive, mdedit, classifier) hid the bug because they
each carried their own copy of the .header-left/.header-right flex
rule in tool-local CSS. Same intent, slightly different gap values:
archive: left gap 0.75rem, right gap 0.5rem
mdedit: both 0.75rem
classifier: both 0.5rem
Promote the rule to shared/base.css alongside .app-header (where the
class is used in every template anyway): left 0.75rem, right 0.5rem
(matching archive — the layout the user pointed at as the reference).
Delete the three local duplicates.
Now all eight tools use the same header chrome contract: logo + title
group + primary action laid out horizontally with consistent gaps,
icon buttons grouped tighter on the right.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six inline style="" attributes in archive, browse, mdedit templates
moved into stylesheets:
- The font-size:1.1rem override on #refreshHeaderBtn (three tools) is
now a single rule in shared/base.css — the refresh ⟳ glyph genuinely
reads smaller than ◐ / ?, so the rule lives next to the existing
shared icon-button block.
- The flex-start justify-content + select-all margin on archive's
Revisions column header become a .th-content--start variant +
.select-all-checkbox class in archive/css/table.css.
- The 450px initial width + 200px min-width on mdedit's #file-nav move
into mdedit/css/base.css; the runtime resizer continues to override
via inline style.width when the user drags.
No visual change — the output is exactly equivalent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bring every tool's header in line with archive's pattern:
[logo] [title] [version] [Add Local Directory] [⟳] ............... [◐] [?]
------------- header-left --------------- ----- header-right -
Changes per tool:
* browse: rename "Select Directory" → "Add Local Directory"; add the
red-non-stable wrap to the build label (was missing); add a help
panel + bundle shared/help.js.
* classifier: rename selectDirectoryBtn → addDirectoryBtn,
refreshBtn → refreshHeaderBtn for consistency. Update all JS
callers and welcome-screen copy to the new label.
* mdedit: same id rename. Move the previously-in-pane refresh
button into the header. Stop renaming the dir button to
"Directory: <name>" once a folder is loaded — instead use the
shared btn--subtle variant to de-emphasize while keeping the
standard label.
* transmittal: convert non-standard <div class="app-header"> with
spacer/icons containers to <header class="app-header"> with the
canonical header-left/header-right pair. Move the publish split-
button into header-left (Transmittal-specific primary action).
Remove dead .app-header__spacer/__icons/header-icon-btn CSS now
that nothing references those classes.
* landing, form: add help-btn + help-panel + bundle shared/help.js.
Each panel is tool-specific (project picker docs for landing,
schema-driven form docs for form).
Cross-cutting:
* shared/base.css: promote .btn--subtle from browse/css/tree.css
so any tool with an online mode can de-emphasize Add Local
Directory consistently.
Verified all 7 tools in headless Chromium: header structure correct,
build label red on non-stable cuts, help panel opens + closes via
button + Esc.
Adds shared/preview-lib.js with two cross-tool renderers:
- renderTiff (UTIF.js, lazy-loaded from CDN; PDF-style toolbar with
page nav, zoom, fit-width/fit-page; multi-page TIFFs decode lazily)
- renderZipListing (JSZip; sortable name/size/modified table, sticky
header, host-grouped paths)
Wired into the four tools that have a preview surface (archive, classifier,
mdedit, transmittal). Cross-document compatible so the same renderer works
for popup-window tools (archive/classifier/transmittal) and inline tools
(mdedit). Archive previously had no image branch at all — now previews
JPG/PNG/GIF/WebP/BMP/SVG natively, plus TIFF via UTIF, plus the ZIP listing.
Adds the dark-blue rounded-square favicon to each app's header (left of
the title) and to the website navigation. Single inline SVG, sized via
.app-header__logo (in shared/base.css) for tools and .brand-logo (in
website/css/style.css) for the website. Self-contained — the SVG carries
its own background, no wrapper styling needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ZDDC — Zero Day Document Control. A file-naming convention plus five
single-file HTML tools (archive, transmittal, classifier, mdedit,
landing) and an optional Go HTTP server (zddc-server) with ACL and a
virtual archive index. Self-contained, offline-capable, dependency-free.
See README.md for an overview, AGENTS.md and ARCHITECTURE.md for the
build/release/architecture detail, bootstrap/README.md for the
two-level deployment install pattern, and zddc/README.md for the
HTTP server.
