Major upgrade to the browse tool's UX, plus a few shared modules other
tools can adopt.
User-facing:
- Right-click context menu on tree rows AND empty pane space. Traditional
file-manager grouping (Open / Download / New / Rename-Delete / Copy /
Tree ops / View). Items stay visible but disabled when not applicable
so muscle memory carries. Generic shared/context-menu.js framework
supports normal items, toggles, submenus, separators, danger styling.
- YAML editor for .yaml / .yml / .zddc files (CodeMirror 5 vendored at
shared/vendor/codemirror-yaml.min.*). js-yaml lint on every change
for parse errors. For .zddc cascade files, an additional schema-aware
lint pass flags unknown keys, bad enum values, and wrong types.
- Per-row drag-drop upload using webkitGetAsEntry (folder uploads work
recursively). Per-row drop indicator; doc-level overlay still fires
for blank-space drops at drop_target scopes.
- New folder / New markdown file context-menu items (server mode).
Rename + Delete with native confirm() dialog. File-API helpers
removeNode / renameNode use the existing PUT/POST/DELETE endpoints.
- Hover info card with the row's full metadata (ZDDC fields + filesystem
info + path/URL). Interactive — mouse into it, drag-select text,
Ctrl/Cmd-C or right-click → Copy. 200ms grace before dismiss.
- Autofilter input at the top of the tree pane. Same grammar as
archive's column filters (zddc.filter.parse / matches). Filters
files; folders without matches collapse out. Non-matching folders
force-open visually when descendants match, without mutating the
user's actual expand state.
- Two-line ZDDC label: title-first, tracking/rev/status as monospace
meta below. Icon column anchors to the title line. Chevron is a
Lucide outline `chevron-right` SVG, rotated 90° on `.expanded`.
- File-type Lucide icon sprite (shared/icons.js — 16 outline glyphs,
~5 KB). PDF / Word / Spreadsheet / Slides / Image / Video / Audio /
CAD / Web / Config / Code / Archive get distinct icons; folders
tinted with --primary.
- Header wraps gracefully at narrow viewports (shared/base.css
flex-wrap + title min-width:0 ellipsis). Body becomes flex column
in browse so a wrapping header doesn't break #appMain height.
- Markdown editor opens in WYSIWYG mode by default. YAML front-matter
+ TOC sidebar reworked: flexbox layout (single visible resizer
between FM and TOC), both bodies overflow:auto for X+Y scrollbars.
- `?file=<path>` deep links open browse pre-positioned at a specific
file. Multi-segment paths walk into subdirectories on the way.
Auto-flips Show hidden when a segment is dot/underscore-prefixed.
- Refresh + show-hidden toggle preserve expansion / selection /
preview pinning. Path-keyed snapshot survives a re-fetched listing.
- "Add Local Directory" → "Use Local Directory" across the four tools
that have it (browse, archive, classifier, +transmittal comment).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New shared/zip-source.js: a ZipDirectoryHandle / ZipFileHandle pair
that exposes a JSZip instance behind the File-System-Access surface
(values/entries/keys, getDirectoryHandle/getFileHandle, getFile) —
read-only, with a zip-slip guard. Mirrors shared/zddc-source.js's
HTTP polyfill. Wired into archive's and browse's build.sh (both
already bundle JSZip).
archive: a .zip whose name minus ".zip" parses as a transmittal-folder
name is now scanned as that transmittal folder. Offline, the zip is
opened in the browser (ZipDirectoryHandle) and its members enumerated
exactly like an uncompressed folder's files — table/export/hash paths
are unchanged (they go through file.handle.getFile()). Online, the
scanner recurses into the server's "<…>.zip/" virtual-directory
listing, so members come back as "<…>.zip/<member>" URLs the server
extracts on demand — no whole-zip download.
browse: the offline (file://) zip path is migrated onto the shared
adapter — expanding a .zip now opens it as a ZipDirectoryHandle and
its members become ordinary dir/file nodes handled by the normal
fetchFsChildren path (nested zips fall out by recursion). The bespoke
flat-entry walker (loadZipChildren / setZipDirChildren / zipEntries /
zipParentId / zipPath / _zipSyntheticDir) is gone — one zip
implementation repo-wide. Markdown members inside a zip are flagged
read-only (the ZipFileHandle refuses createWritable; server "<…>.zip/"
URLs 405 on PUT).
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>
Bundles Phase 2 polish + the user-requested header/breadcrumb work:
- Breadcrumbs replacing the plain currentPath span. Server mode
renders linkified ancestor segments (each <a> navigates to that
directory; the browser fetches browse.html, the new instance
auto-loads the listing). FS-API mode renders the rootHandle name
as a non-link (no ancestor handles to navigate). Both prefix the
path with a 🏠 root icon. Trailing slash + bold-current segment
match common file-explorer conventions.
- Subdued 'Select Directory' button in server mode. Once browse is
serving a real directory listing, the local-folder switcher is
available but visually quiet (btn--subtle: transparent, muted
color). FS-API mode keeps the primary styling (it's how the user
got there). New btn--subtle CSS class added to browse's tree.css.
A refresh button (⟳) appears next to it in both modes; clicking
it re-fetches the current root listing.
- Header consistency: browse now matches archive's header layout
(refresh + help buttons in addition to theme on the right). Help
is a placeholder for future help dialog wiring.
- File preview popup. Click a file row → opens a popup window with
the file rendered. Plain types (PDF, HTML, image) load in
iframes; TIFF + ZIP listings via shared/preview-lib.js's
renderTiff / renderZipListing helpers; text via <pre>; unknown
types → 'click Download' placeholder. Modifier-click (ctrl/cmd/
shift) and middle-click still open the file in a new tab via the
underlying <a target=_blank>. Single popup window is reused
across multiple file clicks (matches archive's UX).
- ZIP inline expansion. .zip files have a chevron and act like
folders in the tree. First expand fetches the zip bytes
(server URL or FS handle or parent-zip read), parses with JSZip
(auto-loaded from CDN), and synthesizes the entry tree. Nested
directories within the zip lazy-expand on demand by re-walking
the cached entry list at the right path prefix. Click on a
zip-entry file opens the preview popup with bytes read from
JSZip. Recursive expand-all skips zip archives by design — they
can be very large, and explicit click-to-expand is safer.
- Extension multi-select filter. Toolbar now has a <select
multiple> populated with extensions present in the current
view. Filter is OR-of-selected; combined with the name filter
it's AND-of-both. Folders pass through (so expanding a folder
whose name doesn't match the ext filter still shows its file
children that do match).
