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ZDDC 198d691518 refine(browse): leaner menu — fold Navigate-into into Open, hide unpermitted actions, URL link in info box 
Menu refinements per review:
- "Open" now navigates into a folder (rescope); the separate "Navigate into"
  item is removed. Zip → expand inline (can't navigate in); file → preview.
  Inline expand stays on single-click / chevron / arrow keys.
- "New markdown file" → "New file".
- New folder / New file / Rename / Delete are now HIDDEN when the user lacks
  the create/write/delete capability (folded into appliesTo) instead of shown
  greyed — a guest gets a lean menu; users who can still see them. New
  folder/file also remain on the toolbar.
- "Edit access rules…" is shown only when the user can actually edit them
  (admin verb 'a' or subtree/site admin) — hidden otherwise, not greyed.
- Removed "Copy path" / "Copy name" — the info box (hovercard) carries the
  name and a clickable URL now.

Info box (hovercard): dropped the on-disk "Path" row; the "URL" is rendered as
a clickable hyperlink (via the existing kvLink helper) — the shareable
reference, openable or right-click-to-copy.

Tests updated: file row omits New folder/file + Copy + Navigate; permission-
gated Rename/Delete are HIDDEN for a read-only server node and PRESENT for a
read/write/delete node (pure menuModel unit). All browse+conflict+diff green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-04 07:59:21 -05:00
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README.md feat(browse): generic directory listing tool — default at folder URLs 2026-05-03 19:56:51 -05:00
template.html feat(browse): capability/role/tier-driven, context-correct menu system 2026-06-04 07:21:02 -05:00

README.md

browse — directory listing tool

Generic file browser for any directory. Designed to work with ZDDC archives but useful for any folder. Single-file HTML, no install.

How it's used

Two modes, auto-detected at page load:

  1. Online (zddc-server backed). When this HTML is served by zddc-server at a folder URL — which it is by default for any directory under ZDDC_ROOT that doesn't have an index.html — the JS queries the same URL with Accept: application/json to load the directory's listing and renders it as a sortable, filterable table.

  2. Local (FileSystemAccessAPI). Click "Select Directory" in the header to pick any folder on your computer. Works in Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, etc.). No server required; the directory is read directly from disk.

What it does

  • Lists files and folders with name, size, type (extension), and modified date.
  • Click a folder to expand inline. Children load lazily on first expand.
  • Click a column header to sort by that column. Click again to reverse.
  • Type in the filter to narrow to entries whose name contains the substring.
  • Click any file to open it in a new tab — for server-backed pages, this routes through zddc-server's normal handler (so an .archive redirect, an apps cascade override, etc. all work as expected).

Design notes

  • No ZDDC-specific filtering. This tool is intentionally domain-agnostic. The companion archive tool layers ZDDC parsing (project / status / revision filters, tracking-number resolution) on top of the same listing API. Use archive when you want ZDDC semantics; use browse when you just want to see what's in a folder.
  • Default at directory URLs. zddc-server's directory.go serves the embedded browse.html bytes for any directory request with Accept: text/html and no index.html present. This means a user navigating to any folder under ZDDC_ROOT gets a usable browser without anyone having to drop a file into the archive.
  • Apps cascade override. Like every other ZDDC tool, the served browse.html can be overridden per-folder via a .zddc apps: entry. The default is the embedded copy from the binary; operators can pin a specific version or URL if they want.