ZDDC/browse
ZDDC 6260aa4860 feat(typography): bake IBM Plex Sans + Source Serif 4 into every tool
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>
2026-05-10 20:09:59 -05:00
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css feat(browse): markdown front-matter pane + TOC resizer; misc UX fixes 2026-05-10 19:30:26 -05:00
js feat(browse): markdown front-matter pane + TOC resizer; misc UX fixes 2026-05-10 19:30:26 -05:00
build.sh feat(typography): bake IBM Plex Sans + Source Serif 4 into every tool 2026-05-10 20:09:59 -05:00
README.md feat(browse): generic directory listing tool — default at folder URLs 2026-05-03 19:56:51 -05:00
template.html feat(browse): sort dropdown in the tree toolbar 2026-05-10 19:22:03 -05:00

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.