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ZDDC 85e0061d6c feat(editor): hint recognized front-matter fields via server placeholder 
The markdown editor's YAML front-matter pane was a bare textarea, so authors
had no way to discover the keys the converter honours — notably `doctype:`
(report|letter|specification) and `numbering:`, which have no other source.

Add a single server-side source of truth, convert.RecognizedFrontMatter() +
convert.FrontMatterPlaceholder(), and expose it as JSON at GET /.api/frontmatter
(handler.ServeFrontMatterTemplate; read-only, no auth — leaks only documented
field names). The browse editor fetches it once (server mode) and sets the
front-matter textarea's placeholder to the greyed hint, so an empty pane shows
the recognized keys with one-line hints. It's placeholder-only: it inserts
nothing, vanishes on the first keystroke, and arbitrary keys remain free —
front matter is still passed through to pandoc untouched. file:// mode shows no
placeholder (conversion is server-only).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-05 08:23:25 -05:00
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css feat(browse): capability/role/tier-driven, context-correct menu system 2026-06-04 07:21:02 -05:00
js feat(editor): hint recognized front-matter fields via server placeholder 2026-06-05 08:23:25 -05:00
build.sh feat(browse): capability/role/tier-driven, context-correct menu system 2026-06-04 07:21:02 -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): 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.