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ZDDC ab44d75d03 fix(browse): URL-driven grid mode (?view=grid), default-on inside incoming/ 
User feedback: the Grid toggle button was on every page and showed an
explanatory empty state when classifier wasn't available — adding UI
to explain why UI didn't work. Cleaner approach: drop the button,
make the URL the source of truth, and default grid mode automatically
inside the only context where it's meaningful.

Behavior:
  - Inside any incoming/ path (case-insensitive segment match):
      → grid mode by default
  - Everywhere else:
      → browse mode
  - Explicit overrides via query string:
      ?view=grid    forces grid (only honored where classifier is
                    available; otherwise falls back to browse)
      ?view=browse  forces browse (always)

UI changes:
  - The Browse/Grid pill toggle is gone.
  - grid.js drops both empty-state messages; outside an incoming/
    path it just does nothing.
  - events.js owns resolveViewMode() / applyResolvedViewMode(),
    called on initial mount and after every client-side rescope
    (dblclick + popstate).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-11 13:18:37 -05:00
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css Round of UX fixes: tool strip removed, MDL routing, browse markdown layout, reviewing depth-2 2026-05-11 12:30:34 -05:00
js fix(browse): URL-driven grid mode (?view=grid), default-on inside incoming/ 2026-05-11 13:18:37 -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 fix(browse): URL-driven grid mode (?view=grid), default-on inside incoming/ 2026-05-11 13:18:37 -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.