ZDDC/browse
ZDDC 7ced0395b6 feat(shared): lateral project-stage strip in every tool's header
Adds a thin nav strip directly under the app-header showing the four
canonical lifecycle stages from the transmittal-workflow spec:
archive · working · staging · reviewing. Each is a link to that
stage's directory under the current project. Current stage is
highlighted (bold + primary color, aria-current="page"). Strip
mounts as a sibling of .app-header on DOMContentLoaded — no
template changes needed in any tool.

Render rules (shared/nav.js shouldRender):
- location.protocol must be http: or https: (file:// has no project
  structure to navigate within)
- a project segment must be detectable as the first path segment
  (when it isn't a tool HTML file like /index.html or
  /archive.html?projects=A,B). Multi-project view at the deployment
  root therefore shows no strip.

Stage URL targets:
- Archive   → <project>/archive.html       (project-root archive view)
- Working   → <project>/working/           (directory listing — mdedit auto-served)
- Staging   → <project>/staging/           (directory listing — transmittal auto-served)
- Reviewing → <project>/reviewing/         (directory listing)

Convention-driven, not probed: if a deployment doesn't have one of
these folders the link returns 404. Operators on non-standard layouts
can opt out by setting window.zddc.nav.disabled = true before
DOMContentLoaded.

This pairs with the previous landing-tool change (single-project
click → <project>/archive.html). Together they give the user
both URL-bar manipulation AND visible navigation across the four
canonical project stages.

Five Playwright tests in tests/nav.spec.js exercise:
- non-render at deployment root
- render + active stage on <project>/archive.html
- render + active stage deep inside <project>/working/foo/mdedit.html
- canonical link targets
- mount position is sibling of .app-header

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 19:50:30 -05:00
..
css chore(headers): standardize across all 7 tools 2026-05-04 07:49:17 -05:00
js feat(browse): double-click a folder to navigate into it 2026-05-07 13:43:17 -05:00
build.sh feat(shared): lateral project-stage strip in every tool's header 2026-05-09 19:50:30 -05:00
README.md feat(browse): generic directory listing tool — default at folder URLs 2026-05-03 19:56:51 -05:00
template.html style(shared,archive,browse,mdedit): replace inline styles with CSS 2026-05-09 18:48:44 -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.