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ZDDC d052e9fed3 Round of UX fixes: tool strip removed, MDL routing, browse markdown layout, reviewing depth-2 
Four user-reported items:

1. landing: remove the standalone-tool strip from the site picker.
   Per user, it was awkward — links pointing at zddc.varasys.io
   releases from inside a deployment is a layering confusion. The
   nav.tool-strip block in landing/template.html and its CSS are
   gone.

2. zddc-server: route /Project/archive/<party>/mdl[/] to the tables
   app for the virtual-MDL case where the on-disk folder doesn't
   exist yet. Previously fell through to 404 because the dispatcher
   only routed virtual mdl/ via the IsDir branch — the IsNotExist
   branch was missing the equivalent check. Now both shapes (with
   and without trailing slash) hit RecognizeTableRequest's default-
   MDL fallback and ServeTable serves the embedded tables.html.

3. browse: re-layout the markdown editor to mirror mdedit's layout.
   Was: sidebar on right with TOC top + front-matter bottom.
   Now: sidebar on LEFT with YAML front matter top + Outline bottom,
        content on RIGHT with an informational header (file title +
        save controls + status + source) above the Toast UI editor.
   New horizontal resizer between the front-matter and outline
   sections inside the sidebar (drag the row boundary; arrow keys
   step by 24 px). Browse test selectors updated.

4. zddc-server reviewing aggregator: extend to depth ≥ 2 so the
   user can preview files inside virtual reviewing/<tracking>/
   received/ and staged/ folders. IsReviewingPath now returns a
   sidePath ("received[/rest]" or "staged[/rest]"); ServeReviewing's
   depth-2 branch proxies the underlying real folder's listing,
   emitting folder entries with virtual reviewing/ URLs (so
   navigation stays in the aggregator) and file entries with
   canonical archive/ or staging/ URLs (so byte fetches resolve
   directly). ACL is enforced against the real path; depth-1
   received/ + staged/ URLs are now virtual too (was canonical),
   so the user smoothly descends into the depth-2 listing.

Tests updated for the new IsReviewingPath signature and the depth-1
URL shape.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-11 12:30:34 -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 Round of UX fixes: tool strip removed, MDL routing, browse markdown layout, reviewing depth-2 2026-05-11 12:30:34 -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

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.