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 jcoffey-dev
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d599e7404f |
Let conversation view off mean off
The setting reached only as far as the query. It set `collapseThreads`, so the
list correctly showed individual messages -- and then everything downstream
carried on working in threads. Opening one message highlighted every row of its
thread and filled the reading pane with the whole conversation, which is the
grouping the setting was turned off to avoid. The empty pane went on offering
"62 conversations" either way.
Three places had to learn about it, and the two rules behind them now live
together in lib/openMessage.ts:
- the row highlight matched on threadId, so siblings lit up
- ThreadView rendered every message the thread held
- the empty state named conversations regardless
The thread id stays in the path and loading is unchanged; the opened message
rides in `m`. Keeping it in the URL rather than in memory is what makes a
reload or a shared link come back to the same message, and an id that names
nothing in the thread falls back to the conversation -- which is what a link
from somebody with the setting on looks like, and what a stale parameter looks
like after switching back. Better a conversation than an empty pane.
Nine catalogues gain "No message selected" and "Select a message to read it
here"; "{n} messages" was already there, plural forms and all.
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jcoffey-dev
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0db795371e |
Forward a message as an attachment
Forwarding quoted the original into a new message, which is the right thing for passing on something to be read and the wrong thing for passing on something to be looked at. Quoting rewrites the body, drops the headers, and re-parents the attachments, so a bounce, a phishing report or anything else where the message itself is the evidence arrived altered. Forward as attachment sends the message whole, as a message/rfc822 part. It costs no upload at all: a message's own blobId is its RFC822 blob and already lives in the account, so this goes through the same by-reference path as attach-from-Files and a 40 MB message attaches as fast as a small one. It is in the message's own menu, the list's right-click menu, and the overflow on the reply strip at the foot of a thread, which is the one a thumb finds on a phone. Two things fixed on the way, both exposed rather than introduced by this. The filename rule was subject.replace(/[^\w.-]+/g, "_"), and \w without the u flag is ASCII: every character of a Russian, Japanese or Chinese subject failed the class, so those messages downloaded as a row of underscores. What is actually unsafe in a filename is much shorter than "not ASCII" -- path separators, the names Windows reserves, the control range -- so the rule now keeps letters from any script and drops only those. It lives in one place and the .eml download uses it too. And the composer's attachment chip set overflow/text-overflow on a span, where neither does anything, so the name never truncated and the size ran on after it on the same line. Only long names showed it, which is every .eml named from a subject. |
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jcoffey-dev
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e380e168cd |
Put "compose as new" where a thumb can find it
It was never absent on a phone: it sits in the menu behind the ⋮ at the top of a message card. But that is not where anybody looks. On a phone you act on a thread from the strip at the bottom -- Reply, Reply all, Forward -- and what is not there is, for practical purposes, not there. The strip gets an overflow of its own, with compose-as-new in it. A fourth labelled button does not fit; this does, and it says what it is once opened. Measuring to place it turned up something else. Three labelled buttons want about 390px, and with the overflow rather more: enough for a 430px phone and not for a 390, 360 or 320 one. The strip was already over that line on the smaller ones before today, and simply overflowed. It now wraps, and the spacer that would push the overflow onto a line of its own is dropped on narrow screens so the buttons wrap as a group. Closes #181 |
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jcoffey-dev
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51dabd9cab |
Stop a language change undoing itself, and stop the translate prompt
Two reports, both about the language setting. **Picking a language sometimes took several clicks.** The subtree that reads the account's settings file is keyed on the language version, so choosing a language deliberately throws it away and builds it again. The remount re-read the settings file — which still held the old language, because the write is debounced by three seconds — and applied it, putting the old language back. The click that appeared to work was the one made after the previous write had landed, which is exactly the "sometimes" in the report. Worse than it looked: the queued push survived the remount, so the file was eventually written with the new language while the screen showed the old one. A reload then changed the language on its own. Fixed twice over, because either alone leaves a race. The file is read once per account per page load rather than once per mount, and hydrate now holds back any key with a change still queued — a change that has not been written up is newer than the file by definition. That rule is `mergeRemote`, pulled out as a pure function so it could be tested without a JMAP client. **Both browsers kept offering to translate an English page.** They were right to: `<html lang>` said English while the visible text was 6,289 message rows of marketing copy and brand names in whatever language the sender wrote in. The list is most of the text on the screen, so that is what the detector was reading. Sender, subject and preview in the list, and the thread subject and sender name in the reader, are now marked as what they are — content, not interface. Message bodies were already marked, so this is the same line drawn in the places the earlier pass missed rather than a new one. Whether it silences the prompt is Chrome's call and cannot be checked from inside the page; the marking is right either way. |
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jcoffey-dev
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3f4b33cb51 |
Finish extraction: 100%, and a coverage number worth believing
The 143 the codemod refused turned out to be two different things, and only
one of them needed a person.
A third were phrases sitting next to an icon -- `<Plus /> New rule`. The
refusal rule was "has siblings", which is broader than the danger: what breaks
a translation is a sibling that renders *text*, splitting a sentence into
fragments no one can reorder. An element beside a phrase does not. Narrowing
the rule to text-producing siblings let the codemod take 73 more.
The rest were real sentences with values in the middle, rebuilt by hand as
named placeholders -- "Your active script “{name}” was written by hand",
"Waiting on the server — goes out {when}." Named rather than positional
because a translator moves the parts around; counted things go through
plural() so Russian and Ukrainian get their three forms rather than English's
two.
Sentences with an element inside them needed something new. `Open <code>mailto:
</code> links in ihasmail` has two obvious treatments and both are wrong:
splitting it into two t() calls hands over fragments that cannot be reordered,
and dropping the <code> keeps the sentence whole but loses the monospace that
said "this is a literal". tNode() keeps the sentence whole and makes the
element a named hole in it, so a translator sees one sentence and can put the
hole where their language wants it. The German test asserts exactly that: the
same call renders the code first when the catalogue says so.
The coverage number was also lying, and it is worth saying how. It counted
text inside <code> and inside translate="no" as untranslated work, and
placeholders like "123456" and "+1 555 0100" -- a one-time code and a phone
format. None of those will ever be translated, so the report sat at 21 with 6
real items left. A number with an unreachable floor is something to argue with
rather than act on, so the tool now applies the same rules the codemod does.
596 wrapped, nothing remaining. Verified in the browser across 15 views, which
is where the last bulk pass hid a bug the tests could not see: no entities, no
unfilled placeholders, no raw t( in rendered text, and the toggle switches that
looked like emptied labels are text-free by design.
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jcoffey-dev
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8ea611f7f7 |
Extract 515 strings by codemod, and the two bugs only a screenshot caught
Wrapping ~1,000 strings by hand is a thousand chances to mistype the copy
itself, and a parser does not get bored. scripts/i18n-extract.mjs does the
mechanical part -- JSX text and the attributes a person actually reads -- and
refuses the rest rather than guessing. 78% now: 515 wrapped, 143 left.
What it refuses matters as much as what it does. Text split around an
interpolation arrives as separate fragments, and wrapping each on its own
produces "Move " and " messages", which no translator can do anything with;
those are listed for a person to rebuild as sentences. So is anything
containing a double quote, which would end the literal.
Three things it had to be taught, each found by running it:
- <code>, <kbd> and <pre> are not prose. The first run wrapped `label:name`
inside <code> -- a search operator, where translating it breaks the thing it
documents. Subtrees marked translate="no" are skipped for the same reason.
- `t` is a natural name for a callback parameter and several files already use
it, so an import called `t` is shadowed inside those callbacks -- silently,
wherever the local happens to be callable. The name is checked per file now
and aliased to `translate` where it is taken.
- JSX decodes HTML entities and a JS string literal does not, so
`Language & region` moved into t("...") and rendered the entity on screen.
That last one is the one worth remembering. Typecheck passed, 443 tests
passed, and the page said "Language & region" in plain sight. It took
looking at a screenshot, and then a sweep of ten views to find the second
occurrence in a sentence I had written by hand earlier the same day. Nothing
in the toolchain was ever going to catch it: it is valid TypeScript rendering
valid text that happens to be wrong.
The codemod decodes entities now, and checks for a quote after decoding rather
than before.
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jcoffey-dev
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b2769b9011 |
Give the mail list the gestures a phone already has
ihasmail's mail list was built for a mouse. A row is clicked, right-clicked and dragged into a folder, and on a touchscreen two of those three do not exist -- so the phone layout had the shape of a mail app and none of the handling, and the things people reach for first simply did nothing. Four gestures, all touch-only, so a mouse keeps drag-to-folder unchanged: - Swipe a row sideways to act on it. Each direction is a setting -- right archives and left deletes by default, matching the app the phone came with -- and the strip revealed behind the row names what will happen in the folder it is happening in: "Delete forever" out of Deleted Items, "Not spam" inside Junk Mail, and nothing at all where the action is a no-op, in which case the row will not move that way. - Hold a row to select it. Selection was reachable already, by aiming at a checkbox beside an avatar, which is not how anyone selects mail on a phone. The selection toolbar gained an overflow menu at the same time: report spam, mark unread and label were hidden on narrow screens and had nowhere else to be, so touch selection could not reach them at all. - Hold a folder for the menu its ⋮ button opens. - Pull the list down to refresh, and drag in from the left edge of a conversation to go back. The toolbar's button and arrow both stay: a gesture with no visible control is one only the people who already know about it can use. The arithmetic behind them is in lib/touch.ts, away from the components and under test, because the numbers are the whole thing: an axis lock biased towards the vertical, so a diagonal flick stays a scroll rather than deleting whatever it passes over. Two layout bugs turned up while checking this on a 390px screen, both older than the gestures. The app shell is a grid with only its rows named, so it took an implicit auto column sized to the top bar's min-content -- about 470px -- and every message row ran off the right of the glass with its date beyond the edge. The column is now stated as minmax(0, 1fr), and the search field is allowed to shrink. Full-screen surfaces measure in dvh rather than vh, and the tab bar, drawer and compose button keep out from under the notch and the home indicator. |
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jcoffey-dev
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650ba0020b |
Hold the opening scroll while the conversation settles
Opening an already-read conversation stopped 39px short of the bottom, every time (#89). The messages were all there and one scroll fixed it, but the pane was not where it meant to be. The scroll runs in an effect, which is too early. Message bodies go into shadow roots from the child effects underneath it, and the images in those load later still, so the pane goes on growing after the scroll has already happened -- and `scrollIntoView` clamps to the scroll range as it stands the moment it is called. The read-thread fallback aims at the last message, which no thread has the room to lift to the top, so that clamp *is* the whole of the range. Measuring it before the images landed measured it short. So the target is now held against the top of the pane while the thread settles: a ResizeObserver over the children of the scroller re-aligns it whenever one of them changes height. The hold ends the instant the reader touches the pane -- wheel, pointer, touch or any key -- and after two seconds regardless. A pane that re-scrolls under someone who has started reading is far worse than one that lands short, so it lets go on the first sign of them rather than waiting for the content to stop changing. Verified against the mock, on the same already-read seven-message thread, eight opens each way: before, all eight landed at scrollTop 96 of a 135 range; after, all eight land at 135. The #87 cases are unchanged -- an unread message mid-thread still comes to rest flush against the top of the pane, and a thread whose first message is the unread one still stays at 0 with the subject in view. Scrolling or pressing a key during the hold leaves the pane exactly where it was put. One correction to #89 while I am here: it reported the pane sometimes not moving at all. That was an artifact of measuring in a background tab, where Chrome suspends rendering and clamps timers -- the behaviour in a visible tab is the deterministic 39px above. The issue is real; that one observation in it was not. |
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jcoffey-dev
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d64249b46d |
Open a conversation on its first unread message
Selecting a thread put you at the newest message. Anything unread above that sat off the top of the pane with nothing to announce it, and the only way to find out was to scroll up -- by which time the auto-mark-read timer had marked the whole thread read anyway, so scrolling up meant scrolling up to mail already counted as seen (#87). Opening at the bottom is right when there is nothing to catch up on and wrong the moment there is. The pane now opens on the oldest message that was unread when the thread was opened, and falls back to the newest when the thread has already been read. mbunkus's out-of-order case is the one that rules out guessing at a position. A participant whose server could not connect for hours delivers a message long after it was written, and it lands in the middle of a conversation that has already moved past it -- so "second to last", or any other fixed offset from the end, finds nothing. Reading the unread set is the only thing that does. Two cases leave the pane where it is: - a single message, which is already the whole pane - the first unread being the first message, where the top of the pane shows it anyway, together with the subject; scrolling to it would push the subject off for nothing It reads the set captured when the thread was opened rather than live `$seen` state, for the same reason expansion does (#69): the mark-read timer must not change the shape of what you are looking at. That also makes the landing stable, because everything above the first unread message is a collapsed row of fixed height -- nothing up there reflows after the scroll. The mock grows a thread that reproduces it: seven messages with the unread one second, four more behind it. Verified against it. Opening the thread lands the unread message flush against the top of the pane at scrollTop 158; the old scroll to the newest message put it at 445, with 287px of the message -- header, sender and unread bar included -- above the fold. On a thread whose first message is the unread one the pane stays at 0 with the subject in view, where before it would have scrolled 333. Once the thread is read, reopening it goes back to the newest message. |
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jcoffey-dev
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d4b39c06d6 |
Stop the reading view rearranging itself as you read
Opening a conversation with several unread messages showed them all expanded, each with its unread bar. The moment the auto-mark-read timer fired, every one of them collapsed except the last, and the bars vanished -- so the messages you had just been given were taken away again, and the only record of which ones they were went with them (#69). Both came from the same place: expansion and the bar were derived from `$seen`, live. Marking read on the server changed what the view thought it was looking at. Marking read is not the problem. Opening a thread is the signal that you are reading it, and mbunkus was explicit that turning the setting off is not the answer he wants. What was wrong was letting a change *this view caused* alter its own shape underneath the reader. The thread now remembers which messages were unread when it was opened, and uses that for expansion and for the bar. The set only grows while a thread is open -- a message arriving unread joins it -- and is discarded on the way to another thread. The server still gets marked read on the timer, exactly as before, and the message list still updates. It is accumulated during render rather than in an effect. It is derived purely from the messages already in hand and adding an id twice does nothing, while an effect would repaint a frame later -- which is the flicker this exists to remove. Verified against the mock with markReadDelay at 0, the harshest setting, where the timer fires immediately: six seconds after opening a three-message thread, the server reports all three seen while the view still shows all three expanded with their bars. Before, two of the three would have collapsed in the first instant. |
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jcoffey-dev
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645b8b510f |
ihasmail 2.0: rebuild as Stalwart-first JMAP webmail
Replace the FastAPI/HTMX prototype with a Node/Hono session proxy and a React 19/Vite SPA. Mail (conversation view, search operators, labels, sanitised HTML, privacy image proxy, invites, undo send, templates), calendar (month/week/day/agenda, invites, free/busy, categories, context menus), contacts (JSContact, groups, vCard), files, Sieve filter builder (incl. filter-from-message with retroactive apply), vacation, identities with default + Reply-To, PWA/mobile layout, push via SSE, in-memory mock Stalwart for dev, Docker + CI. |