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jcoffey-dev 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.
2026-08-31 10:41:24 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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.
2026-08-31 09:58:33 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 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.
2026-08-31 06:52:25 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 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.
2026-08-27 07:11:16 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 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.
2026-08-27 06:35:26 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 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.
2026-08-26 15:28:51 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 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.
2026-08-23 01:07:13 -07:00