Grey letters ran down the bar while dragging a column edge. The editor marks
the column under the pointer by putting a small div in each of its cells;
drawn along the cell's right edge, that absolutely positioned child sent
Chromium down another painting path and the cell's own text came out a second
time, squeezed into the two pixels under the bar, one letter to a line. It
appeared with the bar and went with it, which named the culprit -- measured,
there was no text there at all, only three empty markers, and a forced repaint
did not clear it. The marker is display:none now and only says which cells the
column is made of; the line is an inset shadow on those cells, matched with
:has(). Two suspects were tried and reverted first: the table as its own paint
region, and separate borders. Neither changed anything, so neither stayed.
Opening a note flashed a long narrow page. The drawing stage starts at the
canonical page, 1600px tall, and the measurement that fits it to the pane ran
as an ordinary effect -- a frame too late. useLayoutEffect runs between the DOM
being built and the browser painting it, which is exactly the gap that flash
lived in. The test samples the sheet's height every frame across a note switch,
because one frame is all it was.
The mark above a note did not stand in the same column as the tools below it.
Vertically it was already exact -- measured, symbol centre 20, cap centre 20 --
but it began six pixels right of the first tool, and the title thirty. The
mark's box is only as wide as the mark now, so the mark lands on that column,
and the title follows nine pixels closer.
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A long table lay straight across the gap between two sheets with a row
cut in half, and a shorter one jumped to the next sheet whole leaving
the rest of the first blank. Tables are broken between their rows now,
which is where a table breaks on paper. The spacer there is a tr with
one borderless cell: a div inside a tbody is not something the browser
keeps. Its own spacer rows are subtracted again on the next measurement
and counted into the shift every block below inherits — miss that and
everything under a broken table is measured a page too high.
A dialog closed in the middle of an edit if a selection was dragged past
its edge: the click lands on the nearest common ancestor of press and
release, which is the backdrop, and every dialog read that as "clicked
beside me". They remember where the press began now. All ten.
A note and a chapter can wear a mark of their own beside the name,
chosen from a short list searched by what a thing is for rather than
from the system emoji keyboard — a different thing on every machine, and
three thousand pictures for a decision that is "which of these is the
invoice notebook". A separator takes its own colour and one of five
shapes, and a chapter can be divided like the notebook it sits in: both
places a chapter is shown draw it with one component now, so it cannot
be divisible in the column and not in the unfolded block.
Also: a chapter's colour could not be cleared, because the update rode
on COALESCE and null there means "leave it alone". A table's header row
is legible on the dark theme. Three entries in the table's own menu were
still German. Opening a notebook opens its first note, on a wide screen
only — on a phone the list is the screen.
Fourteen suites green: 364 browser checks, 241 unit tests.
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