Two halves, Node only. The helper, against fake responses: a real WebP
is accepted by type or by its bytes; a host's 200 fallback page is
refused as a raster and as a source; HTML labelled octet-stream is
refused; a 404 and a network error are misses for the raster; a network
error on the source is thrown as itself. The callers: neither
usePosterPrints nor PosterWall may fetch posters/ directly again, since
each once carried its own copy and a guard in one did not reach the other.
Poison-tested: restoring the old accept-anything fetch fails 3 checks,
and PosterWall's direct fetches failed the caller check before its switch.
gates:pre: PASS 67, FAIL 0.
With posterSources on, the tree shipped only the 28 zone poster sources,
so exporting any of the 176 city or 174 country posters said "poster not
found (404)": 350 of 378 posters could not be printed.
Each poster now ships once: its .html source where one exists, else its
.webp. Generating sources for the 350 was not an option: city posters
need OSM street tiles to regenerate (publish-html.mjs), and a source is
the heavy form (about 1 MB each against about 0.1 MB for a raster).
Measured with check:tree-weight: 102.7 MB before, 137.9 MB after, of
160 MB. The 350 rasters are the tracked data/posters/*.webp: all 350 are
existing git blobs, so the repository gains no new pack bytes.
New gate check:posters-exportable (in gates:post). Every poster id, from
data/posters and the wall's previews, must ship a real WebP or a real
poster source (its class="stage" element), so a placeholder or a host's
fallback page cannot pass. It skips when posters are off by config, which
check:poster-degrades covers. Poison-tested: a missing poster and a fake
image each fail.
The standing rule is that comments, docs and UI strings say what the code does and why, never who said
what. Several hundred existing lines break it; owners remove them in one sweep per area before the public
giveaway. Until then check:no-new-driver-references (gates:pre) fails any NEW line that refers to the
Driver and baselines the rest, keyed by file and line text with counts rather than line numbers, so
parallel sweeps only ever shrink it. It matches the role word, not a GPU or device driver, and its
self-test proves both that and that a new line beside baselined ones is isolated.
It had a script but no description and sat in no gate list, so a map fetching the people-group list
around the library (upg-neighbor's photo lookup) stayed red on development until someone ran it by
hand. With that lookup allowed by name (the commit before), it passes; it goes into gates:post, where
it reads the shipped bundles too, and now carries its description.
The drop-in was proven on a laptop with one server: the three DX Life branches rendered their maps,
7 of 7 checks passed, with internal/sync-dropin.mjs --from-config --dest <doxa-life>/public. This
makes that the default path:
- dropin.dest is ../doxa-life/public. The old ../doxa-life/public/embed/doxa-maps-build was stale.
- bun run dropin = sync-dropin --from-config; deploy:dev (build + drop-in) now uses it.
- The README gains "The easiest path": the studio for the work, dropin.dest at your site's public/,
then build and drop in.
One hazard came with the new destination, and it is closed here. --prune deletes every file in the
destination outside the drop-in's allowlist, which was right while that was a folder of its own. Into
a site's public/, it would delete the site. deploy:dev passed --prune, so it no longer does, and
sync-dropin refuses --prune into any folder named public/. Measured in a scratch site: --prune into
site/public exits 1 with the reason; a plain drop-in copies dx-maps/ and leaves the site's own
file in place.
Both were registered but in no gate list, because each was red on development: wiring either in
would have failed every landing. They are clean now (the plugin-studio widget release fixed the
first, the country map's legend rows the second), so they go into gates:pre, where a regression
fails the landing instead of waiting for someone to run them by hand.
key-cities is a gated profile: generate-tree leaves it out of the manifest and the pages. Its
bundle file was still in public/dx-maps/key-cities/key-cities.js, committed, and the landing
freshness pass rebuilt it into public/ every time it looked "stale", so any host that serves or
drops in the tree folder whole shipped it.
- vite.config.js builds a gated bundle into .gated/<tree>/ (ignored by git) instead of public/.
- check:composite-freshness skips gated bundles: they have no committed bytes to be fresh against.
- The committed public/dx-maps/key-cities/ is removed. History is not rewritten.
- generate-tree removes a gated folder it finds in the tree (an older build, or a landing that kept the
tree's side of a conflict), so the tree it writes is clean whatever came before. Measured: a planted
public/dx-maps/key-cities/key-cities.js fails the gate, and one regeneration removes it.
- The gated list is read in one place, internal/_tree-name.mjs, beside the tree name.
- check:gated-not-in-tree (gates:pre) fails if a gated name has a folder in the tree, a manifest
entry, or a page referencing its script, and proves each arm on a planted leak first. It FAILED
on the tree before this change (key-cities/ is in the tree) and PASSES after.
The data tables are left alone on purpose: key-cities.json also feeds the production Cities with
Internet map, and whether that dataset should be public is a separate decision.
doxa-maps-spa marks the pane of every tab that has explainer text with data-doxa-help, listens for
doxa:help, and opens the same what/how dialog for the active tab. Closing returns focus to the
exact "?" that opened it (composedPath reaches into the map's shadow root). The top-centre button
and its CSS are gone; a comment for the device-rule toast that sat above the old button's rule
is back on its own rule.
check:help-reachable (gates:pre) keeps it reachable: every map with text has a hosted "?" or a
named help control of its own; the app listens, marks its panes and has no top-centre button; and
the composable, executed on a small fake DOM, dispatches doxa:help bubbling and composed and finds
the host across a shadow root. Six planted defects, each caught.
e18c7f05a declared the map relabeller above LANG, which it reads: a
temporal-dead-zone ReferenceError at startup, so every offline packet
run stopped before building anything. node --check passed, because it
checks syntax and not evaluation order, and no gate ran the generator.
The block now sits after LANG and VARIANT, with a note on why.
packet:ci already built the committed fixture packets through
packet.mjs, with no network, in under five seconds - and it catches
this exactly: exit 1 on the broken generator, exit 0 on the fix. It was
in no gate list, so it never ran. It is now check:packet-offline in
gates:pre.
Its failure message printed the last line of stderr, which for a crash
is Node's version banner ("Node.js v20.20.2"). It now names the error
line: "ReferenceError: Cannot access 'LANG' before initialization".
The map sheets are generated once, in English, so in an Arabic or
Chinese packet page 1's map labelled every country in Latin capitals,
and its privacy line was English.
The labels are now replaced as the sheet is lifted into the packet.
They are recognised by the generator's own rule rather than a list:
generate.mjs draws each label as esc(ISO3_NAME[iso3].toUpperCase())
from the zone data's ISO3_NAME table, so inverting that table under
that transform names the country behind every label it can draw. The
inverse is unambiguous (162 labels, no two countries sharing one), so a
label is known exactly or left as drawn. The map's privacy line is word
for word the packet's privacy_note, so it takes this language's.
A width guard: the generator placed every label and then dropped any
that would collide, measuring the English name, so a translation is
fitted into that same box - estimated wider, it shrinks in proportion
and cannot reach a neighbour the English name did not. On the Sudan
poster, six Arabic names shrink (the longest, Saudi Arabia, from 15px
to 10px); none of the narrower Chinese ones do. Capitals' tracking is
dropped for scripts without capitals, where it breaks Arabic joining.
English is untouched: its relabeller is null, and the lifted sheet is
byte-identical with and without it. No sheet or poster is regenerated -
the change is in the lift, so the tracked 3x4 posters page 1 now uses
are relabelled as they are.
Both print paths supply the relabeller: the UPG 100 profile from its
own ISO3_NAME and the library's country-name resolver, the offline
generator from the same table and the injected ISO-3 to ISO-2 table.
check-map-labels (gates:pre), on the tracked Sudan poster: English
byte-identical; in ar and zh no known English name left, halo matching
fill, privacy localized; the guard fires for Arabic, not Chinese, and
grows nothing; Arabic tracking off, Spanish kept; an unknown label left
alone. Mutation-tested five ways, each caught.
The page says each box is a share of the people in this list. It
printed one DOXA-wide figure - 0.6133% of 209,079,159 people - in
every packet, true of no single list.
That figure had no builder in the repo. build-evangelical-share.mjs
makes its method reproducible, per group: the IMB CSV joined to the
DOXA snapshot by ROP3 + country, each group's EvangelicalLevel band at
its midpoint (0 for No Known Evangelicals, the midpoint read from the
band's own wording), weighted by IMB population. It writes
evangelical-by-slug.json and refuses to write unless the table, summed
over every DOXA group, reproduces christian-share.json exactly: 2,091
matched, 209,079,159 people, 1,282,178 evangelical, 0.6133%. Change a
single band's midpoint rule and it refuses.
Not the API's imb_gsec: GSEC puts 225 groups at "no evangelicals" where
EvangelicalLevel puts 1,444, because its "less than 2%" band also
carries church-planting status. A share from it sits on a different
scale from the method the page's own footnote states.
evangelicalShare.js sums a packet's own groups - pure, zero imports, so
the browser print and the offline generator run the same sum. Across
the 28 zones the page now carries 28 different figures, from 0.182%
(Deaf) to 0.922%. A host that supplies its own figure still wins.
A list with no published levels prints a dash and no number. The old
guard, Number.isFinite(Number(x)), passes null as 0 and would have
printed "0% evangelical" for no data. Where some of a list's groups
lack a level, the footnote says what the figure is computed over; it
says nothing when coverage is whole. That clause is in all eleven
languages.
check-evangelical-share (gates:pre): the table reproduces the committed
figure; different lists differ; no data is a dash; coverage appears
only when partial. Mutation-tested four ways, each caught - the fourth
only once it corrupted an existing group rather than adding one no sum
reads.
Every packet was titled with its zone's hand-written English label, so
a Spanish Sudan packet said "Sudan" and an Arabic one printed Latin
script on page 1, on every profile page's header and in the document's
own title.
A one-country zone's title is that country's name, and Intl supplies it
in every language: the packets now carry it - Sudán, السودان, सूडान,
苏丹 - through zone-title.js's tier A, on both print paths. Every other
zone keeps its hand-written label, since a region's name is not a list
of its countries (tier B and C are a pending product decision). The
selection packet names its cover the same way.
In the browser the title uses the library's country-name resolver; the
offline generator cannot load that module under Node, so it reads the
ISO-3 to ISO-2 table and injects it, the path zone-title.js was built
for. A data set without zone-title.js keeps its labels.
check:zone-title-tier-a was committed unregistered and so never ran; it
is now in gates:pre. Its comments, and zone-title.js's, no longer cite
people or dates.
FULL DETAIL is four front pages, the profiles, four back pages:
map, triangle, life calendar, % evangelical, profiles,
bounded set, centered set, prayer wheel, 12 prayer points.
LIGHTWEIGHT is two front, the profiles, two back:
map, triangle, profiles, prayer wheel, 12 prayer points.
Both are generated from data, in every packet language, from the
browser and from the offline generator.
PAGE 1 - the map, on a vertical page. One lift for every caller
(packet-render.js liftMap): the browser composable, the UPG 100
profile and the offline generator each carried an identical copy of
the old wrapper (250px down, scale 0.62), and three copies of a layout
decision is how page 1 drifts between print paths. The lift prefers
the map-only vertical sheet (mapSheetFiles: <zone>.packet.html, then
the poster) and places it so its names land on the same 60px margin
every other page keeps; a poster falls back fitted under the title at
0.81 rather than 0.62. The title block is drawn after the map, since a
map-only sheet begins with a full-page background. Anything that is not
a map sheet - an icon-sized <svg> from a host that answers a missing
file with a 200 page - is refused, and page 1 says the map is missing.
Page 1 now states which set it belongs to ("One of 28 UPG 100 prayer
lists"), only when the caller supplies the count.
PAGE 2 - one inverted triangle in the Vision Card's look. The card's
steps are the top (every people group, the unreached, the frontier,
the network's list), narrowing to the UPG 100 packets and, at the tip,
this packet. The card's greens, darkening as it narrows, walked
through its own colour stops; every numeral picks white or ink by the
WCAG ratio (all at least 3.4:1, large bold type). Tier widths are
geometric, not proportional - 2,107, 28 and ~100 against 12,379 would
be hairlines - so where two sets truly nest the caption states the
step removed, and the network's list, which does not sit inside
frontier, gets the card's "N of them are frontier" note instead of a
false subtraction. The packets tier and its count appear only when the
caller supplies one.
BACK PAGES - the bounded and centered sets get a page each at twice the
width, under the one page key, so lightweight drops the pair together.
THE WHEEL - the Metacamp Module 1 prayer wheel: its twelve colours,
sampled from the fill operators in the source PDF's content stream; its
orientation, the opening PRAISE at nine o'clock and READ THE WORD at
twelve; white labels with a shadow and a faint outline, so a print
path that drops SVG filters still leaves them legible on the palest
segments; "5 minutes" badges; the attribution with the website. The
labels stay the packet's own rhythm names, translated in every
language and matching the 12 points page.
The offline generator makes both packets (PACKET_VARIANT=lightweight;
the full packet keeps its names, lightweight is <zone>.lightweight and
stamped with its variant).
STRINGS: four new keys, in all eleven blocks - each block's own words
for "packet" and "prayer list", the frontier note aligned to the word
the frontier tier uses on the same page.
GATES: check-packet-a1-structure (registered in gates:pre) reads every
sheet's CONTENT for the order of both variants, page 1's lift in all
four cases, the triangle's tiers and steps, the wheel's colours and
orientation, and all 28 zones. Mutation-tested eleven ways, each caught
by its own message. check-packet-variants now asserts both sets pages
and a four-sheet difference. The browser gate check-packet-render
counted funnel rows and bars by inline-style substrings, which an SVG
triangle has none of - both would have read zero and passed - so it
now counts .funnel-n against .funnel-tier, its sheet arithmetic counts
the sets pages, and its Latin allowlist carries the renamed product
name. check-packet-browser used a copy of the old wrapper; it now uses
the product's lift.
One landing because it is one bundle: the ring band layout wiring (already on
this branch) plus the three set-fit commits, replayed as SOURCE only. The
generated tree is rebuilt below rather than merged — a previous cherry-pick of
mine swept a conflicted generated file into a commit, and hand-resolving build
output is how that happens.
From set-fit: extentFraction 0.17 -> 0.095 on both charts, so the drawing fits
the height the engine's zoom floor leaves it; crossFeature restored from history
and called by BOTH maps through one shared addCrossLayer; and the ResizeObserver
fit restored, which rega found missing because zoomAtOpen read 1.00 in all eight
chart/layout combinations — too clean to be a fit result.
Two things this merge had to get right, and neither was automatic:
- Taking GiCenteredSetMap.vue wholesale from set-fit silently REMOVED the ring
wiring — bandFill, curvedRingLabels and openAndFrame all went to zero while
every gate still passed. Both feature sets are now in the file together.
- Taking package.json wholesale would have deleted studio's check:ring-bands
registration, including its gates:pre entry, landing a gate nothing runs. It is
rebuilt from development's, with only check:gospel-set-fit added — in all three
places this time: script, gates:pre, and //scripts.
layoutCenteredSet gives every group on ring N the same radius, so a crowded ring
draws as one line of dots on a circle. The target needs each ring to be
a BAND, groups spread evenly through it, never overlapping each other or the
ring's label.
library/components/charts/ringBands.js is that geometry, with no Vue, no engine
and no DOM, so the Wall poster can consume the same module rather than growing a
second copy of it. bandFill() places; curvedRingLabels() returns each label's arc
AND the keep-out that bandFill refuses to place inside — computed from one source
so "pins never overlap the labels" is true by construction rather than usually.
Determinism is a requirement, not a nicety: every position is a pure function of
the item's own id, so two printings of one packet compare sheet to sheet and a
dot that moves means the DATA moved. There is deliberately no seed. Input order
does not affect any position either, so a caller that filters or re-sorts does
not reshuffle the chart.
An over-full ring SHRINKS its pins to a floor before anything is dropped — a
visible pin beats an unplaced one — and only then reports the remainder with the
ring and the counts.
check:ring-bands, 16 assertions, every arm with a negative control. One arm is
there because this gate passed the bug it now catches: uncapped, a long label on
ring 1 wanted 96% of that small circle, so capacity was zero and all twelve
groups on the innermost ring were reported unplaced while every arm stayed green
— "reported, not silently dropped" is not the same promise as "the ring draws".
Labels now truncate at a share of their own circumference and report how many
characters fit. Poison-tested: restoring the old share reproduces "empty rings: 1".
Seven shadow-root components each carry their own copy of DX Life's
base/_globals.scss rules, because page CSS cannot reach into a shadow
root. Measured first: where the copies overlap they are byte-identical
(the Cyrillic stack 3x, strong{font-weight:500} 2x, scrollbar-gutter 2x),
so this is deduplication, not a fix.
The module exports FUNCTIONS, not strings, and the measurement forced
that: the six copies of the Cyrillic rule share one declaration but have
six different subjects (.rd-goal-card__title, .rd-h2, .rd-title,
.region-card__title, .rl-title x2). A fixed rule string would have to
pick one class and silently stop styling the other five. The caller owns
its selector; the module owns the declaration.
cyrillicHeading takes a selector LIST, not a selector. GoalCard styles
one heading class; RegionSectionCard groups two into a single rule
sharing one declaration block. A one-selector signature emits two rules
instead of one -- the same CSS to a browser, but not the same
stylesheet, and the bar here is unchanged, not equivalent.
Migrated GoalCard and RegionSectionCard. regions-dashboard's two files
port the same rules and stay with their owner; the harness records them
so that migration can run against this same baseline.
The img border-radius rule (_globals.scss:80) is documented as
deliberately NOT ported, because an invisible omission is one that gets
"fixed" later.
PROOF: internal/check-ported-globals-identical.mjs executes each
component's setup, captures the string handed to useShadowStyles and
hashes it. The emitted CSS is byte-identical across the refactor
(987d94b1cd66110d, 897d948b17b21efe, both captured from 45e31f102).
The harness's first version hashed the SOURCE of the call and was
wrong: this refactor replaces a literal with a function call, so the
source changes by construction -- a text-hash gate fails a perfect
refactor and cannot tell that from a broken one. It measured the
artifact when the property under test was the output. It failed exactly
that way on first run.
Shown capable of failing, four ways: dropping letter-spacing, a wrong
font name, 500->600, and splitting the grouped rule into two. All four
go red; restoring goes green. Components that cannot be evaluated are
reported NOT MEASURED (exit 75), never as a pass.
Seven components with no importer, removed. The interesting part is not the
deletion, it is that an import census was NOT sufficient to authorise it, and
two other agents proved that rather than me.
WHAT AN IMPORT CENSUS MISSED. internal/check-gospel-set-charts.mjs iterated
['BoundedSet.vue', 'CenteredSetTarget.vue'] as literal STRINGS and read their
props off disk. No import, so no census and no build would have warned; deleting
them would have turned a gate red on main with nothing to explain it. gospel
found that in their own file after I asked, and retargeted the arm at the
components that actually render (GiBoundedSetMap / GiCenteredSetMap, 2d2e853a7).
Their retarget also fixed a quieter defect: the seed guarantee had been asserted
against two files NOTHING renders, so it would have kept passing while the
shipping component grew a seed prop.
I did not take either agent's word for it. Verified gospel's retarget on their
sha and ran their gate green before deleting; verified upg100's structural claim
that packet-render.js cannot mount a component at all — 0 resolveComponent, 0
defineAsyncComponent, 0 dynamic import(), with the same probe returning a hit
elsewhere in library so an empty result is a real absence.
DELETED: charts/LanguageTreeChart.vue, components/charts/VisionFunnel.vue,
components/charts/BoundedSet.vue, components/charts/CenteredSetTarget.vue,
components/legends/ListSelectorLegend.vue,
components/dashboards/DashboardBreadcrumb.vue, composables/useMapSelection.js.
NOT DELETED, and worth stating because the names collide: the lowercase
boundedSet.js / centeredSet.js HELPERS are load-bearing — packet-render.js and
GiBoundedSetMap import them directly, and check-gospel-set-charts still does too.
Also left alone: colors/resource.js (a colour STRATEGY resolved by MODE NAME
through _registry.js, 'resource' appearing in mapStore.js and GiResources.vue)
and layouts/app-wrapper-material/nav.js (115 mentions). Both look dead to an
import census and would break a working map.
check:no-dead-library scans for a filename as a STRING across internal/,
library/ and plugin-designs/, and:
· DISTINGUISHES A READ FROM A COMMENT (gospel's ask). check-packet-variants.mjs
discusses CenteredSetTarget.vue in prose while asserting against JSON. A
comment hit is reported, never fatal — a gate that cannot tell the two apart
cries wolf once and is then ignored. It currently reports 4 such mentions.
· IS TWO-SIDED (upg100's ask). It also asserts a KNOWN-PRESENT dynamic
reference is found — LegendDesktop lazy-loads LegendMobile through import().
Mutation-tested: blinding the scanner makes it FAIL on that control instead
of passing with "no references found", which is what a one-sided version
would have done.
· ignores a longer identifier that merely contains the name, so GiBoundedSet.vue
is not read as a reference to BoundedSet.vue.
Both arms mutation-tested and every mutated file restored byte-identical.
Registered in all three places and verified by re-reading the parsed
package.json — the suite insert silently hit the scripts KEY instead of the suite
string on the first attempt, which verifying caught and trusting would not have.
17 of 25 library components that ship motion carried no reduced-motion rule, so
they animated regardless of the reader's OS setting.
The reason it cannot be fixed once, centrally: a @media (prefers-reduced-motion)
rule in the host document does not cross a shadow boundary, and these render
inside one. Measured while surveying: NO generated leaf page ships such a rule
at all — 0 occurrences across the whole built tree — so there was not even a
page rule to inherit. Each component owns its own.
CSS-ONLY AND ADDITIVE. Nothing but new @media blocks; no existing rule changed.
Verified by diff: 0 real removals across 17 files. The two lines git reports as
removed are a trailing comma moving as a new string was chained onto an existing
concatenation, and both original rules are still present — checked by grepping
for them, not by reading the diff.
WHERE MOTION CARRIES MEANING, it is kept rather than hidden:
· SemanticTreeLegend's spinner MEANS "loading". Stopped dead it is a static
ring that says nothing, so it is slowed to a step crawl (2.4s, steps(8)) —
visibly working, no smooth spin.
· LegendProgressBar's only motion is a hover filter, so it simply stops; the
bar's FILL is geometry, not animation, and still reports its value.
The rule goes where each component's styles actually go, and that varies more
than expected: 13 append into a useShadowStyles template literal, 3 into
string-concatenated sheets, and VerticalTabsLayout into its VTL_SHADOW_CSS
constant AND its duplicate <style> block, because its own header says the two
copies must stay identical.
check:reduced-motion asserts both halves, each mutation-tested to fail before I
trusted a pass: strip the rule from an animating component and it fails; move a
rule from the injected sheet into a <style> block and it fails too, because on a
useShadowStyles component that rule would never reach the shadow root. Both
mutated files restored byte-identical.
Two of my own errors caught by tooling rather than by review, and worth naming:
my first patch asserted useShadowStyles existed in every target and RAISED on
VerticalTabsLayout instead of silently skipping it — the assert-the-anchor habit
from the last registration failure working as intended. Then I appended CSS
after the label argument on two concat-built sheets, corrupting the injection
key; check:shadow-css-parses named both files and the fix was to insert before
the label. A gate I did not write caught what I got wrong.
Registered in all three places and verified by re-reading the parsed
package.json.
Two cards, BUILD-LOCALIZED-COUNTRY-NAMES-ISO3-TO-ISO2 and
BUILD-ISO3-TABLE-COVERS-ALL-242-COUNTRIES. I measured before building and most
of both already exists: countryName(iso3, lang) is in library/utils, and the
bridge is already 242 entries with an exact correspondence to countries.json —
0 codes missing, 0 orphans, verified in both directions rather than by trusting
the table's own _meta. All 242 resolve in en, ar and zh today.
So what was actually missing is the thing that keeps it true. Writing the table
and keeping it correct are separate acts, and only the first one looks like work
— which is the same reason this repo already has a gate for orphaned gates.
check:country-names asserts both directions of drift (a data code with no
alpha-2, an alpha-2 the data never uses) and that every code resolves to a real
NAME rather than to its own input, which is what Intl returns for a well-formed
code it does not know.
★ IT CARRIES TWO ARMS THAT MUST FAIL. A coverage gate that only counts hits
passes identically on 242 correct entries and on a table where every lookup
silently returns its input, so the last block feeds it an unassigned code and a
malformed one and FAILS if either is reported as resolved. Mutation-tested in
both directions before committing: deleting TCD from the bridge fails with
"1 code(s) with no alpha-2"; pointing TCD at a bogus QQ fails with three
unresolved lookups, one per locale. Table restored byte-identical after.
ar and zh are not decoration: ar is our only RTL locale, and zh uses a script
where an untranslated Latin code is unmistakable on sight.
NOT WIRED INTO THE REGIONS TABLES AND POPUPS, deliberately, against the brief.
All four regions fetches already send &lang=, so the API returns country labels
in the reader's language and summarizeRegions names each country from that
label — those surfaces are already localized. Swapping countryName() in would
replace a correct localized name with a differently-spelled one: Intl's English
differs from our canonical names for 42 of 242 countries ("Cabo Verde" ->
"Cape Verde", "Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba" -> "Caribbean Netherlands").
I re-measured that 42 rather than trusting the header that claims it. Changing
which name is canonical is a product decision and it would break clone parity
against live doxa.life, so it is not mine to make inside a localization card.
public/README.md's bundle count moves 24 -> 25: generated by bun run tree when
the country-map bundle was added on the parent commit, not hand-edited.
Narrowed by a measurement that arrived after the gate landed. The header and the
package.json description said the ordering was "not the cause" of the grey
Regions tab. True, but far too weak: the ordering is UNCONSTRUCTIBLE today.
region-dashboards.vue:1091 gates the ENTIRE map subtree behind v-if="loading",
and loadRegions assigns points.value inside the try while loading.value = false
sits in the finally. So points are always populated before the element that reads
them is permitted to mount — the map cannot mount with empty points, which is the
one thing this ordering requires.
rega measured it rather than reasoned it: 0 grey in 36 mounts, including a run
with the prayer API held back 20 seconds. The map was constructed AFTER the data
every time (API 44.4s -> construct 45.2s -> addLayer with 175 match arms). The
prediction's precondition never occurred, so it was neither confirmed nor
falsified — it was unreachable.
So this gate guards a FUTURE refactor that drops that v-if data gate. That is a
narrower and more useful claim than "hardening", and it is what the next reader
needs: someone removing the loading gate for a good reason would otherwise
reintroduce a flat-grey fill with nothing to catch it.
Comments and one description string only — no code changed, verified by
filtering the diff to non-comment lines (empty). The gate still PASSES, and
still FAILS when the repaint is stripped, so narrowing the prose did not weaken
the instrument. gates:pre 52/52 on development.
The grey Regions tab stays OPEN and is not this. The untested dimensions are the
engine (all 36 mounts were MapLibre; the Mapbox path reads a vector
country-boundaries source that PRODUCTION-MATRIX:235 records as 403-ing on the
sandbox token), the Plugin Studio preview entry, and what "grey" means — a whole
grey canvas and pale country fills are disjoint bugs.
usePosterLayout has always computed a real layout: the map narrowed by the legend
column and inset by the margins, the title strip and the footer strip. Nothing in
the exporter ever read it. The map was rastered at full page size -- edge to edge,
across the margins and both bands -- and the title, legend and footer were then
composited on top of that image. The legend lay over the map it describes, and
there were no bands at all.
What kept it hidden is that PosterPreview.vue DOES honour layout.map, so the
on-screen preview has always shown the intended design and only the exported file
was wrong. A preview is not evidence for an export.
The obvious fix breaks a different product. country-posters embeds this renderer's
output as a full-sheet <img> inside its own packet page, beneath the packet's own
title, so chrome that is on by default prints a second header and footer within
their page. UPG-100's packet does not call this renderer at all and was never at
risk -- checked rather than assumed. So the composed sheet is requested with
spec.layout === 'poster', and every existing caller, which sets none, keeps what
it had.
That guarantee is stronger than "equivalent": with no layout the renderer passes
the SAME px OBJECT it always did to the rasteriser and composites no sheet, so the
untouched path is unchanged by identity, not merely by value. The check asserts
exactly that, by executing the decision with four real caller shapes -- including
country-posters' A4 at 150 DPI -- rather than reading the source for a promise.
Its second negative test is the ruling's own failure mode: make defaultPosterSpec
set the layout and country-posters is named as silently opted in.
A sheet with no room left for a map after its margins, bands and legend column
falls back to full-bleed and says so, because silence there is the bug above.
Simple Research's export asks for the layout explicitly.
Page 1 of every packet draws the zone map from mapSvg. When the map
fetch fails, the page interpolated an empty string: a title, a
subtitle, a privacy footnote, and nothing where the map belongs. A
failed fetch and a successful render were byte-indistinguishable in
the printed PDF, and the packet read as undeveloped.
It is not a rare edge. The served asset pool ships boundaries, fonts,
images, people-groups, pplr, previews, tables and vendor, and no
posters/ directory at all, because generate-tree gates it behind
posterSources and bundlePosters, both default false. Over live HTTP
against the served tree: previews/sudan.webp 200,
boundaries/world-adm0-web.geojson 200, posters/sudan.html 404. So on a
default build every packet's page 1 has been blank.
The browser path's catch around the poster fetch is right to keep
printing -- a missing map must not cost the reader the people pages --
but degrading and degrading silently are different things, and only
the renderer knows the map is absent when it draws the page. It now
prints one quiet sentence in the map's place.
The sentence is English-only on purpose. t() falls back to English per
key, so the other ten locales print it in English until a translator
supplies theirs, rather than ten invented translations nobody can
check.
The real fix for the blank map is shipping the poster sources in the
asset pool; that is a tree-config change and goes separately.
check-packet-map-missing-loud is two-sided: loud when the map is
missing AND quiet when it is present with the SVG intact, in en/es/ar,
both variants. Shown capable of failing four ways: the silent cover, a
notice that always prints, a notice that displaces the map, and the raw
key printed instead of a sentence.
Page 1 of every UPG-100 prayer packet is the zone map, drawn from
<tree>/assets/posters/<id>.html. The tree shipped no posters/ at all:
generate-tree gates the folder behind posterSources and bundlePosters, both
default false, so the fetch 404'd and the packet, which rightly keeps printing
without its map, printed page 1 blank.
The dx-maps config now sets posterSources: the 28 sources, without the 41 MB of
.webp rasters. Measured: 27 MB raw, 7 MB gzipped. The copies are byte-identical
to the tracked data/posters/*.html, so git stores each blob once and a push adds
no new pack bytes. The code default stays false for other deployments.
check:poster-print-fallback now RUNS by default instead of skipping. Part 1 needs
no browser and runs in every wave: when the config ships sources, the built tree
must carry every data/posters/*.html, byte-identical (a stale copy prints an old
map just as quietly). It FAILs 28 of 28 on the tree before this change and PASSes
after. Part 2 clicks the real print control and is NOT MEASURED (75) outside the
browser slot; with no url it serves this checkout and opens the UPG-100 wall. The
skips that exited 0, which a wave reads as a pass, now exit 75. Registered in
gates:post.
RT8 goal (b). Two gates already touch the engine and neither asserts this:
check-leaf-engine-per-provider proves MAPLIBRE purity (zero *.mapbox.com
requests under ?provider=maplibre) and that a map still draws, but never forces
Mapbox; check-provider-switch does load ?provider=mapbox — with a FAKE token, so
the engine LOADING was measured and a tile RENDERING never was, on one leaf.
So "Mapbox works" was unmeasured across the seven production tabs. This measures
it, and refuses to pretend when it cannot.
WHAT IT READS, and why each is the stronger property:
· THE ENGINE off the canvas that drew — .mapboxgl-canvas vs .maplibregl-canvas
— never from which globals exist. A leaf asked for Mapbox that quietly draws
with MapLibre looks identical to success in a screenshot and passes every
paint check; a peer script that merely loaded Mapbox proves nothing.
· THAT IT DREW via queryRenderedFeatures() > 0. A canvas at the right size is
not a map: this repo already had a country map render fully blank while "a
real GL canvas exists at 1200x780" passed.
THREE EXIT STATES, BECAUSE TWO WOULD FORCE A LIE. On this sandbox the Mapbox
/v4/ composite raster endpoint and country-boundaries both 403 — proven outside
the browser with no Referer, with 127.0.0.1 and with localhost, so it is tileset
ENTITLEMENT, not the embed (PRODUCTION-MATRIX:235). Failing on that would
manufacture work for every owner; passing on it would be false. It exits 75 NOT
MEASURED and names the endpoint. No token, or a non-pk. token, is also 75 — a
fake token is exactly the false green this gate exists to refuse.
THE NEGATIVE ARM is in the same file: ?provider=maplibre must draw with MapLibre.
If it does not, the engine check cannot tell the engines apart and every pass
above it is unfalsifiable.
★ TARGETS COME FROM THE MANIFEST, AND SELECTING ON isMap ALONE LOST A TAB.
Measured: it found 6 of the 7 curated tabs. research-map-plus-grid (Simple
Research) is a nested-elements-mfe with isMap:false whose CHILD holds the map, so
it would have been skipped in silence — the exact class of miss this gate is
meant to catch. A composed tab now counts if it is isMap ITSELF or composes a
profile that is: 7 of 7.
Registered in package.json (script + description) and in verify-browser-all's
GATES array — deliberately NOT gates:pre, because it needs the browser seat.
Verified by re-reading the parsed package.json, and check:no-orphan-gates names
only the pre-existing check-gospel-whiteboard.mjs, not this.
HARDENING, NOT THE FIX for the grey Regions tab. That tab has been seen loading
grey on first load and coloured after a reload. This closes one ordering that
can reach a flat-grey fill. On built bundles that ordering did not reproduce the
grey tab (0 of 20 loads grey, the fill present with its expression at addLayer),
so the reported bug stays open; the lead is the dev/HMR re-mount path.
THE ORDERING. regionFillExpression builds a ['match'] from props.points; with
no points it returns a FLAT no-data grey. addLayers SNAPSHOTS that value into
the layer's paint when it creates the layer. applySubject does repaint the fill
correctly, but it guards every write on getLayer() — deliberately — so a change
arriving BEFORE the layer exists is silently dropped and never retried. And on
MapLibre, the DEFAULT engine, the country boundaries are added as an EMPTY
source and populated by a later fetch's setData(), which nothing repainted
after. In that ordering the fill keeps the colour it was born with.
THE CHANGE is one call: repaint after the boundaries setData, which is the first
moment the layer has any features on the MapLibre path and the only repaint
guaranteed to run with both inputs present. applySubject is idempotent and
getLayer-guarded, so it is harmless when the colour was already right — it only
removes the ordering's power to be the last word.
★ TWO THINGS I GOT WRONG FIRST, both caught by the gate rather than by review,
and both recorded because the wrong version was plausible:
1. MY MODEL COULD NOT REPRODUCE THE BUG. The first version's negative control
fired: no arrival order greyed even with no repaint, so it could not have
detected what it existed for. The greying order is not "data before the
layer" — by then the snapshot is already coloured. It is points arriving
AFTER both addLayers and its mount repaint, with the watch's repaint not
landing. Corrected, exactly 1 of 3 orders greys without the fix and none
with it.
2. I BLAMED THE EMPTY SOURCE, WHICH CANNOT CAUSE GREY. An empty source draws
NOTHING; fill-color is an expression over feature properties. A grey
landmass therefore means features ARE present and the expression came back
flat. The repaint after setData is still required, for the narrower reason
above. The gate carries that correction so the wrong reason cannot be
inherited from a comment.
THE GATE'S OWN INSTRUMENT WAS WRONG TWICE TOO. A 400-char window between
setData and the repaint failed on the repaint's own comment. Widening it to
1600 then PASSED when I deleted the real repaint and left an unrelated
applySubject() 1200 chars downstream — measured, not feared. A distance is the
wrong instrument, so the .then() block is now extracted by brace matching and
the repaint required INSIDE it. The first structural attempt anchored on the
nearest '=>' and landed inside the callback body, because `for (const f of ...)`
has one; it anchors on the enclosing '=> {' now. Four arms mutation-tested,
including that decoy, and every mutated file restored byte-identical.
rega's heap snapshots (leak-722ac7789): Simple Research and All People Groups
mounted twice went 54.2 MB to 65.1 MB, with live Vue apps 6 to 8. Every unmounted
application was still there, one copy per mount, and the retainers were all the
same shape -- a window key set during setup and never cleared. The closure keeps
its component, the component keeps its shadow root, and a whole app survives its
own unmount. An element property dies with the element; a window key does not.
The named one was window.__doxaLogoOwner -> Map -> div.rm-map-canvas -> ShadowRoot
-> app, released only when the map's 'remove' event fires. That listener cannot be
the guarantee the global is cleared, because it only runs if remove() is reached;
it is a consequence of the guarantee, not the guarantee itself. useMapInstance now
drops the claim inside destroy(), before removing, so it goes even if remove()
throws part-way.
As for why remove() was never reached: research-map's unmount hook ran ten
teardown steps and called destroy() last, and two of those steps were unguarded
calls into other composables. A single throw anywhere above stranded the map, and
with it the app. I could not reproduce which step threw without a browser, so the
fix does not depend on knowing: each step is isolated and destroy() runs from a
finally, where nothing above it can skip it. Ordering teardown so the most
important step is last, behind nine chances to fail, was the real defect.
The globals themselves are released by the components that set them -- four verify
hooks in research-map, three in the dashboard map panel, the vocabulary hook in
the grid, which had no unmount hook at all. Released as SETS: __rdashPinAt was the
one the snapshot named, but __rdashMap holds the map and retains strictly more, so
clearing only the reported one would have looked fixed and leaked nearly as much.
The deletes are written one per line instead of looped over an array of names, so
that the check can read them. A release a checker cannot see is worth no more than
no release, the day someone removes three of the four.
The check flags only values that actually retain. A warn-once boolean latch and a
page-wide cache keyed off itself are deliberate and must not be reported, or it
becomes noise and gets switched off. It is NOT in gates:pre: 19 sites remain in
other owners' plugins, and this is a fleet pattern rather than one plugin's bug.
useLegendData returns { items, columns, title, activeFilter, setFilter,
totalCount, totalPopulation, progress, fmtPop, fmtCount }. There is no `rows`.
research-map read legend.rows in three places, and because JavaScript answers
undefined rather than complaining, each one failed in a different costume:
- provide('legendRows', legend.rows) provided undefined, and nothing in the repo
injects that key -- the comment above it described a contract no component
implements
- openPoster's fallback, legend?.rows?.value || [], could only ever be [], so on
any tab where the flat legend is empty the poster had no legend rows
- the packet's page-1 slot was rows: legend?.rows?.value || [] with NO second
source, so that poster's legend was empty unconditionally
and useMapPoster skips the legend slot entirely when the row list is empty. So the
missing legend on the exported poster had two independent causes: the renderer
painting it over the map, fixed separately, and this -- an empty array arriving
through a fallback that could never be anything else.
Both poster paths now share one builder, so they cannot drift apart again, and it
flattens children because a prayer legend is a parent plus two child tiers and
printing only the parents describes bands the map does not draw.
Two further calls went the same way: legend.refresh?.() and
legend.build?.(normalizedPeopleGroups), against methods the composable has never
defined. The optional call swallowed both, so two lines that read like steps did
nothing. `items` is a computed and re-derives on its own, so they are gone rather
than repointed.
exp-shepherd found the same misspelling in countries-map, where it threw instead
(NE-17). The check therefore guards the class rather than these lines: it reads
the returned key set from the composable and reports any consumer reading outside
it. It is NOT in gates:pre yet, because it still reports countries-map, which
belongs to another owner.
Writing it turned up two traps worth keeping. Stripping block comments with one
global regex DELETED REAL CODE -- a slash-star inside an ordinary string opens a
comment nobody wrote and the replace runs to the next real terminator -- and the
check confidently reported "no consumers at all" while both sat in the files. And
matching property reads by name flagged every t('legend.colLabel.religion'): an
i18n key spelled like a property access is not a read.
The projection toggle and the zoom toolbar share the top-right corner. The toolbar
was pinned at a literal top:34px, a number that was correct when it was chosen:
the toggle then measured 74x23 and ended at y=31, which this panel's own comment
records as a live measurement. A later accessibility fix gave the toggle
min-height:24px for WCAG 2.5.8. Nothing in this shadow root sets box-sizing
globally -- it appears exactly once, on the legend -- so 24 was a CONTENT height
and the rendered box became 24 plus 8 padding plus 2 border = 34px. Sitting at
top:8 it now ended at y=42 and ran 8px into the toolbar, which has z-index 10
against the toggle's 3 and so drew straight over it.
Nobody did anything careless. A correct fix to one control broke another because
the agreement between them was a magic number living in the other rule, where the
person changing the first had no reason to look.
So the toggle gets box-sizing:border-box, which makes 24 mean twenty-four and
keeps it a legitimate 24px touch target, and the toolbar's offset is now
calc(--rd-proj-top + --rd-proj-h + --rd-ctl-gap). The relationship is stated once,
on the element that owns it, and both the desktop rule and its mobile restatement
read it. Changing the toggle's size now moves the toolbar by construction.
The check computes the toggle's rendered height from its own declarations the way
a browser does, honouring box-sizing, rather than asserting either number --
restating 34 here would have rebuilt the same trap one file further away. Run
against the code as it stood before this commit it reports the overlap and its
exact size. It also requires the toolbar to DERIVE its offset, because a literal
that is correct today is the precise shape of this bug.
Every plugin ships as a self-contained IIFE, so library/utils/embedScript.js is
compiled separately into each one: eleven bundles on main each carry their own
copy. Its cache was a module-scoped const, which made "load exactly once" true
per BUNDLE rather than per page — the opposite of what the file's own header
claimed. Two shells nesting the same child (the Research Gallery and the Plugin
Studio both mounting doxa-research-map) each injected it.
Nothing failed, which is why it survived. The second request came from the HTTP
cache, so no failed request and no extra network row; the bundle then executed in
full a second time — a second Vue, a second vue-i18n, a second pinia, ~375 KiB
gzip of work — and its guarded customElements.define quietly declined at the very
end. Where the two URLs are different versions of one plugin, whichever executed
first owns the tag and the other is discarded in silence.
The cache now lives on globalThis, the only scope that matches the claim, under a
versioned key so a page mixing old and new bundles falls back to a cache each
rather than misreading a shape it does not expect. Entries are keyed by the
resolved href, because the callers do not pass the same string for one file.
A <script> already in the document is adopted, which is what covers bundles built
before this and host pages that write their own tag; that resolves immediately,
and it is safe only because every caller here follows with a wait on the element
itself — the note in the file says so, since a new caller must keep that pairing.
claimTag is a diagnostic, not a guard: by the time a second bundle arrives the
define is long since won, so the thing that was missing was anyone saying so.
The check imports the module twice under different URLs — two module instances
sharing one globalThis, the same shape as two IIFEs on one page. It asserts the
second caller receives the FIRST one's promise, not merely that one script tag
exists: mutation-testing showed the tag count alone is satisfied by the adoption
path, so it would have passed with the original bug restored.
vue-i18n v9 pluralizes by an English-shaped INDEX and applies it to every
locale. Measured on a real instance, authoring 'a | b | c':
ru n=0 -> the ONE form, n=2 -> the MANY form CLDR: 0=many, 2=few
ar n=3, 11, 100 -> ALL the dual form CLDR: few, many, other
That is confidently wrong grammar that looks translated, which is worse than
the single fixed form the regions summary shipped until now. upg100 proposed a
plural key and was correctly refused on this exact ground
(upg-100-list.vue:3006) — "real plural support needs a pluralRules map at
createI18n". The refusal's premise was the missing map, so this adds it.
THE PRECONDITION SWEEP (dx-shepherd), before installing anything: every
catalogue value containing " | " across all 11 locales, and every call site
passing a plural choice.
pipe keys: wall.prayedCount, wall.havePrayed — and ONLY in en. Every other
locale ships a pipe-free label form ("Помолились: {n}").
call sites: exactly two, both in wall-of-people-groups
(CommentsDialog.vue:36, wallCanvas.js:198).
BEFORE/AFTER, 2 keys x 11 locales x n = 0,1,2,3,11,100:
132 renders compared, 0 CHANGED.
Zero changed because the map is SCOPED TO EXCLUDE en, which is the one locale
holding pipe strings today. en is also the case dx-shepherd's assertion (3) is
about: vue-i18n's 3-form default is zero|one|many while CLDR for en is
one|other, so an en string written "none | one | {n}" would change meaning at
n=0. Leaving en out means it cannot.
★ THE BUG I SHIPPED INTO MY OWN FIRST DRAFT, caught by reading the rendered
Russian rather than by any assertion: the index was taken against the fixed
zero|one|two|few|many|other list, which is only correct for a locale that HAS
all six. ru has {one, few, many, other} — no zero, no two — so 'few' sat at
global index 3 while the authored string holds it at 1, and n=2/n=3 rendered
"2 стран" instead of "2 страны". ARABIC HID IT COMPLETELY, being the one locale
that does have all six, so its two indexes coincide. The index is now computed
against each locale's OWN category subset, and ru/ro are authored in that order.
ar 0 لا دول · 1 دولة واحدة · 2 دولتان · 3 دول · 11 دولة · 100 دولة
ru 0 стран · 1 страна · 2 страны · 3 страны · 11 стран · 100 стран
(regionCount likewise; all six categories distinct in ar, all three in ru)
check:plural-forms carries studio's three assertions, each mutation-tested to
fail: FORM COUNT (a 2-form ru string fails against its 4 categories), the
tStatic PATH (reading a pipe key through tStatic fails — tStatic does no
selection at all, so the page would show the literal "a | b | c"), and ZERO (a
5-form ar string fails because ar has an explicit zero category). Every mutated
file restored byte-identical afterwards.
The regions shim gains tc(key, n). t() resolves through tm()+rt(), and rt()
takes a message only — there is nowhere to pass the choice — so a pipe string
would come back whole. tc goes through vue-i18n's own t(key, named, choice).
Registered in all three places and VERIFIED by re-reading the parsed
package.json, not by trusting the replace: my last gate registration silently
no-opped on two of three anchors and studio caught it at the landing.
rega RQ20: the driven page asks for show-search:false and show-filters:false and
renders the search box and the filters bar anyway, with 0 console errors. There
were no errors because nothing failed. The key never arrived:
· the preset writes KEBAB into profile-config — "show-search": "false"
· ProfileLoader PROVIDES that object; it does not bind its keys as props
· the profile reads props.showSearch (CAMEL), which keeps its default of true
Three correct-looking layers and no join between them. A preset key that does
nothing looks exactly like a preset key that works, which is why the fix ships
with a gate rather than a comment.
The grid now reads these flags off the config as well as the prop, in the same
prop -> cfg ladder researchUrl beside them already used, and accepts BOTH
spellings: someone writing profile-config by hand reaches for the kebab spelling
because that is what the docs show on the tag, while the prop is camel.
Accepting one silently is what made this inert. An explicit prop still wins.
Proved on five cases including the exact preset, an explicit prop overriding the
config, and config:true keeping the control on.
check:instance-config-keys asserts every preset key reaches the profile that
renders it. Writing it was the interesting part, and it was WRONG TWICE:
1. First version matched only `cfg.` and reported NINE FALSE POSITIVES across
four plugins — big-picture reads config.value.accent, doxa-simple-map reads
profileConfig?.value?.tabs. The config object's variable name is each
profile's own business; matching on it measured my naming habit, not the
contract.
2. Widening it to "any accessor" then matched `props.showSearch` — the exact
line that does NOT work — and the gate went GREEN on the defect it exists
for. props is the one object that cannot carry a profile-config key, so it
is now masked out before the match.
Mutation-tested after that: reverting the fix to props-only makes it fail again,
and the grid file is restored byte-identical. A gate I have not watched fail is
not evidence, and this one passed for the wrong reason once already.
The four bundles that embed the grid are rebuilt, so the fix is in the shipped
.js and not only in the source rega cannot run.
DRV1650-SR-LEGEND-FILLS-SEARCH-GAP. On Simple Research's Regions and Languages tabs the
search bar is gone but the legend does not rise into the space. The other tabs are fine.
The two-tab split was a predicate, not a coincidence. With no geocoder the legend rises
to 14px UNLESS showsFlyTools() is true, and that returns true for exactly 'doxa-regions',
'language-family' and 'language-families'. It stops at 56px to avoid a MEASURED collision
on country-posters, where LegendTools renders at top:14px — the legend's own slot.
★ BUT showsFlyTools() DESCRIBES THE LEGEND TYPE, NOT WHETHER THE TOOLBAR EXISTS. Fly and
Clusters are leaf-only: the composite — which is what a reader calls "Simple Research" —
passes legendTools:false, so the toolbar is never drawn there and the 56px reserved a
slot for nothing. rega measured it at 1440x900 on main e1d0bc20: the band from the map's
top edge (y 44) to the legend card (y 100) is 56px of EMPTY map on both tabs, with no
LegendTools anywhere in the strip.
So the offset now asks whether the toolbar is RENDERED, not whether the type allows one.
Keying it on the tab name would have closed the Driver's gap and reintroduced the
country-posters collision the moment the tools were shown — the guard is kept, it is
simply asked the right question.
showLegendTools moved ABOVE legendTopVar, which reads it. A computed body is lazy so a
later const would have resolved at runtime, but this file has a TDZ history and
check:setup-order exists because of it; position is cheaper to keep honest than to reason
about.
check-legend-top-offset asserts BOTH inputs are consulted — drop either and it fails —
and that the declaration still precedes its reader. Negative-tested.
This is reading (b) of the two I put to dx-shepherd, chosen because rega measured it
rather than because it was likelier. Reading (a) would have been a cosmetic change to a
toolbar that turned out not to be there.
The console showed 24 Vue warnings, 8 each for "profileModules", "appI18n"
and "Symbol(pinia)" — "already provides property with key … inherited from its parent
element. It will be overwritten with the new value." They come from a composite mounting
child custom elements: Vue's CE layer lets a child app inherit its parent ELEMENT's
provides, and app.provide() warns on any key already reachable.
ALL THREE MUST BE THE CHILD'S OWN, so neither silencing the warning nor honouring it by
not providing would have been right. profileModules is the plugin's own .vue glob — a
child rendering its parent's components is a different and worse bug. pinia is
per-instance so two embeds on one page never bleed store state. And the i18n instance is
the one ProfileLoader drives from THIS element's profile-config, which is the whole of
the permanently-English fix from earlier today. Inheriting any of the three would be the
regression, not the warning.
So the shadow is made DELIBERATE at the line that does it. provideOwn() writes to the
app's own provides when the key is already reachable and uses the public app.provide()
when it is not, so the ordinary path is untouched. pinia needs the other shape: its
symbol is module-private, so it can only be provided by app.use(), and the key cannot be
named — withoutInheritedProvides() hides the inherited chain for the duration of the
install and restores it in a FINALLY, so a throwing install cannot leave an element
unable to see its parent.
The helpers are split into library/elements/provide-own.js with NO framework import,
because defineMapElement.js imports ProfileLoader.vue and is therefore unloadable by the
gate that proves it right. Third time today that split has been necessary; the gate now
exercises the shipped helpers rather than a copy.
check-provide-shadowing asserts BOTH halves — the child ends up with its own value, AND
the parent's other provides still resolve afterwards — against a Vue-shaped fake app that
warns exactly as runtime-core does. Its control is the naive call, which must still warn.
Negative-tested three ways, including moving the restore out of the finally.
check-element-bootstrap now accepts either spelling and was re-checked for the thing it
actually guards: removing the provide entirely still turns it red.
The Driver wants MapLibre as the default everywhere, on cost and on how it
looks, with Mapbox supported as an explicit choice.
One line decided it. resolveMapProvider read
explicit || (token present ? 'mapbox' : 'maplibre')
so merely HOLDING a Mapbox token selected Mapbox. That conflated two different
things: having a token is a capability, wanting Mapbox is a decision, and only
the decision belongs in this function. It now reads explicit || 'maplibre'.
The token is still honoured for what it is — with provider:'mapbox' it
authenticates the map, and the token argument stays in the signature because
callers pass one they hold outside the config. It simply no longer votes.
The migration surface is exactly one shape: a host that pasted a real token into
a published embed snippet and set no provider. All 36 shipped snippets carry a
tk placeholder and no provider key, so any host who filled one in is in it. An
unfilled snippet was already MapLibre, because hasMapToken rejects YOUR_
placeholders, and the DX Life branches pass no token at all. Such a host keeps
Mapbox by adding "provider":"mapbox"; ?provider= and window.MAP_PROVIDER are
unchanged.
The gate's four token-selects-Mapbox assertions were the old specification, so
they are inverted rather than deleted — the diff should show what changed for
whom. Two are added: the opt-in still works with a token in hand, which is the
path a migrating host takes, and a real token is still SEEN, asserted apart from
the engine because otherwise the engine could be right while authentication
broke silently.
check:map-props-unit was not in gates:pre, so it proved nothing on a normal run.
It is now, and the suite reads 32 of 32 with it named.
DRV1650-SR-POSTER-EXPORT, the "too much Antarctica" half. The big-poster renderer
stitches a grid of tiles, each drawn into an EQUAL-HEIGHT slot of the output image, and
it chose each row's latitude band by dividing the degree span evenly:
latStep = (ne.lat - sw.lat) / rows
Screen height is proportional to ln(tan(pi/4 + lat/2)), not to latitude, so equal DEGREE
bands are not equal SCREEN bands. MEASURED on a -60..75 view in 4 rows: the top band is
37.0% of the true rendered height and was being painted into 25% of the poster; the next
19.7% into 25%; the bottom 25.2% into 25%. Every row is squeezed or stretched, which is
the wrong aspect, and the bands where a degree buys the most pixels are the most
over-represented -- the Antarctica the Driver saw.
Sliced in Mercator y instead, every row is 25.0%, exactly, because that IS the screen
coordinate.
★ THIRD PLACE TODAY FOR THE SAME MISTAKE. A whiteboard chart nearly shipped with a linear
scale into degrees; a measurement harness nearly reported a false threshold by correcting
the wrong axis; and this has been shipping. Treating latitude as a screen coordinate is
the error, the conversion is one line, and it now lives in library/maps/mercator-slice.js
rather than being rediscovered a fourth time.
check-mercator-slice asserts the PROPERTY across five view/row combinations -- every band
an equal share of rendered height, contiguous, covering the span, north-first -- and its
CONTROL is the old code: degree-linear slicing must FAIL the same assertion, which it does
by 12.0 points. Without that control the test would pass on a tree where nothing changed.
A -90..90 view clamps at the Mercator limit instead of going infinite.
NOT FIXED HERE, because it is a product decision and not a defect: the export also asks
for an 8.5x11 PORTRAIT sheet (research-map.vue:1410), so a landscape map is letterboxed
onto a tall page. That is a deliberate default, it is the other half of the wrong vertical aspect, and changing the poster's default shape is a product decision, not a fix.
DRV1650-SHARE-MENU-MOBILE-OFFSCREEN. On mobile the share/embed menu opens off-screen to
the right on Cities with Internet and Gospel Resources, while Simple Research and Prayer
Progress are correct.
THE SPLIT IS NOT A PLUGIN DIFFERENCE. MapControlMenu resolved the area it places inside
with closest('.dsm-map-area, .rm-map-area, .dm-map-area, [data-map-area]') -- three
hardcoded plugin class names. doxa-simple-map and research-map are on that list. Everyone
else resolved `|| null`, and place() answers a null area by returning an EMPTY STYLE,
which leaves .mcm{position:absolute} at its STATIC position: below-and-right of a button
already at the top right. Off the page.
So the two maps that worked worked because they were named in a string in another
component, and the bug was decided by a literal rather than by geometry. It is also the
SAME failure the 2026-09-22 dashboard fix documents twenty lines below -- not "a wrong
side was chosen" but "nothing chose anything" -- returning through a different door.
MEASURED: cities-internet, gospel-resources, key-cities and upg-neighbor carry no
map-area class and no data-map-area, so FOUR plugins were unanchored. The Driver reported
two. A fix aimed at the two he named would have left the other two, and a gate written
around them would have passed.
The named area is still preferred, because it is a real map's walls and a menu must not
outgrow them. When a plugin declares none, the anchor falls back to the toolbar's own
offsetParent -- the containing block this menu is absolutely positioned against, so
placing against it is correct by definition rather than by registration. A plugin that
adopts a class later simply gets the better anchor; nothing has to be registered anywhere
for a menu to be on screen.
check-map-menu-anchor asserts the PROPERTY rather than the list: that the resolution
cannot produce null from a real toolbar, that place() still guards a genuinely absent
one, and that a declared map area is still preferred over the fallback. Negative-tested:
restoring the allowlist-only resolution turns it red.
NEEDS EYES: this is rendered geometry and I work headless. What I can prove is that the
anchor is no longer decided by a name; whether the menu now sits correctly at 390px on
all four is rega's to measure.
DRV1650-SR-EMBED-URL-RUNTIME-ORIGIN. The Driver copied
`research-map-plus-grid/research-map-plus-grid/index.html` from a page at
http://127.0.0.1:5192/, a link that works on no other site.
resolveShareUrl's tier 1 returns its input VERBATIM, correctly: a host handing over a
whole url has already decided. So a composite that BUILDS a tier-1 url takes on tier 2's
job, and both of mine wrote the same thing:
base ? base + '/' + leaf : leaf
On any host where the tree root cannot be derived from the script url — a dev server, an
ESM build, a tree served from a path that does not match `<name>/<name>.js` — base is ''
and the else branch hands tier 1 a bare relative path, which it then returns unresolved.
★ IT LOOKS RIGHT IN THE ONE PLACE ANYONE CHECKS. A relative share link WORKS WHEN
CLICKED, because the browser resolves it against the page you copied it from. It is the
EMBED that breaks — an <iframe src="…"> on a partner's page resolves against THEIRS — so
the failure is invisible exactly where it is tested and visible only where it ships.
research-map-plus-grid.vue:174 even documents the requirement ("It MUST be absolute,
which is the non-obvious part") four lines above the branch that violates it.
absoluteEmbedUrl() is tier 2's resolution made available to tier-1 builders: the
configured base when known, otherwise resolved against document.baseURI, which yields the
runtime origin. Never relative in a browser. The ladder is unchanged; only its last rung
is.
The gate has both arms, because either alone would rot: the RESOLVER must be absolute
with no base (the failing case, not the passing one), and no plugin may rebuild the
`: leaf` fallback. Negative-tested: removing the origin fallback, and re-introducing the
ternary in a plugin, each turn it red.
"Copy link didn't work" is most likely the same defect rather than a second one —
ShareButton's copy already falls back from navigator.clipboard to execCommand for
insecure contexts, so the copy almost certainly succeeded and produced a useless URL. If
it still fails after this, it is a separate bug and needs a browser to see.
Driver brief §B. gospel-internet's GiTree had NO props and NO emits: it read a board
composable and three module singletons, which is what made it gospel's rather than
anybody's. Everything it reached for is now a prop, and the parts worth testing are no
longer inside an SFC a gate cannot run.
WHAT IS ACTUALLY IN THE COMPONENT: wiring, 160 lines. The drawing is the whiteboard
tiered-points layer, the surface is whiteboard-map.js (moved out of gospel's plugin --
67 lines whose every import already came from library, so it was never theirs), the
hierarchy is language-tree-model.js and the camera is frame-target.js. Four modules,
four headless gates. An SFC cannot be executed by a check, so it should hold as little
as possible.
THREE BEHAVIOURS PINNED BECAUSE THEY ARE EASY TO STATE WRONGLY:
FRAME ON SELECT, NOT ON CHANGE. Clearing does not re-frame; the camera stays where the
reader left it. "It frames when the selection changes" is the obvious phrasing and it is
wrong in exactly the case that annoys people -- being yanked somewhere after deselecting.
A SELECTION THAT ARRIVES BEFORE THE MAP IS REPLAYED. GiTree survived this by ordering:
its host set the node through a composable that waited for data, so the value always
landed after the map. As a PROP the ordering belongs to the host, and a prop whose effect
depends on WHEN you set it is a trap -- a shared deep link would work or not depending on
load timing, which nobody could report. ready replays whatever `selected` is.
HOVER CANNOT MOVE THE CAMERA, structurally rather than by convention: hover sets a filter
on its own layer and there is no camera call on that path to remove later.
AND THE CONSTANTS. gospel's maintainer inherited GiTree and had to read intent out of
structure -- there is no "this took measuring" note anywhere in it. Asked which line they
would flag, they named frame(). So padding 60 (the outermost nodes carry labels that
extend past the point), maxZoom 8 (a two-language family must not fill the screen with
its own neighbourhood gone), duration 900, and the floor zoom that stops framing one node
from zooming the reader OUT are now stated with their reasons and asserted.
Two branch rules with them, both of which a tidy-up would erase: reduced motion is a
DIFFERENT CALL (jumpTo, not easeTo with duration 0 -- the engines do not treat those as
one), and a single point CENTRES rather than fitting a degenerate box, because a
one-language family is ordinary and fitBounds on no extent zooms to nothing.
THE ROLLUP IS OVER THE READER'S SCOPE. "A family shows the worst colour below it" is only
true relative to what is currently on the board: a family that is red overall can be
green inside a filter. Handing the rollup a whole subtree makes the colours quietly
disagree with the board -- no error, no blank, just a wrong fact about a real people
group. Asserted in both directions, and colorFor stays injectable because nothing in the
drawing depends on the rollup being worst-of.
THE CLICK TOGGLE MOVED TO THE HOST, and that is a change rather than a codification:
GiTree cleared the selection when you re-clicked the selected node, and that toggle lived
in the component's own handler. A host that wants it must now write it. In exchange the
chart holds no selection state.
gospel's UI is not wired and their boardEngine.js is untouched on main; they adopt on
their own schedule.
Driver brief §B, the seam under the language tree, so gospel's set charts inherit zoom,
label priority and tiling from the map engine instead of re-implementing them in SVG.
READ FROM GiTree RATHER THAN ASSUMED: six layer groups, exactly ONE hierarchical. The
parent->child links are sourced from linkFC; the points, the selection and hover rings,
the dish behind a cluster and EVERY label layer come from one point collection and know
nothing about trees. gospel re-read that independently and found the same split, which
is the only reason I trust it -- "the seam is generic" is the claim that should never
travel on one reader.
So library/charts/whiteboard/tiered-points.js takes a point FeatureCollection whose
features carry id, label, tier and priority, and gives each TIER its own symbol layer
with its own minzoom. That is the whole of "band names zoomed out, ring names mid, group
names in": the engine is told which labels may exist at which zoom and resolves the
collisions itself. Paint expressions pass through unread -- the layer has no opinion
about what a colour means, which is what keeps it reusable. Selection and hover are
FILTERED layers, so hover costs one setFilter and structurally cannot move a camera:
there is nothing in here that could.
AND THE PROJECTION IS NOT A SCALE, which is the part that would have shipped wrong.
gospel asked for degrees and planned to scale by one number; their charts are CONCENTRIC
RINGS, and Mercator stretches vertically by 1/cos(lat) -- 1.0154x at 10 degrees, 1.1547x
at 30 -- so a linear scale renders rings as OVALS, worst at the outer ring where the
labels a reader compares are. library/maps/whiteboard-projection.js is the inverse
conversion, EXTRACTED from build-language-tree.mjs rather than written, because the
second copy was about to be made by hand. The degree-height it emits shrinks from 0.9996
of the width at the centre to 0.6794 at the edge; that shrink IS the correction the
renderer then cancels.
TWO TESTS, EACH GUARDING A DIFFERENT RISK.
check:whiteboard-projection reproduces the old private implementation VERBATIM as a
reference and compares over 1,734 grid points EXACTLY -- the language tree is a
build-time artifact, so a rounding shift would move 4,000 coordinates and look like
nothing. It then asserts a ring renders round at the inner, middle and outer radii, AND
that a linear scale FAILS that same assertion, because an assertion the defect can pass
is measuring nothing.
check:tiered-points runs gospel's CENTERED SET through the layer: 2,079 points, 3 tiers,
priority by population, and NO EDGES. The absent links layer is the evidence -- if the
whiteboard draws this chart with no line layer anywhere, edges are separable in fact
rather than in my reading. The map is a recording fake, so the assertions are about what
the module DOES; a regex over the source would pass on a module that never called
addLayer.
Negative-tested: making the projection linear, changing its rounding, dropping the label
priority, or giving every tier the same minzoom each turn one of them red.
gospel's UI is NOT wired -- their component is theirs to write, later, against a module
that now exists. Their boardEngine.js stays where it is until the chart lands.
Goal (c), and it turned into a goal (d) fix. Every profile element is
defineCustomElement(ProfileLoader, { configureApp }), and the configureApp has four
steps. The fourth, app.provide('appI18n', i18n), is the one that gets dropped.
ProfileLoader injects that instance (ProfileLoader.vue:176) to drive its locale from
profile-config. Without the provide the watcher holds null and the drive NEVER RUNS --
while setRuntimeLocale() on the next line still fires, so tStatic strings DO follow the
host. The element renders a convincing MIXTURE of the reader's language and English, and
nothing throws, because the t() shim falls back to its key. It reads as "a few strings
not translated yet".
SHIPPING THAT TODAY: country-posters, key-cities, gospel-resources, cities-internet and
my-upg-100-list. regions-plugin censused all 19 entry files independently and found the
same five and no sixth. The measurement is regions-dashboard's, from when they hit it:
a Spanish catalogue present, es set, and every t() string still English.
All sixteen entries now call library/elements/defineMapElement.js, so the five are fixed
by construction rather than by five separate edits. Behaviour is otherwise identical --
same options, same element names, same per-plugin extras. wall-of-people-groups needed
the helper to hand its pinia back, because it takes a store off its own instance and a
helper that hid pinia would have given it a second one: two stores and a silent state
split.
★ AND THE CENSUS THAT RECOMMENDED THIS SAW FOUR OF SIXTEEN. My detector hashed function
BODIES; eleven sites are not `function buildXElement()` at all, they are
`const El = defineCustomElement(...)`. I wrote "every number here is a lower bound" in
the census as a caveat and it was the headline within the hour -- a 4x undercount of the
item it recommended. So this gate greps for the SHAPE, not for a known list: a check
written around the four that matched would have passed the twelve that did not.
check-element-bootstrap has two arms. No entry may build a profile element by hand, and
the helper itself must provide appI18n -- PLANTED as a negative case, so the regression
cannot return by editing library instead of a plugin. It also fails if it finds fewer
than ten entries, because a detection that stops matching reports the same green as a
tree with no problems.
THE PLANT CAUGHT TWO BUGS IN THIS GATE BEFORE IT CAUGHT ANYTHING ELSE. The predicate
matched the helper's DOCSTRING, so it would have passed a helper that only mentions the
provide in prose -- comments are stripped now, because a check that reads comments is
reading the author's intentions rather than the program. And the plant itself used /m
instead of /gm, so it deleted the documentation and left the code, then reported that it
could not detect an absence that was not there.
