Every reference to the Driver in library/ is reworded: the engineering reason
stays, the speaker and the quote go, and a decision still open reads
"provisional, pending a product decision". Comments only: each changed file
is identical after stripping comments (JavaScript, template and CSS, including
CSS comments inside the style strings shadow-DOM components inject).
Those style-string comments do ship, so several bundles change by exactly
those comment bytes.
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.
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.
Second of the shared-library batches, in the shepherd's order: ShareButton,
DataTable, LegendTools, and PinHint's dismiss label.
★ THE ONE THAT MATTERS MOST IS THE PARAGRAPH A PARTNER READS. ShareButton's
embed tab explains where to paste the snippet — "WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, or
any site that accepts HTML widgets" — and it was English on every locale of a
product whose whole pitch is that a partner can drop it into their own page. The
two tab labels beside it likewise.
Also wired: the data table's CSV and JSON buttons, its row-detail hint and
dialog label; the legend's Clusters button and the Minimum Spanning Tree option
with its explanation; and the pin hint's Dismiss.
★ SIX SITES NEEDED NO NEW WORDING AT ALL — they already had translations in all
eleven locales and were still typed into the template: four "Close" buttons
(buttons.close) across PosterDialog, DataTable, MapControlMenu and the QA
corner, "Expand legend" (aria.expandLegend) and PosterWall's "people groups".
Those are the cheapest defect in the whole catalogue: the work was done, the
reader just never saw it.
CSV and JSON are keyed but identical in all eleven, like DPI in the poster
batch. A format acronym is not an untranslated string; the key exists so a
language that does translate it can, without anyone editing a component.
★ LIBRARY CHANGE — studio's to land under rule 5B. I have NOT rebuilt anything.
Until it lands, every string falls back to the English it reads today.
Measured with the source audit: shared-library strings with no catalogue entry
go 32 → 21, and the has-a-key-but-hardcoded class goes 6 → 2. Remaining, in
order: QaCorner (10, a developer tool), SemanticTreeLegend (4), PosterPreview,
PosterWall and VerticalTabsLayout (2 each).
MapControlMenu's 'fit inside the map' height clamp is right for a map
host but wrong for ShareButton's header fallback: the fallback tags
the ~56px header band as the area (data-map-area='share-fallback'),
and the menu clamped INSIDE it -- measured on upg-100-mfe, a 291px
share menu rendered with a 69px scrolling body. A menu must never
outgrow a MAP's walls, but a header band is not a wall (nothing clips
below it), so a share-fallback area now bounds against the VIEWPORT.
Measured: header host body 291/291 no scroll, menu 342px tall below
the band; map host (doxa-simple-map) unchanged, 287/287 within the
map. Real map areas keep the original walls -- only the self-tagged
fallback takes the new branch.
