The clear-only-ours fix recorded the host's dir lazily, inside the rtl branch,
the first time it wrote. That is correct only while nothing else has written a
direction first. If anything set dir="rtl" on the host before that moment, the
element recorded rtl as "the page's own declaration" and then faithfully
restored it on every switch away from Arabic -- so the direction never cleared,
which is the defect this whole change exists to remove.
Measured on the Big Picture leaf: ar left rtl, and zh put rtl straight back,
while its three siblings with the same code passed. The difference was not the
code; it was that something writes rtl on that host before the element does.
Reading the attribute on the FIRST call instead, before any write of ours, is
the only moment it is certainly the page's and not ours. A page that genuinely
declares dir still owns that decision and still gets it back.
Five cases driven against the real function in all four files: no dir at boot,
a page declaring ltr, a page declaring rtl, an element mounting while already
Arabic, and -- the case that reproduces the failure -- a FOREIGN writer setting
rtl after mount and before ours. Restoring the lazy capture to one file fails
that fifth case alone and leaves the other four passing.
Every element that sets a reading direction did it one way: if the locale was
RTL it wrote dir="rtl", and there was no else. So a reader who moved from an
RTL locale to an LTR one kept the right-to-left layout for the rest of the
session -- Chinese laid out backwards, which reads as a broken page rather than
a stale setting.
The reason the clear was missing is sound and is kept: a host page that
declares its own dir owns that decision, and blindly removing the attribute
would take that with it. So each element now remembers what it found before it
first wrote, restores that value verbatim when the locale stops being RTL, and
removes the attribute only when there was none to begin with. It clears its
own, never the host's.
FOUR elements, not the three the report named: big-picture.vue,
research-map-plus-grid.vue and people-groups-grid.vue all carry it, and so does
dashboard-plus-grid.vue -- the Big Picture composite, same shape, found by
checking the neighbours of the named lines rather than only the lines
themselves.
The comment above each one said "Only ever SET, never cleared". Left alone it
would now describe the opposite of the code, so it says what the code does.
Verified two-sided against all four shipped files, driving the real extracted
function: it clears what it set, preserves a host's own dir, and still sets rtl.
Restoring the one-way body to one file fails exactly the first two and leaves
the third passing, with the other three files unaffected.
Twenty-six references in capitals, which the earlier case-sensitive pass
could not see. Every requirement, date and measurement is kept: the 2026-09-23
instruction that removed the engagement and status filters, the MapLibre ask
with its Mapbox-compatibility condition, the blue-water-black-galaxy style,
the red ramp and the bin that collided with the heartbeat zone, the white
rings around the blue dots, the zoom that did not work inside the bounded map.
Two that are not quotes and were handled differently. The reduced-motion gate
opens with a medical reason — a reader of this map is photosensitive, and a
camera that sweeps the globe on every filter is a strobe — which is the whole
justification for the gate, so it stays as a fact about a reader rather than
about a person. And BpResearchHeader's "CAT-1 DRIVER CONTRACT" was a code
term; it is now the CAT-1 HEADER CONTRACT, checked for other references first.
Eleven lines broke and were found by re-reading every changed line, not by the
count. Removing an attribution left seven continuation lines holding the
closing half of a quotation that no longer opened, and four sentences carried
a pronoun for the speaker who had just been removed. The reference count was
correct at every point while the prose was wrong.
grep -wi driver across the three plugins: 0. The widened gate reports 40
swept, 14 still baselined. All six SFCs parse.
From the fleet census: 620 function bodies indexed across 29 plugin trees,
16 identical in two or more. These are the four cheapest — none closes over
anything beyond its own parameters, so each is a file move plus an import
rather than a new dependency to thread.
hostElement resolves the custom element a component is mounted inside, one
hop out through the shadow root. It was identical in three plugins, and it
is the piece worth sharing for a reason other than line count: every plugin
ships through defineCustomElement, a composite nests two shadow roots, and
code that forgets the hop operates on the wrong node while looking correct.
A document-level query for a node inside a shadow root returns null on a
working build, which reads as a broken feature rather than a wrong query.
Three copies were three chances to write that.
findScrollportAncestor walks up to the nearest ancestor that actually
scrolls, crossing shadow boundaries on the way — parentElement stops at a
root, so a plugin in a custom element would otherwise find no scrollport and
conclude the page does not scroll.
findNodeInTree and buildFlatLegendMatchExpr join useLegendMapBridge, which
already holds four functions from the same seam. They sit at module level
rather than inside the factory because they close over nothing: a pure
function hidden in a closure can only be reached by constructing the whole
bridge.
Call sites keep their old names through a one-line local binding, so no
call changed and the diff is the declaration plus an import.
Rebuild-and-compare, all five affected bundles, before -> after:
regions-dashboard 1,098,469 -> 1,098,479 +10
country-posters 1,484,053 -> 1,484,028 -25
doxa-research-map 1,354,051 -> 1,354,061 +10
dashboard-plus-grid 915,660 -> 915,644 -16
big-picture 366,907 -> 366,719 -188
net -209, and country-posters gains 25 bytes against the 1.5 MB ceiling.
Every behaviour-bearing token counted, not set-compared, and unchanged in
all three map bundles: regions-fill, peoplePraying, engagementStatus,
adoptionStatus, overflowY, scrollHeight, getRootNode, _flat_filter, religion.
Owners cleared their own files first: regions for regions-list.vue, upg100
for countries-map.vue. check:selection-kinds, check:legend-matches-source,
check:legend-data-contract, check:packet-variants, check:no-dead-library and
check:no-cross-plugin-imports all pass.
One hundred and forty-three comments across the research dashboard, the research
map, Big Picture and the two composites attributed a decision to a person: by
name, by quotation, by date, or as "per Driver". Shipped code should carry the
reason a thing is the way it is, not who said so. A reader of the giveaway repo
has no way to ask that person anything, and the name tells them nothing the
reason does not.
So a quotation becomes the requirement it was quoting, a ruling becomes the
ruling, "the Driver reported" becomes what was reported, and a decision still
waiting on an answer now reads as provisional and pending a product decision
rather than as somebody's pending word. Where a comment already stated the
reason -- most of them did -- only the attribution went.
Two things were removed rather than rewritten. A personal medical fact appeared
twice ("the Driver is photosensitive"), once in a comment and once in a gate's
console output where it printed on every run; the motion-safety requirement
stands on its own and now reads that readers may be photosensitive. Internal card
ids that named nobody stayed, since they point at this repo's own history.
The bulk went in three batched passes of meaning-preserving substitutions, and
that is where the risk was: a blind replacement produces sentences that are
grammatically wrong but still look plausible in a diff. Re-reading every changed
line found thirteen -- "the the report describes", "including the two that were
had just complained about", "because was asked for WHITE rings" -- each repaired
individually. The count of remaining references caught the tail three separate
times, when a file type, an escaped apostrophe, and a scripts/ path each fell
outside a filter I had assumed was total.
Comment bodies and two console strings only. All twenty-one files parse, both
meta.json files are still valid JSON, and no declaration moved.
The Driver's least favourite bug: on DX Life's research page a capability-4 plugin
with tabs at the top had a second, element-level scrollbar, and scrolling it scrolled
the TAB HEADER out of view.
doxa-maps-spa pins each fixed-viewport plugin with position:absolute;inset:0;height:
100% and its own comment states the invariant: "fills the pane exactly, so
scrollHeight===clientHeight and overflow:auto paints NO scrollbar." CSS never granted
that. A used height is CLAMPED between min-height and max-height, so a child's own
min-height BEATS the height:100% the shell sets -- it is a floor, not a preference.
Wherever the pane was shorter than that floor the pinned element grew taller than the
pane it was meant to fill, .dms-slot grew with it, and .dms-pane's overflow-y:auto
became a real scroll container wrapping the WHOLE plugin, tab strip included. That is
the second scrollbar: not the plugin's content scroller, the PANE scrolling the plugin
bodily. The invariant was written as a description and was only ever a hope.
The shell now pins with min-height:0. An inline style outranks a child's :host rule,
so that one property restores the invariant for every fixed-viewport plugin at once
without editing any of them. It is NOT added to the scroll-stack branch, where
natural height is the design.
A floor set INSIDE a child's shadow root is out of reach from the shell, and two of
mine had one. research-dashboard's .rd-shell and big-picture's .bp-root now say
min-height:inherit, deferring to :host -- which the gallery pins to 0, and which a
naive page leaves at its own floor, so the collapse guard those floors exist for is
kept rather than deleted. big-picture's 480px MOVED UP to :host rather than being
dropped: :host had no floor there, so inheriting would have quietly resolved to 0
everywhere and thrown away the black-screen guard its own comment calls load-bearing.
check-one-scroll-container asserts both halves, because either alone rots: the shell
still pins with min-height:0, and no plugin grows a NEW floor inside its shadow root.
The second half is what matters later -- a fixed shell plus a plugin that adds
min-height:700px next month is this bug again and nobody would connect it.
The rule is a CONTRADICTION IN ONE DECLARATION, not a large min-height by itself: an
element saying height:100% ("I fill whatever holds me") while refusing to be shorter
than N. My first version flagged any big min-height and caught gospel-resources'
.gd-map, a map deliberately sized height:80svh that scrolls inside its root's own
content scroller -- the one scrollbar a plugin is allowed. Flagging it would have sent
its owner after a non-bug, which is worse than not having the gate.
Negative-tested: removing min-height:0 from the shell, and reverting either .rd-shell
or .bp-root to a constant, each add a failure; restored, only the known one remains.
RED ON PURPOSE, and deliberately NOT in gates:pre. gospel-internet's .gb still carries
min-height:640px and that fix is its owner's. Wiring a red gate into gates:pre would
block the fleet on someone else's file, so the gates:pre entry belongs in the same
landing that fixes .gb -- until then this gate is the work item, afterwards the guard.
Source only: doxa-maps-spa, research-dashboard and big-picture need rebuilding, which
is the build owner's to do.
upg100 measured both, and both were created by today's i18n fixes — mine and the batch's. A computed
only re-runs when a REACTIVE dependency changes; tStatic reads a plain window global. So these resolved
at first render and never moved again, while every label around them followed the switch.
· big-picture.vue — heading depended on config.value.title, which does not change when the host
changes language. It now reads hostLang, which is reactive and already drives setRuntimeLocale, and
PASSES it to tStatic so the right catalogue is read. useI18n is not available here: this bundle
installs no i18n, which is why the whole element reads through tStatic.
· DashboardResearchFilters.vue — the live-search chip, same shape. research-dashboard DOES install
i18n (index.js:83), so this takes vue-i18n's reactive locale ref, reads it to re-run and passes it
for the lookup.
Both land on check-frozen-labels' documented clean shape — an explicit locale argument — rather than
hiding tStatic behind a helper that would satisfy the gate while leaving the label frozen.
The heading also moved BELOW hostLang, so the dependency it now relies on is declared above it rather
than four hundred lines later.
Verified: check:sfc-parse PASS; check-frozen-labels (studio/landing58) reports exactly these two sites
today, and the shape they move to is its own "pinned" self-test case.
Auditing Big Picture for goal (d) I read this as a live defect: big-picture threads the host's locale into
each child's profile-config as `lang`, while the grid's prop is `languageCode`. On a profile-config embed
that would leave a composed grid in the wrong language — exactly the failure 8b40f6c58 was written to fix.
It is not a defect. people-groups-grid.vue accepts three spellings — languageCode || locale || lang — and
`lang` is the third. Two greps settled it, and the near-miss is the point: nothing at either end said so.
Both ends now do. The writer records that the spelling is load-bearing and which fallback it lands on; the
reader records that `lang` has a caller and why that caller cannot reach it any other way — getRuntimeLocale
is module state, and a separately-built child bundle gets its own copy, so threading the config is the only
channel big-picture has.
★ WHY A COMMENT AND NOT A GATE. The failure is invisible in the obvious place: ?lang= embeds keep working,
because the grid falls through to localeFromUrl(). Only a host passing profile-config sees it, which is the
smaller and quieter half of the traffic. A gate for that would have to stand up a composed embed with a
profile-config locale and read rendered text — which is rega's browser run, not a headless check — so the
honest guard is to make the coupling legible to whoever next tidies either list.
No behaviour change. Verified: check:sfc-parse PASS.
rega, row 47 at 52eeb0db. Two findings, both mine, and the first is the smaller
and more certain of the two.
"2107 shown" STAYED ENGLISH IN BOTH CHANNELS, because it was never a lookup:
BpResearchHeader rendered the count and then the bare word. It reads the
catalogue now, with the English wording kept exactly as it was — "{n} shown" —
per the standing rule that translating existing wording is not a product
decision. Eleven locales.
THE CHILDREN WERE HANDED ONLY THE LIST. big-picture built its children's
profile-config from `list` alone, so the one documented channel a partner has for
asking a nested element to speak Arabic arrived empty of any locale.
setRuntimeLocale covers everything that reads tStatic, which is why the headline
and much of the chrome were already correct through both channels; it does not
cover a child that reads its own profile-config. Threading the locale is what
ProfileLoader would have done had one existed beneath this composite — and the
reason none does is the (C) failure mode this element is the last example of: a
composite that BAKES its children in has no loader under it, so it must do that
job itself.
★ THIS IS ONE IDENTIFIED GAP, NOT A CLAIM TO HAVE CLOSED THE MEASURED ONE.
check:host-locale-contract reports 402 against 888 for this leaf, and 31 Arabic
text nodes against 79. I can see that the children were given no locale and that
giving it to them is correct regardless; I cannot see from here how much of that
difference it accounts for, and I am not going to assert a number I have not
measured. The gate is a browser gate and rega owns the re-run.
Source only. STUDIO: needs a rebuild of big-picture.
A localized CALL SITE is not a localized STRING, and nothing in this tree was
watching the join between the two.
The dashboard's five resize handles read their names through
T('aria.resizeFiltersRail', 'Resize filters rail'). Reviewed, that looks
finished: the call goes to the catalogue and the English is only a fallback.
aria.json held eleven keys and not one of them was a resize key. Every handle
had been announcing itself in English in all eleven locales, and the fallback —
which is right to exist, because a missing key must degrade to readable English
rather than to "aria.resizeFiltersRail" on screen — is exactly what kept it
silent.
No existing gate can see this. check:i18n-parity is satisfied because the key is
missing from ALL locales equally. check:english-leaks and
check:composite-locale-leaks both need the catalogue to HOLD the string before
its appearance counts as a leak, and it does not. check:ui-strings-have-keys
reads templates for typed English. Each is looking at a different end of one
wire. check:i18n-keys-exist asks the question none of them asks: does the key
this code names exist?
It found TWENTY-TWO on its first run, all in this lane — the detail drawer's
five rows, the table's two selection toggles and their hints, the map's loading
line, the breadcrumb, the charts rail and the map legend's aria labels, the
empty-search message, and big-picture's footer. Six of them are the resize keys
on this branch's parent; seventeen are added here, English wording kept exactly
as each call site already reads it, in all eleven locales.
★ THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE GATE WOULD HAVE MISSED THE DEFECT IT WAS WRITTEN FOR.
It matched tStatic/$t/t and reported four missing keys while sailing past the ten
resize keys, because the house pattern is a file-local alias —
const T = (key, en) => tStatic(key) || en — and almost every call site in the
dashboard reads T(...). Matching T( took it from 4 to 22. Prefix helpers like
BpResearchHeader's L(), and any concatenated or template-literal key, are COUNTED
as unresolved and never guessed at: inventing the key set a runtime expression
might produce is how a gate starts reporting keys nobody wrote.
AND BIG-PICTURE, the last HOST-LOCALE failure fleet-wide, gets the two halves it
was still missing. Its title was a hardcoded English literal with no key at all —
the largest text on the element, sitting above an Arabic grid. And it never
reflected `dir`, alone among its siblings, so a host asking for Arabic got Arabic
WORDS in a left-to-right layout: a bug that reads as a styling quirk, which is
why it outlived every locale fix around it. The attribute goes on the
custom-element HOST, because `dir` takes effect through the inherited CSS
`direction` and inheritance crosses shadow boundaries — one attribute covers this
element's chrome and both nested elements beneath it. Only ever set, never
cleared: a host page that declares its own dir owns that decision.
The gate is green with this branch and its parent together, and red without
either. Negative-tested: deleting a key that exists fails naming the key and the
call site; a first argument whose area is not a catalogue file is correctly not
reported.
STUDIO: no rebuild needed for the catalogue, but big-picture must be rebuilt.
package.json adds two lines beside check:i18n-never-translated — a different
region from sr/dashboard-filter-a11y and sr/language-code-link, so the three
merge.
Every map showed DOXA's people groups, and only those. The same maps must serve other projects'
lists: Project 7000 (unreached), 4700 (frontier), 700 (frontier of 500,000 or more), 2000 (DOXA).
The list is now chosen the way the engine is:
profile-config `list` > ?list= > window.MAP_LIST > 'doxa' (exactly today's behaviour)
with ids or project aliases ('700', 'project-7000').
- library/lists/lists.json: each list is a FILTER over the IMB / peoplegroups.org dataset already
in the repo (Lostness Priority, Population, Engagement Status), never a hand-kept roster.
- library/scripts/people-groups/build-lists.mjs (`bun run lists`): writes each list's DOXA members
to data/people-groups/lists/<id>.json, joined the way the Vision Card funnel joins, so the
counts agree with it: unreached 7,341 (2,082 DOXA), frontier 4,754 (1,745), frontier-500k 737
(71), unengaged 2,982 (1,929).
- library/lists/peopleGroupList.js: resolvePeopleGroupList and applyPeopleGroupList(rows, cfg).
The default list returns the same array, unfetched. A list whose membership cannot load shows no
groups (fails closed) rather than DOXA's whole list under another list's name.
- Tier A, every production map: DataSourceManager applies it (and the maps that build one pass
their profileConfig), and so does every direct people-group fetch: people-groups-grid, the
Big Picture header, research-dashboard (data, CSV export; the DOXA-wide /statistics baselines
are skipped under another list), Regions (list, dashboards, their table), UPG-100 (4 fetches +
the poster wall), Gospel's roster, and the Experimental upg-neighbor and Wall. The composites
thread `list` to their children like `provider`.
Gates: check:universal-props gains a `list` column (LIST-FETCH, LIST-DSM, LIST-KEYS; its
self-test now plants 9 bypasses) and passes across 18 bundles, with all-people-groups allowed:
it draws the IMB dataset, so its list is Tier B. New check:list-prop-unit (Node, 17 cases, in
gates:post); poisoning the ladder order or deleting a membership file fails it. Documented in
documentation/reference-universal-props.md section 5.
Headless: all 14 touched bundles build; check:composites-mount 20/20 and check:composite-interop
17 links pass on this tree; no-orphan-gates, script-flags, quoted-scripts, doc-scripts pass. Not
rendered in a browser.
★ THE CAMERA DID NOT JUMP, AND THE DRIVER IS PHOTOSENSITIVE.
rega measured it in a real browser: with prefers-reduced-motion set, the
grid→map framing still animated for ~5.0s on MapLibre and ~6.7s on Mapbox —
indistinguishable from no preference at all, where a jump is ~0ms. The
preference was read correctly here and thrown away one layer down: useMapFly's
`flyToCoords(coords, zoom)` takes NO options argument, so the `{ duration: 0 }`
being handed to it went nowhere. Its neighbour `fitBounds(bounds, padding,
options)` does accept one — two functions in one file, different signatures, and
nothing at the call site to show it.
So the reduced-motion branch now drives the engine directly (jumpTo, or
fitBounds with duration 0) instead of depending on whether a helper forwards an
option. The eased paths are unchanged and still go through mapFly, so ordinary
motion keeps one owner. The library asymmetry is reported separately; it affects
every reduced-motion caller of flyToCoords, not just this one.
check:reduced-motion-jumps proves the DECISION headlessly — it lifts the real
camera block out of the SFC and runs it against a mocked matchMedia and a
recording map, over four shapes of selection:
several peoples reduce=true → map.fitBounds(duration 0) false → mapFly.fitBounds
one people reduce=true → map.jumpTo false → mapFly.flyToCoords
tight cluster reduce=true → map.jumpTo false → mapFly.flyToCoords
globe-spanning reduce=true → map.jumpTo false → mapFly.flyToCoords
It cannot prove the engine honours duration 0 — that stays rega's half. It
proves we ASK for a jump, which is the half that was wrong, and it runs in
milliseconds instead of six seconds of watching movestart→moveend.
★ AND THE SCREEN-READER BLIND SPOT. A source audit of both my maps found 31
user-visible strings that no check could see: 24 with no catalogue entry at all
(invisible to check:composite-locale-leaks, whose criterion is that the
catalogue already holds the string) and 7 that HAVE a translation in eleven
languages and were still typed into the template. Most are aria-labels, titles
and tooltips — text only a screen-reader user or a hovering mouse ever meets.
Our localization verification had been "what can I see", and the blind spot was
exactly the readers who most need the words.
All 31 are wired now; the audit reports 0/0 for this lane. Two were duplicates
resolved by REUSING the existing key rather than adding a second: "Export CSV ↓"
→ dashboard.export_csv with the arrow kept as a glyph, and the chip's "Clear
all" → controls.reset_all, since clearing every filter is the action that button
already names. Two keys for one action is how a control ends up saying two
different things in two languages.
The keys themselves live in library/i18n and are a separate rule-5B handoff, so
until they land every one of these falls back to the English it reads today.
The shepherd's call: translating wording that already exists is not a product
decision. So every string keeps the English it reads today and gains a key, in
all eleven locales.
Big Picture's four first, since it is the localization priority: Export CSV, the
detail drawer's title and its empty state, and the legend's "heartbeat zone"
bin. Then Top countries, Select all, the table dock's Expand/Collapse titles,
and the singular "group" whose plural was already translated — a half-translated
plural is its own small defect.
Full screen / Exit full screen now read buttons.toggleFullscreen, which already
shipped in every locale, so that one needed no new wording at all. The arrow
glyph still carries the state.
Three more went in that were not on the list, because leaving them would have
been worse than the defect being fixed: "Deselect all" is the other half of a
toggle whose first half we just translated, and the two row-selection aria
labels are the same control speaking to a screen reader. A control that changes
language halfway through is harder to use than one that never changed at all.
★ ONE STRING I AM NOT CONFIDENT IN, AND IT SHOULD BE CHECKED BY A SPEAKER.
"heartbeat zone" is the Driver's own coinage, not standard UI vocabulary, and a
metaphor is exactly where a translation I cannot read can go quietly wrong. I
translated it literally in all ten languages. The rest are ordinary interface
terms; that one is a judgement, and I would rather flag it than have it
discovered on the gift.
VERIFIED HEADLESS: i18n-parity passes with zero debt; three bundles build; the
keys AND their Arabic values are present in the built output (تصدير CSV,
منطقة نبض القلب, اختر شعبًا لعرض التفاصيل, and the header's placeholder).
Numerals are untouched, per the hold — this is text only.
(cherry picked from commit 67568c0509)
The shepherd's call: translating wording that already exists is not a product
decision. So every string keeps the English it reads today and gains a key, in
all eleven locales.
Big Picture's four first, since it is the localization priority: Export CSV, the
detail drawer's title and its empty state, and the legend's "heartbeat zone"
bin. Then Top countries, Select all, the table dock's Expand/Collapse titles,
and the singular "group" whose plural was already translated — a half-translated
plural is its own small defect.
Full screen / Exit full screen now read buttons.toggleFullscreen, which already
shipped in every locale, so that one needed no new wording at all. The arrow
glyph still carries the state.
Three more went in that were not on the list, because leaving them would have
been worse than the defect being fixed: "Deselect all" is the other half of a
toggle whose first half we just translated, and the two row-selection aria
labels are the same control speaking to a screen reader. A control that changes
language halfway through is harder to use than one that never changed at all.
★ ONE STRING I AM NOT CONFIDENT IN, AND IT SHOULD BE CHECKED BY A SPEAKER.
"heartbeat zone" is the Driver's own coinage, not standard UI vocabulary, and a
metaphor is exactly where a translation I cannot read can go quietly wrong. I
translated it literally in all ten languages. The rest are ordinary interface
terms; that one is a judgement, and I would rather flag it than have it
discovered on the gift.
VERIFIED HEADLESS: i18n-parity passes with zero debt; three bundles build; the
keys AND their Arabic values are present in the built output (تصدير CSV,
منطقة نبض القلب, اختر شعبًا لعرض التفاصيل, and the header's placeholder).
Numerals are untouched, per the hold — this is text only.
TWO DEFECTS FROM THE UNIVERSAL-PROPS MATRIX, and they are the same defect at two
levels: a component can be perfectly localized and still show English, and a
page can be perfectly translated and still be laid out backwards.
★ THE HEADER HAD NO i18n AT ALL. Every label at the top of Big Picture was an
English literal passed as a PROP — FilterDropdown translates nothing, it renders
what the caller hands it — so Region, Bloc, People Group and Religion sat in
English above an Arabic page. They now read the catalogue, grid namespace first
because this header drives the cap-2 grid and its sibling reads the same keys.
Reset uses controls.reset_all, so its English becomes "Reset all": an existing
entry rather than invented wording, and arguably more accurate, since it clears
the search too.
Its search placeholder and two aria-labels have no usable entry — the nearest,
grid.search, drops "or countries", which this search actually covers — so they
are on the DECIDE card rather than quietly reworded. They are invisible to
check:composite-locale-leaks by design: its criterion is that the catalogue
already holds the string, and it does not.
★ RTL IS A DIRECTION, NOT A TRANSLATION. createAppI18n reflects an RTL locale
onto document.documentElement, which is right for a leaf page it owns and
useless for an element dropped into somebody else's page — the case these
composites exist for. A host asking for Arabic got Arabic WORDS in a
left-to-right layout: readable glyphs in the wrong place, which reads as a
styling quirk rather than the bug it is.
Both composites now set `dir` on their custom-element HOST rather than on the
layout inside it, and that choice is the fix: `dir` takes effect through the
inherited CSS `direction`, and inheritance crosses shadow boundaries, so one
attribute covers the composite's own chrome AND every nested element beneath it
— including the grid half the audit found bare. Only ever SET, never cleared: a
host page that declares its own dir owns that decision.
VERIFIED HEADLESS: three bundles build; setAttribute("dir","rtl") is present in
both composites and controls.reset_all in big-picture; freshness and SRI clean,
nothing else stale; gates:pre 6/6. NEEDS EYES: Big Picture and Simple Research
at ?lang=ar — header labels in Arabic, and the layout actually mirrored.
Embedded with profile-config {"locale":"ar"} this leaf drew no Arabic at all,
while the same page reached with ?lang=ar drew 273 characters of it.
Its two siblings were fixed two different ways and neither applies here. This
bundle's entry calls defineCustomElement with no configureApp: there is no i18n
instance for install-time provide to reach, and no ProfileLoader beneath it to
drive one. Everything this element renders comes through tStatic — the grid's
`t` proxy, the header's labels — and tStatic resolves the locale from the URL
and the document, neither of which a host's profile-config touches.
So the only thing missing was somebody to say which language this page is being
read in, which is the same six lines the other two composites already carry.
MEASURED with check:host-locale-contract:
big-picture/big-picture host 0 of 273 -> host 273 of 273
whole fleet 1 failing -> PASS, 32 leaves
The composite's own header renders "<N> shown" from @groups-filtered, and the
nested grid rendered its own "Total: <N>" line 139px below it. Measured live:
"2107 shown" and "Total: 2,107" — the same number twice, both above the fold.
That is the redundant-header shape the standing rule forbids (the hint lives in
the EXISTING header, never a second one). show-total=false here matches the
pattern already applied in dashboard-plus-grid.vue:279 for the same reason.
The grid keeps its own total when embedded ALONE, where it is the only count on
screen — the prop is host-controlled, not removed.
Work started by a delegated agent that hit its session limit mid-task; verified
the cited sibling pattern exists before committing. check:sfc-parse and
check:template-literal pass.
