@scarlett-player/ui 1.7.0 → 1.8.0

package/README.md

@@ -11,12 +11,13 @@ npm install @scarlett-player/core @scarlett-player/ui
 ## Usage
 
 ```typescript
-import { ScarlettPlayer } from '@scarlett-player/core';
+import { createPlayer } from '@scarlett-player/core';
 import { createHLSPlugin } from '@scarlett-player/hls';
 import { uiPlugin } from '@scarlett-player/ui';
 
-const player = new ScarlettPlayer({
+const player = await createPlayer({
   container: document.getElementById('player'),
+  src: 'https://example.com/video.m3u8',
   plugins: [
     createHLSPlugin(),
     uiPlugin({
@@ -28,7 +29,11 @@ const player = new ScarlettPlayer({
 
 ## Features
 
+- Responsive control bar: measures itself and moves low-priority controls into
+  an overflow tray rather than rendering them past a narrow player's edge
 - Play/pause, seek, volume controls
+- Big play button over the poster, shown until playback first starts and again
+  as Replay when it ends (`bigPlayButton: false` turns it off)
 - Fullscreen toggle
 - Picture-in-Picture toggle (disabled until media metadata is loaded; hidden
   when the browser has no PiP support; Safari webkit presentation mode
@@ -42,6 +47,67 @@ const player = new ScarlettPlayer({
 - Customizable theming
 - Auto-hide controls
 
+## Responsive control bar
+
+The bar is a single non-wrapping row of fixed-width controls, and both known
+hosts clip what does not fit. On a 390px phone with a 17-slot layout that meant
+the whole right-hand group (settings, captions, cast, PiP, fullscreen) rendered
+off canvas: captions and playback speed were not broken, they were unreachable.
+
+The bar now measures itself and moves the least important controls into a tray
+behind a "More controls" button. It runs at first paint, whenever the player is
+resized, and whenever a control shows or hides itself.
+
+```typescript
+uiPlugin({
+  responsive: true,                 // Default: true
+  priority: { share: 'never' },     // Pin a control, or re-rank one
+});
+```
+
+`responsive: false` restores the pre-1.8 behaviour exactly: no measuring, no
+observer, no tray button, no extra DOM.
+
+### Priority
+
+Lower ranks leave first. Ties go to the control that is later in the layout.
+
+| Slot | Rank | Leaves to |
+|---|---|---|
+| `bandwidth-indicator` | 0 | hidden (a status glyph, not an action) |
+| `skip-backward`, `skip-forward` | 1 | tray (gestures cover the same seek on touch) |
+| `pip` | 2 | tray |
+| any registered control (`share`, `chapters`, the playlist buttons, ...) | 3 | tray |
+| `chromecast`, `airplay` | 4 | tray (AirPlay is how an iPhone reaches a television, so it is never hidden) |
+| `volume` | 5 | tray (iOS `video.volume` is read only) |
+| `captions` | 6 | tray (also lives inside the settings menu) |
+| `quality` | 6 | hidden (its menu is anchored in the bar, and the settings menu carries a Quality row, so `quality` needs `settings` in the layout) |
+| `time` | 7 | hidden (a readout in a tray says nothing; the scrub tooltip still shows position) |
+| `play`, `live-indicator`, `settings`, `fullscreen`, `spacer` | never | stays |
+
+Settings never moves, so playback speed and captions are at most two taps away
+at every width.
+
+Because `quality` hides, a layout with `quality` and no `settings` would lose
+quality selection entirely below the width where the bar fits. `uiPlugin()`
+throws on that layout unless `quality` is pinned
+(`priority: { quality: 'never' }`) or `responsive` is off.
+
+### The floor
+
+The controls that never move (play, settings, the tray button and fullscreen)
+need 188px of inner width, which is about 212px of player width, or about 280px
+on a live stream where the live indicator also stays. Below that the bar clips
+again, exactly as it did before.
+
+### Menus
+
+The settings and quality menus are bounded to the player's height
+(`--sp-menu-max-height`, written by the plugin) and scroll inside it. Without
+that, the Speed sub-panel is 253px tall against a 211px portrait phone player
+and loses its Back header and its first three speeds to the host's
+`overflow: hidden`.
+
 ## Keyboard Shortcuts
 
 | Key | Action |
@@ -69,6 +135,24 @@ uiPlugin({
 });
 ```
 
+## Big Play Button
+
+```typescript
+uiPlugin({
+  bigPlayButton: false,  // Default: true
+});
+```
+
+On by default because it is the only play affordance on the picture itself: a
+mouse click on the video surface only reveals the control bar, and touch taps
+belong to `@scarlett-player/gestures`, so a poster with the button off leaves
+the viewer hunting for the small button in the bar. It is a real `<button>`
+with an `aria-label`, sized past the 44 px minimum target, coloured with
+`--sp-accent`, and it sits above the gestures surface so a tap starts playback
+instead of toggling the controls.
+
+Turn it off when the host page draws its own play affordance over the player.
+
 ## License
 
 MIT