staffa 0.17.2 → 0.18.1

package/dist/components/main.d.ts

@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ export interface MainOptions<R = Routes> {
      * How many panels are *shown* at a time. `"auto"` (the default) shows as
      * many columns, side by side, as comfortably fit, ending at the current
      * panel; `"single"` shows only the current panel, however wide the screen
-     * — one screen at a time at every size, each still at its asked width,
-     * centred (the nav sidebar still sits beside it). Only the display
+     * — one screen at a time at every size, each still at its asked width
+     * (the nav sidebar still sits beside it). Only the display
      * differs: the stack, the breadcrumbs, the URL, Escape and the back
      * button behave identically in both. Routed mode only.
      *

package/dist/components/main.js

@@ -24,9 +24,15 @@ A.insertGlobalCss({
         "> footer": "border-top: 1px solid $s-faint; fg:$s-muted",
         // The bar reads `[leading] [title] …spacer… [trailing]`, the spacer being the
         // trailing slot's own growth (which is what lets a search box live there).
-        // Its near-zero shrink factor makes the titles give way first, but only to
-        // their floor — past that the trailing slot shrinks after all, since a
-        // zero-width crumb strip would spill its overlay buttons over the ☰.
+        // When the bar runs short, titles and trailing slot shrink in proportion —
+        // an honest factor of 1: a fractional one is not a slower shrink but a
+        // partial one, handing back that fraction of the shortfall and overflowing
+        // the rest. What keeps the slot's chrome from being crushed is its floor:
+        // no `min-width:0` here, so it stops at its content's own minimum — verbs
+        // promoted into the bar can never be squeezed into painting over the
+        // crumbs beside them, while a search box that declares `min-width:0` of
+        // its own still gives everything it has. Past the floor the titles do all
+        // the giving, down to their own 5rem.
         "> header > .s-bar, > footer > .s-bar": "display:flex align-items:center width:100% margin-inline:auto gap:$3 padding: $2 $3;",
         "> header .s-logo, > header .s-nav-trigger": "display:flex align-items:center flex-shrink:0",
         // Pull back the ~6px of padding in the ☰'s 2rem hit area, so the glyph — not
@@ -42,7 +48,7 @@ A.insertGlobalCss({
         // to what their own classes provide (`filter:none` keeps the global
         // `a:hover` brighten off the gradient text).
         "> header a.s-logo, > header a.s-title": "text-decoration:none filter:none cursor:pointer",
-        "> header .s-menu": "display:flex align-items:center justify-content:flex-end gap:$2 flex: 1 0.1 auto; min-width:0",
+        "> header .s-menu": "display:flex align-items:center justify-content:flex-end gap:$2 flex: 1 1 auto;",
         // Body always wraps <main>, sidebar or not, so max-width centring and
         // scrollbar alignment work the same either way. It is also the positioning
         // and clipping context for the narrow-screen nav panel. `overflow:clip`, not

package/dist/components/panels.d.ts

@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ export interface Panel<P = Record<string, string | number | string[]>> {
      * Every size is capped at the content area, so on a phone they all come to
      * the same thing: one screen at a time. And a width depends only on the
      * window, never on what else is open, so opening or closing a panel never
-     * resizes another — the run of columns just recentres in the area.
+     * resizes another — the run of columns just shifts over in the area.
      *
      * The ask is a ceiling only; there is no matching floor, since the window can
      * be any width. Aim your layout at 360px — about the narrowest phone still in
@@ -193,10 +193,11 @@ export interface Panel<P = Record<string, string | number | string[]>> {
     maxWidth?: PanelSize;
     /**
      * Set this while you're fetching what the panel needs, and back to `false`
-     * when you're done. A new panel waits a moment before sliding in, so it can
-     * arrive with real content instead of empty; if the wait drags on it slides
-     * in anyway and shows a loading indicator until the flag clears. It only
-     * affects the animation; the stack and the URL never wait for it.
+     * when you're done. A new panel slides into place right away but waits a
+     * moment before fading in, so it can appear with real content instead of
+     * empty; if the wait drags on it fades in anyway and shows a loading
+     * indicator until the flag clears. It only affects the animation; the
+     * stack and the URL never wait for it.
      */
     loading?: boolean;
     /**
@@ -701,7 +702,9 @@ export declare class PanelStackController implements PanelStack {
      * The motion between two such arrangements is CSS's job.
      */
     private layout;
-    /** Let a `loading` panel's enter animation wait — but not indefinitely. */
+    /** Start (or skip) a newcomer's fade-in; any slide is already underway. */
+    private releaseEnter;
+    /** Let a `loading` panel's fade-in wait — but not indefinitely. */
     private holdEnter;
 }
 export {};

package/dist/components/panels.js

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ function matchRoute(r, segments) {
  * `--s-panel-ms` custom property, so CSS and JS can't drift apart.
  */
 const PAGE_MS = 250;
-/** How long a freshly pushed `loading` panel holds its enter animation. */
+/** How long a freshly pushed `loading` panel holds its fade-in. */
 const LOADING_HOLD_MS = 300;
 /**
  * The bounds of a column: at most 540px — the width columns aim for, the area
@@ -123,61 +123,67 @@ const LOADING_HOLD_MS = 300;
  */
 const SMALL_MIN_PX = 360;
 export const SMALL_MAX_PX = 540;
-/**
- * Two `z-index` steps per panel: a panel sits on the odd layer for its depth in
- * the stack, a *closing* one on the even layer just below. So a replacement
- * comes in over the panel it replaces, while a closing panel fades out over
- * whatever it was covering.
- */
-const LAYER_STEP = 2;
 // ─── Module-level styling ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 A.insertGlobalCss({
     ":root": `--s-panel-ms:${PAGE_MS}ms`,
     // The clipping viewport the columns slide through; panels are absolutely
     // positioned inside it, sized and offset from JS (see `layout()`).
-    // `isolation` keeps their z-index layers (see LAYER_STEP) below the shell's
-    // own chrome. It paints the same PANEL_SHEEN as every panel, so columns and
-    // the ground beside them read as one surface.
+    // `isolation` keeps their z-index layers below the shell's own chrome. It
+    // paints the same PANEL_SHEEN as every panel, so columns and the ground
+    // beside them read as one surface.
     // `overflow:clip`, not `hidden`: a hidden box is still a scroll container,
     // and anything that scrolls it (find-in-page, an in-page anchor) shifts every
     // column sideways permanently, with nothing to scroll it back.
     ".s-panels": "flex:1 min-width:0 min-height:0 position:relative overflow:clip isolation:isolate " +
         PANEL_SHEEN,
     ".s-panel": {
-        // A panel rests at a plain `left` offset with no transform: a transformed
-        // element is composited, costing it subpixel text antialiasing. Transform
-        // is used only for the enter/exit slides. No `width` transition either —
-        // animating one reflows the column's content every frame.
-        // The fade is deliberately `linear` while the drift eases out: an eased
-        // opacity spends its last stretch near zero, reading as a vanish.
-        // Layering is set from JS (`layout()`, `beginClose`), not DOM order: a
-        // closing panel is no longer in the reactive list, so its element's
-        // position among the live ones is Aberdeen's business. See LAYER_STEP.
+        // The shell knows three motions, and this vocabulary is all of them:
+        // a panel that MOVES animates its `left` — every mover in a pass shares
+        // this one duration and ease-out, so panels travelling the same distance
+        // travel as one — a CREATED panel joins the strip beside the old position
+        // of the panels beneath it and rides their slide while fading in, and a
+        // CLOSED one fades out where it stood. Nothing else ever animates.
+        // A plain `left`, never a transform: a transformed element is
+        // composited, costing it subpixel text antialiasing. No `width`
+        // transition either — animating one reflows the column every frame. And
+        // the fade is `linear` while the moves ease out: an eased opacity spends
+        // its last stretch near zero, reading as a vanish.
+        // Layering is fixed per state, not per stack depth: live panels never
+        // overlap each other (the strip keeps them adjacent, see `layout()`), so
+        // only the fading ones need an order — below, in both directions, per
+        // the classes underneath.
         // PANEL_SHEEN gives every panel an opaque ground (panels animate over one
         // another, and two transparent ones mean text sliding over text).
         "&": "position:absolute top:0 bottom:0 left:0 display:flex flex-direction:column " +
             PANEL_SHEEN + " " +
-            "visibility:visible transition: left var(--s-panel-ms) ease, transform var(--s-panel-ms) ease-out, opacity var(--s-panel-ms) linear, visibility 0s;",
+            "z-index:2 transition: left var(--s-panel-ms) ease-out, opacity var(--s-panel-ms) linear;",
         // The hairline between two columns, fading at both ends (like the sidebar's
         // `.s-nav-sep`). Columns tile with no gutter — each brings its own `$3` of
         // padding — so this sits exactly on the boundary.
         "&.s-panel-sep::before": "content:'' position:absolute left:0 top:0.6rem bottom:0.6rem width:1px z-index:1 " +
             "background: linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent, $s-faint 18%, $s-faint 82%, transparent);",
-        // Enter and exit share one vocabulary: a fade over a short 8cqw drift
-        // (`cqw`: `.s-main` is the container). This start state is applied with
-        // transitions off and then dropped, so the panel settles instead of jumping.
-        "&.s-panel-enter": "opacity:0 transition:none transform: translateX(8cqw);",
-        // On its way out; leaves the DOM when the fade ends (see `playExit`).
-        "&.s-panel-closing": "opacity:0 pointer-events:none transform: translateX(8cqw);",
-        // Off screen but open: crowded out at the left edge (`hidden`) or parked
-        // past the right one (`parked`). Both keep their DOM — and so their scroll
-        // position and half-typed forms — hence `visibility`, not `display:none`.
-        // Transitioning it counts as *visible* for the whole fade, flipping at the
-        // very end; the rule above (`visibility 0s`) reveals it again instantly.
-        "&.s-panel-hidden, &.s-panel-parked": "opacity:0 visibility:hidden " +
-            "transition: left var(--s-panel-ms) ease, transform var(--s-panel-ms) ease-out, opacity var(--s-panel-ms) linear, visibility var(--s-panel-ms);",
-        "&.s-panel-hidden": "transform: translateX(-8cqw);",
-        "&.s-panel-parked": "transform: translateX(8cqw);",
+        // Still owed or playing its entry fade: beneath the settled panels, so
+        // whatever slides across its spot passes over it. Dropped once the fade
+        // is over (see `releaseEnter`).
+        "&.s-panel-new": "z-index:1",
+        // On its way out: it fades where it stood, beneath every live panel
+        // (declared after `.s-panel-new`, so closing mid-enter drops a panel to
+        // the bottom), and leaves the DOM when the fade ends (see `playExit`).
+        "&.s-panel-closing": "z-index:0 opacity:0 pointer-events:none",
+        // The fade-in's start state: a newcomer wears it from creation until its
+        // content is ready — usually the very pass that placed it, later for a
+        // `loading` panel holding out for data — sliding invisibly meanwhile.
+        // Dropping the class is what starts the fade (see `releaseEnter`).
+        "&.s-panel-enter": "opacity:0",
+        // Off screen but open: the strip simply continues past the viewport's
+        // edges, so these rest at their true positions, clipped — being crowded
+        // out or revealed is an ordinary move, not a fade. Both keep their DOM —
+        // and so their scroll position and half-typed forms — hence
+        // `visibility`, not `display:none`: it holds through the move out
+        // (flipping only at its end) and lifts instantly on the move back in
+        // (the base transition above doesn't list it).
+        "&.s-panel-hidden, &.s-panel-parked": "visibility:hidden " +
+            "transition: left var(--s-panel-ms) ease-out, opacity var(--s-panel-ms) linear, visibility var(--s-panel-ms);",
     },
     // The scroll container, with the column's own padding. Its scrollbar sits
     // flush against the column edge (unlike content mode's inset one), so it meets
@@ -502,9 +508,10 @@ export class PanelStackController {
                 continue;
             }
             const entry = this.createEntry(path, next.length <= target.focus, seedPins.has(path));
-            // An initial load just appears, and so do panels *revealed* by a back:
-            // they belong underneath the ones sliding away.
-            if (nav !== "load" && nav !== "back")
+            // An initial load just appears; any later navigation animates its new
+            // panels in — beneath what's already there, so a back that re-creates
+            // a panel plays out under the one it takes away.
+            if (nav !== "load")
                 entry.enter = true;
             next.push(entry);
             this.$open[path] = entry;
@@ -552,11 +559,6 @@ export class PanelStackController {
     beginClose(entry) {
         entry.closing = true;
         entry.$panel.visible = false;
-        // Frozen one layer below where it was, so it fades out over the panel it
-        // uncovers and under the one replacing it (see LAYER_STEP). Set here, while
-        // the element is still ours — a moment later `entry.el` is gone.
-        if (entry.el)
-            entry.el.style.zIndex = String(LAYER_STEP * this.$state.live.indexOf(entry));
         delete this.$open[entry.path];
     }
     /**
@@ -1249,9 +1251,11 @@ export class PanelStackController {
                 first = i;
             }
         }
-        // The content area is a fixed width, so a run that doesn't fill it centres
-        // rather than hanging off the left edge — the chrome around it never moves.
-        const left = (geom.area - runSum) / 2;
+        // A run that doesn't fill the fixed-width area centres in it — unless
+        // panels sit crowded out on its left: then it hugs the left edge instead,
+        // so the strip crosses that edge with no gap and a reveal is a plain
+        // slide back in.
+        const left = first > 0 ? 0 : (geom.area - runSum) / 2;
         for (let i = first; i <= cur; i++)
             live[i].width = width(live[i]);
         // Never-visible panels get their would-be width, so a reveal doesn't start
@@ -1260,47 +1264,65 @@ export class PanelStackController {
             if (!entry.width)
                 entry.width = width(entry);
         }
-        // Phase 1 — every panel's *start* state for this frame. Panels on screen
-        // simply move; freshly mounted ones still have transitions off, so what is
-        // set here is adopted instantly and becomes the "before" of their enter.
+        // Phase 1 — lay the strip out for this frame: each panel flush against
+        // its neighbours, the visible run [first..cur] in the viewport, earlier
+        // panels continuing off its left edge and parked ones held past its
+        // right. Placed panels get their new positions — their standing
+        // transitions carry them there. Newcomers, transitions still off, get
+        // their *start* state instead: their strip position anchored to the OLD
+        // position of the nearest placed panel beneath them (`delta`), so the
+        // slide in is one motion with the panels making room. With nothing
+        // beneath them to come from — or nothing moving — that start is where
+        // they already stand, and they simply fade in.
         const fresh = [];
         let x = left;
+        let delta = 0;
+        for (let i = 0; i < first; i++)
+            x -= live[i].width;
         for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
             const entry = live[i];
             const el = entry.el;
             const shown = i >= first && i <= cur;
-            // Visible columns tile the run left to right; crowded-out ones rest at
-            // its left edge and parked ones just past its right, both keeping their
-            // last width. Deeper panels layer over shallower (see LAYER_STEP).
-            place(el, shown ? x : i > cur ? left + runSum : left, entry.width, LAYER_STEP * i + 1);
+            // Parked panels never dip into the viewport, however short the run.
+            if (i === cur + 1)
+                x = Math.max(x, geom.area);
+            // A panel that mounts while still fetching holds its fade for a
+            // moment, so it can appear with real content instead of empty.
+            if (entry.enter || !entry.placed) {
+                if (!entry.$panel.loading || entry.holdDone)
+                    entry.$ui.holding = false;
+                else if (!entry.$ui.holding) {
+                    entry.$ui.holding = true;
+                    this.holdEnter(entry);
+                }
+            }
+            if (entry.placed) {
+                delta = parseFloat(el.style.left) - x;
+                el.style.left = `${x}px`;
+                // A fade held back for content starts the moment its hold lifts.
+                if (entry.enter && !entry.$ui.holding)
+                    this.releaseEnter(entry);
+            }
+            else {
+                fresh.push({ entry, x });
+                const entering = entry.enter && shown;
+                el.style.left = `${entering ? x + delta : x}px`;
+                if (entering)
+                    el.classList.add("s-panel-enter", "s-panel-new");
+            }
+            el.style.width = `${entry.width}px`;
+            x += entry.width;
             // Written only on a change, so per-panel UI hanging off `visible` or
             // `width` isn't rebuilt by every pass.
             if (entry.$panel.visible !== shown)
                 entry.$panel.visible = shown;
             if (entry.$panel.width !== entry.width)
                 entry.$panel.width = entry.width;
-            if (shown)
-                x += entry.width;
             el.classList.toggle("s-panel-sep", shown && i > first);
-            // Off-screen panels fade out and stop rendering, keeping their DOM.
+            // Off-screen panels stop rendering, keeping their DOM.
             el.classList.toggle("s-panel-hidden", i < first);
             el.classList.toggle("s-panel-parked", i > cur);
             el.toggleAttribute("inert", !shown);
-            if (entry.placed)
-                continue;
-            fresh.push(entry);
-            // A panel that mounts while still fetching holds here for a moment, so
-            // it can enter with real content instead of an empty column.
-            if (!entry.$panel.loading || entry.holdDone)
-                entry.$ui.holding = false;
-            else if (!entry.$ui.holding) {
-                entry.$ui.holding = true;
-                this.holdEnter(entry);
-            }
-            // Already at its resting place; the enter is the offset and transparency
-            // it starts from, one edge to the right.
-            if (entry.enter && shown)
-                el.classList.add("s-panel-enter");
         }
         // Phase 2 — reading a layout property forces the browser to adopt those
         // start states (and a snap pass's transition-free geometry) to animate from.
@@ -1308,17 +1330,35 @@ export class PanelStackController {
             void container.offsetWidth;
         if (snap)
             shell.classList.remove("s-shell-snap");
-        // Phase 3 — transitions back on, start state dropped, and off they go.
-        for (const entry of fresh) {
-            if (entry.$ui.holding)
-                continue;
-            entry.el.style.transition = "";
-            entry.el.classList.remove("s-panel-enter");
-            entry.enter = false;
+        // Phase 3 — newcomers get their transitions and their resting place: the
+        // slide starts now, and the fade with it — unless the panel is holding
+        // for its content, which keeps the fade's start state on until then.
+        for (const { entry, x } of fresh) {
+            const el = entry.el;
+            el.style.transition = "";
+            el.style.left = `${x}px`;
             entry.placed = true;
+            if (!entry.$ui.holding)
+                this.releaseEnter(entry);
         }
     }
-    /** Let a `loading` panel's enter animation wait — but not indefinitely. */
+    /** Start (or skip) a newcomer's fade-in; any slide is already underway. */
+    releaseEnter(entry) {
+        entry.enter = false;
+        const el = entry.el;
+        if (!el || !el.classList.contains("s-panel-enter"))
+            return;
+        el.classList.remove("s-panel-enter");
+        // Keep it beneath its elders until the fade is over — by timer, a hair
+        // past it, since a resize can snap the fade short without ever firing a
+        // `transitionend`.
+        const timer = setTimeout(() => {
+            this.timers.delete(timer);
+            el.classList.remove("s-panel-new");
+        }, PAGE_MS + 80);
+        this.timers.add(timer);
+    }
+    /** Let a `loading` panel's fade-in wait — but not indefinitely. */
     holdEnter(entry) {
         const timer = setTimeout(() => {
             this.timers.delete(timer);
@@ -1331,12 +1371,6 @@ export class PanelStackController {
         this.timers.add(timer);
     }
 }
-/** Put a panel at rest: `x` from the region's left edge, `width` pixels wide, on layer `z`. */
-function place(el, x, width, z) {
-    el.style.left = `${x}px`;
-    el.style.width = `${width}px`;
-    el.style.zIndex = String(z);
-}
 // ─── Helpers ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 function sameStack(a, b) {
     return a.length === b.length && a.every((v, i) => v === b[i]);