Both header dropdowns were laid out inside the bar rather than over the
page. The navigation menu opened as an 18px sliver positioned above its
own button, and the overflow menu did not appear at all.
Two causes. The tab strip kept `overflow-x: auto` from when it scrolled,
which clips an absolutely positioned descendant — and the strip is what
the navigation menu anchors to. The strip no longer scrolls, since the
occasional destinations moved behind More, so the property and the edge
fade that went with it are both gone.
Anchoring in fixed coordinates at open time addresses the general case:
an absolutely positioned menu is clipped by any scrolling ancestor and
trapped inside whatever stacking context its ancestors create, so it can
be squashed inside the bar or painted underneath page content. Fixed
coordinates answer to the viewport, and the menu flips above its button
near the bottom edge.
Clearing `right` when setting `left` keeps the menus at their natural
width: the stylesheet pins them to the right of their anchor, and leaving
that in place stretched them across the bar — 845px for a four-item list.
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Eight destinations sat flat in the tab strip with equal weight, competing
with the controls for the same row and then scrolling out of reach with
only a fade to say so. They are not equal: Radio is where an operator
spends nearly all their time, Bookmarks, Digital modes and Map are
operating surfaces, and Statistics, Recorder, Settings and About are
occasional.
The mobile layout already grouped them exactly that way, behind its More
menu, so the application carried two navigation models. Adopt the mobile
grouping at every width instead of adding a third: four operating tabs
plus More. The strip no longer scrolls at any width, and the menu keeps
its bottom-sheet placement on mobile while anchoring under its button
elsewhere.
Drop the labels between 701 and 1180px so the tabs degrade to their icons
— which every tab already carries — before the strip could ever need to
hide a destination.
Rename Main to Radio: it is the receiver, not a generic first page, and
the name now says what the destination is rather than where it sits.
Freeing that width also let the style picker and theme toggle return to
the bar inline, leaving only the layout picker in the overflow menu.
Navigating to About in the browser smoke test now goes through More, as a
person would.
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The header repeated the active rig's hardware string and mode list beside
the rig picker. With a real SDR that reads
SoapySDR driver=airspyhf,serial=c852eb5dd23539f8 · RX · SDR filters ·
LSB · USB · CW · CWR · AM · +7 modes
which is longer than every other control in the bar combined, and it is
already on the About tab in full, split across its Rig, Active rig,
Connection, Modes and VFO rows.
Remove the element and the builder behind it. Rig switching keeps its
feedback through the existing hint channel rather than by briefly
rewriting a permanent label, and the identity that belongs in a header —
the rig's display name — stays in the left subtitle.
The freed width is not spent: the tab strip now reaches Settings before
it needs to scroll, where it previously faded out during Statistics.
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The page tabs scroll rather than wrap, so the last visible tab was sliced
mid-word ("Se…" for Settings), which reads as a rendering fault instead of
as an invitation to scroll.
Fade the trailing edge with a mask. A colour-matched cover gradient is
the usual trick, but the card is transparent, so a cover would have to
track the page background across both themes and all nine styles; a mask
is colour-agnostic. Only the trailing edge is faded, leaving the first
tab crisp while the strip sits at rest.
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The header's height depended on the viewport width, and not even
monotonically: 112px at 1440, 169px at 1100, 131px at 900, 246px at 720.
Both control groups wrapped, so every width produced a different ragged
block — eight page tabs across four rows at 1100px, and action controls
across three. Four different control heights (32, 34, 45 and 54px) sat
in the same row, the 54px one being the rig picker with its summary
stacked underneath, and on narrow viewports the icon buttons stretched to
fill half the row, rendering a play triangle centred in a 249px box.
Lay both groups out as one row that never wraps. Controls are a uniform
2rem and no longer stretch, the rig summary sits inline beside its select,
and the page tabs scroll instead of wrapping. Secondary controls —
layout, style and theme — move into an overflow menu when the bar cannot
hold them, leaving audio, record and the rig picker inline.
Deciding when they no longer fit needs natural widths, not rendered ones:
the nav has min-width 0 and scrolls, so it always shrinks to the leftover
space and always reports scrolling, and the bar reports overflow even when
nothing is clipped. scrollWidth on the scroll container is its
unconstrained content width, which is what the fit test compares against
the space available.
Measured after the change: 72px at 1440, 1280, 1100, 900 and 480, every
control 32px, nothing clipped at any width.
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Introduce a shared design-token layer and apply it to the web
frontend for a more consistent, readable, and accessible feel.
Pure CSS plus one HTML block; no app.js behaviour changes, and the
existing multi-theme (style x light/dark) system is preserved.
- Add spacing, type, radius and motion tokens to :root.
- Fix undefined --surface consumed by .controls-tray, which dropped
the panel background entirely; it now resolves per theme.
- Set body line-height and font smoothing; collapse near-duplicate
font sizes onto canonical scale steps.
- Rebuild the auth gate with classes and replace hardcoded colours
(#ff6b6b, #9aa4b5) with theme variables so it renders correctly in
every theme.
- Add an opacity fade on tab switches, gated by prefers-reduced-motion.
- Extend focus-visible rings to the spectrum canvas, tabindex controls
and links.
- Add a self-theming --accent-text token to lift accent-coloured text
(links, active tab) to WCAG AA without altering brand fills.
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