The nine existing blocks covered a hero and the things under it. Anything
with a header, an FAQ, a team, a set of numbers or a signup band had to be
written by hand in the code widget — which is where people stopped.
Each new block keeps to its own class namespace, so stacking two of them
cannot make the first change shape: nothing here redefines a selector
another block already owns.
Two editor quirks are worked around in the markup rather than left for the
owner to trip over. Form buttons and table cells parse as opaque boxes
whose text is only reachable through the trait panel, so they carry
data-gjs-type=text and behave like every other word on the page (the
contact block's Send button gets the same treatment — it had the bug
first). And a bare <video> is given controls and a play bar by the editor,
which is wrong for a background film, so the video hero turns them off in
the model instead. Neither attribute survives export.
Panel icons now distinguish navigation blocks from page sections.
The four templates covered a launch page and a link hub. Everyone else —
a writer, a restaurant, a shop, a project that ships releases — started
from Blank and rebuilt the same scaffolding by hand. These twelve cover
the shapes people actually asked for, each one written to be overwritten:
plain copy that reads as an instruction, no images to source, no
JavaScript to keep working.
Every entry now carries its own card text and filter category, and the
top-bar list is generated from the map, so adding the thirteenth is one
object literal and nothing else.
The IntersectionObserver-based spy only fired when a section entered a
narrow band 40–45% down the viewport. Short sections at the tail of a
page — Operator key and Roadmap on theseus.x/extensions, whatever came
last on the other pages — never made it into that band because the
page runs out of scroll before their top crosses 40%, so their sidebar
links stayed dim no matter how far the reader scrolled.
Rewrote the spy across every page with a sidebar (theseus.x home /
plug-ins / extensions and sirius.x home / tld / theseus / docs / admin
/ brand): it listens to window scroll, picks the last section whose
top has crossed 35% of the viewport, and — when the window is scrolled
to within 4px of the bottom — snaps to the final section regardless of
where its top is. Every link in the rail can now activate.
theseus.x/extensions also had the spy IIFE bundled with the manifest
loader in one <script> block near the middle of the page, so at run
time the parser hadn't yet reached the last three sections and only
Bundled/Community/Build were ever registered. Moved the spy to its own
<script> just before </body> so it sees every section that ships.
Once stylesheets were inlined, the editor's default CSS parser read
them through the browser CSSOM, where a shorthand that contains var()
(background: var(--surface-1), border: 1px solid var(--border)) comes
back as empty longhands. Every card, panel and border on an imported
page vanished, leaving text on a flat dark background. The official
PostCSS parser plugin keeps those declarations intact; vendored like
the rest, no CDN.
Pages such as potidaea.asm put their background on <html> and leave
<body> transparent; the editor's base stylesheet paints <body> white,
so the imported page showed light text on white. The canvas body now
stays transparent, which also matches the exported page.
The gateway's public name route sends Access-Control-Allow-Origin so
Studio on sirius.x can fetch a page's stylesheets and inline them
instead of falling back to links; the route only serves public content.
The language picker had no toolbar to attach to in Studio and floated
over the blocks panel; pages can now mark a slot for it and Studio does.
An Assistant drawer in Sirius Studio with two providers and no key, no
server and no spend. "This browser" runs an open model on the user's
GPU through WebGPU with WebLLM (vendored, Apache-2.0); weights download
once from the MLC mirror and stay in the browser cache. "Local
endpoint" talks to an OpenAI-compatible runtime on the user's machine
(Ollama, LM Studio), which unlocks larger models on a real GPU. Nothing
the user writes or builds leaves their device in either mode.
Three verbs: make a section, rewrite the selected text, restyle the
selection. The model returns HTML and CSS as data; Studio sanitises it
(no scripts, frames, handlers or imports) and inserts it through the
editor, with Undo. Model output is never executed.
The quantisation is chosen per GPU: q4f16 when the adapter exposes
shader-f16, q4f32 otherwise (Pascal-era cards lack it). Small models
often answer with bare HTML instead of JSON, so the parser accepts
both, prompts avoid literal placeholders one model echoed back, and an
out-of-memory or disposed runtime is reported as "pick a smaller
model" with the engine reset. Switching models starts a fresh worker.
Verified on an NVIDIA Pascal card: SmolLM2 360M rewrites text, Qwen2.5
Coder 0.5B builds a section; the 1.5B f32 build exceeded that card's
memory and now fails gracefully.
The editor panels were a muddy grey with pinkish text (4.7:1) because
the webpage preset injects its own demo palette after ours. That theme
is now switched off and the editor is themed through GrapesJS's CSS
variables: dark panels, near-white text (15:1 and better), acid accents,
readable inputs and toolbars.
Editing is closer to what people expect from Tilda: every box has drag
handles for width and height, the text toolbar gains size, colour,
highlight, alignment and heading controls, the font list has the site
families, and selecting anything opens the style panel. Nine ready-made
sections (hero, features, image+text, gallery, testimonial, pricing,
call to action, contact form, footer) drop in with their own styles.
Plugins vendored from npm (no CDN): forms, navbar, tabs, tooltip,
custom code, countdown, background styles, touch support; GrapesJS
itself is already current at 0.23.6. The basic blocks (columns, text,
image, video, map) had never loaded: the bundle registers itself as
gjs-blocks-basic, not grapesjs-blocks-basic. VERSIONS.txt records what
is vendored and how to update it.
The editor's CSS parser drops :root, html and body rules, so an
imported site lost its variables, page background and fonts and came
up white. Those rules are now split out and carried verbatim: injected
into the canvas (as `html body` so they outrank the editor's base
sheet), stored with the draft, and emitted ahead of the editor's CSS on
export. The source page's <html> attributes (lang, data-theme, class)
travel the same way, since themed sites key their variables on them.
Templates reset all of it.
Sirius Studio only looked in its own folder, bns/<name>/. Every site
published the conventional way lives at bns/<label>/ (the s3 record),
or inline in the h record, so the editor opened those names as "new
site" with a template picker instead of the current build.
The gateway's site read gains a read-only ?src=live view that follows
the on-chain record: list and fetch from whatever bucket s3 points at,
or serve the h HTML as index.html. Writes are unchanged and still
confined to bns/<name>/.
The editor now starts from the live page when there is no draft:
relative image and link URLs are resolved against the public site URL,
stylesheets are inlined (cross-origin ones such as font CDNs are kept
as links and re-emitted on export), scripts dropped. When a draft
exists but the name serves something else, or index.html on Sia is
newer than the draft, a notice says so with a one-click import. An
"Import live site" button is always available. Verified with
aloevera.test, which is hosted at bns/aloevera/.
BuiltInWallet.signMessage read `recovery` from libauth's recoverable
signature, but libauth v3 names it `recoveryId`. The flag byte came out as
0, so verifiers recovered the right key only when the true recovery id
happened to be 1. Signed DNS manifests and Studio uploads failed with
"signature does not match current on-chain NFT owner" and a different
derived address each attempt. Read the right field, fail loudly if it is
missing, rebuild the browser bundle and move every importer to the new
bundle URL. Also lands the registrar's signRecordsManifest that the bundle
already shipped.
Owners had no way to put a real page behind a name without running Sia
tooling themselves. Sirius Studio (studio.html, js/studio.js) embeds
GrapesJS (BSD-3, vendored under vendor/grapesjs so nothing loads from a
third party) with three starter templates; Publish exports one
self-contained index.html plus the editor project, uploads both to the
name's own folder bns/<name>/ on Sia, and sets the s3 record on chain if
the name does not point there yet. Drafts save to the same folder.
Gateway: /api/site/<name>[/<path>] — list, read-through, PUT and DELETE.
Every write carries a wallet signature over (name, path, body hash,
timestamp) that must recover to the current NFT owner, and writes are
confined to bns/<name>/ so no name can touch another name's bucket.
Dashboard menu is now Web-Builder, Domain names, My TLDs, Settings, Sign
out; Overview and Wallet folded into Domain names and Settings, Docs is a
link in Settings.
