Theseus Navigator — Silent Mode's Electron browser with the Ariadne resolver built in.
Site manifest and download pages point at the rebuilt resolver: AriadneResolver-Setup-0.1.0.exe sha256 cb9e8ea0dcffaa60607ff1781e160199956dcf2d7dd69cd13986aba75fcf0fb1 Bumps release date to 2026-08-01. This build is the one that carries the EDNS OPT-echo fix from the prior commit into what dl.silentmode.st serves; users on the daemon should stop seeing "Server Not Found" for normal ICANN names in Firefox / anything using getaddrinfo. TheseusNavigator/package.json: adds engine-picker.html, engine-picker-preload.js, popover.html, popover-preload.js to the electron-builder `files` array. Because that list is explicit, electron-builder shipped only what was listed, so in the packaged 0.0.1 build the WebContentsView created for the search-engine dropdown loaded a nonexistent file and rendered blank -- visually identical to "the button does nothing". `npm start` worked because dev reads from the source tree. Fix restores the picker; needs a Theseus rebuild + redeploy to reach users, then TheseusNavigator-Setup-0.0.1.exe's SHA-256 has to be re-published here. Ariadne hash still needs to be published on-chain to releases.silentmode.bch (wallet spend, user's action). |
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| dev | ||
| BROWSER-PROMPT.md | ||
| chrome.html | ||
| engine-picker-preload.js | ||
| engine-picker.html | ||
| home.html | ||
| main.js | ||
| package-lock.json | ||
| package.json | ||
| PACKAGING-PROMPT.md | ||
| popover-preload.js | ||
| popover.html | ||
| preload.js | ||
| README.md | ||
| RELEASE-HANDOFF.md | ||
| settings-preload.js | ||
| settings.html | ||
Theseus Navigator
The browser — the consumer face of the stack. Native .bch support with the
resolver built in, so a user installs one app instead of modifying their
operating system. Named for the thread through the labyrinth: the chain is the
thread.
Scope
- Electron shell (Chromium engine, no forking): tabs, address bar, history.
- In-process
.bchresolution — no system daemon, no NRPT, no OS trust-store changes; reusesbns.jsfrom the BNS repo as a library. - Record handling:
hrender,ipconnect,p/s3via in-app gateway,uredirect. - TLS via cert-verify hook (Electron
setCertificateVerifyProc) against the BNS root / on-chaintlsfingerprints — no OS store touched. - Provenance indicator: shows whether a page came from the chain / Sia / a direct server, with NFT category and record type — the decentralized padlock.
Status: not started
Build it in its own session/repo. The ready-to-paste brief is
BROWSER-PROMPT.md (a reference copy in this folder; canonical source is
D:\Dev\NameCoin\BROWSER-PROMPT.md — if they diverge, NameCoin wins). It points
here and reuses the resolver core. theseus.bch is registered and should
eventually serve the browser's own homepage over the protocol it implements.
Roadmap
BUILD-ROADMAP.md Stage 5.