The resize grip lived along the sidebar's left edge as a 5-px transparent
hover target — you couldn't see it existed until the pointer landed on it.
Users on both light and dark backgrounds reported the seam between the
tab area and the sidebar as invisible.
Paint a 2-px semi-opaque mid-gray line (`rgba(140,150,170,.55)`) at rest so
the boundary is legible on every panel background; hover ramps to acid
green, active-drag ramps brighter. The visible band is narrower than
before (2 px vs 5 px) so it reads as a subtle divider rather than
competing chrome; the pointer-catch zone stays wide via an invisible
outline extension, so drag-to-resize still catches slack.
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 .bch resolution — no system daemon, no NRPT, no OS
trust-store changes; reuses bns.js from the BNS repo as a library.
Record handling: h render, ip connect, p/s3 via in-app gateway,
u redirect.
TLS via cert-verify hook (Electron setCertificateVerifyProc) against the
BNS root / on-chain tls fingerprints — 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.
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