api.emit() only ever reached the sidebar, even though addon-tab-preload has
always exposed silentmode.on() — so an add-on could hear from its panel but
had no way to tell its own editor tab anything. An add-on that wants a
second document to land in the editor already open, instead of a third tab
full of ribbon, needs exactly that.
Two small pieces:
- emitToPanel now also delivers to every tab owned by the same add-on. The
sidebar keeps its existing condition; tabs are additional, not instead.
- addon-tab-focus, the counterpart of addon-tab-close: a page asking for its
own tab to be fronted. Needed because the click that hands an open page
something new usually happens somewhere else — the sidebar — and the
result would otherwise appear in a tab nobody is looking at.
Both derive the tab from the sender's webContents, the way the close handler
already does, so a page can only front or close the tab it is itself in.
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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