Clicking the dock raised a native file browser, which was the right answer
while the editor had exactly one thing to offer an empty tab. It is the
wrong answer now: a file browser can only ask which PDF, and the answer is
sometimes none of them.
So the dock opens the editor, and the empty editor says what it can do.
The drop zone stays, and learns to read what it is given — pictures become
pages, several PDFs become one document. Beside it sit the three ways in
as buttons.
Not included: compress, which cannot be done honestly without re-encoding
the images, and split, which is the page rail plus Save a copy.
A document built from pictures or joins has never been on disk, so it is
marked unsaved from the moment it opens — otherwise closing the tab would
bin it without asking. An empty editor also stops claiming to hold a file
called document.pdf.
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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