Tabs keep a readable minimum width (76px). Once they overflow, the row
scrolls: the earliest tabs slide out on the left and an arrow at each end
moves the row by 60% of its width, disabled at its end of travel and
hidden while everything fits. The wheel scrolls the row too, the selected
tab is brought into view when the selection changes (never while the user
is scrolling), and the + button stays outside the row. Moves are immediate
rather than animated: the chrome view has no smooth scrolling, and frame
callbacks stop while the window is occluded, which stranded a frame-driven
slide at its start.
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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