Theseus Navigator — Silent Mode's Electron browser with the Ariadne resolver built in.
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A PDF does not contain paragraphs. It contains glyphs with coordinates, and there is no heading, no list, no table and no guaranteed reading order — only runs of characters that happen to sit near each other. Converting to Word means working out where the paragraphs were, from geometry. That inference is the whole feature, and it is sometimes wrong, so this is called a conversion and never an edit, and the dialog reports what it found before anything is written. Lines are grouped by baseline, runs joined with the spaces a PDF only implies by leaving a gap, and paragraphs ended where the next line sits unusually far below, is indented, or where the previous one stopped short of the measure. Headings come from size relative to the body — which is the most common size on the page, not the average, because a page of 11 pt under a 28 pt title averages to something that is neither. Bold and italic come from the font's name, the only place a PDF records them. What it refuses to fake is as important. A page set in columns is reported, not silently interleaved. A page with no text says so, and says why: it is an image of writing, and reading that needs character recognition this editor does not have. Tables become plain paragraphs rather than an invented grid, because a wrong table is harder to repair than no table. The .docx is written here rather than by a vendored builder: a Word file is a zip of five XML parts, and the subset that can honestly be produced — paragraphs of styled runs — is about two hundred lines. Vendoring a document library would have added another megabyte on top of the four pdf.js and pdf-lib already weigh, to generate markup we would still have to get right. Entries are stored rather than deflated, which keeps a compressor out of the add-on; the CRCs are the part that cannot be skipped, since Word calls the file corrupt rather than naming the part that upset it. Text replaced in place converts as replaced. Converting would otherwise hand back the words the user had just edited away. Checked by taking the output apart — every CRC verified, both XML parts run through a real parser — and then, because that is still marking my own homework, by opening the result in the Word editor extension, where mammoth reads it with none of my code involved. |
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| dev | ||
| docs | ||
| lib | ||
| nsis | ||
| scripts | ||
| snapshots | ||
| addon-inject-preload.js | ||
| addon-tab-preload.js | ||
| addon-update-pubkeys.js | ||
| addon-updater.js | ||
| addons-host.js | ||
| address-picker-preload.js | ||
| address-picker.html | ||
| approval-preload.js | ||
| approval.html | ||
| auth-prompt-preload.js | ||
| auth-prompt.html | ||
| bcnr-origin.js | ||
| bcnr-preload.js | ||
| BROWSER-PROMPT.md | ||
| chrome.html | ||
| collision-preload.js | ||
| collision.html | ||
| DESIGN-integrated-wallet.md | ||
| DESIGN-password-manager.md | ||
| DESIGN-wallet-multi-account-amendment.md | ||
| downloads-preload.js | ||
| downloads.html | ||
| engine-picker-preload.js | ||
| engine-picker.html | ||
| error-preload.js | ||
| error.html | ||
| GOTCHAS.md | ||
| home-preload.js | ||
| home.html | ||
| link-status-preload.js | ||
| link-status.html | ||
| main.js | ||
| messages-preload.js | ||
| messages.html | ||
| package-lock.json | ||
| package.json | ||
| PACKAGING-PROMPT.md | ||
| PENDING.md | ||
| popover-preload.js | ||
| popover.html | ||
| preload.js | ||
| pw-fill-preload.js | ||
| pw-fill.html | ||
| README.md | ||
| RELEASE-HANDOFF.md | ||
| ROADMAP-identity-wallet.md | ||
| SESSION-PROMPT-identity-wallet.md | ||
| settings-preload.js | ||
| settings.html | ||
| sidebar-preload.js | ||
| test-installer.wsb | ||
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.