Three tab-strip changes from use:
- A tab opened from a link (target=_blank, middle-click, the context menu,
Duplicate) now goes right after the tab it came from — and after any
siblings that tab already opened — instead of at the end of the strip.
The + button, session restore and add-on requests still append.
- The selected tab gets an accent stripe and outline on top of its brighter
fill; with a dozen same-size tabs the fill alone was easy to lose. A
grouped tab keeps its group colour on the stripe.
- On Windows the tab row is the title bar: the native frame is hidden, the
minimise/maximise/close buttons are drawn as an overlay over the chrome
(colours follow the theme), the row is a drag region with every control
in it opted out, and 140px (or the overlay's real width when the API is
exposed) is kept clear on the right. The page gains the old title bar's
height. Other platforms keep the native frame.
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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