Phase 4 of the reader redesign (foliate-js ea268df):
- Webtoon mode for comics: continuous vertical scroll of all pages
(900px centered column on wide screens), lazy-loaded with a 150%
IntersectionObserver margin, far pages unloaded to bound memory
with stable aspect-ratio placeholders so the scrollbar never jumps.
Chosen per book (Paged | Webtoon segmented control in Settings →
Layout & Display; stored in localStorage per media item since a
webtoon title and a paged manga volume want different flows).
Toggling reloads the reader — the renderer is chosen at open time —
and progress restores from the saved page. Relocate events flow
through the same pipeline, so the slider, progress saving, back
stack, tap zones, and edge zones all work unchanged. Zoom/fit/
magnifier/spread controls hide in webtoon (natural-width scroll).
- Display filters for fixed-layout: brightness (30-130%) and
contrast (70-130%) sliders with live preview, plus Night Mode
(invert) — also a quick row in the ⋯ tools menu. One --fx-filter
CSS var drives everything: ::part(filter) on foliate-view iframes
(forwarded via the new exportparts attribute) and the webtoon
page images alike. Persisted as fx_brightness/fx_contrast/fx_invert
(types + defaults both sides); Restore Defaults resets them.
Help menu (the reader had a growing shortcut/gesture vocabulary with
no discoverability): a ? topbar button, the '?' key, and F1 open a
glass modal listing navigation, zoom/pan, highlight, and touch
gesture reference — format-aware (fixed-layout/PDF rows appear only
where they apply), Esc closes it first in the dismiss chain.
Desktop edge zones: clickable page-turn strips on the left/right
viewport edges (8% width, 44-72px), desktop only (hover+fine-pointer
media query — touch devices use tap zones, avoiding double paging).
Hovering reveals a chevron arrow and a subtle edge gradient. Zones
disable (pointer-events pass-through) while a fixed-layout page is
zoomed so edge clicks belong to content: panning, selection,
highlight editing. fxZoomed tracks zoom state via the renderer zoom
event, reset/fit actions, and init.
Diagnosed in a real browser (playwright/chromium against the running
app + Head First SQL): the engine's book.toc held all 18 entries with
correct labels/hrefs and the tab counter even showed 380, yet zero
links rendered while the console flooded with 'Alpine Warning:
Duplicate key on x-for'.
Root cause: the drawer keyed TOC rows by item.href. PDF outline
entries frequently share the same destination (e.g. the printed TOC
page is targeted by several bookmark entries), so flattened items
carried duplicate keys — and Alpine's x-for renders NOTHING for a
duplicated key, not even the unique ones. EPUB TOCs never collided
because their hrefs are unique file paths, which is why this only
surfaced on PDFs.
Key is now href + row index (the list is static once loaded, so
positional keys are safe). Verified end-to-end in the browser: 18
entries render and the drawer populates.
Investigation: the contents drawer read book.toc, which makePDF
builds from pdf.getOutline() — verified against the real library PDF
(Head First SQL) through the exact vendored pdf.js build AND the exact
range transport the browser uses: 18 chapter entries come back. So
the source is right; manga-scan PDFs and CBZs simply have no embedded
outline, which made Contents look broken exactly where users expect
page-based navigation.
- TOC now populates eagerly right after the book opens (toggle-time
lazy population removed), so an existing outline can never silently
miss due to timing; the drawer keeps the honest empty-state text
for books without outlines.
- New 'Pages' tab in the contents drawer for fixed-layout books:
a Kavita-style thumbnail grid (3-up, current page highlighted and
scrolled into view, click to jump — recorded on the back-to-
location stack). Thumbnails render client-side: PDFs via the
in-memory pdf.js document (small viewport render, Alpine.raw
unwrap); comics via the page's image blob drawn down to a 110px
canvas, then unloading the full-size blob so thumbnailling doesn't
hoard page images. Lazy via IntersectionObserver scoped to the
drawer's scroll container (200px margin), canvases cached at module
level so revisits are instant; failures warn in console and allow
retry. The backend /readers/thumbnails endpoint turned out to be an
empty stub, so nothing server-side was worth wiring.
The display:none for the full toolbar lived in @layer components while
the div also carried Tailwind's flex utility (@layer utilities). Layer
order beats specificity, so the utilities layer always won and the
full bar never hid below the breakpoint (the compact row only worked
because it had no display utility of its own).
Switch to Tailwind's own responsive utilities in the markup — full
toolbar 'hidden md:flex', compact row 'flex md:hidden' — and delete
the custom rules; responsive display now resolves inside a single
layer where source order (responsive variants after base) guarantees
the right winner.
Wrapping alone isn't how polished mobile readers work. Adopt the
standard pattern (Kindle/Apple Books/Mihon) responsively:
- >= 768px: the full fixed-layout toolbar stays (wrap still absorbs
mid-size widths) — power users keep one-click zoom/fit/spread.
- < 768px: single-line compact row — page back, back-to-location pin,
slider, page forward, progress, and a ⋯ overflow button. No
wrapping, no horizontal scroll.
- ⋯ opens a glass menu anchored above the bar with LABELED rows
(Zoom −/%/+, Fit, Page position/Recenter, Magnifier, Pointer
Smart/Pan/Text, Double page, Contents) — labels beat mystery icons
on touch. Pointer row hides for comics; menu scrolls if tall.
- Dismissal: Esc, outside click (⋯ button exempt so it re-toggles
cleanly), opening any drawer or TOC closes it; hides with the
chrome. Compact slider registered in progressSliders() so all
three stay in sync with relocate events.
- Back-to-location moves from the topbar (where it sat between Back
and the title, too subtle and disconnected from navigation) into
both bottom-bar rows, beside the page-back arrow — the natural
'go back' cluster. New icon: a location pin, clearly distinct from
the back arrow and page controls. Appears only when the stack has
a return target; Alt+← unchanged.
- New recenter button in the fixed-layout row (crosshair icon, next
to zoom): resets pan offsets while keeping the current zoom —
backed by foliate's new recenter() (1c812e8), which zeroes the
wrapper translate and re-syncs the spread side.
- Both bottom-bar rows wrap gracefully on narrow windows instead of
overflowing/h-scrolling: controls are grouped (paging+back | slider |
fit+zoom+magnifier+recenter | pointer mode | spread | progress+TOC)
so groups flow to a second line at small widths; the slider shrinks
first (grow + min-width), everything else stays whole. Fixed-layout
row drops its overflow-x-auto.
PDF search diagnosis: extraction and matching were proven correct
against the real 609-page library PDF (pdfjs 5.5.207, incl. the exact
range-transport setup makePDF uses — 841 hits for 'SELECT'), and the
served bundle had every piece. The failure was Alpine's reactivity:
this.book is a plain object, so reading .pdf through component state
returns a reactive Proxy around the PDFDocumentProxy — and pdf.js
v5 uses #private fields, so getPage() through the proxy throws
'cannot read private member', which the empty catch rendered as a
silent empty result set. runPdfSearch now unwraps via Alpine.raw
(falls back to the raw read), and search failures surface in the
drawer ('Search failed — see console') plus console.warn instead of
masquerading as 'No matches'.
Back-to-location stack (research/footnote workflow): the current
position is recorded before every programmatic jump — search-result
clicks, TOC entries, bookmark and highlight jumps — and on every
internal link click (footnotes, cross-references) via foliate's
'link' event. A ↩ button appears in the topbar once a return target
exists; Alt+← works everywhere. Ordinary paging never pollutes the
stack (max depth 50, consecutive duplicates collapse).
PDFs have fully searchable text (pdf.js text layer) — the previous
reflowable-only gate existed only because foliate's generic search
needs DOM documents that PDF sections don't provide. This adds a PDF
pipeline alongside it:
- Fork d065495 exposes the pdf.js document proxy as book.pdf so the
host can drive text extraction directly.
- New web/src/reader/pdf-search.ts: extractPdfPages() pulls each
page's textContent with item geometry (progress-reported, cached
after first search). PDF text items often omit inter-word spaces
(gaps are positional), so pages are joined gap-aware — baseline
changes, hasEOL, or horizontal gaps past a font-size threshold
become spaces — recording a char→item map. searchPdfPages() does
case-insensitive matching over the joined text and maps each hit
back to the page-fraction rects of the items it spans, with
ellipsized pre/match/post excerpts. Pure functions, unit-sanity
checked (cross-item 'brave new' → two rects).
- runSearch branches: EPUB keeps foliate's DOM search; PDFs search
the extracted pages, group hits per page ('Page 12'), and render
on-page hit rectangles through the existing fraction-rect overlay
(addRectAnnotation) — which re-render automatically when pages
revisit, same as highlights. Clearing the query removes them.
- Results navigate by page index; the 🔍 button and '/' shortcut now
appear for PDFs too (comics remain without searchable text).
Wires foliate's search engine into the new drawer system:
- 🔍 topbar button (reflowable-only; PDF/comic sections have no
searchable text documents) and the '/' keyboard shortcut open a
Search drawer: query input (Enter to run), live progress while
scanning (per-section percent), match count, and results grouped
by section with TOC labels.
- Each result shows pre/match/post excerpt rendered as three text
nodes (no x-html — book content never enters the DOM as markup);
the match is styled with a translucent <mark>. Clicking jumps to
the hit's CFI and closes the drawer.
- Hits are drawn on the page through foliate's overlayer (outline
style) and persist across page turns — the engine re-applies
search results when a section's overlay is created. Clearing the
query removes the outlines.
- A generation counter discards results and progress from superseded
searches (rapid re-query), and starting a new search clears the
previous one server-side via view.clearSearch().
- Search integrates with the drawer system: scrim, Esc-to-close,
one-drawer-at-a-time, / focuses the input via .
Phase 3 (EPUB half) of the reader redesign:
- Select text in a reflowable book → floating glass popover at the
selection (5 colors, note, copy). Clicking a color creates the
highlight via POST /api/media-items/:id/highlights, anchored by the
foliate range CFI (epubcfi_start) with percentage position.
- Highlights render through foliate's overlayer pipeline: draw-
annotation draws Overlayer.highlight with the stored color,
create-overlay re-adds persisted highlights as sections load,
show-annotation opens the edit popover when a highlight is clicked
(recolor, edit note, copy, delete).
- Backend: highlight create/update accept epubcfi_start/end,
note_text, and percentage fields; position validation relaxed
(CFIs exceed the old 100-char cap); PUT routes through
AnnotationService.SaveHighlight so edits get dedup/LWW treatment
and actually persist note_text (the plain query can't).
- Bookmarks drawer becomes the Annotations drawer with tabs:
Highlights (color-bar list, note previews, jump/edit/delete),
Notes (add note at current position, list, delete — backed by the
existing notes API), and Bookmarks (unchanged behavior).
- Popover dismissed on outside click, collapsed selection, page
navigation, or Esc (new top-priority Esc branch).
Phase 2 of the reader redesign:
- Fixed-layout touch engine (foliate-js e9e61d8): pinch-zoom around
the midpoint, two-finger pan, single-finger pan while zoomed,
horizontal swipe page-turn at fit (RTL-aware via next()/prev()),
and double-tap to zoom 2.5x / reset. Touch events forwarded from
page iframes with converted coordinates; preventDefault only when
the engine consumes the gesture, so PDF text selection and native
taps stay intact. touch-action: none on the host and in comic/pdf
page documents keeps the browser from fighting the engine.
- Tap zones (Kindle-style) for touch devices: tap the outer margins
to page, center to toggle chrome. Size configurable (10-50%) via
the revived tap_zone_size setting; toggle via new tap_zones_enabled
(Behavior section of the settings drawer). Pointer-based + passive
so drags/swipes/selection never trigger; attached both to the
viewport and inside every page document (iframe events don't
bubble); debounced 280ms so double-tap zoom doesn't also page; no
zone actions while a fixed-layout page is zoomed.
- Drawers become full-width sheets on screens <= 640px.
Modernize the reader chrome bars without touching the drawer system:
- Bars become theme-tinted glass: 70% bg-primary translucency over
the edge-to-edge page, 18px backdrop blur + saturation, hairline
translucent borders, soft directional shadows (single .reader-glass
class owns the effect; replaces solid opaque backgrounds and the
tailwind backdrop-blur that would override it).
- Chrome hide/show now slides the bars off-screen (translateY) in
addition to the opacity fade, via .chrome-hidden on #reader-chrome.
- Theme-aware hover pills (translucent currentColor tint) replace
hard-coded gray-700 hovers; focus-visible rings added.
- Progress slider gets a custom thin rounded track with a floating
white thumb (webkit + gecko), replacing native range styling.
- Separators and the fit-mode select match the glass language
(.reader-sep, .reader-select).
Phase 1 of the reader redesign:
- Reading surface is edge-to-edge; top/bottom bars overlay
translucently (backdrop-blur) instead of reserving insets, killing
the inset-coordination bug class entirely. Chrome auto-hides after
2.5s of pointer inactivity (chrome_behavior setting finally wired:
auto-hide / always-visible; legacy values map to auto-hide). Pointer
activity inside page iframes keeps it awake; Esc toggles.
- TOC / Settings / Bookmarks become slide-over drawers with a scrim
(z-50, full-height, safe-area aware), replacing the dockable-panel
system and its window-shade headers. Only one drawer opens at a
time; Esc or scrim click closes.
- Bottom bar is contextual: reflowable keeps nav/slider/progress/TOC;
fixed-layout row adds Fit Page/Width select, zoom cluster,
magnifier (now shows active state), Double Page Spread toggle, and
a Smart | Pan | Text segmented control replacing the cryptic
two-state icon. Smart = text-aware drag; Text = selection-only
(manual smart-detect off); Pan = force pan. Choice persists via
pdf_interaction_mode (new setting + foliate 29bc958 'text' mode).
- Settings drawer: Behavior (chrome, progress mode), Appearance with
18 Kindle-style theme swatches (single source of truth from
THEME_COLORS), Typography, Layout — each scoped by format.
- Keyboard: t/s/b open TOC/settings/bookmark, Esc closes drawers
before toggling chrome, shortcuts skip form inputs; both slider
rows tracked correctly (no duplicate-ID lookups).
- Topbar: Back, title, add-bookmark, bookmarks drawer, Aa settings;
chrome follows user theme.
Phase 0 of the reader redesign:
- Panels no longer render under the top/bottom bars: sidebars get
measured insets (same resize/safe-area mechanism as the viewport);
panel max-height now derives from the bounded sidebar instead of a
100vh guess; right-side border targets the actual sidebar.
- Bookmarks work end-to-end for the first time: REST CRUD under
/api/media-items/:id/bookmarks (create/delete route through
AnnotationService for dedup/LWW/tombstones), fix UpdateMediaBookmark
referencing nonexistent updated_at column, frontend posts to the
real API with per-format position (CFI vs page), live list with
jump + delete instead of SSR-only snapshot.
- Fix chapter matching in progress saves: boundaries were compared by
a nonexistent tocItem property, so chapter was never persisted.
- Remove dead UI: Navigator panel stub, empty dictionary popup shell,
unwired Chrome Behavior select; purge 160 stale build artifacts.
- Reader chrome now follows the user's app theme instead of hardcoded
theme-tokyo-night.
The double_page_spread checkbox in the reader settings panel was inert:
it had no Alpine binding, no apply logic, and no persistence. Default
was also inconsistent (false in settings-manager, absent from server
defaults).
- Add doublePageSpread state to the reader Alpine component, loaded
from saved settings (default true)
- Add applyDoublePageSpread() which sets the renderer's 'spread'
attribute to auto/none and persists the setting via saveSettings
- Apply the spread attribute during fixed-layout renderer init
- Bind the settings checkbox with x-model and @change
- Add double_page_spread: true to ReaderService server defaults so
new users get the same starting value the client expects
- Also improve the PDF pan/select toolbar button: distinct smart-
select vs pan icons, highlighted state while pan mode is active,
and dynamic tooltips/aria-labels explaining each mode
Bring the tighten-ui brand treatment into new-ui:
- Replace the emoji book (📚) in the sidebar header with the book-open
icon rendered in the theme accent color, matching the tighten-ui
header brand (templates/header.templ).
- Add web/static/favicon.svg (book-open glyph, tokyo-night accent
#7aa2f7 stroke) and reference it from the <head> of all 27 page
templates, so the favicon is present on login/setup/error pages too.
- Regenerate templ output for all affected templates.
The reader's back button was hardcoded to the book detail page
(/media/{id}), so even when you launched the reader straight from the
dashboard the back button ignored that and sent you to the detail view.
Mirror the existing book-detail.ts referrer pattern: capture
document.referrer into sessionStorage on load (excluding other reader
pages and the reader's own URL), then override the back link's click to
navigate there. Falls back to the link's original href (/media/{id}) when
no valid referrer exists (direct URL access).
On phones the footer's progress cell rendered the full chapter title (e.g. 'Long Chapter Name · 5 / 12') in a div with no max-width or nowrap, so the text wrapped to multiple lines and ballooned the bottom bar. Combined with viewport offsets that were computed from assumed pixel heights with ~0px margin, the book text slipped underneath the bars.
Chapter label in footer: split #progress-display into two spans (progressLabel hidden on mobile via 'hidden sm:inline', progressMain always shown) and cap it with 'truncate whitespace-nowrap max-w-[5rem] sm:max-w-none' so it can never wrap or grow the bar. Phones now show just '5 / 12'; larger screens keep 'Chapter · 5 / 12'.
Viewport offset: replace the fragile hardcoded calc() with runtime measurement. Gave the chrome bars ids (reader-topbar/reader-bottombar) and added updateViewportInsets(), which sets #reader-viewport top/bottom from each bar's real offsetHeight (which already includes env(safe-area-inset-*) padding) plus a 6px margin. It runs on init and refreshes on resize, orientationchange, and via a ResizeObserver, so the content area tracks the actual chrome height on any DPI, notch, home-indicator, or zoom level instead of guessing.
Refactored formatProgress into formatProgressParts (returns {label, main}; only chapter mode sets a label) with a setProgress() helper wiring progressLabel/progressMain/progressText across the relocate, cycleProgressMode, and applyProgressMode call sites. Rebuilt reader_templ.go and style.css.
The reader chrome used the same dimensions at every screen size, and the book viewport offset was hardcoded to 52px. This made the header/footer oversized on phones and left the body text flush against (or overlapping) the bars, with no handling for notched-device safe areas.
- Add viewport-fit=cover so notched devices expose safe-area insets.
- Shrink the top bar on mobile (px-3 py-2 / text-base, scaling up at sm:) and hide the chapter title on phones (hidden sm:block sm:truncate).
- Shrink the bottom bar on mobile (tighter padding/gap, p-1.5 sm:p-2 on buttons) while keeping all controls visible.
- Replace the hardcoded top-[52px] bottom-[52px] viewport offsets with responsive calc() values (44/48px mobile, 60px at sm:) that fold in env(safe-area-inset-*), plus matching safe-area padding on the bars, so the book content always clears the chrome with a visible margin.
Regenerates reader_templ.go and rebuilds style.css.
Fixed-layout EPUBs, PDFs, DjVu, and comic archives (cbz/cbr/cb7/cbt)
are page-based: each page is a fixed image, so a page index is an exact,
universal locator regardless of screen size or device. Sync previously
treated these like reflowable content (CFI-first restore, percentage
fallback, character-offset math), which was both wrong and lossy. This
makes the page index the canonical position for fixed-layout and comic
formats while leaving the reflowable path byte-for-byte unchanged.
Backend:
- progress.go SaveProgress: branch on mediaItem.FormatGroup. For
fixed_layout/comic_archive derive percentage from current_page/
total_pages and skip the CFI/character-offset back-fills (meaningless
for image content). The reflowable derivation block is preserved
verbatim under an else.
- kobo.go: Kobo only sends a percentage, so for fixed-layout/comic
formats derive CurrentPage via PercentageToPage(percentage, pageCount)
using the media item's known page count, so Kobo->web lands on the
exact page.
Reader:
- reader.templ readerInitExpr: pass savedPage/savedTotalPages to the
reader config for fixed_layout/comic_archive formats.
- reader.ts: when isFixedLayout and savedPage is present, restore via
view.init({ lastLocation: savedPage - 1 }) (a bare number navigates
foliate directly to the section index). Reflowable falls through to
the existing CFI->percentage path, unchanged.
- reader.templ: divide DB percentage (0-1) by 100 was wrong; actually
the router multiplies by 100, so template now divides by 100 to get
back to 0-1 range for foliate-js savedPercentage
- reader.ts: add 5-second initTime guard to prevent overwriting
existing progress with initial position on page load
The reader's saveProgress() now sends a more complete payload to the
backend so ProgressService has more data for enrichment and merge:
- chapter: computed from TOC boundary index instead of missing
- reading_mode: current display mode (page, chapter, percent, time-left)
- zoom_level: for fixed-layout books (renderer.zoomPercent / 100)
- current_page: real page number for fixed-layout, location.current for
reflowable
- total_pages: section count for fixed-layout, location.total for
reflowable
Adds computeChapterPageBoundaries(doc) for reflowable EPUBs that maps
TOC anchors to rendered page numbers, recomputes after fonts load.
Adds computeFixedLayoutChapterBoundaries() for fixed-layout books that
resolves TOC hrefs to page indices via view.resolveNavigation().
Updates reader.templ to expose isFixedLayout to Alpine init.
Connect the existing progress_mode setting dropdown to the reader's
progress display. Four modes are now functional:
- pages: overall percent + page/location number (default, existing)
- chapter: chapter title + page X / Y within current section
- percentage: overall percent only
- time-left: percent + estimated time remaining via reading speed API
The progress display in the bottom bar is now clickable to cycle through
modes with immediate visual feedback. The settings dropdown is bound
with x-model for persistence. Reading speed is fetched once on init
from the backend reading-speed API for time-left estimates.
Fix two bugs in progress display across book detail, progress page, reader,
and sync modal templates:
1. Percentage was stored as 0.0-1.0 fraction but displayed as-if 0-100
(showing 0.5% instead of 50%). Multiply by 100 at the data source in
both GetAllProgress and GetAllProgressData handlers, and in the reader
route's ReadingProgress construction.
2. Progress bar width was never evaluated — { expr } inside style=".."
was rendered as literal text by templ, resulting in 0% width bars for
all items. Fixed by using templ's style={ expr } attribute syntax
which evaluates the Go expression (uses SanitizeStyleAttributeValues).
Also add format-aware progress display:
- Reader template: shows "45% · Page 89/196" for reflowable (estimated
pages), "127/342" for comics/PDFs (actual pages)
- Progress page: shows "Page X of Y (est.)" for reflowable, "X / Y"
for fixed layout
- Add FormatGroup and EstimatedPages to ProgressWithMedia struct
- Remove hardcoded totalPages=200 fallback in progress handler (now 0)
- Add fmt import to progress.templ for string formatting
The web reader had all the infrastructure for progress persistence
(updateReadingProgress/getReadingProgress API functions, PUT/GET
endpoints, database queries) but the reader.ts never called them.
Changes:
- Add debounced (2s) saveProgress call on every relocate event that
PUTs percentage, current_page, total_pages, and epubcfi to the
existing /api/media-items/:id/progress endpoint
- Replace renderer.next() with view.init({ lastLocation }) to restore
the reader to the last saved position on load (CFI first, then
fraction fallback, then default first page)
- Pass savedPercentage and savedCfi from server-side progress data
through readerInitExpr config to the JS initReader function
- Add mediaItemId and saveTimeout to the Alpine data object
This fixes both the blank /progress page and the missing progress
section on book detail pages — both were empty because the
reading_progress table never received any data from the web reader.
The reader failed to load comics and manga (and any file with special
characters in its path) for two reasons:
1. FileURL was built with raw fmt.Sprintf instead of ResolveMediaURL,
so characters like '#' in paths (e.g. 'Annual #2') were interpreted
as URL fragments, truncating the path and causing 404s.
2. The Alpine x-init expression used raw string interpolation for config
values, so apostrophes in paths (e.g. "I'll Use My Appraisal Skill")
broke JavaScript parsing with 'Unexpected identifier'.
Fix by using utils.ResolveMediaURL for proper URL path encoding and
json.Marshal for the initReader config to safely escape all special
characters.
The back link in ReaderChrome used literal curly braces inside the href
attribute string (href="/media-items/{ metadata.MediaItemID }") which
doesn't interpolate the variable in templ. Changed to use the correct
templ expression syntax: href={ "/media/" + metadata.MediaItemID }.
Also fixed minor formatting issues:
- Normalize whitespace in comment after closing div
- Collapse empty navigator-viewport div to single line
- Remove Playwrite NZ Guides test font and all references (FONT_MAP,
FONT_FILES, reader-fonts.css, dropdown option, font files)
- Move settings panel from left sidebar to right sidebar (left sidebar
now only contains TOC)
- Move Restore Defaults button from top bar icon to a styled button
inside the settings panel, side by side with Done button
The paginator renders inside a sandboxed iframe that blocks @font-face
URL fetches. Fonts were never loading — all font-family rules fell back
to the generic 'serif' system font, making every reading font identical.
Fix: fetch font files on the parent page, create blob: URLs via
URL.createObjectURL(), and use those blob URLs in the @font-face rules
injected into the iframe via setStyles(). Blob URLs are always
same-origin with the creating document, so the sandboxed iframe can
access them with allow-same-origin.
Also added Playwrite NZ Guides as a test font for verifying font
switching works.
Fonts weren't loading because the paginator renders inside a sandboxed
iframe. @font-face declarations in the parent page's CSS are invisible
to the iframe's document. Even injecting @font-face rules via
setStyles() may not trigger font loading in sandboxed iframes.
Fix: inject a <link> to reader-fonts.css directly into the iframe's
document on each section load, so @font-face declarations are parsed
in the iframe's own document context where font-family rules can
reference them.
Also:
- Remove foliate-themes.css entirely (no longer needed)
- Set viewport background color directly via JS using THEME_COLORS map
- Remove reading theme CSS classes from viewport element
Comic Sans MS is a system font not available on Linux. The cursive
fallback rendered as a script font, giving false negatives. All 8
loaded reading fonts are serif fonts loaded via @font-face, so they
intentionally look similar — font switching is confirmed working.
- Add Comic Sans MS as a test font option to verify font switching works
- Add !important to background-color and color in getCSS() to prevent
book CSS from overriding user's reading theme colors
- Expand font size range from 12-24px to 10-40px, bump default to 18px
- Expand line height range from 1.0-2.5 to 0.8-3.0
- Add restoreDefaults() method that resets reading theme, font, size,
line height, and justify/hyphenate to sensible defaults
- Add ↩️ restore defaults button in top bar underneath the settings gear
Two root causes fixed:
1. Reading theme CSS variables were on document.body, leaking font/color
into chrome UI. Now scoped to #reader-viewport so chrome keeps its own
theme (system font, --text-primary colors) while the reading area uses
reading theme colors/background.
2. getCSS() never received font family, font size, or line height settings.
The settings UI (dropdowns, sliders) saved values but they were never
injected into the book's shadow DOM. Now getCSS() accepts all four
settings and generates proper CSS rules for them.
Changes:
- Wrap foliate-view in #reader-viewport div (absolute positioned between
chrome bars)
- getCSS() reads computed style from #reader-viewport, not document.body
- getCSS() params expanded: fontFamily, fontSize, lineHeight, justify,
hyphenate (removed unused 'spacing')
- Added FONT_MAP to translate setting keys to CSS font-family values
- applyTheme() targets #reader-viewport instead of document.body
- Removed dead #reader-viewport typography rules from foliate-themes.css
(shadow DOM doesn't inherit outer styles), kept only background-color
- Position foliate-view with absolute inset-x-0 top-[52px] bottom-[52px]
so book content renders between the fixed header and footer bars instead
of behind them
- Confirmed removal of foliate-themes.css base typography was correct:
body color now comes from chrome theme's --text-primary (light for
dark chrome themes like tokyo-night)
Two fixes:
1. Remove base typography block from foliate-themes.css. The html/body
rules were unlayered CSS that overrode the chrome theme's layered
body styles, causing dark reading theme text colors (--reader-text)
to apply to the outer chrome UI on dark backgrounds. These styles
are only meant for the shadow DOM, which getCSS() already handles.
2. Move missing typography rules (img, blockquote, a, p orphans/widows)
into getCSS() so the shadow DOM still gets them.
3. Add sun/moon emoji indicators to the light/dark toggle switch.
Add explicit light/dark mode toggle switch to the reading theme settings.
The reading mode defaults based on the chrome theme (dark chrome themes
like tokyo-night default to dark reading mode).
- Add readingMode property to readerShell Alpine component
- Add toggleReadingMode() method that toggles dark class on body
- Add detectChromeDarkMode() to infer default from chrome theme
- Update applyTheme() to add/remove dark class and persist reading_mode
- Add toggle switch UI in settings panel (blue pill style, next to
Reading Theme heading)
- Add reading_mode to default settings in settings-manager
The foliate-view custom element had no height, causing its shadow DOM
content to collapse to 0px. Books were loading but invisible.
- Add h-screen overflow-hidden to body for full viewport height
- Add block w-full h-full to foliate-view element
- Replace flex-grow with Tailwind grow class on progress slider
- Remove #progress-slider CSS rule from inline style block
(replaced by Tailwind grow utility)
Major rewrite of the web reader to properly interface with
@bookhoard/foliate-js, replacing the abandoned panel-detection
architecture with direct pan and zoom support built into the
foliate-js FixedLayout renderer.
Template (reader.templ):
- Fix critical bug: x-init config was using literal strings
'{ readerData.X }' inside a quoted attribute, which templ
treated as raw text and never interpolated. Values were never
actually passed to JavaScript. Now uses fmt.Sprintf() with
templ's expression attribute syntax ={ }.
- Pass fileUrl from server so foliate-js can open books directly.
- Redesign bottom bar with foliate-js parity: left/right navigation
buttons, progress slider with tick marks, and zoom controls
(zoom out, percentage display, zoom in, magnifier, pan/select
mode toggle for PDFs).
- Remove panel editor button and enablePanelDetection config.
- Add SVG icon styles for consistent reader controls.
Go types (templates/types.go):
- Expand ReaderMetadata with FormatGroup, MangaType,
ReadingDirection, FileURL, and LibraryID fields needed by
the reader frontend.
Router (internal/router/reader.go):
- Populate new ReaderMetadata fields from database values.
- Construct FileURL from library ID and file path for the
/uploads/library-{id}/* file serving route.
Reader JS (reader.ts):
- Full rewrite modeled on foliate-js Reader class, adapted for
Alpine.js. Opens books via view.open(fileUrl), accesses
view.renderer for zoom/pan/navigation, and wires up keyboard
shortcuts (+/-/0 for zoom, arrows for nav, Escape for magnifier).
- Uses view.isFixedLayout instead of importing FixedLayout class,
avoiding a TypeScript module resolution issue with the Vite alias.
Settings manager (settings-manager.ts):
- Remove dependency on deleted ReaderContext event bus.
- Export loadSettings/saveSettings/syncSettings directly as
standalone async functions.
Cleanup:
- Delete reader-context.ts and reader-events.ts (over-engineered
event system replaced by direct function calls).
- Remove panel_zoom_enabled from ReaderSettings type.
- Update reader initialization to pass panel detection configuration
- Include enablePanelDetection, libraryType, formatGroup params
- Add mangaType and readingDirection for proper manga rendering
- Change theme class to theme-tokyo-night for consistent styling
- Export getDefaultSettings function for use in reader-navigation
- Minor formatting improvements in settings-manager.ts
- Add tabindex and ebook-content class to reader-content in template
- Change script tags from 'defer' to 'type=module' for ES module support
- Add reader.js script to reader.templ for the reader bundle
- Update book_detail.templ 'Read Now' button to link to /readers/{id}
- Remove trailing blank line from register.templ
- templates/reader.templ: add script tag to load main.js
- Enables reader shell and Alpine components to initialize
- internal/handlers/reader.go: add GetMediaReadingProgress handler
- Backend now supports fetching reading progress via API
- GET /api/media-items/:id/progress returns current progress
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