chrome: a default favicon, optional listing columns, and a table partial Three services asked for a favicon field and bench argued against one: it ships no icon deliberately, and its layout says why — a <link rel="icon"> pointing at an asset the binary does not have is a 404 on every page load, for a file nobody asked for. A default that is a path hands that to every service without a logo, so the default carries its own bytes instead: the brand's ring as a data: URI, which cannot 404 and costs no request. It is a template.URL because html/template rewrites any href whose scheme is not http, https or mailto to "#ZgotmplZ" — the type is how a caller says it meant a data: URI. Updated and Meta are optional for the reason the four listing services could not agree: bench and spec have a modification time, dolt's schema has no timestamp at all, and cover's index is a table of sparklines no shared partial will render. A required column would have pushed dolt back onto a local copy. Updated is a time.Time so the partial renders "3 hours ago" with the exact stamp in the title once, rather than five services spelling it five ways. srht-repo-table is a second partial over the same dot rather than a variadic first one: growing columns on the cards would have made them worse cards for the services that wanted cards. Attach now installs Funcs itself, because the partials call reltime and abstime and an unknown function is a parse error — a caller who had not merged Funcs would have got a startup panic naming a template it never wrote. pages consequently attaches before layering the service's own map on top, which is what keeps a deliberate shadow working.
chrome: carry the service's extra hashed assets bench and cover each grew a pair of UplotCSSHref/UplotJSHref fields beside the embedded Page, compare a BundleHref, and all three wrote the same justification next to it: the hash in the name is a property of the binary rather than of a page, so a page handed its own asset URLs is one that can be written without them and silently render nothing where the chart was. That argument is about the chrome, so the slot belongs to the chrome. A map rather than named fields because ecore has no business knowing that this instance vendors uPlot; the service names its own artefacts and its layout reads them back with index, guarded on emptiness the way StyleHref is.
chrome: give the brand both halves, and share the login URL and time helpers The brand was upstream's minus its hub link: core.sr.ht points the whole brand at hub when the instance has one and drops the red service label, while this package kept the label and pointed at the service root. Hub is excluded from the switcher, so that left the chrome with no route to hub at all. Split the brand in two — the site name to hub (to the service root on an instance without one), the label to the service root — and neither half has to lose. The label keeps its own <span class="text-danger"> because the theme colours ".navbar-light .navbar-brand a", which outranks .text-danger and would repaint a red <a> white in dark mode. LoginURLFor exports the line Page already computed. A handler that gates a page behind login was building an entire Page to read one field off it. RelTime/AbsTime come up from the services, where the copies had already drifted over what to print for a future instant: "in 3 hours" on one service, "just now" on the next, for the same timestamp.
chrome: repo-list partial and fixed-width brand srht-repo-list renders project listings (repos, databases, spaces) as the family's event-list cards from a neutral ListItem shape, encoding the rules the services converged on: h4 title link, visibility as small muted lowercase text on the right for non-public entries only, description as a paragraph. The empty state is a parameter. The brand in srht-nav gains min-width: 15rem so the service switcher starts at the same x-coordinate on every service — without it the menu shifts by the width of the red service label when hopping between services.
chrome: shared page chrome for the instance's custom services Extract the nav/chrome idiom that compare, spec, dolt and cover each carried as a private copy (and bench was about to fork as a sixth): BuildNav over the shared config.ini with the canonical ordering and paste/pages/hub exclusions, a per-request Page with login/logout/profile URLs against meta's unified login, embedded srht-nav / srht-env-banner partials (circle brand + red service label + switcher + login box), and the generic dict/shortsha template helpers. Policy decisions the copies had drifted on are baked in: switcher only for authenticated viewers, hub excluded in the builder rather than the template, profile link prefers hub's ~username page, environment name uppercased for the banner. Service-specific needs surfaced by the cover survey get seams instead of copies: ExtraNav for extra switcher entries, ContainerClass for full-bleed pages, the config section as an explicit parameter for the active check.