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ref: 658bae75f9714af212b463dbba6bb2de565112f9 sr-ht-spec/web/comments_test.go -rw-r--r-- 18.5 KiB
472bcb1f — Eugene Blikh 24 days ago
feat(web): commentable prose diff with honest anchor state (spec-by6.3.3)

Reverses the diff view's founding rule. renderDocDiff skipped ChangeEqual
outright — "the review shows only what changed" — but any block of a proposed
document must be commentable, so unchanged blocks now render as collapsed,
dimmed context. Changed blocks keep their border, tint and full body, so the
page still reads as a diff at a glance rather than as a document dump. A
context block carrying a comment renders open. ChangeMoveIn now shows its text
too, since a comment control on invisible text is a control on nothing;
ChangeMoveOut stays a bare marker and is deliberately not commentable, because
the same paragraph is anchorable at its move-in position and two anchors for
one paragraph is the bug that avoids.

Every rendered block carries id="b-<16 hex>", hashed from the whole anchor
tuple. Not the page ordinal: an ordinal renumbers on any insertion above it, so
a saved link would silently scroll to a neighbouring paragraph, whereas
including the block hash makes a stale link resolve to nothing instead.

Threads are placed by anchor and by nothing else. Anything no rendered block
claims — an outdated anchor, an old-side anchor whose block the diff no longer
draws, a document the proposal no longer changes — is collected into a
page-level "comments that lost their anchor" area. Never dropped, never moved
onto a neighbour: a comment reads as authoritative about the block it sits
beside, so attaching it to the wrong one is worse than admitting it lost its
place. An edited anchor is drawn on its block and badged.

The comment form's anchor is built at submit time from the branch as it now
reads, through service.AnchorOf — hand-rolling the ordinal conversion here
would put the browser's comments on different blocks than the MCP tool's, which
is the one way two surfaces of one conversation disagree without either looking
broken. The form's block hash guards it: a block that moved while the page sat
open is a 409, not a comment attached to whatever took its place.

That hash is required rather than checked-when-present. Skipping the guard for
a form that omits it would let a later template refactor drop the hidden field
and disable the staleness check silently, with every test still green.

Authority is surfaced, not re-implemented: compose and resolve are the owner's
because service says so and ErrForbidden becomes a 403.

spec-by6.3.3