Timeline

Fossil's own docs link directories with a trailing slash — index.wiki carries a variety of techniques — and those all 404'd: the doc route found no renderable extension, redirected to the file view, and the file view cannot serve a directory. A real page was sitting behind the error the whole time (www/caps/index.md).

A directory now serves its index document, preferring the formats that render into the page, found with one listing rather than a probe per candidate. A directory with no index goes to the TREE view; only an actual file falls back to source. closed check-in: ff17aa2517 user: dmestas tags: doc-dirs

A fixed window is a dead end for anyone whose repositories are busy. Cursor is date~hash, so the merged stream cannot repeat or skip where two events share a timestamp. Sentinel

• loads the next page on scroll; noscript holds the same page as a link.

At 1800px the article ended 391 pixels short of the contents rail. That was not breathing room, it was a hole: the column took 1fr while the article capped at the measure, so the leftover sat between them.

The column now sizes to its content and the block centres. Running text still caps at the measure — 73 characters a line, where reading wants 45-75 — but a code block, a table or a diagram gets the whole column, because wrapping those to prose width is what makes people scroll sideways. Measured on fossil's th1.md: prose 625px, code up to 1216. closed check-in: d11bec1130 user: dmestas tags: doc-measure

Fossil's wikitheory.wiki: pages named branch/NAME or checkin/HASH are associated with that branch or check-in, and fossil shows them in an About section on those screens. Hiding them from the documentation index without this made 49 of fossil's 83 wiki pages reachable only by typing the URL — half the fix, and the worse half.

Notes now appear above their branch's timeline, their check-in, their ticket and their tag. A branch note shows only when the timeline is narrowed to that branch: above every branch it is a caption on the wrong picture.

Long ones start folded. Fossil's own auto-toc note runs three screens and put the timeline entirely below the fold, which is an About that has buried its subject. closed check-in: 9b9618a12f user: dmestas tags: assoc-notes

Resolved twice against work that landed on trunk in parallel — the wiki structure panel and saved views. All three are orthogonal; nothing was dropped. Truncation goes, since paging replaces it. check-in: ce412bd621 user: dmestas tags: trunk