The number beside a folder in Topic reading was a question count while
the browser lists articles, so "Hyperinflammatory Sepsis 4" meant four
questions and opened onto no reading at all. It counts what it opens
now, rolled up over the subtree, and a branch with nothing to read in it
is not offered — a folder with a number on it is a promise.
The hover card could not be reached. Its body was pointer-events: none,
on the idea that a hint should not sit between the reader and the link —
but the card is offset below the link and never covered it, while the
pointer travelling down to Split view crossed a body it could not enter,
so no mouseenter fired and the hide timer closed it on the way. The card
takes the pointer now, with a bridge across the gap.
And clicking the words opens the card rather than the article. A
cross-reference is read mid-sentence, and navigating away to find out
whether it was worth following is the thing that breaks the thread; the
card's two controls — beside what you are reading, or a tab for later —
are how you go. That also gives touch a route, where hover has none.
Modified and middle clicks are still the browser's.
The listing sent content and sections for all 331 articles, 214KB of
prose a list never renders. It sends what a list needs, which is 21KB.
The footer sat wherever the content stopped, so a page still loading put
it halfway up the screen with background below it. The shell is a column
the height of the window.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
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