The report's right-click menu: today and proposed
Each row is something you can right-click in the Mac app. Today every report link offers WebKit's full link menu, and its Open Link in New Window lands in the video player's window. The proposal keeps that item only where the page knows the place (project, lens and position), opening a real Bristlenose window there, and removes what does nothing or hands out a dead address.
Artefact: shipped CSS and markup, synthetic content; menus approximate macOS 26Commentary
1Quotes — speaker badge
<a href="/report/sessions/s3#t-754">. A click goes to the transcript at 12:34.
CommentaryToday Open Link in New Window loads the transcript into the Video Player window, with no toolbar or sidebar, and closes any playing clip. Proposed WebKit's own item, title and position kept, retargeted to a new Bristlenose window: this project, Sessions, transcript s3 at 12:34. Open Link (a full reload), Download (does nothing), Copy Link and Share (a 127.0.0.1 address that dies on restart) are removed.
2Quotes — timecode
<a href="#t=754">. A click plays the clip; the href carries no session.
CommentaryDecision. Today the new window opens the Quotes lens at the top, since nothing reads
#t=. Proposed: the transcript at this moment, which the card knows (session and seconds), not the href. The alternative is to offer nothing here, because a left click plays rather than navigates.3Sessions — #N
<a href="/report/sessions/s3">
Today — WebKit's default
Open Link
Open Link in New Window
Download Linked File
Copy Link
Share…
Proposed
Open Link in New Window
CommentaryProposed: a new window on transcript s3 at the top. WindowSeed can express the lens today, not the session (doc §4.3).
4Sessions — thumbnail
<img src="/report/assets/thumbnails/s3.jpg">; a click opens the player.
Today — WebKit's default
Open Image in New Window
Download Image
Copy Image
Copy Subject
Look Up
Share…
Proposed
Copy Image
Copy Subject
Look Up
Share…
CommentaryToday Open Image in New Window replaces the playing clip with the bare JPEG; Download Image does nothing. Proposed both removed; Copy Image and Share stay. Decision. Copy Subject and Look Up run Visual Look Up on a participant's recording; whether that reaches Apple's servers was not measured.
5Transcript — timecode
<a href="#t=754"> on /report/sessions/s3.
Today — WebKit's default
CommentaryProposed: a second window on this transcript at 12:34. Both are known on the page, so this one is exact. Words and paragraphs keep the Mac's text services; this is only the timecode.
6Signals — location heading
<a href="#section-delivery-costs">, relative to Signals. A click goes to Quotes.
Today — WebKit's default
Open Link
Open Link in New Window
Download Linked File
Copy Link
Share…
Proposed
Open Link in New Window
CommentaryToday the player window opens on Signals: the href names the wrong lens. Proposed a new window on Quotes at Delivery costs, where the left click goes. The place comes from the component, not the href (doc §4.2).
7Codebooks — author link
External https:// from the codebook's YAML.
Today — WebKit's default
Open Link
Open Link in New Window
Download Linked File
Copy Link
Share…
Proposed
Open Link
Open Link in New Window
Copy Link
Share…
CommentaryExternal links behave as in Safari and open the default browser. Only Download Linked File goes, since it does nothing.
8Codebooks — navigator row
<a href="#">, a JS action, not a place.
Today — WebKit's default
Open Link
Open Link in New Window
Download Linked File
Copy Link
Share…
CommentaryToday the player window opens on this lens. Proposed every link item removed; with nothing left, AppKit shows no menu. Decision. Offer nothing, or fall back to the page items (Back, Reload) so a right-click always answers. Same for the hidden-quotes counter and the Sessions header's Reveal link.
9Screens — screengrab
<img src="data:image/jpeg…">
Today — WebKit's default
[12:34] “Tell me on the basket.”
Open Image in New Window
Download Image
Copy Image
Copy Subject
Look Up
Share…
Proposed
[12:34] “Tell me on the basket.”
Copy Image
Copy Subject
Look Up
Share…
CommentaryToday Open Image in New Window does nothing (the
data: scheme is refused) and Download does nothing. On a custom board the Screens session puts Tidy and a separator above these items; drawn here on an automatic board.10Popout player — video
<video src="/media/…"> in player.html.
Today — WebKit's default
▶︎12:34 / 41:07
Open Video in New Window
Download Video
Copy Video Address
Hide Controls
Enter Full Screen
Enter Picture in Picture
Proposed
▶︎12:34 / 41:07
Hide Controls
Enter Full Screen
Enter Picture in Picture
CommentaryWebKit's media items are its usual set, not measured in the probe. Open Video in New Window does nothing (the popout has no UI delegate), Download goes the silent way, Copy Video Address is a loopback URL: all removed. The viewing controls stay.
What Open Link in New Window opens
From row 1: right-click Dana's badge on a quote.
Today
Proposed
CommentaryToday the player's own 720×480 window, titled Video Player, holds the report with no toolbar, sidebar or lens rail; any playing clip closes; and, from reading the code, its route changes reach the main window's bridge (doc §2, a hand check owed). Proposed
WindowSeed.fresh(project:, lens: sessions, place: .session("s3", 754)): a full window on the same project, the transcript scrolled to 12:34 and the paragraph highlighted as a deep link already does. The window chrome here is an approximation; the transcript inside it is the shipped CSS.