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 generic link menu, and its Open Link in New Window lands in the video player's window. Proposed (docs/design-webview-context-menu.md §9, 24 Oct 2026): the first item is what a single click does, then the same in a new window, then the other useful action. A blue timecode plays and a speaker badge shows the transcript, so every moment offers both the recording and the transcript. Labels say exactly what happens. Reload Report stays on page menus only, as Safari does.
Artefact: shipped CSS and markup, synthetic content; menus approximate macOS 26Commentary
1Quotes — card timecode
Blue [12:34]. A click plays the recording at that moment.
Today — WebKit's default
CommentaryToday Open Link in New Window opens the Quotes lens at the top, in the Video Player window, and closes any playing clip. Proposed the click first (D10: a blue timecode plays), then the transcript at the moment, here or parked in a new window; that window starts playing in its own player (D1). Same menu on every blue timecode that plays: Discussion and Screens cards, the dashboard, the Screens version time.
2Quotes — speaker badge
<a href="/report/sessions/s3#t-754">. A click shows Dana's transcript at 12:34.
Today — WebKit's default
CommentaryProposed the badge is that person and their whole conversation, at the moment (D10, D11). No Play on a person: the timecode beside it plays. Same on the Discussion moderator badge.
3Quotes — the card itself
Right-click the quote text, not a link (D12).
CommentaryToday the page menu. Proposed the card's own commands, the ones the Quotes menu already holds, as Mail's message menu does. A card click selects rather than acts, so there is no lead item. Star reads Unstar on a starred card; with several cards selected the menu acts on the selection, as the Quotes menu does (Star 3 Quotes).
4Transcript — paragraph timecode
Blue [12:34] on Dana's transcript. A click plays.
Today — WebKit's default
Open Link
Open Link in New Window
Download Linked File
Copy Link
Share…
Reload Report
CommentaryShow in Transcript is left out: you are in it. The new window is a second view of this transcript at 12:34, playing in its own player.
5Sessions — #N
<a href="/report/sessions/s3">. A click opens the session's transcript.
Today — WebKit's default
Open Link
Open Link in New Window
Download Linked File
Copy Link
Share…
Reload Report
Proposed
Open Transcript
Open Transcript in New Window
Play
CommentaryOpen, not Show: the click opens the session's transcript itself, at the top (D4). Play is the recording from the start.
6Sessions — thumbnail
<img src="/report/assets/thumbnails/s3.jpg">. A click plays from 0:00.
Today — WebKit's default
Open Image in New Window
Download Image
Copy Image
Copy Subject
Look Up
Share…
Reload Report
Proposed
Play
Open Transcript
Open Transcript in New Window
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 the filename's menu, then the image items. Copy Subject and Look Up stay for now (D2); the review would drop them here, where they are WebKit's leftovers, which leaves Copy Image · Share….
7Signals — expanded-quote timecode
Blue [12:34]. Today a click shows the transcript (the report reloads).
Today — WebKit's default
frustration · 4 quotes
[12:34] I wanted to see the delivery cost before I typed my card number. p3Dana
Open Link
Open Link in New Window
Download Linked File
Copy Link
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Proposed
frustration · 4 quotes
[12:34] I wanted to see the delivery cost before I typed my card number. p3Dana
Play
Show in Transcript
Open Transcript in New Window
CommentaryRecommended, awaiting the owner. The timecode plays, as every blue timecode does (D10), and the card's badge becomes the transcript link it is on a quote card (§9.3). Same for the Codebooks threshold-review timecode, which also drops its
target=_blank.8Signals — location heading
<a href="#section-delivery-costs">. A click shows the section in Quotes.
Today — WebKit's default
Open Link
Open Link in New Window
Download Linked File
Copy Link
Share…
Reload Report
Proposed
Show in Quotes
Open Quotes in New Window
CommentaryToday the player window opens on Signals, since the href names the wrong lens. Proposed the place comes from the component, not the href (§4.2). Same on the dashboard's section links and the stat cards that name a section.
9Codebooks — 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…
Reload Report
Proposed
Open Link
Copy Link
Share…
CommentaryAs Safari, minus two: no Open Link in New Window (the click already goes to the browser; the item would open the page inside a Bristlenose window) and no Download Linked File (it does nothing). No Reload Report on a link (D6).
10Codebooks — 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…
Reload Report
Proposed
CommentaryNot a link to anything, so the page menu (D3, D6). Same for the hidden-quotes counter and the Sessions header's Reveal link.
11Screens — 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…
Reload Report
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. A screengrab has no click action, so no lead item. On a custom board the Screens lens puts Tidy above these.12Popout player — video
<video> in the player window, playing.
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
Pause
Mute
Loop
Proposed
▶︎12:34 / 41:07
Pause
Mute
Enter Full Screen
Enter Picture in Picture
Hide Controls
CommentaryWebKit's media items here are its usual set, not measured in the probe. Proposed the click action first (Pause while playing, Play while paused), as QuickTime; Open, Download and Copy Video go (they do nothing or hand out a loopback address). Video ▸ Fullscreen in the menu bar becomes Enter Full Screen to match (D9).
What the new window opens
From row 1: right-click the timecode on Dana's quote, then today's Open Link in New Window against the proposed Open Transcript in New Window.
Today
Proposed
❚❚12:34
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, playing in that window's own player (D1; one player per window, measured from code). The window chrome here is an approximation; the transcript inside it is the shipped CSS.String plan
| Label | Source |
|---|---|
| Play · Pause · Mute | existing, menu.video.* |
| Star · Hide · Add Tag… | existing, menu.quotes.* |
| Reload Report | existing, menu.view.reloadReport |
| Show in Transcript | value change of menu.quotes.revealInTranscript ("Reveal in Transcript"), 21 locales; the menu bar takes it too (D9) |
| Enter Full Screen / Exit Full Screen | value change of menu.video.fullscreen ("Fullscreen") plus one new key, menu bar (D9) |
| Open Transcript · Open Transcript in New Window · Show in Quotes · Open Quotes in New Window · Copy Quote | new, owner-written, 21 locales; Open Transcript in New Window is also the menu bar's Option-alternate of Show in Transcript (D9) |
| Open Link · Copy Link · Share… · Copy Image · Copy Subject · Look Up · Back · Hide Controls · Enter Picture in Picture | WebKit's own items, kept as WebKit localises them |