This commit centralizes the styling of key UI elements across the
project to ensure:
- Consistent look and feel.
- Enhanced code reusability.
- Simpified maintenance, improving development speed.
It establishes a uniform foundation that can be leveraged across
different parts of the project, even enabling the styling to be shared
across different websites (supporting issue #49).
Key changes:
- Apply the following shared styles globally:
* Styling of code, blockquotes, superscripts, horizontal rules and
anchors.
* Vertical and horizontal spacing.
- Segregate base styling into dedicated SCSS files for clearer structure
and increased maintainability.
- Remove custom styling from affected components, enabling global style
reuse for visual uniformity, reduced redundancy, and enhanced
semantics.
Other supporting changes:
- Rename `globals.scss` to `base.scss` for better clarity.
- Add `.editorconfig` for `.scss` files to ensure consistent whitespace
usage.
- Remove `2` file from the project root, that was included in the source
code by mistake.
- Remove unused font-face imports
Key changes:
- Change main font to Roboto Slab for enhanced readability.
- Change code font to 'Source Code Pro' for consistent monospace code
rendering.
- Import and set code font explicitly for uniform appearance across
platforms.
- Update Slabo 27px (logo font) version from v6 to v14.
- Update Yesteryear (cursive font) version from v8 to v18.
- Drop support for historic browser-specific formats, retaining only
WOFF2 for modern and TTF for legacy browsers.
- Use `font-display: swap` to improve perceived load times and minimize
layout shifts.
Supporting changes:
- Simplify font-weight usage to 'normal' and 'bold' for consistency.
- Adjust inline code padding for better scalability and prevent
overflow.
- Introduce `$font-main` as main font variable.
- Remove specification of main font as it's best practice to rely on the
default font defined on `body` style.
- Specify font in code area to ensure it uses the code font consistently
as the rest of the application.
- Remove local font search through `local` to simplify the import logic
and prioritize consistency over performance.
- Import bold font explicitly (`font-weight: 700`) for smooth and
consistent rendering.
- Move `font-family` definitions to `_typography.scss` to better adhere
to the common standards and conventions.
- Refactor font variables to have `font-family-` prefix instead of
`font-` to improve clarity and differentiation between `font-size`
variables.
- Rename 'artistic' font to 'cursive' for preciseness and clarity.
- Use smaller font sizes to match the new main font size, as Roboto Slab
is relatively larger.
- Add missing fallbacks for serif fonts to improve fault tolerance.
- Change padding slightly on toggle switch for revert buttons to align
well with new main font and its sizing.
The project's slagon has been updated back to "Privacy is sexy" from
"Now you have the choice" for enhanced brand clarity and memorability.
This change also reflects the community's preference and aligns with the
project's established identity.
This commit also refactors naming and structure of project information
(metadata) struct to enhance clarity and maintainability in relation to
changing the slogan.
Key changes include:
- Update UI components to display the revised slogan.
- Remove period from project slogan in code area for consistency with a
explanatory comment for future maintainability.
- Refactor header container and class names for clarity.
- Standardize project metadata usage in `TheCodeArea.vue` to ensure
consistency.
- Improve code clarity by renaming `IProjectInformation` to
`ProjectDetails` and `ProjectInformation` to `GitHubProjectDetails`.
- Organize `ProjectDetails` under a dedicated `Project` directory within
the domain layer for better structure.
These changes are expected to improve the project's appeal and
streamline future maintenance and development efforts.
This commit improves markdown rendering to convert reference labels
(e.g., `[1]`) to superscripts, improving document readability without
cluttering the text. This improvement applies documentation of all
scripts and categories.
Changes:
- Implement superscript conversion for reference labels within markdown
content, ensuring a cleaner presentation of textual references.
- Enable HTML content within markdown, necessary for inserting `<sup>`
elements due to limitations in `markdown-it`, see
markdown-it/markdown-it#999 for details.
- Refactor markdown rendering process for improved testability and
adherence to the Single Responsibility Principle.
- Create `_typography.scss` with font size definitions, facilitating
better control over text presentation.
- Adjust external URL indicator icon sizing for consistency, aligning
images with the top of the text to maintain a uniform appearence.
- Use normal font-size explicitly for documentation text to ensure
consistency.
- Remove text size specification in `markdown-styles` mixin, using `1em`
for spacing to simplify styling.
- Rename font sizing variables for clarity, distinguishing between
absolute and relative units.
- Change `font-size-relative-smaller` to be `80%`, browser default for
`font-size: smaller;` CSS style and use it with `<sup>` elements.
- Improve the logic for converting plain URLs to hyperlinks, removing
trailing whitespace for cleaner link generation.
- Fix plain URL to hyperlink (autolinking) logic removing trailing
whitespace from the original markdown content. This was revealed by
tests after separating its logic.
- Increase test coverage with more tests.
- Add types for `markdown-it` through `@types/markdown-it` package for
better editor support and maintainability.
- Simplify implementation of adding custom anchor attributes in
`markdown-it` using latest documentation.
This commit standardizes font sizes across components for a uniform
look. The icon sizes, font weights and line heights are also adjusted
accordingly for better standardization and simplicity.
- Introduce variables for standard font sizes, enhancing
maintainability.
- Remove explicit pixel values, replaced with scalable units based on
root size.
- Remove workaround for line-height adoptation of bigger font-size.
- Use consistent small font-size for the code area.
- Adjust checkbox tick to scale with font size.
This commit introduces native operating system file dialogs in the
desktop application replacing the existing web-based dialogs.
It lays the foundation for future enhancements such as:
- Providing error messages when saving or executing files, addressing
#264.
- Creating system restore points, addressing #50.
Documentation updates:
- Update `desktop-vs-web-features.md` with added functionality.
- Update `README.md` with security feature highlights.
- Update home page documentation to emphasize security features.
Other supporting changes include:
- Integrate IPC communication channels for secure Electron dialog API
interactions.
- Refactor `IpcRegistration` for more type-safety and simplicity.
- Introduce a Vue hook to encapsulate dialog functionality.
- Improve errors during IPC registration for easier troubleshooting.
- Move `ClientLoggerFactory` for consistency in hooks organization and
remove `LoggerFactory` interface for simplicity.
- Add tests for the save file dialog in the browser context.
- Add `Blob` polyfill in tests to compensate for the missing
`blob.text()` function in `jsdom` (see jsdom/jsdom#2555).
Improve environment detection logic:
- Treat test environment as browser environments to correctly activate
features based on the environment. This resolves issues where the
environment is misidentified as desktop, but Electron preloader APIs
are missing.
- Rename `isDesktop` environment identification variable to
`isRunningAsDesktopApplication` for better clarity and to avoid
confusion with desktop environments in web/browser/test environments.
- Simplify `BrowserRuntimeEnvironment` to consistently detect
non-desktop application environments.
- Improve environment detection for Electron main process
(electron/electron#2288).
This commit fixes layout shifts experienced in macOS Safari when
hovering over top menu items. Instead of making text bold — which was
causing layout shifts — the hover effect now changes the text color.
This ensures a consistent UI across different browsers and platforms.
Additionally, this commit fixes the styling of the privacy button
located in the bottom right corner. Previously styled as an `<a>`
element, it is now correctly represented as a `<button>`.
Furthermore, the commit enhances HTML conformity and accessibility by
correctly using `<button>` and `<a>` tags instead of relying on click
interactions on `<span>` elements.
This commit introduces `FlatButton` Vue component and a new
`flat-button` mixin. These centralize button usage and link styles,
aligning the hover/touch reactions of buttons across the application,
thereby creating a more consistent user interface.
This commit resolves a rendering bug in the tree view component.
Previously, updating the tree collection prior to node updates led to
rendering errors due to the presence of non-existent nodes in the new
collection.
Changes:
- Implement manual control over the rendering process in tree view. This
includes clearing the rendering queue and currently rendered nodes
before updates, aligning the rendering process with the updated
collection.
- Add Cypress E2E tests to test switching between all operating systems
and script views, ensuring no uncaught errors and preventing
regression.
- Replace hardcoded operating system lists in the download URL list view
with a unified `getSupportedOsList()` method from the application,
reducing duplication and simplifying future updates.
- Rename `initial-nodes` to `nodes` in `TreeView.vue` to reflect their
mutable nature.
- Centralize the function for getting operating system names into
`OperatingSystemNames.ts`, improving reusability in E2E tests.
These updates ensure better adherence to Vue 3 standards and improve
overall code quality and readability.
- Update ESLint configuration from Vue 2.x to Vue 3 rules.
- Switch from "essential" to strictest "recommended" ESLint ruleset.
- Adjust ESLint script to treat warnings as errors by using
`--max-warnings=0` flag. This enforces stricter code quality controls
provided by Vue 3 rules.
This commit applies `strictNullChecks` to the entire codebase to improve
maintainability and type safety. Key changes include:
- Remove some explicit null-checks where unnecessary.
- Add necessary null-checks.
- Refactor static factory functions for a more functional approach.
- Improve some test names and contexts for better debugging.
- Add unit tests for any additional logic introduced.
- Refactor `createPositionFromRegexFullMatch` to its own function as the
logic is reused.
- Prefer `find` prefix on functions that may return `undefined` and
`get` prefix for those that always return a value.
This commit improves the dependency injection mechanism by introducing a
custom `injectKey` function.
Key improvements are:
- Enforced type consistency during dependency registration and
instantiation.
- Simplified injection process, abstracting away the complexity with a
uniform API, regardless of the dependency's lifetime.
- Eliminated the possibility of `undefined` returns during dependency
injection, promoting fail-fast behavior.
- Removed the necessity for type casting to `symbol` for injection keys
in unit tests by using existing types.
- Consalidated imports, combining keys and injection functions in one
`import` statement.
This commit simplifies event handling, providing a unified and robust
way to handle event lifecycling. This way, it fixes events not being
unsubscribed when state is changed.
Introduce a new function in `EventSubscriptionCollection` to remove
existing events and adding new events. This provides an easier to use
API, which leads to code that's easier to understand. It also prevents
potential bugs that may occur due to forgetting to call both functions.
It fixes `TheScriptsMenu` not unregistering events on state change.
Other improvements include:
- Include a getter to get total amount of registered subcriptions.
This helps in unit testing.
- Have nullish checks to prevent potential errors further down the
execution.
- Use array instead of rest parameters to increase readability and
simplify tests.
Ensure `SliderHandler` stops resizes on unmount, unsubscribing from all
events and resetting state to default.
Update `injectionKeys` to do imports as types to avoid circular
dependencies. Simplify importing `injectionKeys` to enable and strict
typings for iterating injection keys.
Add tests covering new behavior.
Test improvements:
- Capture titles for all macOS windows, not just the frontmost.
- Incorporate missing application log files.
- Improve log clarity with enriched context.
- Improve application termination on macOS by reducing grace period.
- Ensure complete application termination on macOS.
- Validate Vue application loading through an initial log.
- Support ignoring environment-specific `stderr` errors.
- Do not fail the test if working directory cannot be deleted.
- Use retry pattern when installing dependencies due to network errors.
Refactorings:
- Migrate the test code to TypeScript.
- Replace deprecated `rmdir` with `rm` for error-resistant directory
removal.
- Improve sanity checking by shifting from App.vue to Vue bootstrapper.
- Centralize environment variable management with `EnvironmentVariables`
construct.
- Rename infrastructure/Environment to RuntimeEnvironment for clarity.
- Isolate WindowVariables and SystemOperations from RuntimeEnvironment.
- Inject logging via preloader.
- Correct mislabeled RuntimeSanity tests.
Configuration:
- Introduce `npm run check:desktop` for simplified execution.
- Omit `console.log` override due to `nodeIntegration` restrictions and
reveal logging functionality using context-bridging.
- Remove existing integration tests for hooks as they're redundant after
this change.
- Document the pattern in relevant documentation.
- Introduce `useEnvironment` to increase testability.
- Update components to inject dependencies rather than importing hooks
directly.
Introduce a brand new lightweight and efficient modal component. It is
designed to be visually similar to the previous one to not introduce a
change in feel of the application in a patch release, but behind the
scenes it features:
- Enhanced application speed and reduced bundle size.
- New flexbox-driven layout, eliminating JS calculations.
- Composition API ready for Vue 3.0 #230.
Other changes:
- Adopt idiomatic Vue via `v-modal` binding.
- Add unit tests for both the modal and dialog.
- Remove `vue-js-modal` dependency in favor of the new implementation.
- Adjust modal shadow color to better match theme.
- Add `@vue/test-utils` for unit testing.
- Migrate `StatefulVue`:
- Introduce `UseCollectionState` that replaces its behavior and acts
as a shared state store.
- Add more encapsulated, granular functions based on read or write
access to state in CollectionState.
- Some linting rules get activates due to new code-base compability to
modern parses, fix linting errors.
- Rename Dialog to ModalDialog as after refactoring,
eslintvue/no-reserved-component-names does not allow name Dialog.
- To comply with `vue/multi-word-component-names`, rename:
- `Code` -> `CodeInstruction`
- `Handle` -> `SliderHandle`
- `Documentable` -> `DocumentableNode`
- `Node` -> `NodeContent`
- `INode` -> `INodeContent`
- `Responsive` -> `SizeObserver`
- Remove `vue-property-decorator` and `vue-class-component`
dependencies.
- Refactor `watch` with computed properties when possible for cleaner
code.
- Introduce `UseApplication` to reduce repeated code in new components
that use `computed` more heavily than before.
- Change TypeScript target to `es2017` to allow top level async calls
for getting application context/state/instance to simplify the code by
removing async calls. However, mocha (unit and integration) tests do
not run with top level awaits, so a workaround is used.
All outbound links now include `rel="noopener noreferrer"` attribute.
This security improvement prevents the new page from being able to
access the `window.opener` property and ensures it runs in a separate
process.
`rel="noopener"`:
When a new page is opened using `target="_blank"`, the new page runs
on the same process as the originating page, and has a reference to
the originating page `window.opener`. By implementing
`rel="noopener"`, the new page is prevented to use `window.opener`
property.
It's security issue because the newly opened website could
potentially redirect the page to a malicious URL. Even though
privacy.sexy doesn't have any sensitive information to protect, this
can still be a vector for phishing attacks.
`rel="noreferrer"`:
It implies features of `noopener`, and also prevents `Referer` header
from being sent to the new page. Referer headers may include
sensitive data, because they tell the new page the URL of the page
the request is coming from.
- Migrate to newer `eslint-config-airbnb-with-typescript` from
`eslint-config-airbnb`.
- Add also `rushstack/eslint-patch` as per instructed by
`eslint-config-airbnb-with-typescript` docs.
- Update codebase to align with new linting standards.
- Add script to configure VS Code for effective linting for project
developers, move it to `scripts` directory along with clean npm
install script for better organization.
Key features of Linux support:
- It supports python 3 scripts execution.
- It supports Flatpak and Snap installation for software
clean-up/configurations.
- Extensive documentation.
Disable selecting clickables as text. Selecting buttons leads to
unintended selection. This is seen when touching on clickables using
mobile devices.
Prevent blue highlight when touching on clickables. This is seen on
mobile webkit browsers. It looks ugly and the visual clue provided is
not needed beacuse all clickables on mobile already have visual clues.
Major refactoring using ESLint with rules from AirBnb and Vue.
Enable most of the ESLint rules and do necessary linting in the code.
Also add more information for rules that are disabled to describe what
they are and why they are disabled.
Allow logging (`console.log`) in test files, and in development mode
(e.g. when working with `npm run serve`), but disable it when
environment is production (as pre-configured by Vue). Also add flag
(`--mode production`) in `lint:eslint` command so production linting is
executed earlier in lifecycle.
Disable rules that requires a separate work. Such as ESLint rules that
are broken in TypeScript: no-useless-constructor (eslint/eslint#14118)
and no-shadow (eslint/eslint#13014).
- Add more documentation.
- Use `main.scss` instead of importing components individually. This
improves productivity without compilation errors due to missing
imports and allows for easier future file/folder changes and
refactorings inside `./styles`.
- Use partials with underscored naming. Because it documents that the
files should not be individually imported.
- Introduce `third-party-extensions` folder to group styles that
overwrites third party components.
- Refactor variable names from generic to specific.
- Use Sass modules (`@use` and `@forward`) over depreciated `@import`
syntax.
- Separate font assets from Sass files (`styles/`). Create `assets/`
folder that will contain both.
- Create `_globals.css` for global styling of common element instead of
using `App.vue`.
Remove convention where Async suffix is added to functions that returns
a Promise. It was a habit from C#, but is not widely used in JavaScript
/ TypeScript world, also bloats the code. The code is more consistent
with third party dependencies/frameworks without the suffix.
1. Renames color names in palette. Using names such as "primary" and
"secondary" that are in consistent with designs such as material,
bootstrap and metro UI palettes. It adds `color-` prefix on color
variables in line with Vue Design System.
2. Introduces necessary changes to follow the system color system
everywhere without using any other color:
- It changes tooltip background from black to darker primary
colors.
- It overrides unset styles from tree component
- It ensures footer has same color as top menu.
3. Removes opacity CSS changes to have better control on choices. To
achieve that:
- It introduces new "light" variants of main colors
- It switches to colors with different variants (e.g. in Dialogs it
uses primary color as button as it has variants that can be
activated on hover meanwhile on-surface color is single).
4. Styles a tags (anchor elements) globally for consistency
- Move most GUI related code to /presentation
- Move components to /components (separate from bootstrap and style)
- Move shared components helpers to /components/shared
- Rename Bootstrapping to bootstrapping to enforce same naming
convention in /presentation
