The composer's input was still a flat 60% white bar (the "clean, even tile"
from the earlier pass) on a panel that had rightly become translucent, so it
read as a white slab - "especially the part where you enter the prompt". It is
now the app's standard frosted tile plus one light veil: measured against the
same backdrop the field sits at 178,212,157 where the panel is 145,183,79 -
clearly a brighter field, still glass.
Translucent glass needs softness rather than opacity, so the shared backdrop
(background-blur.webp, the pre-blurred copy every Aero surface sits on) is
re-baked much softer - a 64x36 upscale - and every panel, card, chip and
button now shows the scene as an even frosted wash instead of white or mud.
?v=5 busts the asset.
Contrast scans stay clean (chat, library, study, settings across all three
themes, 0 findings) and all 15 suites pass. Version 0.6.4, SW v86.
The header and composer were full-bleed bands (flush to the top/right/bottom
viewport edges, composer corners off-screen) next to a rail that floats with a
12px margin. The new --layout-gutter (12px) spaces the rail, header, empty-state
card and composer identically on every side; --radius-panel/-control/-chip
(-pill) replace the ad-hoc radii across the shared classes, so every panel is
rounded on all four corners and shared controls match in every theme. The
desktop-only ::after hairlines and the left-corner-only radius are gone.
Aero: the rail and the chat chrome (answers included) share one even recipe -
the wallpaper extra-blurred into a hue-free wash (background-glass.webp) under a
uniform ~50% white veil and a whisper of gloss. Measured within ~10 RGB units
across the rail top->bottom and the card/composer left->right; the blue->green
smear and the teal composer are gone. The composer's field is a clean even tile
with no wallpaper gradient inside it.
Chat fixes: send is a filled primary tile shaped exactly like attach (dimmed
while the input is empty), suggestion/context chips use the shared .chip token
(40/44px target, visible rim, full-contrast text, raw model id in the tooltip),
the AI note reads at 12px --text-muted (.ai-disclaimer), the selected sidebar
row carries the accent border + accent icon, the theme toggle is back in Aero
(the moon flips to Dark; Settings brings Aero back), and the empty state is
centered exactly between header and composer.
Outside CSS: the wallpaper's top-left HUD-circle decoration (it peeked through
the 12px gutters on wide windows) was healed out of background.webp and
background-blur.webp; the orbs/bubbles ride one masked .ice-floats layer that
fades them under the chrome bands and the rail strip, so none is sliced by a
panel edge (still parked under reduced motion).
Version 0.6.0, SW -> freezmo-v82. Tests: chat suite pins the new geometry (12px
gutter, 24px corners, even wash on all four panels, send-vs-attach shape,
chips/input radii); mobile pins the phone chrome and the Aero toggle; bubbles
pins the floats layer + its reduced-motion opt-out.
- Aero: blue gradients back on the active segment and every primary
(Review due, the card's Study button, the composer's send button); a
frosted backing behind the page heading and the All decks label; a
bottom-weighted rail tint; chat header/composer/welcome panels; calmer
orbs; stronger card veil + a stronger blur bake.
- Dark/Light: a dedicated --track token makes progress bars read (the
first attempt shifted --surface-sunken and the pixel scan caught the
sheet-contrast regression); brighter dark secondary text; darker light
segmented labels and difficulty tints; stronger light card border and
shadow.
- Chat UI: friendly model chip ("Gemma 4 31B") with the raw name in a
tooltip, larger chips, plain centered disclaimer, vertically centered
welcome panel, distinct chat-plus icon for new chat.
- Chat models: every chat-capable model from the server's /api/tags is
selectable (favourites first, search field when long, live-list
validation in the route); default CHAT_MODEL_DEFAULT or gemma4:31b.
- Reduce motion: Settings toggle (default off) that parks the scene,
collapses CSS animations and drives framer-motion's calm mode.
- Folders hint, "New" badge on fresh decks.
Contrast: 0 findings, axe clean, mobile 126/126, chat 102/102, wizard
95/95, regression 44/44, i18n 13/13, native 33/33.
Version 0.4.6, SW -> freezmo-v71.
The background "didn't change" because the service worker's asset cache
kept serving the previous wallpaper bytes (stale-while-revalidate returns
the cached copy first, and an old worker can outlive a deploy). Both aero
images carry a ?v=3 query now, so a stale cache cannot answer for them.
"Everything should look like the Ask button" is literal: the rail, the
cards, the chips, the segments and the buttons share one recipe - the
pre-blurred wallpaper under a ~15% veil with the bright rim. The blur
bake is regenerated at 640x400 with a shadow lift (gamma 0.86) and a
saturation nudge, so the scene's colours stay vivid instead of washing
to a milky film. The wizard's phone action bar loses Aero's heavy
water-blue slab for the same glass, and nested chrome inside sheets
keeps its flat fills (the sheet itself is the real glass there).
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings on every screen and theme, 0 axe
violations. Version 0.3.2, SW -> freezmo-v63.
The white surfaces were reading as a milky white panel (a card top was
~71% white). The frosted recipes now use a 14% base veil plus the gloss
over the pre-blurred wallpaper, small chrome (rows, chips, segments,
buttons) keeps a touch more veil, and nothing nested inside a sheet or
dialog uses the viewport-aligned layer (it showed the raw dark water
under the settings theme labels at 1.5:1 — nested chrome falls back to
the flat fills over the genuinely blurred sheet).
The first-load text bug was the boot script: its dark test was
`s && !a ? s === 'dark' : matchMedia(...)`, which for a stored aero fell
through to the OS preference, so a dark-preferring machine loaded with
both `dark` and `aero` classes and every `.dark` rule painted over the
wallpaper until a theme toggle re-applied the classes. The stored value
now decides alone; a dark-colorScheme check pins it in the mobile suite
(123 checks).
Background: the user's latest Gemini scene (1280x714) re-encoded to
public/aero/background.webp (206 kB) with a fresh pre-blurred sibling.
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings, 0 axe violations, all three themes.
Version 0.3.1, SW -> freezmo-v62.
The same Gemini scene at 1280x714 (was 1024x572): public/aero/
background.webp is 213 kB, and the pre-blurred glass layer is regenerated
with a proper cover-fit so it still lines up with the sharp wallpaper.
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings, 0 axe violations. Version 0.2.9,
SW -> freezmo-v61.
The scene is the user's own Frutiger Aero image now: green hills, a river,
an eco-city, bubbles and daisies. Re-encoded to public/aero/background.webp
(152 kB) with a fresh 3 kB pre-blurred variant for the glass, and the
WallpaperSafari credit line, its i18n keys and the README credit are gone
(the image is made by the user with Gemini).
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings and 0 axe violations, all three themes.
Version 0.2.8, SW -> freezmo-v60.
The white-ish fills are gone: every surface is a thin translucent glass with
the gloss and a bright rim, and the wallpaper reads through all of it.
The blur is a pre-blurred copy of the wallpaper (public/aero/
background-blur.webp, 3 kB) glued to the viewport with
background-attachment: fixed, layered under the tint and the gloss, instead
of a live backdrop-filter. Blurring the live scene measured 66ms per frame
at 2x CPU throttle (115 frames over 34ms) because the bubbles move behind
every surface; with the pre-blurred layer the same scene runs at 33ms and 8
slow frames — the same as the other themes, so the MacBook stays cool.
Sticky chrome, sheets and dropdowns keep a real backdrop-filter (they sit
over scrolling content, and their area is small).
Contrast: 0 below-minimum findings, 0 axe violations, all three themes.
Version 0.2.5, SW -> freezmo-v58.
