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Scrolling on the Rune app (iOS especially) stopped flings dead, snapped back under a dragging finger, and kept the runtime and host busier than needed. This branch fixes that, plus a code-block rendering bug found along the way.

Scrolling behaviour

  • Corrections keep a fling and a drag. The message list corrects its offset as rows above the view get measured. Native sent each as an absolute scroll_to_instant: it stopped momentum, a dragging finger put the old offset back on its next move, and the offset was stale (the runtime hears it a frame or more late). The list now uses element.scrollBy, the bridge sends a relative by, and the host applies it with Rune's new Tx::scroll_by (Makisuo/rune hazel-scroll-by, c3536c2), which shifts from wherever the viewport is and keeps the drag origin and velocity.

Less work per scroll

  • Row measurements batch per frame. The bridge's ResizeObserver called back once per element (a browser does once per frame), so each row was its own update, render and correction.
  • iOS: one worker message per host batch instead of one postMessage per line (~20 per scroll frame), which also undid the batching above.
  • The overscan window moves in chunks (it re-rendered at every row boundary once full: 126 → under 60 window changes over a 6000px scroll) and outlives a settle, so a new gesture doesn't rebuild its 2400px lead (8 short gestures: 32 → 16 trees).
  • Keymap resolved once per overrides object. sharedOf resolved the whole keymap (parsing every combo) for every subscription on every Message: 8.9s → 1.7s of runtime time in a 20s scroll run.
  • Host lines parse with JSON.parse instead of a Schema of Unknown.
  • Layout reports skip building a serde_json::Value each frame (prefix serialized once per build): half the report cost on the main thread.
  • iOS tab bar asks UIKit's sizeThatFits once per width, not every frame.

Same 18s scroll, main vs this branch: 155 → 55 trees sent to the host over the same 1,800 commits.

Bug fix

  • Code blocks break their lines. A white-space: pre block of inline content laid out as one wrapping row, so newlines inside the editor's leaf spans were lost (const results = { boot: 412, … on one line). It now splits into line rows, fragmenting inline elements across lines as CSS does.

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foldkit-rune (97), native (55), host (157 + 8), iOS crate (5), web (2,582) and the full typecheck pass. New tests: Rune scroll_by; batched ResizeObserver and scrollBy (bridge); overscan chunking and the kept window; keymap memo; pre-block line breaks; layout line JSON. Interaction checks: 155/155 after fixing a check that drifted with the sidebar layout (it failed on main too). Conformance: everything passes except palette-light, which fails identically on main (74.74), and drawer, which flakes between themes from run to run. Checked on the iPhone Air simulator: flings coast through corrections, code block renders correctly, no runtime errors.

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- Anchor corrections in the message list use element.scrollBy; the native
  bridge sends them as a relative shift that Rune's new Tx::scroll_by applies
  from wherever the viewport is, keeping a finger's drag and a fling's
  momentum (scroll_to_instant stopped both, and a stale absolute offset
  snapped the list back).
- The bridge's ResizeObserver delivers a batch of host layouts in one
  callback, as a browser's does per frame: one MeasuredRows per frame.
- iOS: a batch of host lines crosses to the worker as one message.
- Rune pinned to Makisuo/rune hazel-scroll-by (c3536c2).

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The runtime and native and web hosts now support relative scrolling. The message list updates its overscan window incrementally and retains rendered rows across settled scrolls. The bridge batches resize observer notifications. The iOS worker bridge changes how it queues and delivers text messages. The native renderer splits eligible preformatted inline content at newlines, and iOS islands cache tab bar fitted sizes. Native layout reporting now writes pre-serialized layout lines.

Changes: Relative scrolling and message-list rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime scroll command and bridge
packages/foldkit-rune/src/wire.ts, packages/foldkit-rune/src/bridge.ts, packages/foldkit-rune/src/bridge.test.ts
The scroll message adds an optional by delta. ProxyElement.scrollBy sends nonzero relative deltas. BridgeResizeObserver batches resized targets for microtask delivery, and tests check observer batching and scroll offset updates.
Host scroll application
apps/web-foldkit/src/mount/message-list.ts, apps/native/host/Cargo.toml, apps/native/host/ios/Cargo.toml, apps/native/host/src/wire.rs, apps/native/host/src/render/handlers.rs, apps/native/host/src/render/mod.rs, apps/native/host/src/capture.rs, apps/native/host/src/shell.rs
The web host applies relative deltas with scrollBy. The native host routes messages with by to tx.scroll_by and messages without it to scroll_to_instant. The Rune dependency pins change to a revision that includes Tx::scroll_by.
Incremental message-list rendering
apps/web-foldkit/src/mount/message-list.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/mount/message-list.test.ts
The message list grows and trims overscan in steps and retains the rendered range after scrolling settles. Tests cover overscan and reuse or release of the retained range.

iOS worker message handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Worker message queuing and delivery
apps/native/host/ios/src/page.rs, apps/native/src/ios.ts
The page bridge queues and replays text batches intact. The iOS message handler splits incoming strings into nonempty newline-delimited messages for queuing or delivery.

Tab bar measurement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tab bar fit measurement cache
apps/native/host/ios/src/islands.rs
Island caches the tab bar’s fitted dimensions, clears the cache when tab item content changes, and reuses the fitted height when the width matches.

Preformatted text layout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preformatted inline line layout
apps/native/host/src/render/mod.rs, apps/native/host/src/tests.rs
The renderer splits eligible preformatted inline content at newlines and lays out each line separately. A test checks nested inline spans inside pre > code.

Native layout reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Layout report serialization
apps/native/host/src/outbox.rs, apps/native/host/src/render/handlers.rs
The outbox writes pre-serialized text through the existing output path. Layout reports append coordinates to a serialized prefix and convert non-finite coordinates to zero.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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  participant ProxyElement
  participant RuntimeToHost
  participant RuntimeMsg
  participant apply_scroll
  participant Tx
  ProxyElement->>RuntimeToHost: Sends scroll command with relative by delta
  RuntimeToHost->>RuntimeMsg: Carries optional by value
  RuntimeMsg->>apply_scroll: Provides path, top, and by
  apply_scroll->>Tx: Calls scroll_by or scroll_to_instant
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  • MapleTechLabs/hazel#403: This PR also changes the native scroll message and capture handling, and pins the Rune dependency to a different revision.
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Scroll corrections issued alongside an absolute jump in the same frame can leave the native viewport at the wrong position. Preformatted code blocks can also render stale line fragments when the content before them changes. Resolve or explicitly accept both before merging.

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Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Preserve the order of relative and absolute scroll commands.

When both commands arrive before one frame, this branch does not preserve their order. The pinned Rune implementation collects absolute offsets and relative shifts separately. It applies all absolute offsets before the relative shifts. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

apps/native/host/src/capture.rs, Lines 181–183, drains queued messages before running the frame. For example, a by: -40 correction followed by an absolute jump to top: 1000 should finish at 1000. Instead, Rune jumps to 1000 and then shifts to 960. The latest sequence report makes the bridge accept that incorrect destination.

Preserve an ordered scroll-request stream, or discard superseded relative corrections when a later absolute command targets the same viewport. Cover both command orders in a native regression test.

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Update the scroll-command dispatch around tx.scroll_by(path, by) so relative and absolute requests for the same viewport retain arrival order when queued before a frame; use an ordered request stream or discard relative corrections superseded by a later absolute request. Add a native regression test covering both command orders and verifying the final viewport position.

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…lives a settle

- At steady state the overscan window grew and dropped one row each time a
  row boundary crossed its lead, re-rendering the list every few frames of a
  scroll. Each side now waits a step before growing or dropping, so it moves
  every few rows (126 window changes over a 6000px scroll before, under 60
  now).
- A settled list kept only the pool, so every new gesture built the 2400px
  lead again. Settled now keeps the last window rendered while it overlaps
  the viewport, and the next scroll goes on from it. Eight short gestures
  sent 32 trees to the native host; now 16.

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sizeThatFits lays the bar out; the island sync ran it after every frame.

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Check viewport coverage at each scroll position.

The test checks the overscan margin only at 6,000 px. A window that leaves a gap earlier in the scroll still passes. Check the rendered endpoints inside the loop against each top value. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the scroll loop in the viewport coverage test to check the rendered window endpoints from windowOf(model) against each top value, asserting that every scroll position remains covered rather than checking overscan only after the loop.

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A white-space: pre block of inline content laid out as one wrapping row, so
a newline inside the editor's leaf spans (each leaf wraps its text in two
spans) started no line: a code block ran its lines together. Such content
now splits at its newlines into a column of line rows, fragmenting an
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Every observed row reports its rect each frame of a scroll. The report's
prefix (with the escaped path) is now serialized once per build and the
rect appended to it, instead of a serde_json::Value built and formatted per
report: its share of the main thread in a long scroll drops by half.

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Give each fragment a hash that reflects its children.

with_children changes the children but preserves the source hash. This can reuse the wrong fragment through build's existing rune::memo.

For example, render a text sibling followed by a span containing "A\nB". Then append a newline to the preceding sibling without changing the span. The span's "A" fragment moves to the line-specific path previously occupied by "B". Its hash and inherited state remain unchanged, so the memo can return the cached "B" fragment.

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…parse with JSON.parse

- Every subscription reads the shared context on every Message, which
  resolved the whole keymap again, parsing each action's key combo: most of
  the runtime's time in a scroll on the native app (8.9s of a 20s scroll
  run). The keymap now keeps one table per overrides object and platform.
- The native runtime decoded each host line with a Schema of Unknown;
  JSON.parse does the same for the line every observed row sends each frame.

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A Favorites section and the Members row moved the channel rows down: the
check hovered Members, so the trigger clickLabel pressed (the first in the
tree) stayed hidden and the press followed its row's link. It also fails on
main.

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@Makisuo Makisuo changed the title perf(native): smoother scrolling on Rune: corrections keep flings, batched measurements perf(native): smoother scrolling on Rune, less work per frame, code block line breaks Nov 12, 2026
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🟢 Confidence 9/10 · safe to merge. The delta is one constant in a bench script; the remaining gap is the untested kept-row path in containerRows (earlier finding F1).
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Only the bench harness changed since the last review: the sidebar channel-menu check now hovers a channel row at [200, 270] so the row's dots trigger is showing when clickLabel presses it. No new defects in that hunk.

  • sidebar channel menu check hovers [200, 270] instead of [200, 220], over a channel row

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