fix(web): dragging inside an inline HTML page no longer flickers and cancels#22338

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Problem

Dragging inside an inline html_render page flickered and never worked; the same page dragged fine full screen. Measured in Chromium with real mouse input: picking up a row grows the page 28px, the bootstrap reports the new height, the inline frame resizes the iframe, and the iframe's window fires resize. The page cancels its drag on resize, as many drag scripts do, and snaps back, so the frame shrinks again. Each press runs one grow/cancel/shrink cycle. Full screen never resizes the frame, so it never cancels.

While a thread streams, a second problem appears: live-follow scrolls the frame out from under a held pointer (the frame top moved about 460px mid-drag), so the drop lands in the wrong place.

Change

The bootstrap holds height reports while a trusted pointer is pressed and measures once after the last release. The frame keeps its height for the whole gesture, then fits as before. pointercancel or blur ends a hold whose release never arrives, so autofit can't get stuck.
The page also posts t3/notifications/pointer-held. HtmlRenderDocument turns it into the existing onFullscreenChange hold. That turns off maintainScrollAtEnd and keeps the row mounted until release, as full screen already does. The image viewer and the press now share one combined hold, so neither can clear the other's. A page can at most pause following for its own row, so the hold isn't gated on user activation, which a touch press doesn't have yet.
The page layout guide now tells agents to cancel gestures on resize only when the width changes. That covers keyboard drags, which a pointer hold can't.

The bootstrap is baked in at publish time, so already-published pages keep the old script until they're re-rendered. Mobile renders pages top-level and ignores the page's size reports, so it's unaffected. MCP App frames use their own bootstrap and are unchanged.

Scope and approval

A focused fix for an obvious bug: interactive html_render pages couldn't be dragged inline. It changes no settings, contracts or providers.

Verification

vp test run src/components/chat/HtmlRenderFrame.browser.test.tsx src/components/chat/HtmlRenderDialog.browser.test.tsx (apps/web): 9/9 passed, three runs in a row. The new test presses with real CDP mouse input on a page that grows on press and cancels on resize. It fails without the fix: a 260px size report arrives mid-press.
vp test run src/htmlRender.test.ts (packages/shared): 29/29 passed.
A throwaway harness, not committed, re-bootstrapped the affected page and ran 10 real-mouse scenarios, all passing: HtmlRenderFrame alone, the full MessagesTimeline idle, and streaming below the frame (the frame top stayed fixed through 21 streamed renders, and follow resumed after release). Controls with the old bootstrap still cancel. Normal autofit still grows the frame for a keyboard-opened <details>, timer growth, and growth during a press, which is reported once on release.
In a dev server's Browser panel, the page dragged inline with no size report and the frame held at 800px during the press; the old bootstrap resized it 800 → 827 → 800 mid-press. That panel's drag releases too quickly to show the cancel itself, so the held-press failure is covered by the tests above.
Targeted vp lint, vp fmt and tsc-rs --noEmit for apps/web and packages/shared were clean.

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fix(web): dragging inside an inline HTML page no longer flickers and cancelscc031c5

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packages/shared/src/htmlRender.tsline 421Outdated · cc031c5Resolved by maria

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused inline-HTML drag fix that holds frame sizing and timeline position during trusted pointer presses, with browser regression coverage. A Medium-severity missed-release path remains identified that can leave autofit and live-follow paused.

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7	Review comments at @apps/web/src/hooks/useHtmlRenderPointerHold.ts:
8	- Around line 34-40: Update the effect in the useHtmlRenderPointerHold hook to
9	clear held and setPointerHeld(false) when the iframe element emits a load event,
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The iframe bootstrap now reports pointer holds and pauses size reports during active gestures. A shared hook tracks holds, sends release messages, and supports file and guest render components. Tests cover protocol parsing and browser interactions.

Changes: Framed-page pointer hold

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pointer-held protocol and reporting `packages/shared/src/htmlRender.ts`, `packages/shared/src/htmlRender.test.ts`	The shared module defines and validates pointer-held and pointer-release messages. The iframe bootstrap tracks active pointers and pauses size reports until release or blur. Tests cover valid and invalid messages.
Parent handling and browser verification `apps/web/src/hooks/useHtmlRenderPointerHold.ts`, `apps/web/src/components/files/BrowserDocumentFrame.tsx`, `apps/web/src/components/guest/GuestHtmlRender.tsx`, `apps/web/src/components/chat/HtmlRenderFrame.browser.test.tsx`	The hook tracks holds reported by its iframe and sends release messages for pointer and blur events. File and guest render components use the hook. Browser tests cover held-input sizing across pointer, touch, sibling-frame, and guest-render cases.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant HtmlRenderBootstrap
3	participant useHtmlRenderPointerHold
4	participant HtmlRenderDocument
5	HtmlRenderBootstrap->>useHtmlRenderPointerHold: Send pointer-held notification
6	useHtmlRenderPointerHold->>HtmlRenderDocument: Update held state
7	HtmlRenderDocument->>useHtmlRenderPointerHold: Report pointer release event
8	useHtmlRenderPointerHold->>HtmlRenderBootstrap: Send pointer-release message
9	HtmlRenderBootstrap->>HtmlRenderBootstrap: Resume size reports after release

Possibly related issues

pingdotgg/t3code#23864: Both concern fitted inline HTML frame sizing, but this PR does not show the issue’s proposed scrolling="no" change.

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#22349: Both changes affect sizing behavior driven by size-changed reports in HTML frames.
pingdotgg/t3code#25456: Both changes affect message handling in HtmlRenderDocument.
pingdotgg/t3code#24820: Both changes affect message dispatch and content-height handling in HtmlRenderDocument.

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Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: External image Low · up to 4c0b4

A navigation during a drag can temporarily pin the timeline row and pause live-follow. Reset the hold when the iframe loads a new document.

Security architecture risk: External image Low · up to cc031

The change preserves page isolation and does not grant access to application credentials or privileged actions. Its effects are bounded to retaining one page row and pausing timeline following. Recovery remains uncertain when a pointer release is missed or the embedded document navigates while held.

Retained concerns

Low · reliability · inferred: The new host hold has no independent recovery when the child misses its terminal event. An uncaptured outside release or document replacement that does not deliver blur could leave height reporting suppressed or the host hold active, retaining the row and disabling timeline following beyond the gesture. This is a bounded failure-containment concern, not a verified security exploit; browser-specific reproduction remains unresolved.

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Security Blast Radius

observed — A valid hold from the embedded page affects its originating timeline row. The timeline stores one selected fullscreen row ID, retains that row, and pauses list-wide following while the ID is set. This path does not confer service, environment, credential, or data-store authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

inferred — Code in the iframe can directly post held:true without a genuine gesture and omit the matching false message. The bootstrap's trusted-event check cannot authenticate such messages to the parent. This newly permits indefinite row retention and a pause in timeline following without activation, but the inspected sink remains bounded UI state rather than a privileged action.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — Current-frame source binding excludes unrelated windows from setting this component's hold. It identifies the embedded window, not trusted bootstrap code within that window. Unlike existing image requests, the new hold intentionally has no focus or activation requirement, accommodating touch initiation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — Capture-phase release and cancellation listeners, child blur cleanup, and host effect cleanup on unmount provide recovery paths. The host iframe load handler does not reset pointerHeld, leaving recovery after document replacement dependent on child notifications or other lifecycle events.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Consider host-owned recovery tied to document replacement and a verified outside-release strategy, so a lost child event cannot indefinitely retain host lifecycle state. Any reset should preserve an independently active image hold and legitimate long gestures.

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The title names the main change: dragging inside an inline HTML page no longer flickers or cancels. The changeset holds iframe height reports during pointer presses, which matches the title's fix. The title uses the conventional commit format, is one sentence, and avoids vague wording.

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packages/shared/src/htmlRender.tslines 412–421Outdated · cc031c5Resolved by maria

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fix(web): merge main and release inline html gestures outside the framed5be5cf
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fix(web): relay releases across inline html framesfa289ef
fix(web): share html gesture cleanup with guest frames4c0b4f0

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@Zeus-Deus, your diagnosis and pointer hold fixed the right mechanism. i kept your commit, merged github/main, and updated the existing pr through 4c0b4f02e610fe4502ff3357cf35ec1a05b225e1.

height reports still wait during a press, and the timeline hold still combines with the image viewer. release cleanup now preserves pointer ids and covers the parent document, managed sibling frames, blur, and re-entry with no buttons pressed. normal and guest frames share one bridge. pages retain control of pointer capture. i kept main's current message listener and test lifecycle, and omitted the proposed layout-guide wording change.

verification:

blacksmith: 21 focused tests, formatting, lint, both knip checks, and three react compiler checks passed. regression cases cover in-frame release, outside release, two touches, sibling frames, and guest frames. sibling and guest cases fail without their respective fixes, then pass with them.
vp run check:changed still fails aggregate typecheck on four pre-existing errors in the unchanged server tests: missing fakeProvider in PullRequestService.test.ts and encodeScanCache in usageScanCache.test.ts. these files match main at 35c1210331.
final code in the real web client, system chrome on linux: main's bootstrap cancels the drag; the updated bootstrap reorders the same rows. release outside without pointer capture emits held: true → false, and later growth resizes the frame from 297px to 415px. captures use a seeded tool result through the real attachment and frame path. uploaded clips play and seek.
all 28 pr checks passed on the final head, with no conflicts. the latest bot review reports no actionable comments; all three addressed inline threads are resolved. unverified: live-follow during provider streaming, a live guest-share URL, electron/native clients, physical touch, and relay/tunnel connections. browser tests exercise the actual guest component. existing published pages need rendering again to receive the new baked-in bootstrap.

before: the inline frame resizes and cancels the drag

after: the same drag completes and reorders the rows

before: three-second recording of the cancelled drag

after: three-second recording of the completed drag

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	37	+	if (pointerHeld !== undefined) {
	38	+	held = pointerHeld;
	39	+	setPointerHeld(pointerHeld);
	40	+	}

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Reset the hold when the iframe loads a new document.

The hook clears held only when the frame posts held: false. If the page navigates while a pointer is held, the new document starts with no pointer state and never posts held: false. One way this happens is implicit form submission, such as Enter in a text field, which sandbox="allow-scripts allow-forms" permits. A page script that navigates during a press can also cause it. The parent keeps pointerHeld true, so BrowserDocumentFrame keeps onFullscreenChange(true) active. The timeline row stays pinned and live-follow stays paused until the next real press in the new document, or until unmount. GuestHtmlRender uses the same hook, so it has the same behavior.

Reset the hold on the iframe's load event. This clears a hold left by a navigation once the replacement document loads. The frame element is mounted for the component's lifetime, so the listener is attached to the element that navigates.

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1	for (const event of events) window.addEventListener(event, release, true);
2	+ const frame = frameRef.current;
3	+ const clear = () => {
4	+ held = false;
5	+ setPointerHeld(false);
6	+ };
7	+ frame?.addEventListener("load", clear);
8	return () => {
9	+ frame?.removeEventListener("load", clear);
10	window.removeEventListener("message", onMessage);
11	for (const event of events) window.removeEventListener(event, release, true);
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Verified in a real dev environment

verified the existing head 4c0b4f02e610fe4502ff3357cf35ec1a05b225e1 without code changes. git.cafe's number is also #22338.

ran vp i and one background dev server at a time, first on github/main (6575ce3250), then the exact pr head. used repo playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome on linux. created projects and threads through the web app, then used real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns to create and publish an interactive reading list through html_render. no seeded tool results, mocks, fixtures or replay provider. both versions rendered the same saved html.

main: pressing alpha grows the iframe 338 → 378 → 338px and cancels the drag with "cancelled by resize".
pr: the iframe stays 338px throughout the press; the same drag completes with "order: beta, gamma, alpha". no height report arrives during the hold.
real provider streaming: held the page for about 12 seconds while codex's reply grew. the drag completed and following resumed on release. one timeline layout update moved the frame down 24px; it then stayed in place through subsequent text updates. this does not prove absolute position stability across every timeline layout change.
release outside the iframe, without pointer capture: pointer-held: true → false before re-entry. normal autofit resumed; adding a note grew the frame 338 → 450px.
neighboring behavior: keyboard-opening and closing details resized 338 → 460 → 338px; adding a note resized to 450px; fullscreen dragging also completed.
blacksmith: vp test run for the frame/dialog browser tests passed 18 tests; cd packages/shared && vp test run src/htmlRender.test.ts passed 12 tests. all 28 pr checks are successful on this head.

inspected the captures and played and sought both uploaded clips. these matching crops show the actual inline page from the running app. the full recordings are embedded as animated gifs for github compatibility.

main: the growing drop target cancels the inline drag

pr: the same reading list reorders successfully

main: recording of the cancelled drag

pr: recording of the completed drag

Not verified

native ios/android, electron, macos/windows, physical touch, guest-share urls, relay/tunnel connections, iframe navigation during a hold, and simultaneous image-viewer/pointer holds. browser regression tests cover touch and guest-frame release, but those are not real-client verification of those surfaces.

main's separate html_preview capture timed out after 20 seconds. provider html_render, attachment loading and inline interaction worked. already-published pages retain their baked bootstrap and need re-rendering to receive this fix.