layout: visual interface improvements

- writing a new message is now presented in full-screen, so that
  there are no distractions, i.e. other posts
- added back button and listen to esc key to close new message
- on portrait mode the navigation buttons are now positioned at
  the bottom of the screen
- write new message botton (bubble) is also positioned bottomright
- replies now use a line to the last reply instead of indentation,
  better use of available space, especially on small screen
- ignore newlines at the end of a post
- added subtile growin effect to the multiline textfield, to hint
  that the textarea is growing with more content

src/cards.css

@@ -1,26 +1,40 @@
 /* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Layout_cookbook/Media_objects */
 .mbox {
+  --profileimg-size: 5rem;
   align-items: center;
   display: flex;
   flex-direction: row;
-  flex-wrap: nowrap;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
   margin-bottom: 1rem;
+  padding: 0 calc(.25 * var(--gap));
+}
+.mbox:last-child {
+  margin-bottom: 0;
+}
+.mbox .mbox {
+  padding: 0;
 }
 
 .mbox-img {
-  --size: 5rem;
   align-self: start;
-  flex-basis: var(--size);
+  background-color: var(--bgcolor-textinput);
-  height: var(--size);
+  border-radius: var(--profileimg-size);
+  border: 1px solid transparent;
+  flex-basis: var(--profileimg-size);
+  height: var(--profileimg-size);
   margin-right: 1rem;
-  margin-top: .5ch;
+  /* padding-top: .5ch; */
-  max-width: var(--size);
+  max-width: var(--profileimg-size);
-  max-width: var(--size);
+  max-width: var(--profileimg-size);
+  outline: .5rem solid var(--bgcolor);
+  overflow: hidden;
+  position: relative;
+  z-index: 2;
 }
 
 .mbox-updated-contact .mbox-img,
 .mbox-recommend-server .mbox-img {
-  --size: 4.5ch;
+  --profileimg-size: 4.5ch;
   margin-left: 3ch;
   margin-right: 3.5ch;
 }
@@ -62,3 +76,28 @@
   padding: 0 0 1rem 0;
   margin: 0;
 }
+
+.mbox {
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+.mbox .mbox {
+  overflow: visible;
+  position: relative;
+}
+.mobx-replies {
+  flex-grow: 1;
+  position: relative;
+}
+.mbox .mbox::before,
+.mobx-replies::before {
+  background-color: var(--bgcolor-inactive);
+  border: none;
+  content: "";
+  display: block;
+  height: 100vh;
+  left: calc(.5 * var(--profileimg-size));
+  margin-left: -.2rem;
+  position: absolute;
+  top: -100vh;
+  width: .4rem;
+}

src/domutil.js

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export function elem(name = 'div', {data, ...props} = {}, children = []) {
  */
 export function multilineText(string) {
   return string
+    .trimRight()
     .split('\n')
     .reduce((acc, next, i) => acc.concat(i === 0 ? next : [elem('br'), next]), []);
 }

src/form.css

@@ -1,30 +1,46 @@
+:root {
+  --transition-duration: .25s;
+  --transition-timing-function: ease-out;
+}
+
 form,
 .form {
+  --padding: 1.2rem;
   display: flex;
   flex-direction: column;
+  padding: var(--gap);
+}
+
+fieldset {
+  /* ignore this container */
+  border: none;
+  display: contents;
+}
+
+legend {
+  display: none;
+  width: 100%;
+}
+#newMessage legend {
+  display: block;
 }
 
 input,
 textarea {
   color: var(--color);
   font-size: 1.6rem;
-  margin-bottom: 1.2rem;
-  padding: 1.3rem 1.8rem;
 }
 
 button,
 label {
+  color: var(--color);
   cursor: pointer;
   display: block;
   font-size: 1.6rem;
   margin-bottom: 0;
-  padding: 1.3rem 1.8rem;
+  padding: var(--padding);
   text-indent: 0;
-  transition: background-color .25s;
+  transition: background-color var(--transition-duration);
-}
-
-label {
-  color: var(--color-accent);
 }
 
 input[type="password"],
@@ -34,7 +50,8 @@ textarea {
   border: .2rem solid #b7b7b7;
   border-radius: .2rem;
   display: block;
-  margin: 0;
+  margin: 0 0 1.2rem 0;
+  padding: var(--padding);
 }
 input[type="password"]:focus,
 input[type="text"]:focus,
@@ -44,27 +61,41 @@ textarea:focus {
   outline: var(--focus-outline);
 }
 textarea {
-  max-height: 50vh;
+  /* max-height: 64vh; */
   min-height: 20px;
   resize: none;
-  transition: min-height .1s ease-out, height .1s ease-out;
+  transition: min-height var(--transition-duration) var(--transition-timing-function),
+              height var(--transition-duration) var(--transition-timing-function);
 }
 textarea:focus {
   min-height: 3.5rem;
 }
-
+#newMessage textarea {
+  min-height: 10rem;
+}
+#newMessage textarea:focus {
+  min-height: 18rem;
+}
 
 .buttons {
   align-items: center;
   display: flex;
+  flex-basis: 100%;
   justify-content: flex-end;
+  gap: var(--gap);
   margin-top: 2rem;
   min-height: 3.2rem;
 }
+.form-inline .buttons {
+  flex-basis: fit-content;
+  margin-top: 0;
+}
 
 button {
-  background-color: var(--bgcolor-accent);
+  --bg-color: var(--bgcolor-accent);
-  border: none;
+  --border-color: var(--bgcolor-accent);
+  background-color: var(--bg-color);
+  border: 0.2rem solid var(--border-color);
   border-radius: .2rem;
   cursor: pointer;
   outline-offset: 1px;
@@ -75,6 +106,7 @@ button:focus {
 }
 
 .btn-inline {
+  --border-color: transparent;
   align-items: center;
   background: transparent;
   color: var(--color);
@@ -100,7 +132,8 @@ button:focus {
 }
 
 button:disabled {
-  background-color: var(--bgcolor-inactive);
+  --bg-color: var(--bgcolor-inactive);
+  --border-color: var(--bgcolor-inactive);
   cursor: default;
 }
 
@@ -110,15 +143,19 @@ button:disabled {
 }
 
 .form-status {
+  flex-basis: 100%;
   flex-grow: 1;
   padding: 1rem 1.8rem;
 }
 
 .form-inline {
+  --padding: 1.2rem 1.3rem;
   display: flex;
   flex-direction: row;
   flex-grow: 1;
-  gap: 1rem;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  gap: 0 var(--gap);
+  padding: 0;
 }
 .cards .form-inline button,
 .cards .form-inline input[type="text"],
@@ -128,7 +165,10 @@ button:disabled {
 
 .form-inline input[type="text"],
 .form-inline textarea {
+  flex-basis: 50%;
   flex-grow: 1;
+  flex-shrink: 1;
+  min-width: 100px;
   margin-bottom: 0;
 }
 
@@ -136,10 +176,36 @@ button:disabled {
   flex-grow: 0;
 }
 
-.form-inline button#publish {
+button#publish {
   align-self: end;
+  order: 2;
+}
+button[name="back"] {
+  display: none;
+}
+#newMessage button[name="back"] {
+  align-self: end;
+  display: inherit;
+}
+
+#sendstatus {
+  order: 1;
 }
 
 .focus-active {
 
 }
+
+.shrink-out {
+  animation-duration: var(--transition-duration);
+  animation-name: lineInserted;
+  transition: max-height var(--transition-duration) var(--transition-timing-function);
+}
+@keyframes lineInserted {
+  from {
+    max-height: 50px;
+  }
+  to {
+    max-height: 0px;
+  }
+}

src/index.html

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
   </head>
   <body>
     <main class="tabbed">
+      <input type="radio" name="maintabs" id="settings" class="tab">
+      <label for="settings">profile</label>
       <input type="radio" name="maintabs" id="feed" class="tab" checked>
       <label for="feed">feed</label>
       <!-- <input type="radio" name="maintabs" id="trending" class="tab">
@@ -16,21 +18,27 @@
       <label for="direct">direct</label>
       <input type="radio" name="maintabs" id="chat" class="tab">
       <label for="chat">chat</label> -->
-      <input type="radio" name="maintabs" id="settings" class="tab">
-      <label for="settings">profile</label>
       
       <div class="tabs">
         <div class="tab-content">
-          <article class="mbox">
+          <artcile>
-            <img class="mbox-img" id="bubble" src="assets/comment.svg" alt="">
+            <svg id="bubble" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="21" viewBox="0 0 80.035 70.031">
-            <div class="mbox-body" id="newMessage">
+              <path fill="var(--bgcolor-textinput)" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="4.927" d="M2.463 31.824q0-4.789 1.893-9.248 1.892-4.46 5.361-8.087 3.47-3.626 8.07-6.333 4.598-2.707 10.324-4.2 5.727-1.493 11.836-1.493 6.107 0 11.834 1.492 5.725 1.494 10.325 4.2 4.599 2.708 8.07 6.334 3.47 3.627 5.362 8.087 1.891 4.46 1.891 9.248 0 5.97-2.967 11.384-2.967 5.414-7.982 9.336-5.015 3.922-11.957 6.248-6.94 2.325-14.576 2.325-7.463 0-14.334-2.221l-8.537 6.038q-4.789 3.02-6.733 1.752-1.943-1.266-.867-7.13l1.77-8.886q-4.2-3.887-6.49-8.71-2.29-4.825-2.29-10.136Z"/>
-              <form action="#" class="form-inline" id="writeForm">
+            </svg>
+            <div id="newMessage" hidden>
+              <form action="#" id="writeForm" class="form-inline">
+                <fieldset>
+                  <legend>write a new post</legend>
                   <textarea name="message" rows="1"></textarea>
+                  <div class="buttons">
                     <button type="submit" id="publish" disabled>send</button>
-              </form>
+                    <button type="button" name="back">back</button>
+                  </div>
                   <small id="sendstatus" class="form-status"></small>
+                </fieldset>
+              </form>
             </div>
-          </article>
+          </artcile>
           <div class="cards" id="homefeed"></div>
         </div>
     

src/main.css

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 @import "tabs.css";
 @import "cards.css";
 @import "form.css";
+@import "write.css";
 
 :root {
   /* 5px auto Highlight */
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@
   --focus-outline-width: 2px;
   --focus-outline: var(--focus-outline-width) var(--focus-outline-style) var(--focus-outline-color);
   --font-small: 1.2rem;
+  --gap: 2.4rem;
 }
 
 ::selection {
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@
 @media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
   html {
     --bgcolor: #fdfefa;
-    --bgcolor-accent: #37ff1d;
+    --bgcolor-accent: #7badfc;
     --bgcolor-inactive: #bababa;
     --bgcolor-textinput: #fff;
     --color: rgb(68 68 68);
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@
   html {
     --bgcolor: #191919;
     --bgcolor-accent: #1e437d;
-    --bgcolor-inactive: #333333;
+    --bgcolor-inactive: #434343;
     --bgcolor-textinput: #0e0e0e;
     --color: #fff;
     --color-accent: #bbb;;
@@ -65,6 +67,7 @@ body {
   color: var(--color);
   font-size: 1.6rem;
   line-height: 1.5;
+  margin: 0;
 }
 
 body,

src/main.js

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ import {elem, multilineText} from './domutil.js';
 import {dateTime, formatTime} from './timeutil.js';
 // curl -H 'accept: application/nostr+json' https://nostr.x1ddos.ch
 const pool = relayPool();
-// pool.addRelay('wss://relay.nostr.info', {read: true, write: true});
+pool.addRelay('wss://relay.nostr.info', {read: true, write: true});
-// pool.addRelay('wss://relay.damus.io', {read: true, write: true});
+pool.addRelay('wss://relay.damus.io', {read: true, write: true});
 pool.addRelay('wss://nostr.x1ddos.ch', {read: true, write: true});
 // pool.addRelay('wss://nostr.openchain.fr', {read: true, write: true});
 // pool.addRelay('wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social/', {read: true, write: true});
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ function handleReaction(evt, relay) {
     if (evt.pubkey === pubkey) {
       const star = button.querySelector('img[src$="star.svg"]');
       star.setAttribute('src', 'assets/star-fill.svg');
-      star.setAttribute('title', reactionMap[eventId])
+      star.setAttribute('title', reactionMap[eventId]);
     }
   }
 }
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ setInterval(() => {
 
 function createTextNote(evt, relay) {
   const {host, img, isReply, replies, time, userName} = getMetadata(evt, relay);
-  const isLongContent = evt.content.length > 280;
+  const isLongContent = evt.content.trimRight().length > 280;
   const content = isLongContent ? `${evt.content.slice(0, 280)}…` : evt.content;
   const hasReactions = reactionMap[evt.id]?.length > 0;
   const didReact = hasReactions && !!reactionMap[evt.id].find(reaction => reaction.pubkey === pubkey);
@@ -190,10 +190,16 @@ function createTextNote(evt, relay) {
       className: 'btn-inline', name: 'reply', type: 'button',
       data: {'eventId': evt.id, relay},
     }, [elem('img', {height: 24, width: 24, src: 'assets/comment.svg'})]),
+    // replies[0] ? elem('div', {className: 'mobx-replies'}, replyFeed.reverse()) : '',
+  ]);
+  if (restoredReplyTo === evt.id) {
+    appendReplyForm(body.querySelector('button[name="reply"]'));
+    requestAnimationFrame(() => updateElemHeight(writeInput));
+  }
+  return rendernArticle([
+    elem('div', {className: 'mbox-img'}, [img]), body,
     replies[0] ? elem('div', {className: 'mobx-replies'}, replyFeed.reverse()) : '',
   ]);
-  if (restoredReplyTo === evt.id) appendReplyForm(body.querySelector('button[name="reply"]'));
-  return rendernArticle([img, body]);
 }
 
 function handleReply(evt, relay) {
@@ -214,7 +220,7 @@ function renderReply(evt, relay) {
   let replyContainer = article.querySelector('.mobx-replies');
   if (!replyContainer) {
     replyContainer = elem('div', {className: 'mobx-replies'});
-    article.querySelector('.mbox-body').append(replyContainer);
+    article.append(replyContainer);
   }
   const reply = createTextNote(evt, relay);
   replyContainer.append(reply);
@@ -291,7 +297,7 @@ function renderRecommendServer(evt, relay) {
     ]),
     ` recommends server: ${evt.content}`,
   ]);
-  return rendernArticle([img, body], {className: 'mbox-recommend-server', data: {relay: evt.content}});
+  return rendernArticle([elem('div', {className: 'mbox-img'}, [img]), body], {className: 'mbox-recommend-server', data: {relay: evt.content}});
 }
 
 function rendernArticle(content, props = {}) {
@@ -349,7 +355,6 @@ function getMetadata(evt, relay) {
   const userName = user?.metadata[relay]?.name || evt.pubkey.slice(0, 8);
   const userAbout = user?.metadata[relay]?.about || '';
   const img = elem('img', {
-    className: 'mbox-img',
     src: userImg,
     alt: `${userName} ${host}`,
     title: `${userName} on ${host} ${userAbout}`,
@@ -378,19 +383,45 @@ const writeForm = document.querySelector('#writeForm');
 const writeInput = document.querySelector('textarea[name="message"]');
 
 function appendReplyForm(el) {
+  const shrink = elem('div', {className: 'shrink-out'});
+  shrink.style.height = `${writeInput.style.height || writeInput.getBoundingClientRect().height}px`;
+  shrink.addEventListener('animationend', () => shrink.remove());
+  writeForm.before(shrink);
+  writeInput.blur();
+  writeInput.style.removeProperty('height');
   el.after(writeForm);
-  el.after(sendStatus);
+  if (writeInput.value && !writeInput.value.trimRight()) {
-  writeInput.focus();
+    writeInput.value = '';
+  } else {
+    requestAnimationFrame(() => updateElemHeight(writeInput));
+  }
+  requestAnimationFrame(() => writeInput.focus());
 }
 
 const newMessageDiv = document.querySelector('#newMessage');
 document.querySelector('#bubble').addEventListener('click', (e) => {
-  localStorage.removeItem('reply_to');
+  localStorage.removeItem('reply_to'); // should it forget old replyto context?
   newMessageDiv.prepend(writeForm);
-  newMessageDiv.append(sendStatus);
+  hideNewMessage(false);
   writeInput.focus();
+  if (writeInput.value.trimRight()) {
+    writeInput.style.removeProperty('height');
+  }
+  document.body.style.overflow = 'hidden';
+  requestAnimationFrame(() => updateElemHeight(writeInput));
+});
+
+document.body.addEventListener('keyup', (e) => {
+  if (e.key === 'Escape') {
+    hideNewMessage(true);
+  }
 });
 
+function hideNewMessage(hide) {
+  document.body.style.removeProperty('overflow');
+  newMessageDiv.hidden = hide;
+}
+
 async function upvote(eventId, relay) {
   const privatekey = localStorage.getItem('private_key');
   const newReaction = {
@@ -415,10 +446,7 @@ async function upvote(eventId, relay) {
 
 // send
 const sendStatus = document.querySelector('#sendstatus');
-const onSendError = err => {
+const onSendError = err => sendStatus.textContent = err.message;
-  sendStatus.textContent = err.message;
-  sendStatus.hidden = false;
-};
 const publish = document.querySelector('#publish');
 writeForm.addEventListener('submit', async (e) => {
   e.preventDefault();
@@ -447,14 +475,13 @@ writeForm.addEventListener('submit', async (e) => {
         console.info(`publish request sent to ${url}`);
       }
       if (status === 1) {
-        sendStatus.hidden = true;
+        sendStatus.textContent = '';
         writeInput.value = '';
         writeInput.style.removeProperty('height');
         publish.disabled = true;
         if (replyTo) {
           localStorage.removeItem('reply_to');
           newMessageDiv.append(writeForm);
-          newMessageDiv.append(sendStatus);
         }
         // console.info(`event published by ${url}`, ev);
       }
@@ -547,4 +574,8 @@ document.body.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
     delete append.dataset.append;
     return;
   }
+  const back = e.target.closest('[name="back"]')
+  if (back) {
+    hideNewMessage(true);
+  }
 });

src/tabs.css

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-.tabs { margin-top: 4rem; }
+.tabs {
+  flex-basis: 100%;
+  margin-top: 4rem;
+}
 .tabs .tab-content { display: none; }
 #feed:checked ~ .tabs .tab-content:nth-child(1),
 #trending:checked ~ .tabs .tab-content:nth-child(2),
@@ -15,13 +18,17 @@ input[type="radio"].tab {
 }
 
 .tab + label {
+  background-color: var(--bgcolor-textinput);
   border: none;
   color: var(--color);
   display: inline-block;
+  margin-left: var(--gap);
+  margin-top: var(--gap);
   outline: 2px solid var(--bgcolor-accent);
   padding: 1rem 1.5em;
   position: relative;
   top: 1px;
+  z-index: 11;
 }
 input[type="radio"]:checked + label {
   background: var(--bgcolor-accent);
@@ -38,18 +45,34 @@ input[type="radio"]:checked + label {
 .tab-content {
   max-width: 96ch;
   min-height: 200px;
+  padding: calc(.5 * var(--gap)) 0 100px 0;
 }
-
+.tabbed {
-/*
+  align-items: start;
-
+  display: flex;
-
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
-
-.tab {
-  float: left;
 }
+@media (orientation: portrait) {
+  .tabbed {
+    align-items: start;
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: row-reverse;
+    flex-wrap: wrap;
+    justify-content: start;
+  }
+  .tabs {
+    height: 100vh;
+    margin-top: 0;
+    order: 1;
+    overflow: scroll;
+    width: 100vw;
+  }
+  .tab + label {
+    margin-top: calc(-3 * var(--gap));
+    margin-left: var(--gap);
+    order: 2;
+  }
+  .cards {
 
-.tab > label {
+  }
 }
-
-
-*/

src/write.css

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#bubble {
+  bottom: 4rem;
+  height: 10rem;
+  padding: 0;
+  position: fixed;
+  right: 5rem;
+  width: 10rem;
+  z-index: 12;
+}
+@media (orientation: portrait) {
+  #bubble {
+    bottom: calc(2 * var(--gap));
+    right: var(--gap);
+  }
+}
+
+#newMessage {
+  align-items: center;
+  display: flex;
+  height: 100vh;
+  justify-content: center;
+  position: fixed;
+  top: 0;
+  width: 100vw;
+  z-index: 20;
+}
+
+#newMessage #writeForm {
+  align-items: start;
+  background-color: var(--bgcolor);
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: row;
+  flex-grow: 1;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  gap: 0;
+  justify-content: end;
+  max-height: 100vh;
+  min-height: 64vh;
+  outline: 100vh solid var(--bgcolor);
+  overflow-y: auto;
+  padding: 2rem;
+}
+
+#newMessage .form-inline textarea {
+  flex-basis: 100%;
+  margin: var(--gap) 0;
+}
+
+#newMessage .buttons {
+  align-self: end;
+}