Navigation was built from the review ring while the compare GET also demands
containment, so an outside symlink (which stays in the ring) was offered by
the strip, the steps, the review's Compare control and the flag landing, and
404ed on arrival. Every one is now built from the compare ring (the review
ring filtered by the same conjunction, _in_booth).
Two pre-existing gaps compare inherits, fixed at the source: resolve_booth
caught only OSError, so a NUL in the booth segment was a 500; record_view
opened its marker blocking, so a planted FIFO hung every look. Plus: the page
treats %73ide=a as side=a, and the subgrid engine floor is stated. Two
findings refuted (a chorded click mid-drag never fires pointerup, measured;
booth_items never yields an unquotable rel). r3.toml: 57 rows.
The one drift: the separator was a border on B, making B's stage 1px
narrower than A's; it is now a 1px column gap, so the stages are the same
size to the pixel. Tests now read what the contract promises instead of a
proxy: the strip's ring order, the full bakeoff sequence, 1:1 and Fit by
geometry, the 900px break from both sides, A wrapping, each form naming its
own item, a sibling-prefix symlink, both reveals, the strip's flag, the back
arrow unlinked, a one-axis picture, a focused player, two videos with no
toggle. The contract names .cmp-cap, a press on a stage, INV-4's URL-driven
picker and the redirect branch's isinstance check. r3.toml gains ten rows.
GET /b/{name}/compare with the conjunction 404 (containment AND the review
ring), both sides recorded as seen, view state (side, link) mapped from a
closed set onto every link, side-keyed regions, and back=compare in
_mark_redirect. compare.html: two stages sharing one set of rows, the strip
as picker (the side active now), linked and per-side stepping, X/L/Z/A/B/C
keys under the review's guards, synced pan by fraction with an echo guard,
per-side blur reveals, JS-off parity.
The stage machinery moves out of view.html into _stage_js.html
(BoothMode.bind, BoothStage.attach), shared by the review and compare. The
review gains a Compare control and a C key. At phone width a full top bar
wraps.
Tables: r2c's 15 stage rows re-pointed to _stage_js.html; r2b's phone
top-bar row re-anchored (the wrap made it vacuous alone); new r3.toml. The
contract records the wrap, equal stages and C on the compare page.
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