Closes#560.
Composes the active inbox's unread count over the base favicon as an SVG
badge, served as a percent-encoded data: URL, so new mail is visible on a
tab that is not focused — including when the browser collapses tabs to
icon-only, where a title-based count disappears entirely.
The base icon is read from the rendered <link rel="icon"> rather than from
config, so admin and per-domain branding overrides are inherited for free:
the count is drawn on whatever logo the deployment actually serves. Keeping
the badge in SVG rather than rasterising to a canvas also means the browser
can rasterise it at whatever size it asks for, so a HiDPI tab is not served a
16px bitmap.
Notes on the approach:
- The badge link is an *additional* icon link that we append and mark as
ours; we never remove or mutate a link we did not create. Next's metadata
icons are rendered by React, which keeps a fiber pointing at that DOM node,
so removing it would leave React holding a detached node and throw
"Cannot read properties of null (reading 'removeChild')" on the next
commit that deletes the fiber. Appending instead means the last-declared
icon wins, and non-SVG fallback links survive with their type/sizes intact.
(The usual recipe for this feature — assign canvas.toDataURL() to the
existing link's href — does both of the things that break here.)
- Every change of state is an *insertion* of a fresh link of ours, never a
mutation or a removal, because that is the only signal a browser reliably
re-reads the favicon on. Firefox ignores an in-place href change, and it
equally ignores a removal — so clearing the badge by deleting our link left
a stale count painted on the tab until a hard reload. Clearing it instead
inserts a new link of ours carrying the original base href.
- Holding last place has to be defended: on a client-side navigation React
re-hoists its metadata icon link into <head>, landing after ours, and the
base icon silently wins again. A MutationObserver on <head> moves our own
link back to the end whenever a foreign icon link appears — moving only our
node, never anyone else's. It no-ops once ours is last again, so a move
cannot feed itself.
- The badge is a full-width band across the foot of the icon, drawn to the
metrics measured from Gmail's own 16px favicon: band height 0.625 of the
icon, digit cap height 0.44, flush to the edges, corners rounded by about a
pixel. Full width is what keeps a three-glyph label legible — rounded ends
waste exactly the horizontal space it needs. Neutral white with black digits
rather than the conventional red: faviconUrl is admin-overridable and
Bulwark's own icon is rgb(219,45,84), so a red badge sat red-on-red.
- The base SVG may be admin-uploaded, and the branding route deliberately
serves it under a sandboxing CSP because SVG can carry script. Re-emitting
it as a same-origin data: URL would un-fence that, so script, foreignObject
and every on* handler are stripped before serialising.
- Mounted in the root layout, not on the mail route: the badge belongs to the
tab, so mounting it on the page would clear it on every hop to settings,
calendar or contacts.
Marking mail as read left the sidebar's tag unread counts untouched — the
folder counts cleared, but a tag went on showing "47 unread" in bold until
the page was reloaded.
tagCounts is fetched from the server (Email/query per $label keyword) rather
than derived from state, and no read/unread mutation refreshed or adjusted
it. The per-mailbox unreadEmails counters were kept current by a local delta;
tags simply had no equivalent.
Add applyTagCountReadDelta alongside the existing mailbox-counter helpers and
apply it wherever the affected emails are known locally: markAsRead,
batchMarkAsRead, and setEmailKeywordsLocal. Only a genuine $seen flip moves a
count, so re-marking a read email as read cannot drift it, and unread is
clamped at zero. A tag's total is never touched by a read-state change.
markMailboxAsRead is the exception and refetches instead: it is a server-side
bulk operation over an entire mailbox, so it also marks emails that were never
loaded into state.emails, and a local delta would leave the counts high.
Signatures render into the main document - the identity form's live preview
and the composer's signature block - rather than the sandboxed iframe used for
message bodies. SIGNATURE_SANITIZE_CONFIG allows no target attribute, so those
anchors were live and target-less: one click navigated the whole app away,
discarding the unsent draft or the unsaved signature with it.
Add sanitizeSignatureHtmlForDisplay, which keeps the storage sanitizer's image
restrictions but forces target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" on every
anchor, and use it at the two render sites. The composer's SignatureBlock
NodeView stamps the target on its rendered DOM instead, because attrs.html is
what serializeEditorContent emits into the sent message - storage and the
recipient's copy stay exactly as the user wrote them.
Plain-text bodies render into the main document rather than the sandboxed
iframe, so an anchor without target="_blank" navigates the whole app away
instead of opening a new tab.
plainTextToSafeHtml emits target and rel correctly, but
sanitizePlainTextRenderedHtml stripped both back off: DOMPurify URI-tests
every attribute value not on its URI-safe list, and "_blank" does not match
PLAIN_TEXT_RENDERED_CONFIG's ALLOWED_URI_REGEXP. EMAIL_SANITIZE_CONFIG avoids
this only because its regex carries a catch-all alternation for non-URI values.
Mark target and rel as URI-safe so they survive the URI test, rather than
loosening href validation.
Message-list rows are tinted with the first tag's color, which becomes
overwhelming when a label applies to most messages (for example
per-account labels). Add a `tintListRowsByTag` setting (default true, so
current behavior is unchanged) with a toggle in Settings beside
"Colorful Sidebar Icons". When off, rows are not tinted; tag dots and
chips still show the color. Gated in both list renderers
(email-list-item and thread-list-item).
