RSS 2.0 makes an item's title optional, and some blogs leave it out on purpose: Scripting News
titles almost none of its posts. Fifty rows of "(untitled)" said nothing about any of them.
entryName gives an item its title, or the opening of its text (HTML read through DOMParser, an
inert document that loads nothing; cut at a word near 120 characters), or its file's name, or
its show and date, with a flag for a name that is not a title. The list sets that one in the
regular weight, as the text it is rather than a heading; the reader leaves out the heading so
the post starts with itself; the player, the lock screen, Currently Listening, the native shell,
Share and the queued toast use the same name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CarPlay and Android Auto cannot render a web view. Both are template
surfaces, and the only audio they will control is the host's own AVPlayer
or ExoPlayer -- so an app that is "the web UI plus CarPlay" is really "the
web UI whose audio engine is native", and the page had no way to give
playback away.
web/src/native.ts replaces the playback surface of the page's media element
with one that forwards to the host and synthesises the events back. Nothing
in player.ts changes: it only ever speaks to the element, so the player bar,
the row buttons, the EQ bars and the keyboard shortcuts keep working as they
did. Video stays in the page, since CarPlay is audio-only and a native video
layer under a web view buys nothing. In a browser none of it installs.
Position and read are the host's to write. player.ts has been bitten before
by a stale position -- one left paused in another tab saved its older place
over where you had got to -- and a backgrounded web view is exactly that
tab: frozen, holding a time from minutes ago, while the host plays on. So
the beacon becomes a request for the host to save its own clock.
tests/native-bridge.js is what holds the two ends together, and it earned
its place immediately: the src setter called removeAttribute('src'), which
the shim's own override turned into a stop() that switched it back off one
line after enabling it. Silent, and only visible in a car. The stub DOM
moved to tests/dom-stub.js so that test and page-smoke share one harness
rather than two copies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
