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Internet Archive elements

Playground

The components from demo/docs/assets/ia.css under the conditions they fail in: mismatched heights, every state at once, labels far longer than anyone designed for, right-to-left scripts, dark chrome and touch. Each case checks itself where it can and says pass or fail; the rest are for looking at. Anything that overflows its box, clips its text, misaligns or points the wrong way is a bug in the component, not in the content.

Control alignment

Every control sets its height from a --ia-size-control-* token with border-box sizing, so same-size controls line up whatever their font, border or content. Each control below is measured; a height that isn't the row's token fails.

Small — --ia-size-control-sm

Medium — --ia-size-control-md

Control states

Every interactive control in each of its states, side by side. Focus shows only under keyboard focus — Tab through the grid rather than clicking.

ControlRestSelected / checked DisabledBusy Button, primary — Button, ghost — — Chip —— Segmented option — Switch — Checkbox — Input — Pagination
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Density

A realistic results toolbar and facet group together, the way a search page uses them. The compact controls have to stay usable side by side, not just alone.

Media Type

Long content

Labels far longer than anyone assumed: long translations, unbroken strings, CJK and a title that is one URL — the metadata archive.org actually receives. Each stage is 20rem wide; a case fails if anything inside it overflows that width.

Right-to-left

The same components under dir="rtl", carrying Arabic, Hebrew and Persian metadata. Anything laid out with logical properties mirrors on its own; an icon, chevron or close button left on the wrong side, text that still aligns left, or a Latin name or number scrambled inside an Arabic title is a bug. Titles carry dir="auto", so a Latin title in an Arabic page keeps its own order.

Dark chrome

Everything inside .ia-inverse — text, borders, focus, hover and the soft selected look re-point themselves. Tab through for the inverse focus ring.

A link on chrome Staging

Coarse pointer

The same controls with the stylesheet's own @media (pointer: coarse) rules applied, as a touch screen gets them. Each target is measured; anything under 44×44 fails. Text links in running prose are exempt and are not in this grid.

Metadata extremes

Tiles at the edges of what the data allows: no views and 230 million, no creator, no thumbnail, a title that is one URL, a creator list that runs on.