Native macOS ↔ web parity checklist

Tracking issue: #4331 Native web-parity dogfood gate.

This checklist compares apps/calendar-web (reference UI) with apps/calendar-macos (native Swift). Status keys:

Status	Meaning
✅	Matches web behavior and styling closely enough for dogfood
🟡	Partial: core behavior works, visual or edge-case gaps remain
❌	Missing or materially different
🔧	Shared contract exists; fix is mostly wiring or SwiftUI/AppKit polish

Sources of truth

• Semantic colors: apps/calendar-web/src/index.css → bun cli desktop:export → CompassKit/Generated/ThemeTokens.swift (22 roles; guarded by theme-css.test.ts and desktop:export --check).
• Shortcuts registry: packages/core/src/shortcuts/shortcuts.registry.ts, KEYMAP, APP_SHORTCUT_BINDINGS → CompassKit/Resources/shortcuts.json + ShortcutIds.swift.
• Layout math / fixtures: exported JSON replayed in CompassKitTests / CompassDataTests.
• Manual acceptance: Desktop acceptance, Shortcuts.

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1. Design tokens

1.1 Colors (themes, accent, event fills)

Item	Web	macOS	Status	Notes
Light Beach / Dark Abyss palettes	[data-theme] in index.css	ThemeTokens.lightBeach / darkAbyss	✅	Generated from same CSS
SwiftUI accessor coverage	Tailwind color-* for all 22 roles	NativeWebTheme exposes all roles on ThemeTokenColor+SwiftUI.swift	✅	NativeWebTheme exposes all 22 generated palette roles, including raised surfaces, strong borders, accent variants, on-accent text, info and shadow
Panel modal backdrop	OverlayPanel / bg-background/85 + backdrop-blur-sm	PanelBackdropView: panelBackdropColor (background @ 85%) over a within-window blur	✅	Settings and welcome used the dark overlayBackdrop dim and read as solid gray; that dim stays for menus and confirm dialogs. Welcome centers vertically like web
Event default fill hex	theme.util.ts / deck	EventCardView.swift literals #454442, #82A0B2	🟡	Values align; not read from tokens
Event focus ring color	--event-focus-color + outline	EventCardView CALayer border from fill-aware helper	🟡	Same intent, different paint model
Holiday / gradient accents	CSS gradients on chips	Mostly solid fills	🟡	Audit per calendar color id
Block Party slot colors	Web game CSS	BlockPartyColor.swift hardcoded RGB	🟡	Intentional game palette; not semantic tokens

1.2 Typography

Item	Web	macOS	Status	Notes
Font family	Rubik (index.css @theme)	Resources/Fonts/Rubik-Variable.ttf, .rubik()	✅	Fixed XcodeGen packaging: the previous resource declaration omitted every font from the built app, causing system fallback. Font files now appear in the built bundle; fresh local launch inspected. Broader typography and layout acceptance remains partial
Base size 14px	text-sm / body	RootView .font(.rubik(14))	✅
Scale (10–20px utilities)	Tailwind --font-size-*	Per-view hardcoded point sizes	🟡	No shared typography export yet
VT323 / Caveat (special)	Web where used	Bundled fonts	🟡	Spot-check Life / onboarding

1.3 Spacing, radii, borders

Item	Web	macOS	Status	Notes
Main content pl-8	32px	contentLeadingInset 32	✅	RootView.swift
Sidebar width / divider column	SIDEBAR_DIVIDER_WIDTH	sidebarDividerWidth 32	✅
Sidebar leading border full height	1px border-border, no horizontal rules in body	Rectangle 1px on sidebar leading edge	✅	Tyler: avoid extra horizontal dividers inside sidebar
--radius-default / rounded-xs	index.css @theme	Mixed 4/8/12 in SwiftUI	🟡	Palette panel 12; save bar should be rounded-xs (~4)
Grid hour lines	border alpha 15% / 12% dark	TimeGridStyleTests	✅
--border-strong	Strong dividers when needed	Rarely used in SwiftUI	🟡

1.4 Shadows

Item	Web	macOS	Status	Notes
--shadow-default on elevated buttons	c-button-elevated	Limited native elevation	🟡	Save bar / primary buttons
Command palette panel shadow	Floating overlay	Token-colored shadow, 28pt radius and 16pt vertical offset	✅	CommandPaletteOverlay.swift; native paint parameters remain platform-specific

1.5 Focus rings

Item	Web	macOS	Status	Notes
Default interactive focus	c-focus-ring: 1px accent ring + 1px offset on surface-panel	Mixed: AppKit .exterior, custom strokes, NoticeFocusRing 2px no offset	🟡	Target: consistent accent border without fill color swap
Notice focus (p)	Focus moves into notice control	Banner noticeFocusRing on billing/demo/update	🟡	Web scans [data-notice]; native NativeNotice enum is smaller
Fields	c-field ring on focus	Per-control 1px stroke (e.g. description editor)	🟡
Disabled system focus ring	N/A	Quick Add focusRingType = .none	🟡	Matches intentional web-like chrome

Token drift prevention: Prefer extending NativeWebTheme from generated ThemeTokens rather than new literals. Optional follow-up: export radius/typography scales from CSS the same way as colors.

1.6 macOS unified title bar (intentional platform difference)

Item	Web	macOS	Status	Notes
Calendar nav + title + sidebar toggle	In-content header row (CalendarHeader, h-12)	Unified title bar beside traffic lights (MacTitleBarChromeMetrics)	✅	Compact 28pt band, 13pt system title and 14pt navigation icons. Local native regression passes, including title/nav alignment with the actual window close button
Parity screenshot grid region	Crop includes in-viewport header band	Regional grid crop starts at mainContentTopInset (44px); web crop skips 48px header	✅	.github/scripts/compose-desktop-parity-shots.py grid_region_crop()

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2. Surfaces

2.1 Week / day time grid

Item	Status	Notes
Deck layout / card frames	✅	Shared fixtures, GridLayoutSnapshotTests
All-day row above timed scroll	✅	TimeGridView.renderAllDayColumns
Now line position	✅	Shared now math
Now line visual (gradient + 1px rim)	🟡	macOS: accent gradient + 1px background rim (#4611); web shimmer timing still differs
Now-cue pulse on t (today)	🟡	Web 700ms label shimmer; macOS week header opacity pulse + day view switcher pulse
Click grid teaches shortcut	✅	Pointer hint overlay
Day labels	✅	Centered per column; number clamp(18, 2.7cqw, 20.8), weekday clamp(13, 2cqw, 16)
Day column header focus	🟡	AppKit exterior ring vs web c-focus-ring
Shift+C all-day tip strip	🟡	Sidebar jump line animates; full web tip stack still partial

2.2 Event chips

Item	Status	Notes
Timed / all-day card shell	✅	EventCardView, palette tests
Event jump chips (W1, SU2, ...)	✅	DayJumpKeys ports web assignDayJumpKeys: day prefix + per-day index on timed and all-day cards, narrowed to the typed day; digits after a day pick focus (400 ms wait for W1 vs W10); bare digits stay quick-time
Shift+M weekday column jump	✅	handleShiftDayJump; weekend Shift+S→U/A added; digit jump after a day pick wired; bare day letters in jump mode (F toggles off, E / C pass through, other letters swallowed like web); four digits typed within 800 ms after a day pick create on that column (Shift+T then 1230), like web's column time burst
Sidebar edit ring	🟡	Inset focus layer vs web outline
Unsettled outline	✅	Dashed text-muted/50 outline on sample events and organized events with awaiting or tentative guests

2.3 Sidebar event form

Item	Status	Notes
Replaces sidebar body while open	✅	EventFormView in RootView
Date field MM.DD.YY closed display	✅	EventFormCompactDateField shows 06.10.26 like web (compare run 39732173380)
Datepicker open Enter/Space/ArrowDown	✅	Closed field matches web EventFormDateField: ↓, Enter on the committed date, and Space on the shown date open the calendar; ↑ / Shift+↑ / Shift+↓ / Mod+↓ nudge the day (EventFormDateFieldKeys). Open calendar matches web react-datepicker: ← → move a day cursor, ↑ ↓ a week, Enter or Space picks, Esc closes only the calendar (EventFormDateKeysTests drives them). Like web, plain Return in a date field commits or opens instead of saving the form; ⌘ Enter still saves. Hints match web: a ↓ keycap inside the focused field and ↑ ↓ · Enter · Esc in the calendar header
Time pickers	🟡	The list opens centered on the selected time (or the quarter hour before it) like web. Still differs: macOS shows the list and the date picker as AppKit popovers that can open to the side of the field, while web drops them below it
Location / Meet / guests grouping	✅	#4607 single EventFormCard + description card (web #4599)
Color row keys and hints	✅	Like web EventColorPicker: trailing ⌘ 6 keycaps; once color has focus (Mod+6 or E then C) ← → move a focus ring, Space / Enter pick, pick keys 1-9 0 - = choose a swatch and show on each swatch (swatches in web EventColorSlotSchema order, lavender first), and the hint swaps to ← → · Enter. The demo capture also shows a guest row on macOS only: the demo fixture calendar can invite (UI tests need it), the real local calendar cannot
Save bar: accent fill, on-accent text, space-between, ⌘Enter hint	🟡	macOS save bar matches accent + Mod+Enter keycap (#4610); sidebar shows web save-draft tip (#4614)
Mod+digit field jump + hold-Mod chips	✅	ModHoldChipsOverlay, layout snapshots; chips sit at the anchor's top-right corner like web DigitHintChipOverlay (top + 2px, flush right)
Hold-Mod day header keycaps (⇧SU, ⇧M, ...)	✅	Week headers swap the weekday for WeekDayColumnHeaderControl keycaps while Mod is held; bare letters in event-jump mode
Hold-Mod sidebar chips (month picker, Up next, calendar list)	✅	Anchors merge with nested ones, so the sidebar no longer hides the month picker and Up next chips; the calendar list digit sits on the list, not the sidebar corner.
Per-account page-jump targets	✅	One Mod+digit target per connected account heading after Up next, like web buildCalendarPageJumpTargets; a collapsed heading expands on jump; one "calendars" slot with no accounts
Sticky form actions row (icons + shortcuts)	🟡	Header keyboard behavior and shortcut help verified; exact icon/spacing parity still needs visual comparison
Close unchanged / edited event	✅	2026-10-23: only changed existing events prompt, like web. Unchanged edits, reverted edits, and create drafts close immediately. Four model regressions pass; native tests verify Close prompts instead of saving edits, Cancel preserves them, and Shift+Escape discards without saving
Header actions keyboard focus	✅	Mod+0 focuses the first toolbar button after the parent releases title focus, including repeated jumps. Tab / Shift+Tab move through actions, Return / Space activate them, and shortcut help names the keys. Native screenshot inspection at 720×630 confirms a visible Close focus outline; three focused native regressions and full strict verification pass
Form duplicate undo / redo	✅	Form duplication records its create in undo history. Model and native tests verify duplicate → undo → redo without modifying the original
Calendar / recurrence / RSVP shortcut focus	🟡	#4783: Actual focus, repeated jumps, keyboard activation and Tab/Shift+Tab traversal pass in both themes after #4870, #4873, #4895 and #4897. The attendee fixture proves scope-dialog callbacks without submitting a real response. Signed-in native RSVP acceptance remains open

2026-10-22 popover and capture verification

Date and time pickers open below their fields in native user flows at both the normal window size and the canonical 1280×820 capture size. Date keyboard selection/Escape and time selection pass. Fresh exported images also show the popovers below their fields, correcting the earlier placement finding. Sidebar-only crops can cut off the portion of the calendar that extends over the grid.

Found a separate capture reliability defect with multiple installed Compass builds: generic debug URL opening can target another build, causing export timeouts. Capture helpers now activate the test target and route debug URLs to its running bundle path. The existing date/time capture checks assert placement and verify that export preserves the open picker and event form. Signed-in acceptance remains outstanding.

2.4 Mini-calendar (month picker)

Item	Status	Notes
Keyboard i, arrows, Enter	✅
Mod+Alt+J / K / T month jump	✅
Selected range / today styling	✅	Week mode bolds the selected week row with ink on today; 28.8pt circles; today follows the calendar clock; Go to this month circle hides on the current month
Weekday header 10px muted	🟡	Rubik 10 in SidebarMonthPicker.swift

2.5 Up Next / Now panel

Item	Status	Notes
Projection + join URL	✅
N / V shortcuts	✅	Registry + router
Shortcut hint on card (N/V keycaps)	🟡	Hover/focus keycap on native Up Next (#4614)
Bottom banner vs web notice stack	🟡	Fewer notice types on native

2.6 Account list / calendars sidebar

Item	Status	Notes
Calendar list + digit hide/show	✅
Anonymous row	✅
Sync status line + shortcut footer	✅

2.7 Settings

Item	Status	Notes
Accounts, default calendar, timezone, theme	✅	WP-29
Launch at login, global Quick Add	✅	macOS-only (expected)
Visual match to web settings overlay	🟡	Web background tint and 8pt blur verified locally in both themes; section spacing and navigation focus still differ

2026-10-22: Settings uses the existing background tint at 85% opacity with a 8pt blur on the content behind the panel. Both-theme native tests verify outside-click and Escape dismissal. Native window captures show the blur; view-level parity exports render background compositing differently, so they do not establish full visual equality.

2.8 Onboarding / welcome

Item	Status	Notes
Welcome modal steps	✅	Both-theme click and keyboard regression passes locally and in CI (#4767)
Connect / first-event prompts	🟡
Pixel pirate / illustration colors	🟡	Hardcoded in PixelPirateView.swift

2.9 Notices / toasts / banners

Item	Status	Notes
Billing past due	✅
Demo events, update ready	✅
Meeting nudge, connect prompts, first-event	✅	Sidebar meeting-page nudge (/), local-mode trial card (S, Esc), first-event card completes on first create
Connection + timezone banners	✅	Reconnect / Retry / Refresh / Learn more (G); timezone mismatch Switch / Keep; Auto zone follows the Mac each minute
Status toasts	🟡	StatusToastOverlay vs web toast stack
Focus latest notice p	✅	Connection banner, sample events, meeting nudge, trial card, update, past due

2.10 Command palette

Item	Status	Notes
Placeholder copy	✅	Same string
Go-to-date from query	✅	Shared parsing fixtures
Navigation / create / events / recent	✅
Fuzzy search + highlight	✅	CommandPaletteSearchLogic mirrors filterSections; muted label with bold matches
Row icons (Phosphor)	🟡	SF Symbol row icons on navigation/more rows (#4613); not Phosphor
Keycaps (ShortcutKeys)	✅	One ShortcutHintChip per key, like web ShortcutKeys
Selected row ring inset	✅	Accent inset ring + lighter fill (web ring-inset)
Missing rows vs web	✅	Web section order and rows (Common Actions, Appearance, Settings, More); disabled rows dim and skip; notifications row is web-only (macOS uses system settings)
Footer hint	✅	Keycap chips for navigate / select / close

2.11 Command palette (desktop quick-add variant)

Item	Status	Notes
Separate placeholder when creating from hotkey	✅	Both native Quick Add field implementations match web DESKTOP_QUICK_ADD_PALETTE_PLACEHOLDER: “Add an event, or type a time like 1130”

2.12 Life view

Item	Status	Notes
Grid + sidebar	🟡	Founder visual QA noted on #4331
Intro panel theme colors	✅	Surface fill and border match web Life intro overrides; primary text and shadows use semantic tokens. Both-theme native screenshots and Enter dismissal verified locally (#4764)

2.13 Window chrome

Item	Status	Notes
Traffic lights + header	✅	WindowChromeLayoutTests
View switcher keycaps	✅	ViewSwitcherView

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3. Keyboard parity

Legend: Mod = ⌘ on macOS. Web bindings from APP_SHORTCUT_BINDINGS / KEYMAP; macOS from shortcuts.json unless noted.

3.1 Navigate

ID	Binding	Web	macOS	Status
nav-up-next	N	✅	✅	✅
nav-join-meeting	V	✅	✅	✅
nav-previous	J	✅	✅	✅
nav-next	K	✅	✅	✅
nav-shift-left	Mod+Shift+←	✅	✅	✅
nav-shift-right	Mod+Shift+→	✅	✅	✅
nav-month-prev	Mod+Alt+J	✅	✅	✅
nav-month-next	Mod+Alt+K	✅	✅	✅
nav-month-current	Mod+Alt+T	✅	✅	✅
nav-picker-step	Arrow keys in picker	✅	✅	🟡 telemetry
nav-today	T (keyup)	✅	✅	✅
nav-go-to-date	Mod+G	✅	✅	✅
nav-scroll-*	PgUp/PgDn, Mod+↑/↓	✅	✅	✅
nav-day-view	D	✅	✅	✅
nav-week-view	W	✅	✅	✅
nav-life-view	L	✅	✅	✅
Life prev/next/current	←/→, H	✅	✅	✅

3.2 Create

ID	Binding	Status	Notes
create-timed	C (keyup)	✅
create-allday	Shift+C	✅	Tip strip parity 🟡
create-place-timed	Shift+arrows	✅
create-typed-time	digits in draft	✅
create-place-discard	Esc (secondary TZ)	✅

3.3 Focus

ID	Binding	Status	Notes
focus-sidebar	I	✅	Month picker
focus-event	U	✅	focusFirstCalendarEvent() seeds nearest grid event
focus-shift-hold	F (+ digits)	✅	Jump mode: W1 / SU2 chips, bare day letters, digits after a day pick, typed time on the picked column
focus-week-day	Shift+M…	✅	Column select + first event; weekend S→U/A; day-prefix digit targeting and typed-time creation wired
focus-notice	P	✅	Connection, sample events, meeting nudge, trial, update and past-due notices; see §2.9
focus-calendar-digit	1–9 in list	✅
focus-page-jump	Mod+digit (hold hints)	✅
focus-find-event	Mod+K	✅	Palette search

3.4 Edit / clipboard / menu

ID	Status	Notes
edit-open	✅	Enter / E sequence
edit-save	✅	Mod+Enter saves; save button shows separate ⌘ and Enter keycaps
edit-delete	✅
edit-duplicate	✅
edit-copy / edit-paste	✅
edit-hide	✅
edit-menu	✅	Context menu
Arrow move focus	✅
Shift+Tab cycle edge	✅
Undo/redo	✅	Palette rows + Cmd+Z

3.5 Other

ID	Binding	Status
other-palette	Mod+K	✅
other-shortcuts	? (Shift+/ menu)	✅
other-settings	Mod+,	✅
other-sidebar	]	✅
other-time-travel	(TZ dialog)	✅
other-subscribe	B (trial)	✅
Edit sequence E→field	✅	Leader engine
Esc / Enter / Mod+Enter semantics	🟡	Per-surface audit in shortcuts.md

3.6 Tab order & visible keycaps

Item	Status
Tab order through form fields	🟡
Keycaps on view switcher, footer, welcome	✅
Keycaps on save bar, Up Next, palette rows	✅
Which-key overlay	✅

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4. Automated parity coverage

Layer	Catches
desktop:export --check	Colors, shortcuts JSON, Swift ids, fixtures
CompassKitTests	Layout, keyboard registry, go-to-date, recurrence, HTML, Block Party
CompassUI unit	Time grid style, now cue timing, event card palette
CompassUITests	Launch, palette keyboard, form save, snapshots (macOS CI)
Web theme-css.test.ts	CSS ↔ TS color roles

Visual automation: desktop-web-parity-screenshots.yml captures web and macOS surfaces and produces side-by-side comparisons (see §7). These captures support visual review; they do not establish pixel equality or signed-in flow parity.

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5. Suggested fix sequence (PRs)

1. Tokens + typography accessors — full NativeWebTheme roles; stop inverted save bar; optional NativeFocusRing helper.
2. Event form — MM.DD.YY date chip, save bar layout, schedule section grouping.
3. Command palette — missing commands, fuzzy highlight, keycap chips, row chrome.
4. Grid — now line gradient/rim, now-cue timing/shimmer, all-day tip strip.
5. Keyboard gaps — focus-event (U), Shift+M week-day focus, palette undo/redo.
6. Event form logistics card — match web #4599: one FormCard for Location, Add Google Meet, Add guests; Description in the following FormCard (not nested mini-panels).

Each PR should link a child issue, include before/after screenshots (web Chromium + macOS snapshot or manual), enable auto-merge, and pass the macOS workflow on GitHub runners.

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6. Changelog

Date	Change
2026-10-19	Initial audit checklist for #4331 dogfood gate
2026-10-19	§7 visual evidence table (web CI captures; macOS/compare pending runner)
2026-10-19	§7 updated from workflow run 39299882448 (macOS + compare artifacts)
2026-10-19	§5 queue: event form logistics grouping (web #4599); CI fixes on main (palette Range, e2e/parity shard)
2026-10-19	§7 from workflow run 39327804343 (#4607 branch): macOS capture + compare artifact; logistics card on event form
2026-10-20	Palette: web sections, rows, disabled state, keycap chips
2026-10-20	#4612 Sunday week + UTC on main; #4613 palette/sidebar/settings/onboarding batch; #4619 week grid gutter + pinned Sunday window
2026-10-21	Week grid: hold-Mod day header keycaps (⇧SU, ⇧M, ...) now render; the header control existed but the grid never used it (compare run 39597000570)
2026-10-21	Hold-Mod sidebar chips: month picker and Up next chips render, calendar list chip moved onto the list (compare run 39634795849)
2026-10-21	Per-account page-jump targets (web calendar-account: ids)
2026-10-21	Event jump chips use web day-prefix labels (W1, SU2) and digits after a day pick
2026-10-22	Week/day hour gutter labels use web's 1 AM track origin (#4686); they sat two hours below their events (a 5 PM event drew on the 3 PM row)
2026-10-22	Parity capture draws popover windows (form date picker, time list) over the window render, so those surfaces stop showing a closed field
2026-10-22	macOS capture: register onboarding-welcome-account-choice so the welcome account step exports instead of timing out
2026-10-22	Color swatches and pick keys follow web slot order (lavender, mint, plum, ...) instead of the alphabetical generated enum; time list popover fills its inset with the panel color
2026-10-22	§7 refreshed from compare run 39732173380; MM.DD.YY date row ✅
2026-10-22	Event form date field: web keys on the closed field (↓ / Enter / Space open the calendar, arrows nudge the day)
2026-10-22	Event form date calendar: arrow keys move a day cursor, Enter or Space picks, Esc closes
2026-10-22	Event form date field: in-field ↓ hint and calendar header key hints (web EventFormInfieldHint, EventFormCalendarPopoverHints)
2026-10-22	Form key hints (date calendar header, color swatches) show the word Enter like web ShortcutLabel, not ↩

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7. Visual parity evidence (1280×820, Light Beach, demo seed)

Automated captures: workflow desktop-web-parity-screenshots.yml (PR #4596). Compare artifact desktop-parity-compare pairs web/ and macos/ PNGs per surface.

Surface	Web CI	macOS CI	Match	Diff notes (compare run 39732173380, #4725 branch after the 2026-10-22 merges)
Week grid	✅	✅	🟡	Both week view; hour labels sit on their events (#4719). macOS shot has no demo events banner, scrolls about an hour later, and the sidebar tip rotates to a different line
Mini-calendar	✅	✅	✅	Selected-day ring and selected-week wash match; web also shows a transient ↑ ↓ move-by-week hint
Event form	✅	✅	🟡	MM.DD.YY date, ⌘ Enter save bar and web color order match; local 2026-10-22 native flow and export checks confirm both popovers open below their fields; guest row only on macOS (demo fixture)
Command palette	✅	✅	🟡	Local 2026-10-22 capture confirms background tint and 8pt blur match the web treatment; palette row/layout differences still need review. Outside-click dismissal is covered in both themes
Settings	✅	✅	🟡	Local 2026-10-22 native captures verify the background tint and blur in both themes; view-level export does not reproduce the blur faithfully. Timezone fixture and Accounts focus-ring differences remain
Onboarding welcome	✅	✅	🟡	Centered panel and copy match (#4718); #4767 aligns backdrop tint and blur with web; local light/dark native screenshots inspected on 2026-10-23. Full pixel equality remains unverified

Keyboard / tips (non-screenshot): Shift+weekday column jump wired; weekend Shift+S→U/A on macOS; digit jump after day pick wired (W1, SU2 chips); bare day letters in jump mode wired; HHMM create on the picked column wired (web useShiftHoldEventHints column time burst).

Re-run desktop-web-parity-screenshots.yml on main after each merged batch (#4612, #4613, …). Latest dispatch: workflow run 39348622389 (pre-#4612 merge baseline).

2026-10-22 source reconciliation

Rechecked against main at 7a44b191a after the overnight merge batch. Corrected stale entries for theme accessor coverage, palette shadow, Quick Add placeholder, weekday targeting, notice focus, save keycaps and screenshot automation. These are source-backed findings, not a new signed-in acceptance run. Remaining partial visual and live-flow entries still require direct verification. Existing Life intro (#4709) and title-bar capture (#4667) PRs must be reconciled before duplicating their changes.

2026-10-22 native verification follow-up

Life intro PR #4709 passes strict verification, including native package and UI tests. Enter dismissal and returning to Life without a repeat intro pass in the native regression; signed-in server persistence has not received a new live acceptance run.

Compared the command palette against the web image in run 39786084114. The native palette used the dark overlay token instead of web's background at 85% opacity. The palette now uses the matching background tint, with a 8pt blur applied to the content behind it. Local screenshot inspection confirms the calendar remains faintly visible behind the panel. Both-theme outside-click checks protect hit testing; this does not establish pixel equality for the full palette.

The same completed comparison shows the sidebar toggle on the native title bar. Reconcile draft #4667 against current rendering before adopting its older experiments. Date/time popover placement is verified above; the remaining signed-in acceptance flows are still open audit items.

2026-10-22 CI reliability follow-up

The Life intro capture exposed a parity-mode layout update that reapplied the Week fixture after switching views. Layout measurement now preserves the selected view; a model regression fails on the previous reset. Registered life-view-intro as an allowed export surface, with a native assertion that export preserves the intro modal. Settings data actions now form an explicit accessibility group, preserving the export button identity. Life intro store tests use isolated defaults and wait for dismissal completion rather than a fixed sleep.

The compact-window CI follow-up reproduces Settings export hit testing at 720×630. Explicit modal accessibility grouping keeps Settings separate from the obscured calendar; the export button remains hittable and the native save panel can be typed into and cancelled at that size.

2026-10-22 welcome backdrop follow-up

The welcome modal now uses the existing background tint and applies the shared 8pt blur only to the content behind it, matching the web OverlayPanel treatment. Primary-button text and shadow use semantic theme colors. A native regression covers forward and backward navigation through the three welcome steps in both themes without starting authentication.

Local WelcomeKeyboardTests passed on an interactive desktop on 2026-10-23, exercising clicks, Enter and Escape across all three steps in both themes. Both native window screenshots were inspected: the panel stays sharp, underlying content is blurred, and button text is readable. CI run 39897743843 also passed. Swift contract and desktop export checks pass. This verifies the corrected treatment and navigation, not complete pixel equality. See #4766 and #4767.

2026-10-24 native client polish follow-up

Issues #4800 and #4801 address bundled fonts, compact title-bar controls, clickable month days, shortcut hover help, reduced-motion-aware sidebar/form transitions and consistent command-palette/shortcuts-helper surfaces and width. Native interaction regressions pass for actual traffic-light alignment, month clicks, date-to-time Tab navigation, time-arrow menu ownership, plain Return versus Command+Return, held Command hints and matching panel widths. The helper has a named accessibility group separate from its visibility-only test probe.

Command-hold detection needed a running clock for the manual timer engines and had to stop treating modifier transitions as character autorepeats. The monitor also reconciles current modifier state when a key window misses a flags event. A native test holds Command without forcing hint visibility and verifies that the hints disappear on release.

Untouched legacy June samples move to the current week once. Edited or deleted recurring families, edited samples and real events are preserved. Initial narrow/partial-week windows and Today include the current day; explicit date selection survives resizing. Package regressions cover these cases, and a fresh 720pt local launch showed October 23, Friday, with visible samples instead of an empty Sunday. Overlapping event labels, the blank short-chip observation and broader visual/signed-in acceptance remain open for further investigation.

2026-10-24 event form footer follow-up

Fresh main comparison run 40048315826 confirms that the title-bar sidebar toggle renders; draft #4667's older rendering experiments are not needed for that capture. The event form footer still squeezed instruction text into two- and three-line word fragments. Its instruction groups now retain their natural width and move onto separate centered rows when the sidebar is narrow. Both-theme native regressions assert single-line instruction bounds and preserve screenshot evidence. The unchanged baseline failed at 42pt for “between fields” and 28pt for “for actions”; corrected local captures show readable groups. Other visual and signed-in acceptance gaps remain open.

2026-10-25 event label visibility follow-up

Fresh main capture run 40264860791 shows blank titles on top-clipped Lunch with Sam and Exercise cards and overlapping Wednesday labels. Card text now clips independently of the external focus outline, and timed cards update title placement against the visible viewport when scrolling. A regression fails on the previous unclipped hierarchy; focused tests cover clipping, preserved focus outlines, visible title bounds and scroll-back restoration. Runtime and screenshot verification is tracked in #4840. These focused checks do not establish complete visual parity or signed-in acceptance.

2026-10-26 overlapping deck contrast follow-up

The web gives overlapping timed cards a background-colored separation ring and a shadow; native snapshots previously discarded deck membership and only draft cards had a shadow. Native cards now retain that membership and paint a 0.75pt background edge plus focus-sensitive shadow without changing shared deck geometry. Both-theme tests cover edges, focus elevation and pooled-view cleanup, with backward-compatible snapshot decoding. Actual isolated strict and screenshot evidence is tracked in #4842; the full visual and signed-in acceptance audit remains open.

2026-10-26 command palette placement follow-up

The composited reference in run 40328832414 confirms that the palette sits below the web's 15vh inset: flexible top and bottom spacers shared unused height. The top inset is now fixed while the bottom retains flexible space. The existing short/full-results regression also checks top position through filtering and clearing in both themes and records window screenshots. Runtime evidence is tracked in #4847; this does not close the broader palette typography or signed-in acceptance review.

2026-10-26 command palette typography follow-up

A hidden local web browser measured palette text at16px with24px line height,18px icons,40px rows and49px search header. Native plain/search/highlighted text and icon sizes now follow those measurements, with fixed line boxes and results padding inside the50vh maximum. Both-theme sizing regressions also assert full and filtered row heights; actual runtime/capture evidence is tracked in #4861. Signed-in acceptance and broader visual parity remain open.

2026-10-26 Settings navigation focus follow-up

Web Settings initially focuses the current navigation button and paints its focus ring separately from the selected-page marker. Native Settings now requests current-page focus after mounting and shows an accent outline while that button owns keyboard focus. Both-theme regression coverage exercises initial focus, Tab/Shift+Tab return and Escape; screenshot/runtime evidence is tracked in #4863. Other Settings layout and signed-in acceptance gaps remain open.

2026-10-27 Settings field line-box follow-up

A hidden anonymous web browser measured Settings field labels at14px with20px line height and the timezone button at30px including padding and border. Native field labels now reserve20pt and the timezone chrome reserves30pt without changing fonts or forcing the native calendar menu to that height. Both-theme hosting-view geometry tests cover those dimensions; runtime and composited screenshot evidence is tracked in #4867. Helper text metrics, other Settings surfaces and signed-in acceptance remain open.

2026-10-27 calendar-menu shortcut focus follow-up

Calendar-menu shortcut requests now bind actual focus to the create form menu, including repeated jumps, and the outline follows that focus. Both-theme native coverage opens the menu with Mod+5 and Space, selects with Return, repeats the jump after returning to Title, and dismisses the menu without closing the form. Merged #4873 passed native and web strict verification in run 40524460116. Both-theme focus screenshots were inspected. Follow-up #4897 verified Tab departure and Shift+Tab return in both themes; signed-in native acceptance remains open under #4783.

2026-10-27 recurrence shortcut focus follow-up

The recurrence shortcut now requests actual focus on its toggle, including repeated jumps while the requested field remains unchanged. The visible outline follows actual toggle focus rather than the last requested field. Both-theme native coverage exercises Mod+4, Space activation, Tab departure, repeated Mod+4 and Return activation without saving. Merged #4870 passed native and web strict verification in run 40502421944. Both-theme regressions verify actual focus, Space/Return activation, Tab/Shift+Tab traversal and repeated jumps without saving. Focus screenshots were inspected. Signed-in native acceptance remains open under #4783.

2026-10-27 RSVP keyboard focus follow-up

RSVP shortcut requests now focus the current response or first response, with visible focus and native Space/Return activation. Arrow keys move and respond like web radios; selected text uses the semantic on-accent color. A named attendee/occurrence demo fixture exercises scope-dialog activation without credentials or network writes. Merged #4895 passed native and web strict verification in run 40593523044; both-theme focus screenshots were inspected. Merged #4897 passed both strict legs in run 40614039506, verifying one RSVP Tab stop, Tab departure and Shift+Tab return alongside calendar traversal and existing activation checks. These fixture results do not establish real signed-in response submission, which remains open under #4783.

2026-10-28 chrome details and acceptance boundary

Merged #4902 passed native and web strict verification in run 40695748356, with no required checks skipped. Both-theme native regressions and inspected screenshots verify header spacing, theme focus, chevrons and the filled Today dot. Repeated Alt+Arrow navigation preserves the sidebar hint until its displayed shortcut is used. The composited capture in run 40679103906 confirms the sampled past green event fill matches web RGB (15, 104, 58); base palette samples match, while a sampled one-pixel grid rule differs by one green quantization step. These observations do not establish whole-window pixel equality.

A signed-in staging web pass on 2026-10-27 verified create, edit, reload persistence and cleanup of one uniquely labelled test event in the visibly confirmed test account's primary calendar. Only that test record was removed, and a reload confirmed its absence. This was not native acceptance or a real invitation response. Previously observed configuration/billing HTTP 502 errors also prevent a blanket endpoint-health claim. Native signed-in RSVP submission and the broader signed-build acceptance runbook remain outstanding.