Web UI: Updated tab, inline errors, mobile card fixes (#3)

Third pass on the password-gated web UI, on top of #1 and #2.

## Updated tab
New `?tab=new` tab listing only series with an unread published chapter, plus per-tab empty states for Favourites and Updated. Covered by `TestUIListNewTab`.

## Inline error feedback
htmx does not swap on a non-2xx response, so a failed favourite/chapter/delete looked like an ignored tap. Errors now render in a `.error-inline` slot on the card and clear after 5s. The chapter-edit form and delete-confirm row also close each other — only one per-card panel open at a time.

## Mobile fixes (P0)
`.chapter-form` held three children on one unwrapped flex row, pushing Save off screen: **97px of page overflow at 390px, 127px at 360px**. That broke correcting a chapter number on the primary device class.

- `.chapter-form` and `.confirm-row` wrap; hint and prompt take their own full-width row
- `.chapter-form input` uses `flex: 1 1 0; min-width: 0` — with `flex: 1` (basis auto) a number input holds its ~20ch intrinsic width and refused to shrink, which pushed Save to a third row
- `white-space: nowrap` on the confirm prompt alone reintroduced 26px of overflow; the full-width row is what actually fixes it

Verified live: `document.body.scrollWidth <= window.innerWidth` with every chapter-form and confirm-row open, at 360/390/768/1280, light and dark.

## Icons
`☆ ✎ 🗑 ▶` replaced with hand-authored inline SVG on `currentColor` — the emoji font rendered each in a different face, weight, and colour, ignoring the card's own type and colour system. `.icon.on` / `.icon.danger` / `.primary` keep driving colour. No icon font or library added.

## No-cover empty state
Series whose source site gave no `og:image` render a title-initial monogram (`Bookmark.Initial()`) instead of a blank `--surface-2` rectangle that read as a cover still loading. Shared between the card cover and the Continue-reading strip.

## Verification
- `go build ./... && go test ./...` — pass
- Live interaction run: favourite toggle round-trips, chapter save 210.5→211, All/Updated/Favourites swap, delete-confirm removes the card, no console errors

Reviewed-on: #3
Co-authored-by: Sulthan Zaki <sultankiki05@gmail.com>
Co-committed-by: Sulthan Zaki <sultankiki05@gmail.com>

.gitignore

@@ -7,3 +7,26 @@ backend/server
 graphify-out/
 plans/
 docs/superpowers/
+
+# impeccable-ignore-start
+# Ephemeral output, runtime state, and per-dev overrides.
+# Unanchored: .impeccable may sit at the repo root or under a nested
+# workspace (apps/web/.impeccable/...); anchored patterns would miss it.
+# Shared artifacts stay tracked: config.json, live/config.json,
+# design.json, critique/*.md.
+.impeccable/config.local.json
+.impeccable/hook.cache.json
+.impeccable/hook.pending.json
+.impeccable/*.png
+.impeccable/live/server.json
+.impeccable/live/sessions/
+.impeccable/live/previews/
+.impeccable/live/annotations/
+.impeccable/live/cache/
+.impeccable/live/manual-edit-apply-transaction.json
+.impeccable/live/manual-edit-events.jsonl
+.impeccable/live/manual-edit-evidence/
+.impeccable/live/pending-manual-edits.json
+.impeccable/live/deferred-svelte-component-accepts.json
+.impeccable/live/*.png
+# impeccable-ignore-end

CLAUDE.md

@@ -87,6 +87,17 @@ Local stack: `docker compose up` (named volume mounted at `/data`, `restart: unl
 
 Smoke test: `curl` the endpoints with `Authorization: Bearer <token>`; confirm `OPTIONS` preflight returns CORS headers and `/healthz` returns 200.
 
+## Forge: Gitea, not GitHub
+
+`origin` is a self-hosted Gitea instance (`gitea.violetcrown.my.id`), so **`gh` does not work here — use `tea` (Gitea CLI) for anything past plain git.** Common ones:
+
+- Open a PR: `tea pr create --head <branch> --base main --title "..." --description "..."`
+- List / view / check out: `tea pr list`, `tea pr <n>`, `tea pr checkout <n>`
+- Issues: `tea issue create`, `tea issue list`
+- Auth lives in `tea login`, not a `GH_TOKEN` env var.
+
+`tea` prints its output as rendered boxes rather than plain text; the PR URL lands on the last line.
+
 ## Security invariants
 
 - Auth on `/bookmarks*`: require `Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>`, **constant-time compare**, 401 otherwise.

PRODUCT.md

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# Product
+
+<!-- impeccable:product-schema 1 -->
+
+## Platform
+
+web
+
+## Users
+
+Single user (self-hosted, no accounts, no multi-user planned). Reads manga on **asurascans.com** and **demonicscans.org** primarily via Bromite on mobile, also checks/updates from a desktop browser. The web UI is the cross-device view into progress captured by the userscript while reading.
+
+## Product Purpose
+
+Tracks read-progress ("last chapter read") per manga series across two otherwise-unrelated manga sites that each have their own separate `localStorage`. A Go backend unifies bookmarks into one store; the web UI is a password-gated browser view of that store for reviewing, favouriting, correcting, or removing bookmarks, and jumping back into a series to continue reading. A background poller also refreshes each series' latest-published-chapter so the list can flag "NEW" without the user visiting the site.
+
+## Positioning
+
+Not a public reading tracker or social app — a private, self-hosted sync layer purpose-built for two specific scraped sites, with no server-side account system (single bearer token + one password-gated session).
+
+## Operating Context
+
+- Primary reading device: Bromite (mobile Chromium), where a userscript captures progress automatically.
+- Web UI is a secondary surface: checking list state, correcting a wrong chapter number, removing dead bookmarks, jumping to "continue reading."
+- Manga cover art and titles come from the source sites' `og:image`/`og:title` — real content, not placeholders.
+- List order is driven by `updated_at`, which moves only on real reading progress (not favouriting, not a newly detected chapter) — a UI constraint the redesign must not break.
+
+## Capabilities and Constraints
+
+- Two tabs: All / Favourites. Search-filter by title (client-side, `filter.js`).
+- Card actions: continue (opens source site), toggle favourite, manual chapter override, delete (with confirm).
+- "Continue reading" horizontal strip for recently-progressed series.
+- htmx-driven partial updates (card re-render on favourite/chapter/delete), no client-side framework/build step — templates are Go `html/template`, `go:embed`-ed.
+- Mobile-first is a hard functional constraint (primary device is a phone), not just a starting breakpoint.
+
+## Brand Commitments
+
+- Name: **mangaBookmark**.
+- **Dark-first is binding**: current dark-by-default / light-follows-system-preference behavior must be preserved as a design constraint, not just a starting default, because reading happens at night.
+
+## Evidence on Hand
+
+- Live templates/CSS at `backend/templates/*.html`, `backend/static/style.css` — current implemented UI, functional but not yet treated as an intentional design system.
+- No logo, screenshots, or marketing copy exist; none should be fabricated.
+
+## Product Principles
+
+- Dark-first, night-reading-optimized — never regress to a light-default or high-glare surface.
+- Mobile is the primary target; desktop is an enhancement, not the design center.
+- Progress data integrity over visual flourish: `updated_at`/list-ordering behavior is a correctness constraint the UI must respect, not decorate over.
+- No accounts, no multi-tenant chrome — the whole product is for one reader.
+- Prefer native platform affordances (system dark/light, native touch targets) over custom widgetry — this is a lean self-hosted tool, not a product to demo.
+
+## Accessibility & Inclusion
+
+Explicit personal requirement: optimized for **low-light/night reading** — minimize glare and eye strain (true dark surfaces, restrained brightness/contrast on accents, no jarring pure-white flashes), beyond generic touch-target/contrast compliance.

backend/.impeccable/critique/2026-07-26T15-50-42Z__backend-templates-app-html.md

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+---
+target: backend/templates (web UI)
+total_score: 21
+max_score: 40
+na_heuristics: 
+p0_count: 0
+p1_count: 2
+timestamp: 2026-07-26T15-50-42Z
+slug: backend-templates-app-html
+---
+Method: dual-agent (A: ab4734f79f4becbf2 · B: af2c412345f87a2d1)
+
+## Design Health Score
+
+| # | Heuristic | Score | Key Issue |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | Visibility of System Status | 2 | No hx-indicator on any htmx mutation — favourite/save/delete swap silently |
+| 2 | Match System/Real World | 3 | Icon-only actions rely on title= tooltips, which never fire on touch |
+| 3 | User Control and Freedom | 2 | Favourite-toggle and chapter-save are instant, no undo |
+| 4 | Consistency and Standards | 3 | Native unstyled confirm() for delete breaks from themed htmx-swap pattern |
+| 5 | Error Prevention | 2 | Chapter input has no max, no reference to LatestChapter while editing |
+| 6 | Recognition Rather Than Recall | 3 | Good persistent state; edit form doesn't show current latest chapter |
+| 7 | Flexibility and Efficiency | 1 | No bulk actions, no shortcuts, no filter for "has new chapter" |
+| 8 | Aesthetic/Minimalist Design | 3 | Lean; .meta/.actions rows lack visual grouping |
+| 9 | Error Recovery | 1 | No failed-request UI state anywhere |
+| 10 | Help and Documentation | 1 | Zero affordance explains the favourite/NEW-don't-reorder rule |
+
+Total: 21/40 — Acceptable band
+
+## Design Specificity Verdict
+Generic-competent. Nothing signals manga/night-reading/two-site-unification beyond the header text. site-{{.Site}} badge (the actual product differentiator) styled as a neutral pill, same weight as everything else.
+
+Deterministic scan: CLI static-HTML detector 0 findings (exit 0). Browser/live detector found: tight-leading (line-height 1.25, real), overused-font/single-font (100% Roboto), flat-type-hierarchy advisory (~1.5:1 ratio). One text-occlusion hit was a false positive (detector's own leftover overlay text).
+
+## Priority Issues
+P1 — Silent failure on every htmx mutation (no hx-indicator, no error UI). Fix: hx-indicator + htmx:responseError inline error text.
+P1 — NEW-chapter signal has no visual priority/filter despite poller existing for exactly this. Fix: elevate .new styling, add "Updated" quick-filter.
+P2 — Native confirm() on delete breaks dark theme, violates "no pure-white flash" a11y requirement. Fix: inline htmx confirm row.
+P2 — Chapter input has no upper bound/reference to LatestChapter. Fix: show "Latest: Ch N" inline, soft max warning.
+P3 — Single font, flat type scale, line-height under 1.3 floor. Fix: real typographic hierarchy.
+
+## Persona Red Flags
+Casey (mobile, primary): 4 stacked chrome regions before content; touch-only tooltips never fire; silent failures invite repeat-tapping.
+Riley (stress): webkit-only line-clamp with no fallback; no-cover cards render blank with no placeholder; filter.js untested at scale.
+
+## Minor Observations
+Continue-strip not tab-scoped. Fixed accent colors unverified for contrast against light theme. title= tooltips dead weight on touch.
+
+## Questions to Consider
+1. Why does the NEW-chapter signal carry less visual weight than the static site badge?
+2. Why is confirm() (guaranteed to break theme) still unreplaced given the explicit no-white-flash requirement?
+3. Does the ordering rule need an explanation, or does needing one mean the mental model fights the user?

backend/.impeccable/critique/2026-07-26T17-08-41Z__backend-templates-app-html.md

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+---
+target: backend/templates (web UI)
+total_score: 26
+max_score: 40
+na_heuristics: 
+p0_count: 1
+p1_count: 0
+timestamp: 2026-07-26T17-08-41Z
+slug: backend-templates-app-html
+---
+Method: dual-agent (A: a67675dd3039e8156 · B: aa64e48aafb9db799), regression independently re-verified live
+
+## Design Health Score
+
+| # | Heuristic | Score | Key Issue |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | Visibility of System Status | 3 | htmx dimming/error-inline verified live and working |
+| 2 | Match System/Real World | 4 | "Continue reading," "Updated," site names all read naturally |
+| 3 | User Control and Freedom | 3 | Cancel works; no undo after delete (acceptable, single-user tool) |
+| 4 | Consistency and Standards | 2 | Disclosure-toggle pattern consistent; bare-emoji icons vs. tuned typography mismatch |
+| 5 | Error Prevention | 2 | Chapter input still has no max, hint is prose-only |
+| 6 | Recognition Rather Than Recall | 2 | The hint meant to aid recall is what causes the overflow bug |
+| 7 | Flexibility and Efficiency | 3 | Search, tabs, direct Continue link present |
+| 8 | Aesthetic/Minimalist Design | 2 | Clean tokens undercut by a live horizontal-scroll bug and flat no-cover placeholder |
+| 9 | Error Recovery | 3 | "No connection - try again" verified firing on network abort |
+| 10 | Help and Documentation | 2 | No help affordance beyond hover tooltips |
+
+Total: 26/40 - Acceptable band. Trend: 21 -> 26.
+
+## Design Specificity Verdict
+Real measured progress: site-tinted badges and --new ribbon hue verified via computed contrast (5.3-9.0:1), genuine product-specific signal. Working against it: bare OS-emoji icons (star/pencil/trash/play) clash with tuned typography; no-cover placeholder still a flat contentless box.
+
+Deterministic scan: CLI 0 findings (clean). Live detector: overused-font/single-font expected (deliberate single-typeface Operate surface). flat-type-hierarchy already accepted. monotonous-spacing and text-occlusion confirmed FALSE POSITIVES (detector's own accumulated debug overlays). edge-flush-cards on Continue-reading strip likely false positive (deliberate scrollable carousel with edge-bleed). ai-color-palette flagging new site-tint hues - plausible false positive (contrast-verified, restrained) but unconfirmed.
+
+## Priority Issues
+P0 - Chapter-edit form causes 97-127px horizontal page overflow on mobile, Save button pushed off-screen. .chapter-form has display:flex with no wrap, now holds 3 children (hint/input/button) in one unwrapped row. Confirmed live at 390px and 360px. Regression from the harden command - hint text was verified to render but never checked for container overflow at mobile width. Fix: flex-wrap:wrap + .hint{flex:1 0 100%}, same pattern already used in .actions/.confirm-row.
+P3 - Icon-glyph inconsistency: bare emoji vs tuned type/color system.
+P3 - No-cover placeholder reads as stuck loading skeleton, not designed empty state.
+P3 - .confirm-row text wraps awkwardly ("Remove/this?") - cosmetic only, no overflow.
+
+## Persona Red Flags
+Casey (mobile, primary): chapter-form overflow directly hits her core task (one-handed chapter correction), unexpected sideways scroll needed.
+Sam (accessibility): well-served overall, but no custom :focus-visible on icon/action buttons.
+
+## Minor Observations
+Continue-reading strip still not tab-scoped. updated_at ordering verified live via actual favourite-toggle round-trip. ai-color-palette on site tints worth a second glance, unconfirmed either way.
+
+## Questions to Consider
+1. Did the harden command's verification ever check mobile viewport width with the hint text present, or only that it rendered?
+2. Is the emoji-icon look deliberate "undesigned" for a single-user tool, or just expedient?
+3. Is a missing og:image common enough in practice to deserve real empty-state design?

backend/static/filter.js

@@ -25,9 +25,52 @@ function setActiveTab(el) {
   });
 }
 
+// The chapter-edit form and the delete confirm row are the two per-card
+// disclosure panels; only one makes sense open at a time.
+function closeCardPanels(key) {
+  var form = document.getElementById("chapter-form-" + key);
+  var confirm = document.getElementById("confirm-row-" + key);
+  if (form) form.hidden = true;
+  if (confirm) confirm.hidden = true;
+}
+
 function toggleChapterForm(key) {
   var form = document.getElementById("chapter-form-" + key);
   if (!form) return;
-  form.hidden = !form.hidden;
+  var opening = form.hidden;
+  closeCardPanels(key);
+  form.hidden = !opening;
   if (!form.hidden) form.querySelector("input").focus();
 }
+
+function toggleConfirmRow(key) {
+  var row = document.getElementById("confirm-row-" + key);
+  if (!row) return;
+  var opening = row.hidden;
+  closeCardPanels(key);
+  row.hidden = !opening;
+}
+
+// A failed favourite/chapter/delete request leaves the card in place (htmx
+// does not swap on a non-2xx response) but otherwise gives no sign anything
+// went wrong. Surface it inline instead of leaving the tap looking ignored.
+(function () {
+  function showError(elt, message) {
+    var card = elt.closest(".card");
+    var slot = card && card.querySelector(".error-inline");
+    if (!slot) return;
+    slot.textContent = message;
+    slot.hidden = false;
+    clearTimeout(slot._hideTimer);
+    slot._hideTimer = setTimeout(function () {
+      slot.hidden = true;
+    }, 5000);
+  }
+
+  document.body.addEventListener("htmx:responseError", function (e) {
+    showError(e.detail.elt, "Couldn't save — try again.");
+  });
+  document.body.addEventListener("htmx:sendError", function (e) {
+    showError(e.detail.elt, "No connection — try again.");
+  });
+})();

backend/static/style.css

@@ -8,11 +8,28 @@
   --text: #e8eaed;
   --muted: #9aa1ac;
   --accent: #6aa9ff;
+  --accent-ink: #0b1220;
   --danger: #ff6a6a;
+  --danger-ink: #2a0a0a;
   --star: #ffc857;
+  /* A newly-published chapter is its own signal, distinct from "tap to act"
+     (accent) or "favourited" (star) — a third hue keeps those three meanings
+     from collapsing into one overloaded blue. */
+  --new: #34d8a6;
+  --new-ink: #0b1220;
+  /* Per-site tint so the two source sites this app exists to unify are
+     still tellable apart at a glance, not just by reading the label text. */
+  --site-asura-bg: #3a2a20;
+  --site-asura-text: #ffb37a;
+  --site-demonic-bg: #2e2440;
+  --site-demonic-text: #c9a8ff;
   --radius: 12px;
 }
 
+/* Light theme darkens the four semantic hues (and flips their ink) rather
+   than reusing the dark-theme values verbatim: the originals were tuned to
+   sit on near-black surfaces and fall well under WCAG AA the moment the
+   surface goes to white — verified via computed contrast, not eyeballed. */
 @media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
   :root {
     --bg: #f4f5f7;
@@ -20,6 +37,17 @@
     --surface-2: #eceef2;
     --text: #1a1d22;
     --muted: #5d646e;
+    --accent: #1f5fd6;
+    --accent-ink: #ffffff;
+    --danger: #b42323;
+    --danger-ink: #ffffff;
+    --star: #7d5f00;
+    --new: #087a5c;
+    --new-ink: #ffffff;
+    --site-asura-bg: #fde8d8;
+    --site-asura-text: #8a4a1f;
+    --site-demonic-bg: #f0e6fa;
+    --site-demonic-text: #6b2fa8;
   }
 }
 
@@ -57,7 +85,7 @@ button, .primary, [role="tab"] {
   border-radius: var(--radius);
 }
 
-.login-card h1 { margin: 0 0 20px; font-size: 1.25rem; }
+.login-card h1 { margin: 0 0 20px; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -.01em; }
 .login-card label { display: block; margin-bottom: 6px; color: var(--muted); font-size: .875rem; }
 
 .login-card input {
@@ -73,7 +101,7 @@ button, .primary, [role="tab"] {
 }
 
 .login-card input:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid var(--accent); }
-.login-card button { width: 100%; background: var(--accent); color: #0b1220; font-weight: 600; }
+.login-card button { width: 100%; background: var(--accent); color: var(--accent-ink); font-weight: 600; }
 .error { margin: 0 0 12px; color: var(--danger); font-size: .875rem; }
 
 /* --- chrome --- */
@@ -86,7 +114,7 @@ button, .primary, [role="tab"] {
   padding: 12px 0;
 }
 
-.topbar h1 { margin: 0; font-size: 1.125rem; }
+.topbar h1 { margin: 0; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -.01em; }
 .ghost { padding: 0 12px; background: var(--surface-2); color: var(--muted); }
 
 .search {
@@ -114,11 +142,12 @@ button, .primary, [role="tab"] {
   text-decoration: none;
 }
 
-.tabs [role="tab"].active { background: var(--accent); color: #0b1220; font-weight: 600; }
+.tabs [role="tab"].active { background: var(--accent); color: var(--accent-ink); font-weight: 600; }
 
 /* --- continue reading --- */
 
-.recent h2 { margin: 0 0 8px; font-size: .8125rem; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--muted); }
+.recent h2 { margin: 0 0 8px; font-size: .8125rem; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;
+  letter-spacing: .04em; color: var(--muted); }
 
 .recent-strip {
   display: flex;
@@ -141,10 +170,21 @@ button, .primary, [role="tab"] {
   text-decoration: none;
 }
 
-.recent-card img { width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 3 / 4; object-fit: cover; border-radius: 8px; }
+/* A reserved slot even without cover art, so the ribbon always has a
-.recent-title { display: block; margin-top: 6px; font-size: .8125rem; line-height: 1.25;
+   dedicated area to sit in instead of overlapping the title text. */
+.recent-cover {
+  position: relative;
+  display: block;
+  aspect-ratio: 3 / 4;
+  background: var(--surface-2);
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+
+.recent-cover img { width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; display: block; }
+.recent-title { display: block; margin-top: 6px; font-size: .8125rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.35;
   overflow: hidden; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; }
-.recent-chapter { display: block; color: var(--muted); font-size: .75rem; }
+.recent-chapter { display: block; color: var(--muted); font-size: .75rem; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
 
 /* --- list --- */
 
@@ -152,44 +192,140 @@ button, .primary, [role="tab"] {
 
 .card {
   display: grid;
-  grid-template-columns: 72px 1fr;
+  grid-template-columns: 96px 1fr;
   gap: 12px;
   padding: 10px;
   background: var(--surface);
   border-radius: var(--radius);
 }
 
-.card .cover img { width: 72px; aspect-ratio: 3 / 4; object-fit: cover; border-radius: 8px; }
+.card .cover {
+  position: relative;
+  display: block;
+  width: 96px;
+  aspect-ratio: 3 / 4;
+  background: var(--surface-2);
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+
+.card .cover img { width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; display: block; }
+
+/* No og:image was ever scraped for this series. A bare --surface-2 rectangle
+   read as a cover still loading; the title's initial says the slot is filled
+   and nothing more is coming. Muted, not accent — a missing cover is an
+   absence, not a signal, and it must never outrank the New ribbon it sits
+   under. The two cover contexts share this rule and differ only in size. */
+.cover-blank {
+  position: absolute;
+  inset: 0;
+  display: grid;
+  place-items: center;
+  color: var(--muted);
+  font-size: 2rem;
+  font-weight: 700;
+  line-height: 1;
+  letter-spacing: -.02em;
+  opacity: .65;
+  user-select: none;
+}
+
+.recent-cover .cover-blank { font-size: 1.625rem; }
 .card .body { min-width: 0; }
-.card .title { margin: 0 0 4px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.25; }
+/* 17px, not the 16px body floor: the title is the one thing per card the
+   squint test must catch first, so it needs a size step of its own, not
+   just the browser's default h3 bold riding on an unchanged size. */
+.card .title { margin: 0 0 4px; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.35; }
 
 .meta { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 6px; align-items: center; margin: 0 0 10px;
   font-size: .75rem; color: var(--muted); }
 
-.site { padding: 2px 6px; background: var(--surface-2); border-radius: 6px; text-transform: uppercase; }
+.site { padding: 2px 6px; background: var(--surface-2); border-radius: 6px; text-transform: uppercase;
-.new { padding: 2px 6px; background: var(--accent); color: #0b1220; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 700; }
+  letter-spacing: .03em; }
+/* Per-site tint: the two source sites this app unifies are otherwise
+   identical chrome, so this is the one glanceable "which site" cue beyond
+   the label text itself. */
+.site-asura { background: var(--site-asura-bg); color: var(--site-asura-text); }
+.site-demonic { background: var(--site-demonic-bg); color: var(--site-demonic-text); }
+/* Read progress is data, not metadata, so it takes the body text color
+   instead of the muted tone the label pills around it use. */
+.chapter { color: var(--text); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
+.new-chapter { color: var(--new); font-weight: 600; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
 
-.actions { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px; }
+/* The signal the poller exists to surface: a corner ribbon on the cover
+   itself outranks any line of card metadata, so it reads on the squint
+   test even in a dense grid, not just on close inspection. Its own hue
+   (not accent) keeps "new chapter" distinct from "tap to act". */
+.new-ribbon {
+  position: absolute;
+  top: 6px;
+  left: 6px;
+  padding: 2px 7px;
+  background: var(--new);
+  color: var(--new-ink);
+  font-size: .6875rem; /* 11px: the functional-text legibility floor */
+  font-weight: 700;
+  letter-spacing: .02em;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+  border-radius: 6px;
+  box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, .35);
+}
+
+.new-ribbon-sm { top: 4px; left: 4px; padding: 1px 5px; }
+
+/* One row of equal-sized icon buttons: Continue no longer stretches to
+   fill leftover space (that was both the wrap bug at narrow widths and
+   what made it read as arbitrarily oversized). It carries the same 44px
+   footprint as the utility icons and is told apart by fill color alone.
+   Grid columns capped at 44px, not flex items fixed at 44px: on the
+   narrowest real Android widths four 44px targets plus gaps don't quite
+   fit beside a 96px cover, and minmax(0, 44px) lets the row compress a
+   couple of px instead of wrapping — imperceptible, and never wraps. */
+.actions {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: repeat(4, minmax(0, 44px));
+  gap: 8px;
+  margin-top: 10px;
+  padding-top: 10px;
+  border-top: 1px solid var(--surface-2);
+}
 
 .primary {
-  flex: 1 1 auto;
   display: grid;
   place-items: center;
-  padding: 0 14px;
   background: var(--accent);
-  color: #0b1220;
+  color: var(--accent-ink);
-  font-weight: 600;
+  font-size: 1.125rem;
   text-decoration: none;
 }
 
-.icon { width: 44px; background: var(--surface-2); color: var(--text); font-size: 1.125rem; }
+.icon { display: grid; place-items: center; padding: 0;
+  background: var(--surface-2); color: var(--text); font-size: 1.125rem; }
 .icon.on { color: var(--star); }
 .icon.danger { color: var(--danger); }
 
-.chapter-form { display: flex; gap: 8px; margin-top: 8px; }
+/* Hand-drawn inline SVG rather than the OS emoji font: ☆ ✎ 🗑 ▶ each render in
+   a different face at a different optical weight and colour (some fonts force
+   their own), which is the one place the card ignored its own type and colour
+   system. currentColor keeps them on .icon / .icon.on / .icon.danger /
+   .primary without a second palette. 20px, not the 1.125rem font-size the
+   glyphs used: a glyph inks about two thirds of its em box, so matching the
+   old optical size means an SVG a step larger than the font-size it replaces. */
+.icon svg, .primary svg { width: 20px; height: 20px; display: block; }
+
+/* Wraps, like .actions and .confirm-row: the hint claims its own full-width
+   row (flex-basis 100%) so input + Save keep the whole card width below it.
+   Without the wrap the three children fought for one unwrapped row and pushed
+   Save off-screen — ~97px of page overflow at 390px, 127px at 360px. */
+.chapter-form { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px; margin-top: 8px; }
 
 .chapter-form input {
-  flex: 1;
+  /* flex-basis 0 + min-width 0, not flex: 1: a number input's default
+     intrinsic width is ~20 characters, so on `flex: 1` (basis auto) it refused
+     to shrink and pushed Save onto a third row. A chapter number needs five
+     characters, and the field can have whatever is left over. */
+  flex: 1 1 0;
+  min-width: 0;
   min-height: 44px;
   padding: 0 12px;
   background: var(--surface-2);
@@ -197,16 +333,52 @@ button, .primary, [role="tab"] {
   border: 1px solid transparent;
   border-radius: var(--radius);
   font: inherit;
+  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
 }
 
-.chapter-form button { padding: 0 14px; background: var(--accent); color: #0b1220; font-weight: 600; }
+.chapter-form button { padding: 0 14px; background: var(--accent); color: var(--accent-ink); font-weight: 600; }
+/* flex: 1 0 100% — own row above the field. The margin-bottom is 0 because the
+   parent's 8px gap already spaces it; keeping both double-spaced the hint. */
+.hint { flex: 1 0 100%; margin: 0; font-size: .75rem; color: var(--muted); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
+
+/* Delete confirm, themed in place of a native confirm() dialog: that OS
+   chrome renders outside the app's own dark surface, breaking the
+   night-reading brand constraint at the one moment attention matters most. */
+.confirm-row { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: center; gap: 8px; margin-top: 8px; }
+/* Own full-width row, same as .chapter-form's hint. Sharing one row with both
+   buttons broke the prompt into "Remove / this?" while its own answer sat
+   whole beside it; nowrap alone only converted that into 26px of page
+   overflow, because a nowrap flex item will not shrink past its text. */
+.confirm-row span { flex: 1 0 100%; font-size: .8125rem; white-space: nowrap; }
+.confirm-row .danger-solid { padding: 0 14px; background: var(--danger); color: var(--danger-ink); font-weight: 600; }
+.confirm-row button[type="button"] { padding: 0 14px; background: var(--surface-2); color: var(--text); }
+
 .empty { padding: 32px 12px; text-align: center; color: var(--muted); }
 
+/* --- mutation feedback --- */
+
+/* htmx adds .htmx-request to the element named by hx-indicator while a
+   request is in flight; dimming the whole card is the visible "it's working"
+   signal the templates otherwise never give. */
+.card.htmx-request { opacity: .6; }
+
+.error-inline {
+  margin: 8px 0 0;
+  padding: 6px 10px;
+  background: var(--surface-2);
+  color: var(--danger);
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  font-size: .8125rem;
+}
+
+.error-inline[hidden] { display: none; }
+
 /* Cards hidden by the search filter. The .chapter-form { display: flex }
    rule above has equal specificity to the UA [hidden] rule, so without this
    override the form stays visible even when the hidden attribute is set. */
 .card[hidden] { display: none; }
 .chapter-form[hidden] { display: none; }
+.confirm-row[hidden] { display: none; }
 
 /* --- wide screens --- */
 

backend/templates/app.html

@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
     <a role="tab" href="/?tab=all" class="{{if eq .Tab "all"}}active{{end}}"
        hx-get="/ui/list?tab=all" hx-target="#list" hx-swap="innerHTML"
        hx-push-url="/?tab=all" hx-on::after-request="setActiveTab(this)">All</a>
+    <a role="tab" href="/?tab=new" class="tab-new {{if eq .Tab "new"}}active{{end}}"
+       hx-get="/ui/list?tab=new" hx-target="#list" hx-swap="innerHTML"
+       hx-push-url="/?tab=new" hx-on::after-request="setActiveTab(this)">Updated</a>
     <a role="tab" href="/?tab=fav" class="{{if eq .Tab "fav"}}active{{end}}"
        hx-get="/ui/list?tab=fav" hx-target="#list" hx-swap="innerHTML"
        hx-push-url="/?tab=fav" hx-on::after-request="setActiveTab(this)">Favourites</a>
@@ -36,7 +39,11 @@
     <div class="recent-strip">
       {{range .Recent}}
       <a class="recent-card" href="{{.ContinueURL}}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
-        {{if .Cover}}<img src="{{.Cover}}" alt="" loading="lazy">{{end}}
+        <span class="recent-cover">
+          {{if .Cover}}<img src="{{.Cover}}" alt="" loading="lazy">
+          {{else}}<span class="cover-blank" aria-hidden="true">{{.Initial}}</span>{{end}}
+          {{if .HasNewChapter}}<span class="new-ribbon new-ribbon-sm">New</span>{{end}}
+        </span>
         <span class="recent-title">{{.Title}}</span>
         <span class="recent-chapter">Ch {{.LastChapter}}</span>
       </a>

backend/templates/card.html

@@ -1,37 +1,69 @@
 {{define "card"}}
 <article class="card" id="card-{{.Key}}" data-title="{{.Title}}">
   <a class="cover" href="{{.ContinueURL}}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
-    {{if .Cover}}<img src="{{.Cover}}" alt="" loading="lazy">{{end}}
+    {{if .Cover}}<img src="{{.Cover}}" alt="" loading="lazy">
+    {{else}}<span class="cover-blank" aria-hidden="true">{{.Initial}}</span>{{end}}
+    {{if .HasNewChapter}}<span class="new-ribbon">New</span>{{end}}
   </a>
   <div class="body">
     <h3 class="title">{{.Title}}</h3>
     <p class="meta">
       <span class="site site-{{.Site}}">{{.Site}}</span>
       <span class="chapter">Ch {{.LastChapter}}</span>
-      {{if .HasNewChapter}}<span class="new">NEW {{.LatestChapter}}</span>{{end}}
+      {{if .HasNewChapter}}<span class="new-chapter">Ch {{.LatestChapter}} out</span>{{end}}
     </p>
     <div class="actions">
-      <a class="primary" href="{{.ContinueURL}}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Continue</a>
+      <a class="primary" href="{{.ContinueURL}}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
+         title="Continue reading" aria-label="Continue reading">
+        <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
+          <path d="M8 4.8a1 1 0 0 1 1.52-.85l10 7.2a1 1 0 0 1 0 1.7l-10 7.2A1 1 0 0 1 8 19.2z"/>
+        </svg>
+      </a>
       <button class="icon {{if .Favorite}}on{{end}}"
               title="Favourite" aria-label="Toggle favourite"
               hx-post="/ui/bookmarks/{{.Key}}/favorite"
-              hx-target="[id='card-{{.Key}}']" hx-swap="outerHTML">
+              hx-target="[id='card-{{.Key}}']" hx-swap="outerHTML"
-        {{if .Favorite}}★{{else}}☆{{end}}
+              hx-indicator="[id='card-{{.Key}}']" hx-disabled-elt="this">
+        <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="{{if .Favorite}}currentColor{{else}}none{{end}}"
+             stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.7" stroke-linejoin="round"
+             aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
+          <path d="M12 3.7l2.63 5.33 5.87.86-4.25 4.14 1 5.85L12 17.31l-5.25 2.57 1-5.85L3.5 9.89l5.87-.86z"/>
+        </svg>
       </button>
       <button class="icon" title="Set chapter" aria-label="Set chapter"
-              onclick="toggleChapterForm('{{.Key}}')">✎</button>
+              onclick="toggleChapterForm('{{.Key}}')">
+        <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.7"
+             stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
+          <path d="M4 20h4L19.3 8.7a1.5 1.5 0 0 0 0-2.12l-1.88-1.88a1.5 1.5 0 0 0-2.12 0L4 16z"/>
+          <path d="M13.8 7.2l3 3"/>
+        </svg>
+      </button>
       <button class="icon danger" title="Remove" aria-label="Remove"
-              hx-delete="/ui/bookmarks/{{.Key}}"
+              onclick="toggleConfirmRow('{{.Key}}')">
-              hx-target="[id='card-{{.Key}}']" hx-swap="outerHTML"
+        <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.7"
-              hx-confirm="Remove {{.Title}} from the list?">🗑</button>
+             stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
+          <path d="M4.5 6.8h15M9.8 6.8V4.6h4.4v2.2M7.3 6.8l.9 12.6h7.6l.9-12.6"/>
+        </svg>
+      </button>
     </div>
     <form class="chapter-form" id="chapter-form-{{.Key}}" hidden
           hx-post="/ui/bookmarks/{{.Key}}/chapter"
-          hx-target="[id='card-{{.Key}}']" hx-swap="outerHTML">
+          hx-target="[id='card-{{.Key}}']" hx-swap="outerHTML"
+          hx-indicator="[id='card-{{.Key}}']" hx-disabled-elt="input, button">
+      {{if .LatestChapter}}<p class="hint">Latest known: Ch {{.LatestChapter}}</p>{{end}}
       <input name="chapter" type="number" step="0.1" min="0"
              value="{{.LastChapterNum}}" aria-label="Chapter number" required>
       <button type="submit">Save</button>
     </form>
+    <div class="confirm-row" id="confirm-row-{{.Key}}" hidden>
+      <span>Remove this?</span>
+      <button class="danger-solid"
+              hx-delete="/ui/bookmarks/{{.Key}}"
+              hx-target="[id='card-{{.Key}}']" hx-swap="outerHTML"
+              hx-indicator="[id='card-{{.Key}}']" hx-disabled-elt="this">Remove</button>
+      <button type="button" onclick="toggleConfirmRow('{{.Key}}')">Cancel</button>
+    </div>
+    <p class="error-inline" hidden></p>
   </div>
 </article>
 {{end}}

backend/templates/list.html

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 {{define "list"}}
 {{if .Items}}
   {{range .Items}}{{template "card" .}}{{end}}
+{{else if eq .Tab "fav"}}
+  <p class="empty">No favourites yet. Star a series to pin it here.</p>
+{{else if eq .Tab "new"}}
+  <p class="empty">Nothing new. Every series is caught up to its latest chapter.</p>
 {{else}}
   <p class="empty">
     Nothing here yet. Bookmarks appear once the userscript records a chapter.

backend/web.go

@@ -35,11 +35,21 @@ type webHandler struct {
 
 // listView is what every list-rendering template receives.
 type listView struct {
-	Tab    string // "all" or "fav"
+	Tab    string // "all", "fav", or "new"
 	Recent []Bookmark
 	Items  []Bookmark
 }
 
+// Initial is the monogram the templates show in place of a cover when the
+// source site never gave us an og:image. First rune, uppercased; "?" when even
+// the title is missing, so the slot is never empty.
+func (b Bookmark) Initial() string {
+	for _, r := range b.Title {
+		return strings.ToUpper(string(r))
+	}
+	return "?"
+}
+
 // loginView is what the login template receives.
 type loginView struct {
 	Error string
@@ -150,14 +160,22 @@ func (h *webHandler) buildListView(tab string) (listView, error) {
 	}
 
 	items := all
-	if tab == "fav" {
+	switch tab {
+	case "fav":
 		items = []Bookmark{}
 		for _, b := range all {
 			if b.Favorite {
 				items = append(items, b)
 			}
 		}
-	} else {
+	case "new":
+		items = []Bookmark{}
+		for _, b := range all {
+			if b.HasNewChapter() {
+				items = append(items, b)
+			}
+		}
+	default:
 		tab = "all"
 	}
 	return listView{Tab: tab, Recent: recent, Items: items}, nil

backend/web_test.go

@@ -483,3 +483,33 @@ func TestUIListFavouritesTab(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("favourites tab included a non-favourite")
 	}
 }
+
+func TestUIListNewTab(t *testing.T) {
+	cfg := webConfig()
+	srv, store := newWebTestServer(t, cfg)
+	seed(t, store, Bookmark{
+		Key: "asura:solo", Site: "asura", SeriesID: "solo",
+		Title: "Solo Leveling", LastChapterNum: 10,
+		LatestChapter: "Chapter 12", LatestChapterNum: floatPtr(12),
+		UpdatedAt: 2_000_000,
+	})
+	seed(t, store, Bookmark{
+		Key: "demonic:tower", Site: "demonic", SeriesID: "tower",
+		Title: "Tower of God", LastChapterNum: 5,
+		LatestChapter: "Chapter 5", LatestChapterNum: floatPtr(5),
+		UpdatedAt: 1_000_000,
+	})
+
+	rr := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	srv.ServeHTTP(rr, uiRequest(t, cfg, http.MethodGet, "/ui/list?tab=new", nil))
+	if rr.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want 200", rr.Code)
+	}
+	body := rr.Body.String()
+	if !strings.Contains(body, "Solo Leveling") {
+		t.Fatal("new tab omitted the series with an unread chapter")
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(body, "Tower of God") {
+		t.Fatal("new tab included a series already caught up")
+	}
+}