Completed Phase 1 high priority task - comprehensive browsing history:
HistoryManager (New):
- JSON persistence to ~/.config/tut/history.json
- Auto-records every page visit
- Updates timestamp on revisit (moves to front)
- Limit to 1000 entries maximum
- Each entry stores: title, URL, timestamp
- Handles special characters with JSON escaping
- Auto-creates config directory if needed
UI Integration:
- History panel in bottom (center-left) of UI
- Shows up to 5 most recent visits
- Displays "[1] Title" format with cyan highlighting
- Shows "+N more..." indicator if >5 entries
- Real-time update on every navigation
Auto-Recording:
- Records on navigation via address bar
- Records on link click navigation
- Records on back/forward navigation
- Skips empty URLs and about:blank
- Updates existing entries instead of duplicating
Keyboard Shortcuts:
- F3: Toggle history panel visibility
* Refreshes history list when opened
Features:
- Persistent storage across browser sessions
- Smart duplicate handling (updates timestamp)
- Move-to-front on revisit
- Automatic trimming to max 1000 entries
- Sorted display (newest first)
- Empty state handling ("(empty)" message)
Technical Implementation:
- HistoryManager class with Pimpl idiom
- Simple JSON format for easy manual editing
- Event-driven architecture (WindowEvent::OpenHistory)
- Lambda callback for history updates
- Integrated with navigation callbacks
- Three-panel bottom layout (Bookmarks | History | Status)
Storage Format:
[
{"title": "Page Title", "url": "https://...", "timestamp": 1234567890},
...
]
Documentation:
- Updated KEYBOARD.md with F3 shortcut
- Updated STATUS.md to reflect completion
- Added history to interactive features list
All Phase 1 features now complete! 📚✅🎉
Completed Phase 1 high priority task - comprehensive search system:
Search Features:
- Press '/' to enter search mode with dedicated search input
- Case-insensitive search across all content
- Enter to execute search and find all matches
- Real-time match highlighting:
* Yellow background = current match
* Blue background = other matches
- Navigate results with 'n' (next) and 'N' (previous)
- Smart scrolling - auto-scroll to current match
- Match counter in status bar (e.g., "Match 3/10")
- Esc to cancel search input
- Search state clears when loading new pages
Implementation Details:
- Added search state to MainWindow::Impl
* search_mode, search_query, search_matches, current_match
- Search input component (similar to address bar)
- executeSearch() - finds all matching lines
- nextMatch()/previousMatch() - cycle through results
- Content renderer highlights matches dynamically
- Status panel shows search results with emoji indicator
User Experience:
- Intuitive vim-style '/' to search
- Visual feedback with color highlighting
- Match position indicator in status
- Non-intrusive - doesn't interfere with navigation
- Seamless integration with existing UI
Keyboard shortcuts:
- /: Start search
- Enter: Execute search
- n: Next match
- N: Previous match
- Esc: Cancel search
Documentation:
- Updated KEYBOARD.md with search section and usage example
- Updated STATUS.md to reflect completion
- Added search to interactive features list
The browser now has powerful in-page search! 🔍✅
Completed Phase 1 high priority task:
Interactive Features:
- Add 'f' keyboard shortcut for forward navigation
- Forward button in UI now fully functional
- Works in tandem with Backspace (back) navigation
- Only enabled when browser can go forward
Documentation:
- Updated KEYBOARD.md with 'f' key
- Updated README.md keyboard shortcuts
- Updated STATUS.md to reflect completion
- Updated help text in main.cpp
Keyboard shortcuts:
- Backspace: Go back
- f: Go forward
- Both check navigation state before allowing action
The browser now has complete bidirectional navigation! ✅
Updated development status to v0.2.0-alpha with all interactive
features now working:
✅ Content scrolling (j/k, g/G, Space/b)
✅ Link navigation (Tab, numbers, Enter)
✅ Address bar ('o' to open)
✅ Back navigation (Backspace)
✅ Refresh (r/F5)
✅ Real-time status display
The browser is now fully usable for interactive web browsing!
See KEYBOARD.md for complete keyboard shortcuts.
Added STATUS.md documenting:
- Working features (HTTP, HTML parsing, rendering, browser engine)
- Known limitations (UI components not yet implemented)
- Next steps roadmap (scrolling, link navigation, bookmarks, etc.)
- Test results showing successful browsing
The core engine is fully functional - main work remaining is
implementing the interactive UI components.
