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Problem

preview_snapshot assumes a 2x render scale and falls back to a 1280×800 viewport when Playwright has no viewport size, as with desktop-drawn tabs. It asks Chromium for a clip at scale 0.5 over that viewport, and Chromium applies the scale to the display's real pixels. A headless tab runs at 2x in a viewport Playwright set, so its PNG is 1280×800. A tab the desktop app draws keeps the display's scale and the viewport its panel gives it:

  • At 150% scaling the PNG is 960×600 while the result reports 1280×800.
  • When the desktop page's viewport differs from 1280×800, the fixed clip extends beyond it or omits part of it, and the reported size describes neither.

Change

For a tab the desktop draws, the snapshot reads devicePixelRatio, innerWidth, and innerHeight from the page in an isolated world, where page script cannot reassign them, and the page's zoom from Chromium's layout metrics (cssVisualViewport.zoom). It divides the zoom out of the ratio, then uses the display scale and the viewport for the clip. The clip starts at the page's scroll offset times its zoom, since a clip is in device-independent pixels. The zoom comes from the page rather than the server's copy because the desktop applies a published zoom change a moment later. The reported size is now read from the PNG itself. Headless tabs keep the fixed 2x and Playwright's viewport, so their captures are unchanged, including zoomed ones.

Scope and approval

Closes #16690. The triage comment confirms the bug on main and names this approach as option (a): read the page's real devicePixelRatio for desktop-drawn tabs and use it in the scale and reported-size math. Option (b), forcing 2x emulation on the visible webview for each capture, would repaint the page the user is watching.

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An agent ran every check. No person tested or reviewed the change. On request, the user resized and zoomed the dev app's window, changed the tab's zoom from the preview menu, and typed the agent's prompts.

Automated (Linux, apps/server):

  • vp test run src/preview: 137 passed.
  • New in ServerBrowser.test.ts, for a desktop-drawn tab: a page at ratio 1.5 and 1280×800 is clipped at scale 2/3 and reported as 1280×800; a page at 1067×667 is clipped to 1067×667; a page at 200% zoom reports ratio 3 and is still clipped at scale 2/3; a page still at 100% after the server published 200% is captured at 100%; a page at 200% zoom scrolled 100 CSS pixels gets a clip starting 200 pixels down. All five fail against main's ServerBrowser.ts and ServerBrowserPage.ts. The fourth also fails against an earlier head, ff9ee0d08, which asks for a 2560×1600 clip. The fifth fails against eb45dc84d, which starts the clip 100 pixels down. A headless tab keeps clip scale 0.5 and never reads the page's ratio, on both.
  • New in ServerBrowserPage.test.ts: a page whose script reassigns devicePixelRatio, innerWidth, and innerHeight to -1.5, 99999, and 1e7 still reads as ratio 1.5 and 1280×800. Real Chromium launched at 1x, 1.5x, and 2x with the matching render scale gives a 1280×800 PNG reported as 1280×800. Another passes a viewport one pixel off the page's real 539×939, the rounding a zoomed desktop page can produce, and checks the reported size is still the PNG's 539×939. It passes on main too, which has no viewport input. With main's fixed 2x the same setups give 640×400, 960×600, and 1280×800, all reported as 1280×800.
  • apps/server typecheck passes. Lint and format pass on the changed files.

Live, agent-operated: the desktop app from this branch (vp run dev:desktop) on Windows 11 at 150% scaling, preview_snapshot on a local page with fine text and one-pixel lines.

Page viewport main This branch
1280×800, panel maximized 960×600 1280×800 (at bbc11231b)
1067×667, app window zoomed out not run 1280×800, whole page
539×939, narrow panel not run 809×1409, reported 809×1409
539×939, tab zoom 150% (ratio 2.25, 359×626 CSS) not run reported 809×1409 (at 2a0ebb0df)
539×939, tab zoom 67% (ratio 1.005, 805×1402 CSS) not run 809×1409, whole page (at 2a0ebb0df)

main, 1280×800 viewport, 960×600:
main: 960x600 for a 1280x800 viewport

This branch at bbc11231b, which handled this case the same way, 1280×800 viewport, 1280×800:
This branch: 1280x800 for a 1280x800 viewport

This branch, 1067×667 viewport, 1280×800:
This branch: 1280x800 covering a 1067x667 viewport

This branch, 539×939 viewport, 809×1409:
This branch: 809x1409 for a 539x939 viewport

All but the narrow capture are soft because the webview was drawn smaller than the page (#9872). This PR changes size and coverage, not that.

The two zoomed captures above were taken in a panel too narrow to scale, so they do not exercise the clip math under zoom. A standalone Electron 44 webview, not the T3 app, at 150% scaling and 1280×800 covered that: running this branch's snapshot math at zoom 1.5, 0.67, 2, and 1 gave a 1280×800 PNG with all four viewport corners each time. In a second standalone Electron 44 webview, after page script reassigned the three globals, the main world read the fake values and an isolated world read the browser's. A third webview at zoom 1.5, scrolled 1000 CSS pixels, showed the clip origin: starting at the CSS offset, the capture was blank in its top 500 of 800 rows, and starting at the offset times the zoom, it matched the visible viewport.

Standalone Electron webview, zoom 1.5, scrolled 1000 CSS pixels, clip at the CSS offset:
Clip at the CSS offset: blank in its top 500 of 800 rows

Same page, clip at the offset times the zoom:
Clip at the offset times the zoom: the visible viewport

Not checked: a snapshot taken while a zoom change is in flight. The test above covers the server-to-desktop window, but the page reads and the capture are separate CDP calls, so a zoom landing between them can still mis-size one capture, and that case was not reproduced live. Also not checked: 100% and 250% display scaling, macOS, and recordings, which capture at full scale.

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…cale and viewport

Snapshots assumed every tab renders at 2x in a 1280x800 viewport. A tab
the desktop draws keeps the display's scale and its panel's viewport, so
at 150% scaling the PNG came out 960x600 while the result reported
1280x800, and a viewport of another size was clipped wrongly. For those
tabs the snapshot now reads devicePixelRatio and the viewport from the
page and divides out the zoom the desktop applied. The reported size is
read from the PNG header. Headless tabs capture as before.

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Verdict: Approved at 726a8ed

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Desktop-rendered snapshots now use page metrics and tab zoom to set capture scale and viewport dimensions. Snapshot metadata uses PNG dimensions when available. Headless snapshots retain their fixed render scale.

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Preview snapshot sizing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Calculate per-tab rendering parameters
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.test.ts
Desktop snapshots derive capture scale and viewport dimensions from page metrics and current tab zoom. Headless snapshots retain the fixed render scale. Tests cover desktop and headless capture parameters, pending zoom adjustments, and page metrics.
Capture viewport and report image dimensions
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.test.ts
Snapshot capture accepts a viewport for clipping. Screenshot metadata uses PNG dimensions when available and falls back to calculated dimensions. Tests check output and reported dimensions.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed [#16690] Desktop-drawn snapshots now read page metrics in an isolated world. The code uses page ratio divided by page zoom for the render scale. It uses the page viewport and zoomed scroll offset for …
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The server publishes a zoom change before the desktop applies it, so a
snapshot taken in between divided the page's old scale by the new zoom
and sized the capture wrong. Read the zoom the page actually has from
Chromium's layout metrics instead of the server's copy.

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- Around line 1285-1291: Validate `cssVisualViewport.zoom`, `page.ratio`,
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`renderScale` or the viewport; use safe defaults for invalid values so the
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A page can reassign devicePixelRatio, innerWidth, and innerHeight in its
own world. The snapshot read them there, so a page could send a negative
clip scale, which Chromium does not answer and which would hold the tab's
capture lock, or ask for an arbitrarily tall capture. Read them in a named
isolated world instead, where they keep the browser's values.

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🟡 Minor · Convert visual viewport offsets to capture coordinates. · ServerBrowserPage.ts:206-215

apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts:206-215
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Convert visual viewport offsets to capture coordinates.

Page.captureScreenshot expects clip coordinates in device-independent pixels. cssVisualViewport.pageX and pageY are CSS-pixel document offsets. Desktop snapshots multiply the viewport dimensions by page.zoom, but captureViewport leaves the offsets unchanged. At non-unit zoom with nonzero scroll, the clip starts at the wrong document position.

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     const viewport = options.viewport ?? page.viewportSize() ?? { width: 1280, height: 800 };
     const { cssVisualViewport } = await cdp.send("Page.getLayoutMetrics");
+    const zoom = cssVisualViewport.zoom ?? 1;
     clip = {
-      x: cssVisualViewport.pageX,
-      y: cssVisualViewport.pageY,
+      x: cssVisualViewport.pageX * zoom,
+      y: cssVisualViewport.pageY * zoom,
       ...viewport,
       scale: options.scale,
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Update the clip coordinates in captureViewport using the cssVisualViewport
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The clip origin took the page's scroll offset in CSS pixels, but a clip
is in device-independent pixels. On a desktop-drawn tab with page zoom,
a scrolled snapshot started short of the visible area and came back
partly blank. Scale the offset by the page's zoom. Headless tabs zoom by
emulating the device scale, so their page zoom stays 1.

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CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding on ServerBrowserPage.ts is fixed in 726a8ed. The clip now starts at the scroll offset times the page's zoom, since layout metrics report CSS pixels and a clip takes device-independent pixels. In an Electron 44 webview at zoom 1.5 scrolled 1000 CSS pixels, the old origin gave a capture blank in its top 500 of 800 rows, and the new one matched the visible viewport. Headless tabs zoom by emulating the device scale and report zoom 1, so their clips are unchanged. A new test scrolls a 200% page 100 CSS pixels and expects the clip 200 pixels down. It fails on eb45dc8.

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[Bug]: preview_snapshot of a desktop-drawn tab is sized by the display DPR (960×600 at 150% scaling)

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