feat(web): view visual replies full screen with zoom

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Problem

Visual replies only open in a narrow side panel, which makes images and mockups hard to read.

Change

Open visual replies in an image-style full-screen viewer with a floating close button and 50–200% zoom. Refresh signed URLs on open and keep the inline page mounted. The inline reply now has only Open full screen. Remove Open in panel and its unused callback.

Scope and approval

One change: expand existing HTML replies in web and desktop. Addresses the modal expansion request in Discussion #17083, including button zoom. Clicking individual images to enlarge them and gesture or keyboard zoom remain outside this PR. Maintainer approval of this workflow is still needed.

Related context:

• Discussion #10789: expanded Mermaid viewer with zoom.
• Issue #5509, moved to Discussion #6886: zoom for content in the narrow browser preview panel. This PR expands HTML replies; it does not change browser preview zoom.

Verification

Six focused tests pass, including the full-screen-only action, zoom, reset, closing, focus return, URL refresh failures, and thread-aware links. The updated test fails with the old panel button present. Web typecheck and formatting pass. Scoped lint has no errors and reports existing warnings in MessagesTimeline.

A real browser pass with fake local data confirms one full-screen button, no panel button, expansion, zoom, reset, and closing. Full screen opens a separate page instance. Native desktop and mobile were not tested. Mobile uses its existing separate viewer.

Original behavior: panel only	Full-screen viewer with zoom

These existing images show the original panel flow and the full-screen viewer. Fresh screenshots confirm the inline panel button is removed, but GitHub rejected their upload because attachment upload requires repository write access.

Model: GPT-6.1-Sol, high effort. Harness: Codex in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a new full-screen HTML-render viewer with zoom and replaces the existing panel-opening workflow, including new iframe lifecycle and timeline virtualization behavior. The production-facing workflow change is broader than a bounded UI tweak, so maintainer review is appropriate.

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📝 Walkthrough

HTML render rows can open a refreshed page in a fullscreen dialog. The dialog provides zoom controls and reports fullscreen state to the message timeline. The existing side-panel control remains available, and the user instructions describe the updated controls.

Changes: HTML render fullscreen view

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fullscreen dialog and zoom apps/web/src/components/chat/HtmlRenderDialog.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/HtmlRenderDialog.test.tsx	The new dialog displays an HTML document with close controls and bounded zoom. Tests cover zoom limits, reset behavior, and closing the dialog.
Fullscreen frame flow apps/web/src/components/chat/HtmlRenderFrame.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/HtmlRenderDialog.test.tsx	The frame refreshes the page URL before opening the dialog, reports fullscreen state to the timeline, and shows an error toast when refresh fails. Tests cover refreshed URLs, link handling, and refresh failures.
HTML render instructions docs/user/html-renders.md	The instructions describe fullscreen expansion, side-panel actions, and zoom controls.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant HtmlRenderFrame
  participant AssetURLRefresh
  participant HtmlRenderDialog
  participant HtmlRenderTimelineRow
  User->>HtmlRenderFrame: Activate fullscreen
  HtmlRenderFrame->>AssetURLRefresh: Refresh page URL
  AssetURLRefresh-->>HtmlRenderFrame: Return refreshed URL
  HtmlRenderFrame->>HtmlRenderDialog: Open dialog with refreshed URL
  HtmlRenderFrame->>HtmlRenderTimelineRow: Report fullscreen active
  User->>HtmlRenderDialog: Close dialog
  HtmlRenderDialog->>HtmlRenderFrame: Invoke onClose
  HtmlRenderFrame->>HtmlRenderTimelineRow: Report fullscreen inactive

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Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 795af

Double-clicking the full-screen control can briefly reopen the viewer after it is closed. This is a small, recoverable glitch, so the change is mergeable with a small follow-up fix.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 795af

The fullscreen viewer preserves the existing document sandbox and access checks. No new access bypass was demonstrated. Remaining uncertainty concerns delayed opening requests during dismissal or context changes, and native desktop behavior has not been validated.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated new exposure is a second executing instance of the selected HTML attachment in the current user's viewer. URL creation retains environment-scoped orchestration-read authorization and attachment-specific expiring claims; no broader asset or service authority is demonstrated by the fullscreen path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — HTML content can request parent-mediated link opening, but the receiver requires the owning iframe's contentWindow, iframe focus, and user activation not explicitly false. The parser accepts only HTTP(S) URLs. Accepted requests retain existing thread-aware routing or modifier-click external opening. These controls are unchanged by the PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Attachment-keyed remounting contains state transfer when an attachment changes, but does not itself establish an environment-scoped document identity. Server-thread and timeline surfaces intentionally remain mounted across navigation. A same-attachment cross-environment transition remains an identity-contract uncertainty; the preexisting inline source also stayed frozen for its mount lifetime.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bind pending opens and document lifetime to explicit environment, attachment, and opening-request identity. Invalidate pending completion on dismissal or ownership change so delayed results cannot revive a viewer under changed context. This is lifecycle hardening, not a verified access-control finding.

Pre-merge checks · 4

Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: full-screen viewing and zoom for visual replies.
Description check		The description includes all required sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope, approval context, focused verification, screenshots, untested native desktop behavior, and agent details…

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/HtmlRenderFrame.tsx:
- Around line 123-125: Update the “Open full screen” click handler in the
HtmlRenderFrame component to prevent starting another refresh while one is
pending. Release the guard when refresh succeeds or fails, and only set
expandedSrc after a successful refresh so a late concurrent request cannot
reopen the dialog after it has been closed.

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• apps/web/src/components/chat/HtmlRenderDialog.test.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/HtmlRenderDialog.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/HtmlRenderFrame.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx

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