- New hero headline "Turn any video into a watch party" with animated
gradient highlight, sharper subtitle and quiet trust line under the CTAs
- Changelog badge redesigned as the koala's speech bubble (version and
release date baked in at build time, no version.json fetch anymore)
- Light/dark theme toggle in the header (dark default, pre-paint via
lang-init, full light theme across sections)
- Use cases and "Why KoalaSync" merged into one section with the three
strongest feature tiles; question-mark koala moved to the FAQ
- FAQ and self-hosting setup collapsed by default via shared
section-collapse component (hash deep links auto-open them)
- Compat/juggler section more compact
- og:image switched to the 1280x640 repository OpenGraph card (landing
and join page), generated during build
- "watch party" keyword added to meta title/description in all 15 locales
- All em-dashes removed from user-facing copy
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Change .hero from align-items:center to flex-start so content starts from top
- Increase padding-top in short-viewport media query (<=920px height) to
clamp(7.5rem, 10vh, 9rem) from clamp(3.75rem, 6vh, 5.5rem) so it always
clears the ~96px nav bar
- Fix pre-existing lint errors: remove unused variables demoFinishedByStory,
firstTake; add website/www to eslint ignores
Remove firstTake && !demoFinishedByStory guard from takeOver handler
so clicks outside the extension mockup always collapse the popup,
regardless of whether the automated walkthrough finished.
- Remove data-reveal from hero h1/subtitle/mascot/cta-group/version-badge
(critical above-fold content must never start hidden)
- Change IntersectionObserver rootMargin -150px to -30px, threshold 0.1 to 0.05
(CTAs at ~530px were past the observer zone on laptops)
- Hero layout: align-items flex-start + padding-top 7.5rem for content at top
- Cards 62cqw to 70cqw, -3% offsets for dramatic overlap cascade
- Film animation: replace stick-figure walker with cinematic night scene
(7 twinkling stars, glowing moon with drift, parallax mountains, firefly)
- Seek now restarts all film child animations via .demo-reset class toggle
(was incorrectly resetting parent only — no visible jump)
- Add .demo-seek-sweep overlay + brightness flash during seek
- Video select: placeholder option ('Choose a video tab...') until story picks
- RATE 8 to 1 for realtime playback
- Version badge moved below download buttons
- All 15 locale files: add DEMO_SELECT_PLACEHOLDER key
The v2.5.2 Disney+ page-API integration leaked blob-relative <video>
time into force sync, seeks, and heartbeats when the page-API bridge
had no fresh data, so force sync on Disney+ appeared broken.
- getSyncCurrentTime/getSyncDuration now refuse native values on Disney+
(return null/0) so stale bridge data degrades to a clean no-op instead
of broadcasting garbage to peers. The get_current_time handler and
episode/lobby/hcmIsLive paths are routed through the same accessor.
- Validate FORCE_SYNC_PREPARE/SEEK payloads as finite before relaying;
the internal coercion no longer treats '' as 0.
- Stop double-routing FORCE_SYNC_PREPARE from the popup path (the
generic popup route now covers only play/pause/seek).
- popup force-sync: exclude null/empty peer times from the jump-to-others
median (Number(null)===0 was dragging the target to 0), guard against
NaN end-to-end, clear the dangling reset timer on failure, and retry
without re-injecting when the content script responds but the Disney+
bridge has not yet delivered a finite time.
- hcmIsLive skips the native-duration live signal on Disney+ only,
preserving YouTube/Twitch Infinity-duration live detection.
Disney-specific logic remains strictly gated to disneyplus.com; no
Netflix/YouTube/Twitch/generic path is affected.
Disney+'s <video> is blob-relative (unusable as an absolute clock) and its
scrubber aria-value freezes during playback, so DOM scraping lagged and the
+/-10s button seek could neither reach far targets nor land precisely. The
real player hangs off the <disney-web-player> custom element as
`.mediaPlayer`, exposing seek(ms) and timeline.info (playhead/duration ms).
Since the isolated content world can't read that page object, route it
through the existing MAIN-world page-API bridge (as Netflix already does):
- page-api-seek-overrides.js: register a 'disney' provider.
- background.js installPageApiSeekBridge: seek Disney via mediaPlayer.seek(),
and post the exact playhead/duration (seconds) to the content world every
250ms. Both are gated on provider === 'disney'; Netflix path unchanged.
- content.js: cache the pushed playhead, prefer it in getDisneyPlusTimeline
(DOM scraping stays as fallback), and check the page-API seek first in
seekVideo. Outcome is identical for Netflix and generic sites.
Verified live on Disney+: reported time matches the player exactly and
seek lands within ~1s of the target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Disney+ has no absolute seek on its blob <video>, so absolute seeks are
translated into repeated clicks of the player's relative skip button. The
click count was capped at 12 (=120s at 10s/step), so any seek further than
two minutes away silently landed short — breaking absolute-position sync
(e.g. syncing to 5:00 from far away never arrived).
Derive the step size from the matched button's own label (10s default,
some UIs use 5/15/30) and issue enough clicks to cover the full delta,
bounded at a sane maximum.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the control overlay (and its live time readout) is briefly absent,
the old fallback recomputed the timeline from the raw blob-relative
video.currentTime via a cached scale/start. Disney recreates the <video>
element on some play/pause transitions, which resets currentTime, so that
math produced a wildly wrong time ("loses the time" after a pause).
The native clock advances 1:1 with real playback, so instead anchor the
last live UI position to video.currentTime and extrapolate by the elapsed
native delta. If the delta is negative or implausibly large (element
recreated / seek), freeze at the last known position rather than emitting
a garbage time.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Disney+ throttles the scrubber slider's aria-valuenow, so it can lag real
playback by several seconds (and its value snaps back when the control
overlay reappears on pause). The player's "time remaining" indicator,
however, updates live.
getDisneyPlusUiTimeline() now captures any element whose class/testid
mentions "remain", parses its clock text, and — when a reliable duration
is known — derives current = duration - remaining and prefers it over the
laggy slider value. Falls back to the previous behavior when no remaining
indicator is present.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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