Every plugin iframe loaded /plugin-sandbox, a force-dynamic Next page.
Each frame then fetched, parsed and hydrated Next's client router on top
of React and the runtime, and the server rendered the page once per
frame, one after another when a dozen plugins started together.
Sandboxed frames have opaque origins, so the browser's code cache never
helps, and they run on the host page's main thread: with 12 plugins
the frames took 2.5-3 s to come up after the app had loaded.
The sandbox routes now return a small HTML page with the UI kit's
stylesheet and the runtime as an ES module, both built ahead of time:
- `scripts/build-plugin-sandbox.mjs` bundles the runtime with esbuild
and compiles `plugin-kit.css` with the app's Tailwind setup into
`public/plugin-sandbox-assets/`, with a manifest. Named Tabler imports
are pointed at the icons' own files, so the full icon set stays in a
chunk that only loads for an icon name the kit doesn't ship.
- `npm run build`, `npm run dev`, the Dockerfile and the perf-guard
workflow run it before `next build`.
- `lib/plugin-sandbox/sandbox-document.ts` writes the page; proxy.ts
still sets the sandbox CSP and the script carries its nonce.
- The assets are served from public/ with CORS and immutable caching.
A frame on an idle page is ready in 255 ms instead of 362 ms, eleven at
once in 1.0 s instead of 2.1 s.
Plugins running in iframe sandboxes previously lacked access to the user's regional formatting settings (dateLocale, timeFormat 12h/24h, timeZone, and firstDayOfWeek) unless they requested privileged settings:read permissions.
This mirrors the host's resolved presentation preferences into the plugin sandbox:
- Adds RegionalSnapshot (locale, dateLocale, hour12, timeZone, firstDayOfWeek) to BackgroundInit, SlotInit, and LocaleChangeMsg.
- Implements snapshotRegionalSettings() in host-bridge, reusing host resolveDateLocale() and getEffectiveTimeZone().
- Subscribes stores/plugin-store.ts to useSettingsStore to broadcast updates to running sandboxes when regional preferences change.
- Exposes api.i18n.formatTime(date, options) and api.i18n.formatDate(date, options) along with regional getters on api.i18n.
keywords.add now records the plugin on each definition it adds
(addedBy). keywords.update changes the label, colour or visibility of
those definitions, never their id; keywords.remove deletes them, as
Settings > Tags does, and leaves the keywords on messages alone. Both
need settings:write and skip every other definition, so a plugin cannot
rename or delete the user's own tags or another plugin's.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add Combobox component supporting single and multiselect modes, search filtering, and clear button
- Implement floating dropdown bridge and host slot portal so dropdown renders cleanly outside plugin iframe
- Fix clear button and chip removals to not unexpectedly open the dropdown
- Add comprehensive unit tests covering Combobox options, clear behavior, multiselect, and bridge communication
Every existing plugin slot renders wherever it's placed in the page (a
toolbar row, an attachment's hover-action bar, etc.) and is constrained
by that spot's own CSS - fine for small controls, but there's no way
for a plugin to show a large custom UI (a graphical file browser, a
multi-step wizard) since even a position:fixed overlay rendered from
inside such a slot is clipped to the surrounding row's own layout, not
the real page (confirmed live building the webdav-storage plugin: a
folder browser rendered but was squeezed into an unusable sliver).
Adds:
- host-dialog.ts: new 'custom' DialogKind + awaitCustomDialog(), reusing
the existing confirm/alert/prompt queue plumbing.
- host-api.ts: 'ui.openDialog' API method.
- runtime.tsx: sandbox-side api.ui.openDialog(opts) proxy.
- plugin-types.ts: new 'plugin-dialog' SlotName - a plugin implements
this slot with its actual custom UI.
- plugin-dialog-host.tsx: renders the requested slot via the existing
PluginIframeSlot INSIDE the dialog's real app-root fixed overlay
(position: fixed; inset: 0, above everything) instead of the
confirm/prompt form, for kind: 'custom'. Resolves via a generic
onResult callback in extraProps (marshalled the same way
composer-attachment-source's onAttach already is - no new plumbing
needed there).
A plugin calls api.ui.openDialog({ slot: 'plugin-dialog', extraProps,
title, width }) and awaits the Promise, which resolves to whatever its
own slot component passes to props.onResult(), or null if the user
closes the dialog without doing so.
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