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fix(chat): follow a measured row in the frame it is drawn (#2624 re-land) - #2655
Re-lands @odfalik's #2624 (reverted in #2647) in a form that holds on slow machines.
#2624 replaced the chat's smooth follow glide with LegendList's scrollToEnd whenever a row's measured size changed. That call lands a frame or more after the measurement, so each streamed change stayed two frames behind. On GitHub-hosted runners the next change often came first, and scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts failed there (#2616, #2636). Its fold-together case also stopped following.
This PR follows a measured row before the frame paints:
Same-frame follow.ChatTimeline queues its follow in a microtask after LegendList's, once per batch of measurements. LegendList sets its total before it calls onItemSizeChanged, and React draws that total in the microtask it queued then. The follow then puts the view at the end.
Where "the end" is. That is the scroller's end, except while LegendList pads the content for a frame to hold rows in place (its ScrollAdjust sets an inline padding-bottom). During that frame the scroller's end lies past the list's, and following it is what broke the earlier same-frame attempt and fold-together. listEndPadded detects it. Outside anchoredEndSpace, which the chat doesn't use, that inline padding is the only one LegendList sets. ChatView's short-landing fix (stoppedShort) skips that frame too.
A reader who left is not pulled back. Before moving the view, the follow reads any scroll the chat hasn't heard yet, exactly as its scroll event would, and re-checks that the reader is still following. "Heard" starts at the position the list attached with. Before that change, the first follow in a short chat called the chat's scroll handler with no scroll at all, and at the top that handler loads the earlier page. CI caught it in scripts/chat-history-browser-qa.ts: the Earlier messages button had already been used.
No glide. The glide, its scrollend settle and followGlides are removed, since nothing glides any more. The changelog says so.
Like the Codex and Claude apps, the chat holds the end of a streaming answer without animating to it. I'm describing those apps from use; I didn't re-measure them for this PR.
QA script
scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts:
CPU_THROTTLE. Takes Chrome CPU throttling (CPU_THROTTLE=2) to run as a slow runner does.
What the reader sees is measured, not the moment after an append.fix(chat): follow measured rows without a competing glide #2624 sampled the gap right after each append, before any layout. Every frame that carries a change counted as behind, whatever was painted. On a runner slow enough that several frames in a row take a change's 110 ms each, that run grows with the machine, not the follow. In one 2x run here, four such frames in a row gave a pre-layout run of 4 while 0 frames were painted behind. That pre-layout run is still logged. Two checks now look at what is painted:
Painted behind: at most 10% of changes. A ResizeObserver on the streamed content, created after the list's own, runs in each frame the row grew: after layout, after the list's measurement and the chat's follow, before that frame paints. Callbacks run in creation order with a microtask checkpoint between them (ResizeObserver, HTML).
Consecutive frames behind:<= 2, unchanged, read as each next frame starts.
A held-up frame lands every change that came due meanwhile at once, as a stream backlog does. Before, the fixed 110 ms grid appended one overdue change per frame after a stall.
Rendered stream. A new case grows the last answer through the chat's own conversation reads. React renders each paragraph, and the gap is read in the frame the row grew, after the list measured it. A ResizeObserver made after the list's own runs at that point.
First open. The long-chat first-open case now also runs with the agent working, with and without reduced motion. Main misses the end by 1,117 px in one frame at 1440 while working.
Wheel-up cleanup. Taking the test's blocks out can shrink the transcript under a reader who went away onto its end. That counts as the end reached, so the cleanup clicks New messages only while it is still shown. The case's assertions run before this step and are unchanged.
Evidence
All numbers are from desktop Chromium at phone and desktop widths, not iOS Safari.
fails painted behind, then fold-together at 390 before its stream
main
70 of 70
70 of 70
100 / 194 px
fails all three bounds
this PR with its follow moved to setTimeout(0), after paint
70 of 70
70 of 70
22 / 96 px
fails painted behind (read as the next frame starts, it shows 0)
Rendered stream. 0 of 38 changes behind at both widths.
Failing-first. Main with this script fails both unthrottled and on 2 cores at 2x CPU throttle: continuous content, the rendered stream, and first open while working.
Reader escape. An upward wheel and a touch drag both stop following while rows stream, at 1440 and 390, every run (probe). On main, one 390 touch drag didn't escape.
bun scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts, on 2 cores with 2 CPU hogs and CPU_THROTTLE=2 under dori heavy, with UI_EVIDENCE_DIR set as CI does: 20 of 20 consecutive passes on this head (61e231b). Every run painted 0 of 70 changes behind, at both widths. Before the last fix (a short chat loading its earlier page by itself), the previous head had 18 of 18.
bun scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts unthrottled: pass.
bun run check fast: pass (10,792 unit tests, typecheck, build).
Reviews: omo and Codex Terra (gpt-6.1-terra, xhigh) reviewed the change and each of three rounds of fixes; both approve the final head. Fixed from review: painted lag unasserted, no React-rendered stream, no backstop for a long chat opened while working (also under reduced motion), an unused during value, a flaky wheel-up cleanup, and painted sampling that a follow landing between frames could pass. Left as notes:
listEndPadded reads a LegendList internal (inline padding from ScrollAdjust; anchoredEndSpace is unused here).
Chromium is the only engine checked.
As on main, an automatic move that reaches the scroll handler near the top can still ask for the earlier page. This PR no longer makes one without a move.
CI on GitHub-hosted runners, dispatched with workflow_dispatch because a same-repo PR runs on self-hosted ones: run 41627972491 on this head passed all 10 jobs (ubuntu-24.04, windows-latest, macos-15). That includes chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts (129.5 s) and chat-history-browser-qa.ts (13.5 s).
Not run here: the full integration suite, native Windows, and a real iOS device. No HTTP/WS contract, dependency or stored-format change.
Co-authored with @odfalik: his #2624 regression check and disclosure fix are reused.
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#2624 followed a growing chat row with LegendList's scrollToEnd, which lands a
frame or more after the measurement: each streamed change stayed two frames
behind, and on a slow runner the next change came first (#2647 reverted it).
The follow now runs in a microtask queued after the list's own, once per batch
of measurements, and puts the view at the list's measured end (its content
length, not the scroller's height, which the list pads for a frame while it
holds rows in place). A scroll the chat has not heard yet is read first, so a
reader who left the end is not pulled back. The glide, its scrollend settle and
followGlides go: nothing glides any more. While the list pads its content for a
frame (its ScrollAdjust room), neither this follow nor ChatView's short-landing
fix aims at the scroller's end, which lies past the list's there.
#2624's continuous-content check is back, and the QA script takes
CPU_THROTTLE (Chrome CPU throttling) to run it as a slow runner does. It
now also bounds frames painted behind, follows a stream React renders, and
opens a long chat while the agent works, with and without reduced motion.
Co-authored-by: Oded Falik <33235305+odfalik@users.noreply.github.com>
Streaming chat text now stays visible as it appears, including on slower devices.
Following the latest message keeps the end of the conversation in view immediately, without a glide.
Improved follow behavior during long chats, including as messages grow or content above the viewport changes.
ChatTimeline now follows measured row growth immediately instead of gliding. ChatView receives the resulting scroll position. Browser QA adds coverage for landing and streamed text visibility under varied viewport, status, motion, and CPU-throttle settings.
ChatTimeline follows the measured end after row changes, accounting for temporary end padding. It reports the resulting scroll position and drops pending list scrolls after qualifying interactions.
ChatView records positions reported by the timeline and uses listEndPadded to assess downward movement. The followGlides utility and its tests are removed.
Landing and streaming validation scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts, changelog.d/chat-follow-measured-end.md
Browser QA adds configurable CPU throttling and checks landing, row growth, and streaming visibility. The changelog records the follow behavior changes.
The immediate-follow change is mergeable with a bounded testing follow-up: tighten the rendered-stream check so recurring missed follows cannot pass unnoticed. No current user-facing failure was established.
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Require zero frames behind in the rendered-stream check.
The assertion at scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts:800 passes while up to changes / 10 rendered growths paint more than 2 px above the end. With 40 changes, four such frames still pass. The rendered path has no other mid-stream sample: the consecutive-lag check at line 752 covers only the continuous path, and settleBottom runs outside the sampling window. A recurring miss pattern can therefore pass without any failure.
Use a zero bound to cover the currently working same-frame follow:
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- assert.ok(rendered.behind.length <= rendered.changes / 10, `rendered content was behind the end in ${rendered.behind.length} of ${rendered.changes} frames it grew: ${JSON.stringify(rendered.behind)}`);+ assert.ok(rendered.behind.length === 0, `rendered content was behind the end in ${rendered.behind.length} of ${rendered.changes} frames it grew: ${JSON.stringify(rendered.behind)}`);
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Re-lands @odfalik's #2624 (reverted in #2647), co-authored with him: thanks @odfalik. Merge-pass review: read the whole diff (src/components/ChatTimeline.tsx, ChatView.tsx, src/lib/followScroll.ts, the QA script). The follow now runs in a microtask after LegendList's measurement, before the frame paints, and skips the one frame LegendList pads the list's end (listEndPadded); it reads any unheard scroll first so a reader who scrolled away is not pulled back. followScroll.test.ts goes with the removed followGlides (the glide is gone, as in #2624). The QA script's new waits are on page signals, with no fixed sleeps. Evidence on this head: 20/20 consecutive passes of scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts on 2 cores with 2 CPU hogs and CPU_THROTTLE=2 (0 of 70 changes painted behind per run), a green GitHub-hosted dispatch run (https://github.com/devswha/ovis/actions/runs/41627972491, all 10 browser jobs incl. chat-virtual and chat-history), bun run check fast; the lane's omo and Codex Terra reviews approve. No HTTP/WS contract, workflow, dependency or stored-format change. The release fold adds by @odfalik to the changelog entry. Unrelated and known: scripts/chat-browser-qa.ts fails on main too (#2654; CI does not run it).
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Change
Re-lands @odfalik's #2624 (reverted in #2647) in a form that holds on slow machines.
#2624 replaced the chat's smooth follow glide with LegendList's
scrollToEndwhenever a row's measured size changed. That call lands a frame or more after the measurement, so each streamed change stayed two frames behind. On GitHub-hosted runners the next change often came first, andscripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.tsfailed there (#2616, #2636). Its fold-together case also stopped following.This PR follows a measured row before the frame paints:
ChatTimelinequeues its follow in a microtask after LegendList's, once per batch of measurements. LegendList sets its total before it callsonItemSizeChanged, and React draws that total in the microtask it queued then. The follow then puts the view at the end.ScrollAdjustsets an inlinepadding-bottom). During that frame the scroller's end lies past the list's, and following it is what broke the earlier same-frame attempt and fold-together.listEndPaddeddetects it. OutsideanchoredEndSpace, which the chat doesn't use, that inline padding is the only one LegendList sets. ChatView's short-landing fix (stoppedShort) skips that frame too.scripts/chat-history-browser-qa.ts: the Earlier messages button had already been used.scrollendsettle andfollowGlidesare removed, since nothing glides any more. The changelog says so.Like the Codex and Claude apps, the chat holds the end of a streaming answer without animating to it. I'm describing those apps from use; I didn't re-measure them for this PR.
QA script
scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts:CPU_THROTTLE. Takes Chrome CPU throttling (CPU_THROTTLE=2) to run as a slow runner does.What the reader sees is measured, not the moment after an append. fix(chat): follow measured rows without a competing glide #2624 sampled the gap right after each append, before any layout. Every frame that carries a change counted as behind, whatever was painted. On a runner slow enough that several frames in a row take a change's 110 ms each, that run grows with the machine, not the follow. In one 2x run here, four such frames in a row gave a pre-layout run of 4 while 0 frames were painted behind. That pre-layout run is still logged. Two checks now look at what is painted:
<= 2, unchanged, read as each next frame starts.The lane lead approved this change on the condition that it still fails on main and on fix(chat): follow measured rows without a competing glide #2624's code at 2x. The controls below show it does.
A held-up frame lands every change that came due meanwhile at once, as a stream backlog does. Before, the fixed 110 ms grid appended one overdue change per frame after a stall.
during > 1check is replaced by fix(chat): follow measured rows without a competing glide #2624's "the grown last row was not followed".Evidence
All numbers are from desktop Chromium at phone and desktop widths, not iOS Safari.
Frames painted behind, the same script at 2 cores + 2 CPU hogs +
CPU_THROTTLE=2:setTimeout(0), after paintRendered stream. 0 of 38 changes behind at both widths.
Failing-first. Main with this script fails both unthrottled and on 2 cores at 2x CPU throttle: continuous content, the rendered stream, and first open while working.
Reader escape. An upward wheel and a touch drag both stop following while rows stream, at 1440 and 390, every run (probe). On main, one 390 touch drag didn't escape.
Chat: a drag selection goes wrong when the agent's turn ends under it #2650, drag selection while streaming. The selection drifts the same on main and on this PR (about 550–790 px moved, probe). This PR doesn't make it worse; that issue stays open.
Validation
bun scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.ts, on 2 cores with 2 CPU hogs andCPU_THROTTLE=2underdori heavy, withUI_EVIDENCE_DIRset as CI does: 20 of 20 consecutive passes on this head (61e231b). Every run painted 0 of 70 changes behind, at both widths. Before the last fix (a short chat loading its earlier page by itself), the previous head had 18 of 18.bun scripts/chat-virtual-browser-qa.tsunthrottled: pass.scripts/chat-*-browser-qa.tsandchat-*-regression.ts), on 2 cores at 2x: 17 pass.chat-browser-qa.tsfails the same way on main, with and without throttling (test(scripts): chat-browser-qa clicks while the Working footer is still shown and fails strict mode on main #2654). CI doesn't run that script.bun run check fast: pass (10,792 unit tests, typecheck, build).duringvalue, a flaky wheel-up cleanup, and painted sampling that a follow landing between frames could pass. Left as notes:listEndPaddedreads a LegendList internal (inline padding fromScrollAdjust;anchoredEndSpaceis unused here).workflow_dispatchbecause a same-repo PR runs on self-hosted ones: run 41627972491 on this head passed all 10 jobs (ubuntu-24.04, windows-latest, macos-15). That includeschat-virtual-browser-qa.ts(129.5 s) andchat-history-browser-qa.ts(13.5 s).Co-authored with @odfalik: his #2624 regression check and disclosure fix are reused.