fix(ui): the phone's context sheet says when it scrolls
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The bottom sheet's body has scrolled since #60 and said nothing about
it. Measured at 424x439, the track list's menu ended at y=470 with the
fold at 439 — reachable, since the body is `overflow-y: auto`, but with
no affordance saying so, and worst where the cut lands on a row
boundary and the sheet ends in a clean edge that reads as the end of
the list.

The cap stays: `menu-surface`'s own comment says a surface covering the
whole screen is a page, not a sheet. What changes is that the body
draws a fade, from two background layers whose *attachments* are the
feature — a shadow pinned to the box (`scroll`) under a cover of the
sheet's own colour painted at the end of the content (`local`), which
scrolls up over the shadow exactly when there is nothing more to see.
So the fade is absent on a menu that fits, present the moment one does
not, and gone again at the end of the list, with no scroll listener and
nothing reaching into `wa-dialog`'s shadow root for the scroller.
`background-attachment` is Chrome 4; the reference device is Chrome 113.

The other two options in the report — a shortened last row, or a max
height that makes the cut obvious — both need `height mod 48`, which
CSS cannot express, and the observed case is exactly the one where the
cut already lands on a row boundary.

The curve is steep rather than linear because the rows under it stay
live: a scrim over a menu item is that item's text surface, so the
4.5:1 rule reaches it, and the light ramp is what makes that real.
A 48px linear scrim at 0.8 greyed the last label to 5.0:1; 32px already
down to a quarter strength at 14px measures 9.9:1 there and spends its
weight on the strip below it.

The test asserts the pair of attachments rather than the pixels, on
this file's existing grounds that no tier here renders like the device
— it fails on the pre-fix stylesheet with `expected 'scroll' to be
'local, scroll'`. The rendered result was measured in the harness and
is recorded in `.planning/NOTES.md`.

Closes #207
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@@ -155,10 +155,53 @@ export class MenuSurface extends LitElement {
bottom was at y=452 on a 439px screen -- the one row a
destructive action is most likely to be. The cap has to stay
(a sheet covering the whole screen is a page, not a sheet),
so the body is what gives. */
so the body is what gives.
**And a body that scrolls says so** (#207). Scrolling was the
whole of the fix above, which left the last item reachable
and nothing on screen admitting it was there -- measured at
424x439, eight items ending at y=470 with the fold at 439,
and worse when the cut lands on a row boundary, where the
sheet ends in a clean edge that reads as the end of the list.
Two layers, and the *order* is what asks the question: a
shadow pinned to the bottom of the box (attachment scroll),
and over it a cover of the sheet's own colour painted at the
end of the *content* (attachment local), which therefore
scrolls up over the shadow and hides it exactly when there is
nothing more to see. So the affordance is absent on a menu
that fits, present the moment one does not, and gone again at
the end of the list -- with no scroll listener, no
measurement, and nothing reaching into wa-dialog's shadow
root for the scroller. background-attachment is Chrome 4;
the reference device is Chrome 113.
**The curve is steep because the rows under it stay live.**
A scrim over a menu item is that item's text surface, and
this app's rule is that text clears 4.5:1 on every surface it
can sit on -- which the light ramp, whose bgElevated is
#e9ecef, is what makes non-theoretical. A row is 48px with
its label centred, so 32px of scrim that is already down to
a quarter strength at 14px reaches y-centre at about 0.06 and
spends its weight on the strip below the last legible label.
Measured on the dark ramp: 52,58,64 flat before, 52,57,63 at
the label and 29,33,36 at the bottom edge after. */
wa-dialog::part(body) {
padding: 0;
overflow-y: auto;
background:
linear-gradient(
var(--yj-bg-elevated, #343a40),
var(--yj-bg-elevated, #343a40)
)
bottom / 100% 32px no-repeat local,
linear-gradient(
to top,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 0%,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25) 45%,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%
)
bottom / 100% 32px no-repeat scroll;
}
/* A sheet is dragged at with a thumb, so it says where its top