fix(riff): grow a chunk buffer with what arrives

Parse sized its buffer from the chunk header, which is four bytes read
off the file, so a truncated or malformed WAV declaring a 4 GB data
chunk in a 2 kB file got 4 GB from the allocator before the read
discovered there was nothing to put in it. The error was always right;
the allocation happened first.

io.CopyN into a bytes.Buffer is what ID3Chunk beside it has done since
#104, and needs nothing new: the reader stays an io.Reader and the
buffer grows with what actually arrives.

The regression test measures rather than asserts the error, because the
error is identical on a build that allocates the gigabyte. Measured on
the pre-fix build: 1,073,750,920 bytes of TotalAlloc for a 42-byte
container whose data chunk claimed 1 GiB.

Closes #216

.planning/NOTES.md

@@ -4994,3 +4994,87 @@ ordinary track makes it 9.
 Filed as its own issue rather than fixed in #67's diff: it is a
 property of the shared sheet (`components/menu-surface/`), not of the
 items.
+
+## The tap highlight is one inherited declaration (measured 2026-08-24)
+
+`-webkit-tap-highlight-color` is an **inherited** property, and an
+inherited property crosses a shadow boundary — so `html { … :
+transparent }` in `index.css` reaches every shadow root in the app and
+no component needs a rule of its own. Measured in the running app
+(Chromium, `app-sidebar`'s `li button`, which is three shadow roots
+from the document): `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)` with the rule, and
+`rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.18)` with it removed. That 0.18 grey over the bounding
+rect of whatever was tapped is what #54 reported.
+
+The same argument was already spent once and is worth not
+re-deriving: `index.css`'s first rule is `*, *::before, *::after {
+user-select: none }`, which for the same reason already covers the
+shadow roots — #54's Findings ask for `user-select` on interactive
+surfaces and it has been done since before the issue was filed.
+
+**What the highlight was, on the surfaces that had nothing else, is the
+press feedback.** Measured on a track row with the press rule removed
+and the button held down: `rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05)` — the *hover*
+tint, arriving because the pointer is over the row, which is a
+synthesised hover on a phone and outlives the press. With the rule:
+0.12 while held, and the neighbouring row unchanged. So the press state
+is part of removing the highlight rather than a separate polish item,
+and the hover tints on those same surfaces moved behind
+`(hover: hover) and (pointer: fine)`, which is #68's gate applied to a
+tint rather than to a revealed control.
+
+**`touch-action: manipulation` was considered and not taken.** The
+Findings offer it for the 300ms tap delay; this app's viewport is
+`width=device-width`, which is what removes that delay in Chrome, so
+the stated benefit is not there to win. What it would change is the
+gesture stack #63 tuned by measurement on the device (`pan-y` plus a
+non-passive `preventDefault`), and that is not measurable from here.
+
+## Art pop-in is measurable in a browser, if you count frames rather than milliseconds (measured 2026-08-24)
+
+#65 is an Android report ("scrolling through albums, the art pops in")
+and the desktop harness can measure it, which was not obvious: the
+first attempt waited 220 ms after each scroll jump and found **zero**
+blank covers on either build. The metric only discriminates at one and
+two animation frames after the jump, which is where a pop-in actually
+lives.
+
+Protocol, on `make dev-headless SEED=bulk` (4 988 albums), ten
+2 400px jumps of `.grid-scroll-container`, counting covers whose rect
+intersects the viewport with `naturalWidth === 0`:
+
+| build | blank at frame 1 | at frame 2 | at 50 ms |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `main` | 254 / 258 | 214 / 258 | 0 |
+| `main`, second run | 254 / 258 | 190 / 258 | 0 |
+| prefetch | 117 / 258 | 77 / 258 | 0 |
+| prefetch, second run | 118 / 258 | 96 / 258 | 0 |
+
+Two things this protocol gets wrong if repeated carelessly. **A second
+run in the same browser session measures the HTTP cache**, not the
+build — the skill already warns about this for `make perf`, and it
+applies to any image measurement; every row above is a fresh
+`playwright-cli close` + `open`. And **the frontend is embedded**, so
+comparing builds is a `git stash` *and* a rebuild, not a stash.
+
+**The bulk library's covers are 300x300 and ~3.7 kB**, which is why
+both builds are clean by 50 ms here and why the phone's number cannot
+be inferred from this one — same caveat the skill already records
+about full-size artwork.
+
+**`rangeChanged` and `visibilityChanged` are different ranges**, and
+the difference is the whole of this fix's value.
+`@lit-labs/virtualizer` reports `_first`/`_last` (rendered, including
+the ~1000px overhang) on the former and `_firstVisible`/`_lastVisible`
+on the latter. Both grids listen to `visibilityChanged` for scroll
+persistence, which wants the visible range and is correct; a prefetch
+window measured from it lands mostly on cards that already exist.
+Anchored there, the component test could see only one row past the
+last rendered card.
+
+**`_overhang` is not configurable.** It is a `protected` field set to
+1000 in `BaseLayout` and read by every layout; there is no option on
+`grid()`/`flow()` and no property on the element. The issue's Direction
+("ask the virtualizer for a larger overscan") is therefore not
+available without patching a private, which is why the request is
+issued ahead of the element instead.

CLAUDE.md

@@ -1113,9 +1113,9 @@ not the fix and cannot be: that function is the `document` listener for
 `navigate`, so it is an infinite loop.
 
 **It is a store rather than an event, because a component that mounts
-after a navigation still has to know.** `bottom-nav`'s "More" drawer
+after a navigation still has to know.** `bottom-nav`'s "More" sheet
 creates its `<app-sidebar>` on open, and that copy had heard no
-`navigate` at all — standing on Albums, the drawer opened highlighting
+`navigate` at all — standing on Albums, it opened highlighting
 Home. An event has no answer for a listener that was not there.
 
 **A detail view is not a view here**, so the destination it was opened
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ and then vanishing.
 than a general rule about phones.** `PHONE_COLUMN_IDS` is the precedent
 for "what a phone shows is a different question", and it would apply —
 except that `bottom-nav`'s "More" opens the *same* `<app-sidebar>`,
-which filters, so an unfiltered bar would contradict its own drawer one
+which filters, so an unfiltered bar would contradict its own sheet one
 tap away. Which four tabs is still plan 016's committed subset; this
 only removes from it, and "More" is never filtered because it is how
 everything else stays reachable.
@@ -1631,6 +1631,51 @@ sits inside which media query — and says so; the regression it exists
 for is someone hoisting a rule out of its query as a tidy-up, which
 nothing on a desktop renders differently.
 
+**The web view's own tap highlight is gone, and what replaced it is a
+press state** (#54). `-webkit-tap-highlight-color` is an *inherited*
+property, so one declaration on `html` in `index.css` reaches every
+shadow root in the app and takes away the grey box a phone drew over
+the bounding rect of whatever was tapped — measured at
+`rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.18)` with the rule removed. `user-select` is the same
+argument and was already done: `index.css`'s first rule is `*, *::before,
+*::after { user-select: none }`, which reaches the shadow roots for the
+same reason.
+
+Three things about it are load-bearing.
+
+**Removing the highlight removes the only touch feedback several
+surfaces had**, so the press state is part of the same change rather
+than a later polish item: the four lists' rows, `bottom-nav`'s tabs,
+`app-sidebar`'s destinations (which are also the phone's "More" sheet)
+and the shared `contextMenuStyles` menu item all take
+`--yj-press-overlay` on `:active`. The cards already had one
+(`transform: scale(0.97)`) and are untouched.
+
+**A press selector carries a state class or it does nothing where it
+matters.** A row is `.track-row.selected.active`, so a bare
+`.track-row:active` is one class short of it and the press is invisible
+on exactly the row a phone is most likely to press — the one it has
+just selected. The rule is last and lists `.selected:active` /
+`.active:active` beside the bare form.
+
+**And the hover tints on those same surfaces moved behind
+`(hover: hover) and (pointer: fine)`**, which is #68's gate applied to
+a tint rather than to a revealed control and for the same mechanism: a
+hold synthesises a hover in the WebView, so an ungated tint arrives
+because a finger touched the row and stays there after it has gone —
+measured, since with the press rule removed a held row reads
+`rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05)`, the hover tint, rather than nothing.
+`touch-action: manipulation` was considered and declined: the 300ms
+delay it is offered for is already absent on a `width=device-width`
+viewport, and what it would really change is the gesture stack #63
+tuned by measurement on a device this session cannot measure.
+
+The split of tiers is `hover-affordance.test.ts`'s: `press-feedback.
+test.ts` reads the parsed stylesheet, because `:active` cannot be
+forced there either, and `native-touch-feel.spec.ts` *measures* — it
+holds the button down on a real row of the real list, and it is the
+only tier that loads `index.css` at all.
+
 Three lists had no focused row to open a menu *from* — the queue panel
 and both playlist detail views — and gained a roving tab stop through
 `utils/roving-rows.ts`. **`track-list` deliberately does not use it**:
@@ -1829,7 +1874,7 @@ listing the destinations again — but rendering it unconditionally put a
 second copy of every `data-testid="nav-*"` in the DOM, and 30 existing
 specs failed with "strict mode violation: resolved to 2 elements" on a
 desktop viewport where the element is not even visible. It renders only
-while the drawer is open, and `bottom-nav.test.ts` asserts its absence
+while the sheet is open, and `bottom-nav.test.ts` asserts its absence
 before that.
 
 **The tab bar is four destinations and a way to the rest.** Three to
@@ -1838,6 +1883,33 @@ is 32px each. Which four is plan 016's committed subset, and everything
 else — Settings included, because a phone still needs it — is behind
 "More".
 
+**And "More" rises from the bottom, on #60's sheet rather than a
+second one** (#71). It was a `wa-drawer placement="start"`: a 200px
+column of a 424px screen, opening away from the thumb that asked for
+it, with the rest of its 400px band empty. It is the *same element*
+with `placement="bottom"` and `without-header`, which is what keeps
+the change to where it comes from — `wa-drawer` renders a native
+`<dialog>` and opens it with `showModal()`, so #60's containment
+finding carries over with nothing new to prove, and the focus trap,
+Escape, tap-outside and `wa-after-hide` all come along. Measured at
+424x439: 424 wide, 373 tall (85vh, so there is an outside to tap),
+48px rows.
+
+Three things about it are load-bearing. **The sidebar is mounted
+rather than re-listed as data**, which the issue offers as the
+alternative: the shell's own `<app-sidebar>` is `display: none` below
+600px rather than removed, so a second list drawing `nav-*` handles is
+the duplication above, and it would be a second place to add the next
+view to. **There is one scroller, and it is the sheet's body** — the
+reported "only part of the screen scrolls under my finger" is three
+nested ones (the dialog, its body, and the sidebar's own
+`overflow-y: auto` host), so which box a drag moves depends on where
+the finger landed; `overscroll-behavior: contain` is the other half.
+And **`expanded` means the host owns the box, not just the labels**:
+`app-sidebar` writes an *inline* width and caps itself at 400px, which
+beats any rule the host could write, so the width, the scrolling and
+the mouse-only resize handle all follow that attribute.
+
 **There are three supported size bands, and the queue is part of the
 promise.** Plan 018 (#24) wrote them down: **Phone** below 600 (bottom
 nav, reflows, fits 320px exactly), **Compact** 600–899 (icon sidebar),
@@ -3331,6 +3403,46 @@ rather than searching it — the store replaces that array when its
 contents change and shares the unchanged members, which is the same
 signal `track-list`'s memoized caches key on.
 
+**And the right tier arriving late still reads as no art at all**, so
+the two grids ask for it before the card exists (#65).
+`utils/image-prefetch.ts` warms the images a scroll is about to reach,
+from `cover-grid`'s and `artists-view`'s virtualizers. Measured on the
+50 000-track bulk seed over ten 2 400px jumps: of 258 covers arriving
+in view, **254 were still blank one frame later and 214 two frames
+later**; with the prefetch, 117 and 77. Both builds are clean by 50 ms
+on a desktop with 3.7 kB fixture covers, which is where the reference
+device's slower engine and 27 kB covers spend their pop-in.
+
+Four things about it are load-bearing.
+
+**The overscan the obvious fix asks for does not exist.**
+`@lit-labs/virtualizer`'s `_overhang` is a hard-coded 1000px
+`protected` field on `BaseLayout` with no configuration surface, so
+raising it means monkey-patching a private. 1000px is about two
+screens on a 439px viewport, and the *image* cannot be requested until
+the card it lives in is rendered — which is what this asks for
+instead.
+
+**It hangs off `rangeChanged`, not `visibilityChanged`.** Those report
+different ranges: visibility is what is on screen, and the virtualizer
+has already rendered that 1000px past it. Anchored to the visible
+range the window is spent on cards that already exist and have already
+asked for their own art — measured as the difference between the
+prefetch reaching one row past the last card and reaching a full
+window past it.
+
+**It is not the `LRUMap` path, and saying so is the bound.** That
+ceiling holds Explore's base64 data URLs in JS; a library cover is a
+plain URL under `Cache-Control: immutable` (the filenames are content
+hashes), so what retains the bytes is the browser's own cache. What
+this module retains is the *set of URLs already asked for*, capped at
+512 and reported to `window.__yjCacheStats()` — 497 entries and 15 407
+chars after the run above.
+
+**The prefetch asks for what the card will draw.** `artists-view`'s
+tier ladder moved into `artistAvatarURL()` so the two cannot disagree;
+a second copy would be a warm cache for a tier nothing renders.
+
 **The same rule, on the selection path, was the worst stall in the
 app.** Five components turned selected file paths back into tracks with
 `filePaths.map(fp => tracks.find(…))`, so "Select all → Edit tags" at

backend/riff/riff.go

@@ -63,12 +63,15 @@ func Parse(r io.Reader) ([]Chunk, error) {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 
-		data := make([]byte, size)
-		if _, err := io.ReadFull(r, data); err != nil {
+		// Copied rather than allocated up front, as ID3Chunk does: the
+		// size is four bytes off the file, so a truncated one is free to
+		// declare a chunk larger than the whole of itself.
+		var data bytes.Buffer
+		if _, err := io.CopyN(&data, r, int64(size)); err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("read chunk data for %q: %w", id, err)
 		}
 
-		chunks = append(chunks, Chunk{ID: id, Data: data})
+		chunks = append(chunks, Chunk{ID: id, Data: data.Bytes()})
 
 		// Odd-length chunks have a padding byte.  Lenient: if the
 		// read fails (e.g. EOF), just break rather than error.

backend/riff/riff_test.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"errors"
+	"runtime"
 	"testing"
 
 	"yellowjacket/backend/riff"
@@ -209,3 +210,45 @@ func TestParse_ReadsEveryChunkInOrder(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("odd chunk data: got %q, want %q", chunks[1].Data, "INFOodd")
 	}
 }
+
+// A chunk size is four bytes read off the file, so a truncated or
+// malformed WAV is free to declare a chunk larger than the whole of
+// itself.  Parse must grow with what arrives rather than with what was
+// claimed.
+//
+// This measures the allocation instead of the error because the error
+// is the same either way: a build sizing its buffer from the header
+// reports the truncation correctly, having asked the allocator for a
+// gigabyte on the way.  Deliberately not parallel — TotalAlloc is
+// process-wide, and a test paused beside another one is measuring it
+// too.
+func TestParse_DoesNotAllocateWhatAChunkClaims(t *testing.T) {
+	// Large enough that a header-sized buffer is unmistakable, in a
+	// container of a few dozen bytes.
+	const declared = 1 << 30
+
+	var raw bytes.Buffer
+
+	raw.WriteString("RIFF")
+	_ = binary.Write(&raw, binary.LittleEndian, uint32(declared+12))
+	raw.WriteString("WAVE")
+	raw.WriteString("data")
+	_ = binary.Write(&raw, binary.LittleEndian, uint32(declared))
+	raw.WriteString("and then the file ends")
+
+	var before, after runtime.MemStats
+
+	runtime.GC()
+	runtime.ReadMemStats(&before)
+
+	if _, err := riff.Parse(bytes.NewReader(raw.Bytes())); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("Parse: got nil error for a chunk larger than the file holding it")
+	}
+
+	runtime.ReadMemStats(&after)
+
+	if grew := after.TotalAlloc - before.TotalAlloc; grew > 1<<20 {
+		t.Errorf("Parse allocated %d bytes reading a %d-byte file whose chunk header claimed %d",
+			grew, raw.Len(), declared)
+	}
+}

e2e/specs/native-touch-feel.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+import { test, expect } from '../support/fixtures.js';
+
+/**
+ * The web view's own tap highlight, and what replaced it (#54).
+ *
+ * Two halves, and each is here because no other tier can see it.
+ *
+ * **The highlight is killed by one declaration on `html`**, which
+ * reaches the app's shadow roots because `-webkit-tap-highlight-color`
+ * is inherited and inheritance crosses a shadow boundary. That is a
+ * property of `index.css`, and `index.css` is loaded by the real app
+ * and by nothing else — the component tier mounts a component with no
+ * page stylesheet at all, which is the same reason the theme's ramps
+ * are invisible to it.
+ *
+ * **The press state is measured rather than read.** The component tier
+ * asserts the shape of the stylesheet (which rule is inside which
+ * query, and that the press selector carries a state class), because
+ * `:active` cannot be forced there. Here there is a real pointer: hold
+ * the button down on a real row of the real list and read what the row
+ * became. That is the assertion that would fail if the rule were
+ * hoisted, renamed, or lost to `.selected`.
+ *
+ * What neither half is, is the device. Chrome 113's WebView is where
+ * the grey box was reported and where a finger is; the numbers from it
+ * are on the PR.
+ */
+type Page = import('@playwright/test').Page;
+
+/** The phone this work was measured against, in CSS pixels. */
+const DEVICE = { width: 424, height: 439 };
+
+/** The computed tap-highlight colour of a node inside a shadow root. */
+const tapHighlight = (page: Page, host: string, inner: string) =>
+  page.evaluate(
+    ([hostSel, innerSel]) => {
+      const el = document
+        .querySelector(hostSel!)
+        ?.shadowRoot?.querySelector(innerSel!);
+
+      if (!el) return null;
+
+      return getComputedStyle(el).getPropertyValue(
+        '-webkit-tap-highlight-color',
+      );
+    },
+    [host, inner],
+  );
+
+test.describe('the tap highlight', () => {
+  test('is transparent inside a shadow root, from one rule on html', async ({
+    app,
+    browserName,
+  }) => {
+    await app.getByTestId('nav-tracks').click();
+    await expect(app.getByTestId('main-content')).toHaveAttribute(
+      'data-active-view',
+      'tracks',
+    );
+
+    const row = await tapHighlight(app, 'track-list', '.track-row');
+
+    expect(row).not.toBeNull();
+
+    // The property is a WebKit extension that only iOS honours, so an
+    // engine is free not to report one at all. Chromium always does —
+    // measured at rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.18) with the rule removed, which is
+    // the grey box the report describes — so the assertion is not
+    // skippable there, and nothing this app can do makes the property
+    // disappear on an engine that has it.
+    test.skip(
+      row === '',
+      `${browserName} reports no -webkit-tap-highlight-color to read`,
+    );
+
+    expect(row).toBe('rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)');
+  });
+});
+
+test.describe('the press state that replaced it', () => {
+  test.beforeEach(async ({ app }) => {
+    await app.setViewportSize(DEVICE);
+    await app.getByTestId('tab-tracks').click();
+    await expect(app.getByTestId('main-content')).toHaveAttribute(
+      'data-active-view',
+      'tracks',
+    );
+    await expect(app.locator('track-list').first()).toBeVisible();
+  });
+
+  test.afterEach(async ({ app }) => {
+    await app.mouse.up();
+    await app.setViewportSize({ width: 1440, height: 900 });
+  });
+
+  test('shows on the row being pressed, and on that row only', async ({
+    app,
+  }) => {
+    const rows = await app.evaluate(() => {
+      const found = document
+        .querySelector('track-list')
+        ?.shadowRoot?.querySelectorAll('.track-row');
+
+      if (!found || found.length < 2) return null;
+
+      const rect = found[1]!.getBoundingClientRect();
+
+      return {
+        x: Math.round(rect.x + rect.width / 2),
+        y: Math.round(rect.y + rect.height / 2),
+      };
+    });
+
+    expect(rows).not.toBeNull();
+
+    const backgrounds = () =>
+      app.evaluate(() => {
+        const found = document
+          .querySelector('track-list')!
+          .shadowRoot!.querySelectorAll('.track-row');
+
+        return {
+          pressed: getComputedStyle(found[1]!).backgroundColor,
+          neighbour: getComputedStyle(found[2]!).backgroundColor,
+        };
+      });
+
+    await app.mouse.move(rows!.x, rows!.y);
+    await app.mouse.down();
+
+    const held = await backgrounds();
+
+    // The press overlay, from the theme rather than from a literal in
+    // a component: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12) on both dark ramps.
+    expect(held.pressed).toBe('rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12)');
+    expect(held.neighbour).not.toBe(held.pressed);
+
+    await app.mouse.up();
+  });
+});

e2e/specs/phone-shell.spec.ts

@@ -98,6 +98,58 @@ test.describe('the shell on a phone', () => {
     ).toBeVisible();
   });
 
+  test('draws "More" as a sheet on the bottom edge (#71)', async ({ app }) => {
+    await app.getByTestId('tab-more').click();
+    await expect(app.getByTestId('nav-drawer').locator('app-sidebar'))
+      .toBeVisible();
+
+    // What the report is about is geometry, and geometry is what no
+    // other assertion here can see: the side drawer was a 200px column
+    // opening away from the thumb that asked for it, with the rest of
+    // its 400px band empty. Measured rather than screenshotted, since
+    // the failure is a number.
+    //
+    // Polled, because a sheet *arrives*: the drawer's show animation
+    // translates it a full height below the fold, so a measurement
+    // taken the moment its content is visible reports a box hanging
+    // 412px off the bottom of the screen. Asking for the settled
+    // number is the assertion; asking once is a race.
+    const measure = () => app.evaluate(() => {
+      const nav = document.querySelector('bottom-nav');
+      const drawer = nav?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('wa-drawer');
+      const dialog = drawer?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('[part~="dialog"]');
+      const sidebar = nav?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('app-sidebar');
+      const row = sidebar?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('li button');
+      const box = dialog?.getBoundingClientRect();
+
+      return {
+        left: Math.round(box?.left ?? -1),
+        right: Math.round(box?.right ?? -1),
+        bottom: Math.round(box?.bottom ?? -1),
+        height: Math.round(box?.height ?? -1),
+        row: Math.round(row?.getBoundingClientRect().height ?? -1),
+        viewport: [window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight],
+      };
+    });
+
+    await expect
+      .poll(async () => (await measure()).bottom)
+      .toBe(PHONE.height);
+
+    const sheet = await measure();
+
+    expect(sheet.left).toBe(0);
+    expect(sheet.right).toBe(sheet.viewport[0]);
+
+    // A surface covering the whole screen is a page, not a sheet --
+    // which is also what leaves an outside to tap on, the only pointer
+    // route out of it (#171 is the same question one surface over).
+    expect(sheet.height).toBeLessThan(sheet.viewport[1]);
+
+    // 48px rows, from #186's touch floor and #60's context sheet.
+    expect(sheet.row).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(48);
+  });
+
   for (const vp of [PHONE, SMALL_PHONE]) {
     test(`does not scroll sideways at ${vp.width}×${vp.height}`, async ({ app }) => {
       await app.setViewportSize(vp);

frontend/index.css

@@ -7,6 +7,26 @@
 
 html {
     height: 100%;
+
+    /* #54.  The web view's own tap highlight -- the grey box a phone
+       draws over the bounding rect of whatever was tapped -- gone in
+       one declaration, because `-webkit-tap-highlight-color` is an
+       *inherited* property and an inherited property crosses a shadow
+       boundary.  So this reaches every one of the app's shadow roots
+       without a rule in any of them; before it, exactly one component
+       (`library-status-indicator`) set it and the box appeared
+       everywhere else.
+
+       What it costs is the only touch feedback several surfaces had,
+       which is why the rows, the tab bar and the shared menu items
+       grew a `:active` state in the same change: removing the wrong
+       feedback and leaving none is not an improvement.  The cards
+       already had one (`transform: scale(0.97)`).
+
+       `user-select` is the same argument one rule up and was already
+       done: the `*` rule at the top of this file is inherited into the
+       shadow roots too. */
+    -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;
 }
 
 body {

frontend/src/components/artists-view/artists-view.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
 import '@lit-labs/virtualizer';
 import type {
     LitVirtualizer,
+    RangeChangedEvent,
     VisibilityChangedEvent,
 } from '@lit-labs/virtualizer';
 import { grid } from '@lit-labs/virtualizer/layouts/grid.js';
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ import type { ContextMenuHost, MenuTarget } from '@utils/context-menu-controller
 import { FavoritesController } from '@store/controllers/favorites-controller';
 import { ViewLifecycleMixin } from '@utils/view-lifecycle';
 import { RovingGridController } from '@utils/roving-grid';
+import { prefetchImageWindow } from '@utils/image-prefetch';
 
 import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/icon/icon.js';
 import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/popup/popup.js';
@@ -582,6 +584,26 @@ export class ArtistsView
      * Scroll position persistence
      * ================================================================ */
 
+    /**
+     * Warm the avatars just past the rendered range (#65).
+     *
+     * `rangeChanged` is the rendered range and `visibilityChanged` is
+     * what is on screen; the virtualizer has already drawn about
+     * 1000px past the latter, so that is the wrong anchor to measure a
+     * prefetch window from. It is deliberately outside the
+     * `restoringScroll` guard below: a restored scroll lands in the
+     * middle of the grid, which is exactly when nothing around it is
+     * cached.
+     */
+    private onRangeChanged = (e: RangeChangedEvent) => {
+        prefetchImageWindow(
+            this.cachedGridEntries,
+            e.first,
+            e.last,
+            (entry) => this.artistAvatarURL(entry.artist),
+        );
+    };
+
     /**
      * Save the first visible item index on scroll.
      */
@@ -1145,7 +1167,16 @@ export class ArtistsView
      * Helpers
      * ================================================================ */
 
-    private renderArtistAvatar(artist: library.Artist) {
+    /**
+     * The image this artist's card will draw, or `''` for the initial
+     * placeholder.
+     *
+     * Split out of `renderArtistAvatar` so the prefetch (#65) asks for
+     * exactly what the card is going to ask for — a second copy of the
+     * tier ladder would be a second thing to keep in step, and warming
+     * the wrong tier is a download that buys nothing.
+     */
+    private artistAvatarURL(artist: library.Artist): string {
         const needed = (this.imageSize ?? 176) * window.devicePixelRatio;
         let imageURL = '';
 
@@ -1172,6 +1203,12 @@ export class ArtistsView
             ) ?? '';
         }
 
+        return imageURL;
+    }
+
+    private renderArtistAvatar(artist: library.Artist) {
+        const imageURL = this.artistAvatarURL(artist);
+
         if (imageURL) {
             return html`<img
                 class="avatar-image"
@@ -1531,6 +1568,7 @@ export class ArtistsView
                     .keyFunction=${(entry: ArtistEntry) => entry.artist.ID}
                     .layout=${this.gridLayout}
                     @visibilityChanged=${this.onVisibilityChanged}
+                    @rangeChanged=${this.onRangeChanged}
                 ></lit-virtualizer>
             </div>
             ${this.renderContextMenu()}

frontend/src/components/bottom-nav/bottom-nav.ts

@@ -27,15 +27,43 @@ interface Tab {
  * three to five items before the targets stop being thumb-sized —
  * 360 px over eleven sidebar entries is 32 px each — so the four here
  * are the ones plan 016's subset says a phone is *for*, and "More"
- * opens the existing `<app-sidebar>` in a drawer. That is deliberately
+ * opens the existing `<app-sidebar>` in a sheet. That is deliberately
  * a reuse rather than a second nav: two lists of destinations is two
  * places to add the next view to, and the sidebar already carries the
  * drag-to-navigate behaviour, the active state and the labels.
  *
+ * **"More" rises from the bottom, and it is the same sheet a context
+ * menu is** (#71). It was a `wa-drawer` sliding in from the side: a
+ * 200px column of a 424px screen, opening away from the thumb that
+ * asked for it, with three nested scrollers in it — the dialog, its
+ * body, and the sidebar's own `overflow-y: auto` host — which is the
+ * "only part of the screen scrolls under my finger" in the report.
+ *
+ * Three things about the replacement are load-bearing.
+ *
+ * **It is the same element with another `placement`, not a new
+ * surface.** `wa-drawer` renders a native `<dialog>` and opens it with
+ * `showModal()`, which is exactly what `menu-surface`'s sheet relies
+ * on — Chrome 37, the real top layer — so #60's containment finding
+ * carries over with nothing new to prove, and the focus trap, Escape,
+ * tap-outside and `wa-after-hide` all come along unchanged.
+ *
+ * **The body is the only scroller**, with `overscroll-behavior:
+ * contain`, and the sidebar is told to stop being one. Nesting them is
+ * what makes a drag scroll the wrong box.
+ *
+ * **The sidebar is still mounted rather than re-listed as data**,
+ * which the issue offers as an alternative. Its `data-testid` per
+ * destination is the reason: the shell's own sidebar is `display:
+ * none` below 600px rather than removed, so a second list drawing
+ * `nav-*` handles is the duplication this component already renders
+ * conditionally to avoid — and it would be a second place to add the
+ * next view to, with its own copy of #25's visibility filter.
+ *
  * It emits the same bubbling, composed `navigate` event the sidebar
  * does, so `index.ts` needs no knowledge of it, and it listens for that
  * event globally for the same reason the sidebar does: a navigation it
- * did not send (a card click, a detail view, the drawer) still has to
+ * did not send (a card click, a detail view, the sheet) still has to
  * move the highlight.
  */
 @customElement('bottom-nav')
@@ -89,6 +117,17 @@ export class BottomNav extends LitElement {
             color: var(--yj-accent, #ffd43b);
         }
 
+        /* The press state (#54). This bar is the phone's primary
+           navigation and had no feedback of its own at all -- what a
+           tap produced was the web view's tap highlight, a grey box
+           over the whole 48px cell, which index.css has now taken
+           away. The .active rule above is which tab you are *on*; this
+           is the tab being pressed, so they are a colour and a
+           background rather than two colours. */
+        button:active {
+            background-color: var(--yj-press-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12));
+        }
+
         button:focus-visible {
             outline: 2px solid var(--yj-accent, #ffd43b);
             outline-offset: -2px;
@@ -104,15 +143,50 @@ export class BottomNav extends LitElement {
             white-space: nowrap;
         }
 
-        wa-drawer::part(body) {
-            padding: 0;
+        /* The sheet. --size is the drawer's own API for the axis its
+           placement uses, so auto is what makes it hug its content
+           instead of being a fixed 25rem band; the rest is the shape
+           the menu-surface context sheet already has, so a phone meets
+           one sheet rather than two. 85vh for its reason too: a surface
+           covering the whole screen is a page, not a sheet. */
+        wa-drawer {
+            --size: auto;
         }
 
-        app-sidebar {
-            /* The sidebar sizes itself inline and collapses to icons
-               below 900px, which is every phone.  In the drawer there
-               is room for the labels, so it is told not to. */
-            height: 100%;
+        wa-drawer::part(dialog) {
+            max-height: 85vh;
+            border-radius: 12px 12px 0 0;
+            /* The sidebar paints its own surface, so the sheet takes
+               that colour rather than the menus' elevated one: two
+               greys in one sheet is a seam across the middle of it. */
+            background-color: var(--yj-bg-surface, #212529);
+            /* One scroller, and it is the body below. The dialog's own
+               overflow: auto is what let the sheet scroll as well as
+               its content, and it is also what would square off the
+               corners this rule just rounded. */
+            overflow: hidden;
+        }
+
+        wa-drawer::part(body) {
+            padding: 0;
+            /* A scroll that reaches the end of this list must not
+               become a scroll of the page underneath it. */
+            overscroll-behavior: contain;
+            /* The sheet sits on the bottom edge, so the last
+               destination would otherwise be under the home indicator
+               on a gesture-navigation phone -- the same allowance the
+               bar itself makes above. */
+            padding-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom, 0);
+        }
+
+        /* A sheet is dragged at with a thumb, so it says where its top
+           edge is. Decorative: the destinations are below it. */
+        .grip {
+            width: 36px;
+            height: 4px;
+            margin: 8px auto 4px;
+            border-radius: 2px;
+            background: var(--yj-text-tertiary, #888);
         }
     `];
 
@@ -147,7 +221,7 @@ export class BottomNav extends LitElement {
     private visibilityCtrl = new ViewVisibilityController(this);
 
     /**
-     * Whether the drawer has been asked for.
+     * Whether the sheet has been asked for.
      *
      * The sidebar inside it is rendered only while this is true, and
      * that is not an optimisation. `app-sidebar` carries a
@@ -189,15 +263,17 @@ export class BottomNav extends LitElement {
 
     override updated() {
         // Web Awesome renders its heading into its own shadow root and
-        // never points aria-labelledby at it, so the drawer would
+        // never points aria-labelledby at it, so the sheet would
         // otherwise be announced unnamed -- the same fix, and the same
         // reason, as every wa-dialog in the app. A drawer's shadow root
-        // has the same shape, so the helper needs no change.
+        // has the same shape, so the helper needs no change; under
+        // `without-header` there is no heading to point at, which is
+        // that helper's documented `aria-label` path.
         nameDialog(this.drawer);
     }
 
     private onGlobalNavigate = () => {
-        // A navigation from inside the drawer is the drawer's job done.
+        // A navigation from inside the sheet is the sheet's job done.
         // The highlight is not this listener's business any more.
         this.drawerOpen = false;
     };
@@ -263,12 +339,14 @@ export class BottomNav extends LitElement {
             </nav>
 
             <wa-drawer
-                placement="start"
+                placement="bottom"
+                without-header
                 label="All views"
                 data-testid="nav-drawer"
                 ?open=${this.drawerOpen}
                 @wa-after-hide=${this.onDrawerHide}
             >
+                <div class="grip"></div>
                 ${this.drawerOpen
                     ? html`<app-sidebar expanded></app-sidebar>`
                     : nothing}

frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
 import '@lit-labs/virtualizer';
 import type {
     LitVirtualizer,
+    RangeChangedEvent,
     VisibilityChangedEvent,
 } from '@lit-labs/virtualizer';
 import { grid } from '@lit-labs/virtualizer/layouts/grid.js';
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/icon/icon.js';
 import '@components/playlist-picker/playlist-picker.js';
 import { loadTrackDetails } from '@utils/lazy-track-details.js';
 import { tracksByFilePath, tracksForPaths } from '@utils/track-index.js';
+import { prefetchImageWindow } from '@utils/image-prefetch.js';
 import type { TrackDetails } from '@components/track-details/track-details.js';
 import type { CoverArtUrls } from '@components/track-details/track-details.js';
 import { AlbumSelectionManager } from './album-selection.js';
@@ -910,6 +912,31 @@ export class CoverGrid
         );
     };
 
+    /**
+     * Warm the covers just past the rendered range (#65).
+     *
+     * `rangeChanged` rather than `visibilityChanged`, because the two
+     * report different ranges and only one of them is the right
+     * anchor: visibility is what is on screen, and the virtualizer has
+     * already rendered about 1000px past that. Measured from the
+     * visible range this would spend most of its window on cards that
+     * already exist and have already asked for their own art.
+     *
+     * The entry lists are memoized, so asking for one here costs a
+     * reference compare.
+     */
+    private onRangeChanged = (e: RangeChangedEvent) => {
+        const entries = this.splitMode
+            ? this.getBeforeEntries()
+            : this.buildGridEntries();
+
+        prefetchImageWindow(entries, e.first, e.last, (entry) =>
+            entry.album.CoverArtPath
+                ? this.getCoverUrl(entry.album)
+                : '',
+        );
+    };
+
     /* ====================================================================
      * Virtualizer items
      * ==================================================================== */
@@ -2003,6 +2030,7 @@ export class CoverGrid
                 @keydown=${this.onGridAlbumKeydown}
                 @contextmenu=${this.onGridAlbumContextMenu}
                 @visibilityChanged=${this.onVisibilityChanged}
+                @rangeChanged=${this.onRangeChanged}
             ></lit-virtualizer>
         `;
     }
@@ -2037,6 +2065,7 @@ export class CoverGrid
                 @keydown=${this.onGridAlbumKeydown}
                 @contextmenu=${this.onGridAlbumContextMenu}
                 @visibilityChanged=${this.onVisibilityChanged}
+                @rangeChanged=${this.onRangeChanged}
             ></lit-virtualizer>
 
             <album-dropdown

frontend/src/components/playlist-details/playlist-details.ts

@@ -1357,8 +1357,14 @@ export class PlaylistDetails
             user-select: none;
         }
 
-        .track-item:hover {
-            background-color: var(--yj-hover-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05));
+        /* A hover tint is for a device that hovers (#54). A hold
+           synthesises a hover in the WebView, so ungated this arrives
+           because a finger touched the row and stays after it has
+           gone; the press state below is what a tap gets instead. */
+        @media (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine) {
+            .track-item:hover {
+                background-color: var(--yj-hover-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05));
+            }
         }
 
         .track-item.selected {
@@ -1378,11 +1384,13 @@ export class PlaylistDetails
             cursor: pointer;
         }
 
-        .track-item.phantom:hover {
-            background-color: var(
-                --yj-hover-overlay,
-                rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05)
-            );
+        @media (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine) {
+            .track-item.phantom:hover {
+                background-color: var(
+                    --yj-hover-overlay,
+                    rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05)
+                );
+            }
         }
 
         .track-item.phantom.selected {
@@ -1392,6 +1400,19 @@ export class PlaylistDetails
             );
         }
 
+        /* The press state (#54): the feedback a tap has now that the
+           web view's own highlight box is gone (index.css). Last, and
+           carrying a class, because a selected or playing row is two
+           classes deep and a bare :active would lose to it. */
+        .track-item.selected:active,
+        .track-item.active:active,
+        .track-item:active {
+            background-color: var(
+                --yj-press-overlay,
+                rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12)
+            );
+        }
+
         .phantom-row {
             grid-column: 1 / -1;
             display: flex;

frontend/src/components/queue-panel/queue-panel.ts

@@ -581,8 +581,14 @@ export class QueuePanel
             contain: strict;
         }
 
-        .track-item:hover {
-            background-color: var(--yj-hover-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05));
+        /* A hover tint is for a device that hovers (#54). A hold
+           synthesises a hover in the WebView, so ungated this arrives
+           because a finger touched the row and stays after it has
+           gone; the press state below is what a tap gets instead. */
+        @media (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine) {
+            .track-item:hover {
+                background-color: var(--yj-hover-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05));
+            }
         }
 
         .track-item.selected {
@@ -597,6 +603,19 @@ export class QueuePanel
             background-color: var(--yj-selection-bg, rgba(100, 160, 255, 0.15));
         }
 
+        /* The press state (#54): the feedback a tap has now that the
+           web view's own highlight box is gone (index.css). Last, and
+           carrying a class, because a selected or playing row is two
+           classes deep and a bare :active would lose to it. */
+        .track-item.selected:active,
+        .track-item.active:active,
+        .track-item:active {
+            background-color: var(
+                --yj-press-overlay,
+                rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12)
+            );
+        }
+
         .track-position {
             font-size: var(--yj-text-sm);
             color: var(--yj-text-tertiary, #888);

frontend/src/components/sidebar/app-sidebar.ts

@@ -42,6 +42,26 @@ export class AppSidebar extends LitElement {
             scrollbar-width: thin;
         }
 
+        /* A host that has made room owns the box, not just the labels
+           (#71). The bottom-nav sheet is the width of the screen and
+           provides the one scroll container it needs; left to itself
+           the sidebar is a 200px column with a second scroller inside
+           it, which is what a nested scroll region feels like under a
+           thumb -- part of the surface moves and part of it does not. */
+        :host([expanded]) {
+            max-width: none;
+            height: auto;
+            overflow: visible;
+        }
+
+        /* And the width is not draggable there. It is a mouse
+           affordance (mousedown, col-resize) sitting on the right edge
+           of a touch surface, where the compatibility mouse events a
+           tap synthesises can start a resize nobody asked for. */
+        :host([expanded]) .resize-handle {
+            display: none;
+        }
+
         .resize-handle {
             position: absolute;
             top: 0;
@@ -95,8 +115,15 @@ export class AppSidebar extends LitElement {
             text-align: center;
         }
 
-        li button:hover {
-            background-color: var(--yj-bg-elevated, #343a40);
+        /* A hover tint is for a device that hovers (#54), and this
+           component is on a phone too: below 600px it is what
+           bottom-nav's "More" sheet mounts, where a hold
+           synthesises a hover and leaves a destination looking picked
+           after the finger has gone. */
+        @media (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine) {
+            li button:hover {
+                background-color: var(--yj-bg-elevated, #343a40);
+            }
         }
 
         li button:focus-visible {
@@ -108,6 +135,14 @@ export class AppSidebar extends LitElement {
             background-color: var(--yj-bg-overlay, #495057);
         }
 
+        /* The press state (#54), after the .active rule and at the same
+           specificity, so pressing the destination you are already on
+           still says something. It is what a tap gets now that
+           index.css has taken the web view's own highlight box away. */
+        li button:active {
+            background-color: var(--yj-press-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12));
+        }
+
         li button p {
             margin: 0;
             white-space: nowrap;
@@ -145,6 +180,25 @@ export class AppSidebar extends LitElement {
         :host(.collapsed) li button wa-icon {
             font-size: var(--yj-icon-md);
         }
+
+        /* Below 600px the only place this renders is the bottom-nav
+           sheet -- the shell's own copy is display: none there -- so
+           the rows are sized for the thumb that opened it: 48px, which
+           is #186's floor and the height every row in #60's context
+           sheet already has. A media query inside a shadow root is
+           answered by the viewport, so the component states this
+           itself rather than the sheet reaching in. */
+        @media (max-width: 599px) {
+            ul {
+                padding: 4px 8px 8px;
+            }
+
+            li button {
+                min-height: 48px;
+                padding: 12px 10px;
+                gap: 14px;
+            }
+        }
     `];
 
     /** Delay in ms before a drag-hover triggers navigation. */
@@ -173,11 +227,14 @@ export class AppSidebar extends LitElement {
 
     /**
      * Keep the labels regardless of the viewport, for a host that has
-     * made room for them -- `bottom-nav`'s drawer, which is the whole
+     * made room for them -- `bottom-nav`'s sheet, which is the whole
      * screen wide on the phone where this would otherwise auto-collapse
      * to icons. The auto-collapse is a *width* response to a narrow
-     * shell, and inside a drawer the shell is not what the sidebar is
+     * shell, and inside a sheet the shell is not what the sidebar is
      * sharing space with.
+     *
+     * It says the host owns the *box*, not only the labels: the width,
+     * the scrolling and the resize handle all follow it (#71).
      */
     @property({ type: Boolean, reflect: true })
     expanded = false;
@@ -350,9 +407,18 @@ export class AppSidebar extends LitElement {
      * be a media query in the stylesheet.
      */
     private applyViewportWidth() {
-        const narrow =
-            !this.expanded &&
-            (this.narrowViewport?.matches ?? false);
+        // A host that made room decides how much: `bottom-nav`'s sheet
+        // is the whole screen wide, and the inline width below -- which
+        // beats any rule the host could write -- would draw the old
+        // 200px side drawer inside it.
+        if (this.expanded) {
+            this.style.width = '100%';
+            this.collapsed = false;
+
+            return;
+        }
+
+        const narrow = this.narrowViewport?.matches ?? false;
         const width = narrow
             ? MIN_WIDTH
             : this.userWidth;

frontend/src/components/smart-playlist-details/smart-playlist-details.ts

@@ -516,8 +516,14 @@ export class SmartPlaylistDetails
             user-select: none;
         }
 
-        .track-item:hover {
-            background-color: var(--yj-hover-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05));
+        /* A hover tint is for a device that hovers (#54). A hold
+           synthesises a hover in the WebView, so ungated this arrives
+           because a finger touched the row and stays after it has
+           gone; the press state below is what a tap gets instead. */
+        @media (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine) {
+            .track-item:hover {
+                background-color: var(--yj-hover-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05));
+            }
         }
 
         .track-item.selected {
@@ -533,6 +539,19 @@ export class SmartPlaylistDetails
             background-color: var(--yj-selection-bg, rgba(100, 160, 255, 0.15));
         }
 
+        /* The press state (#54): the feedback a tap has now that the
+           web view's own highlight box is gone (index.css). Last, and
+           carrying a class, because a selected or playing row is two
+           classes deep and a bare :active would lose to it. */
+        .track-item.selected:active,
+        .track-item.active:active,
+        .track-item:active {
+            background-color: var(
+                --yj-press-overlay,
+                rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12)
+            );
+        }
+
         /* Phantom rows span the full grid */
         .track-item.phantom {
             display: grid;

frontend/src/components/track-list/track-list.ts

@@ -1201,8 +1201,16 @@ export class TrackList
       padding-left: 6px;
     }
 
-    .track-row:hover {
-      background-color: var(--yj-hover-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05));
+    /* A hover tint is for a device that hovers (#54): a hold
+       synthesises a hover in the WebView, so ungated this is a
+       highlight that arrives because a finger touched the row and
+       then stays there after it has gone -- which reads as a
+       selection the user did not make. Same gate, and the same
+       mechanism, as #68's revealed controls. */
+    @media (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine) {
+      .track-row:hover {
+        background-color: var(--yj-hover-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05));
+      }
     }
 
     .track-row.selected {
@@ -1239,6 +1247,23 @@ export class TrackList
       background-color: var(--yj-selection-bg, rgba(100, 160, 255, 0.15));
     }
 
+    /* The press state (#54), and the only feedback a tap has now that
+       the web view's tap highlight is gone (index.css).
+
+       **Last, and as specific as the state rules above**: a row that
+       is selected and playing is .track-row.selected.active, so a
+       bare .track-row:active is one class short of it and a press
+       on the row a phone is most likely to press -- the one it just
+       selected -- would show nothing. Instant rather than
+       transitioned, because the only measured statement here about
+       transitions on a list is that two card grids removed theirs
+       for software-rendering repaint cost. */
+    .track-row.selected:active,
+    .track-row.active:active,
+    .track-row:active {
+      background-color: var(--yj-press-overlay, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12));
+    }
+
 
     .cell {
       overflow: hidden;

frontend/src/store/theme-store.ts

@@ -46,6 +46,17 @@ export interface ShadePalette {
     border: string;
     borderSubtle: string;
     hoverOverlay: string;
+    /**
+     * The tint a surface takes while it is being pressed (#54).
+     *
+     * Separate from `hoverOverlay` because the two answer different
+     * questions and only one of them a phone can ask: a hover is a
+     * pointer resting somewhere, a press is a finger on the thing it
+     * is about to activate. It is deliberately the stronger of the
+     * two — a press that reads the same as a hover says nothing on a
+     * device where the hover is synthesised by the press itself.
+     */
+    pressOverlay: string;
     selectionBg: string;
 }
 
@@ -95,6 +106,7 @@ export const SHADE_PALETTES: Record<BackgroundShade, ShadePalette> = {
         border: '#333333',
         borderSubtle: '#222222',
         hoverOverlay: 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05)',
+        pressOverlay: 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12)',
         selectionBg: 'rgba(100, 160, 255, 0.15)',
     },
     dark: {
@@ -114,6 +126,7 @@ export const SHADE_PALETTES: Record<BackgroundShade, ShadePalette> = {
         border: '#444444',
         borderSubtle: '#333333',
         hoverOverlay: 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05)',
+        pressOverlay: 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12)',
         selectionBg: 'rgba(100, 160, 255, 0.15)',
     },
     light: {
@@ -133,6 +146,7 @@ export const SHADE_PALETTES: Record<BackgroundShade, ShadePalette> = {
         border: '#ced4da',
         borderSubtle: '#dee2e6',
         hoverOverlay: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05)',
+        pressOverlay: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12)',
         selectionBg: 'rgba(100, 160, 255, 0.15)',
     },
 };
@@ -285,6 +299,7 @@ function deriveThemeVariables(
 
         // Interactive overlays
         '--yj-hover-overlay': palette.hoverOverlay,
+        '--yj-press-overlay': palette.pressOverlay,
         '--yj-selection-bg': palette.selectionBg,
 
         // Semantic *fills* — the background of a solid button or badge.

frontend/src/utils/context-menu-controller.ts

@@ -710,10 +710,35 @@ export const contextMenuStyles = css`
         font-size: 13px;
     }
 
-    .context-menu-panel wa-dropdown-item:hover {
+    /* A hover tint is for a device that hovers (#54).
+
+       Below the query is a phone, where a hold *synthesises* a hover
+       in the WebView -- the same mechanism #68 gates the revealed
+       controls on -- so an ungated tint is a highlight that arrives
+       because a finger touched the row and then stays on it after the
+       finger has gone. Which is indistinguishable from the press
+       state below, and outlives it. */
+    @media (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine) {
+        .context-menu-panel wa-dropdown-item:hover {
+            background-color: var(
+                --yj-hover-overlay,
+                rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1)
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /* And a press state is for every device, because it is the one
+       piece of feedback a tap has now that the web view's own
+       highlight box is gone (index.css). Stronger than the hover tint
+       on purpose, and instant rather than transitioned: the only
+       measured statement this repo has about transitions on these
+       surfaces is the two card grids that removed theirs because
+       software rendering repaints per frame, and the phone is not
+       something this session can measure. */
+    .context-menu-panel wa-dropdown-item:active {
         background-color: var(
-            --yj-hover-overlay,
-            rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1)
+            --yj-press-overlay,
+            rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12)
         );
     }
 

frontend/src/utils/image-prefetch.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+/**
+ * Warm the browser's image cache for the cards a scroll is about to
+ * reach.
+ *
+ * #65: album art pops in while scrolling. The rule this app already
+ * follows is that a row image is `loading="lazy" decoding="async"` and
+ * draws the smallest adequate tier, and both halves are in place —
+ * `cover-grid.getCoverUrl()` and `artists-view`'s avatar both pick
+ * `_sm`/`_md`/`_lg` from the card size and the device pixel ratio. What
+ * is left is *when* the fetch starts: the grids are virtualized, so the
+ * `<img>` does not exist at all until the virtualizer decides to render
+ * its card, and only then can the browser ask for anything.
+ *
+ * The issue's Direction asks for a larger overscan, and that is not
+ * available: `@lit-labs/virtualizer`'s `_overhang` is a hard-coded
+ * 1000px `protected` field on `BaseLayout` with no configuration
+ * surface, so raising it means monkey-patching a private. 1000px is
+ * about two screens on the reference device's 439px viewport, which is
+ * a fraction of a second at speed.
+ *
+ * So the request is issued ahead of the element instead. Cover art and
+ * artist images are plain URLs served by `coverart.Handler` /
+ * `explore`'s image handler under `Cache-Control: public,
+ * max-age=31536000, immutable` — the filenames are content hashes — so
+ * a prefetched image is a cache hit by the time the card is drawn, and
+ * a second pass over the same rows costs nothing at all.
+ *
+ * Three things about it are load-bearing.
+ *
+ * **This is not the `LRUMap` path the issue's Findings warn about.**
+ * That ceiling (`ARTIST_IMAGE_CACHE_LIMIT` and friends) bounds
+ * Explore's base64 data URLs, which are held in JS. A library cover is
+ * a URL, and what retains the bytes is the browser's own HTTP cache,
+ * which evicts on its own terms. What this module retains is the *set
+ * of URLs already asked for*, which is why that set has a cap and
+ * reports itself to `window.__yjCacheStats()` — the measurement the
+ * issue asks for.
+ *
+ * **A window is warmed on both sides of the rendered range.** The
+ * event carries no direction, and scrolling back up needs the same
+ * treatment; the rows behind are already in `requested` from the pass
+ * that rendered them, so the backward half issues nothing in the
+ * common case and is free.
+ *
+ * **An in-flight image is held.** `new Image().src = url` and drop it
+ * is the usual idiom and usually survives, but "usually" is an engine
+ * detail and the engine that matters here is a two-year-old WebView.
+ * The element is kept until it loads or fails, and no longer — nothing
+ * here holds a decoded bitmap on purpose.
+ */
+
+import { registerCacheProbe } from './cache-stats.js';
+import { LRUMap } from './lru-map.js';
+
+/**
+ * How many entries past each edge of the rendered range to warm.
+ *
+ * Entries rather than pixels, because that is what the event reports
+ * and what the caller has an array of. Twelve rows on the phone's
+ * two-column grid and four on a desktop's six, on top of the
+ * virtualizer's own 1000px — enough to cover a flick, and bounded so a
+ * fast scroll through 5 000 albums cannot ask for 5 000 covers.
+ */
+export const PREFETCH_AHEAD = 24;
+
+/** Ceiling on the record of what has already been asked for. */
+export const PREFETCH_MEMORY = 512;
+
+/** URLs already requested; the value is a placeholder, the key is the record. */
+const requested = new LRUMap<string, true>(PREFETCH_MEMORY);
+
+/** Images still loading, held so the request cannot be collected. */
+const inFlight = new Set<HTMLImageElement>();
+
+registerCacheProbe('imagePrefetch', () => {
+    let chars = 0;
+
+    for (const url of requested.keys()) chars += url.length;
+
+    return { entries: requested.size, chars, limit: PREFETCH_MEMORY };
+});
+
+/** Whether this URL has already been asked for. */
+export function imagePrefetched(url: string): boolean {
+    return requested.has(url);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Ask the browser for `url` unless it has already been asked for.
+ * Returns whether a request was issued.
+ */
+export function prefetchImage(url: string): boolean {
+    if (!url || requested.has(url)) return false;
+
+    requested.set(url, true);
+
+    const img = new Image();
+
+    inFlight.add(img);
+
+    const done = () => {
+        inFlight.delete(img);
+    };
+
+    img.addEventListener('load', done, { once: true });
+    img.addEventListener('error', done, { once: true });
+    img.decoding = 'async';
+    img.src = url;
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Warm the images either side of a virtualizer's rendered range.
+ *
+ * `first`/`last` are the indices the `visibilityChanged` event
+ * reported; `urlOf` returns the image the card at that index will
+ * draw, or `''` where it draws a placeholder. Returns how many
+ * requests were issued, which is what a test can assert on and what
+ * makes "a second run does approximately nothing" checkable.
+ */
+export function prefetchImageWindow<T>(
+    items: readonly T[],
+    first: number,
+    last: number,
+    urlOf: (item: T) => string,
+    ahead: number = PREFETCH_AHEAD,
+): number {
+    if (items.length === 0 || first < 0 || last < first) return 0;
+
+    const from = Math.max(0, first - ahead);
+    const to = Math.min(items.length - 1, last + ahead);
+    let issued = 0;
+
+    // Forward first: it is the direction a scroll is usually going, so
+    // it is the half that has to win the race.
+    for (let i = last + 1; i <= to; i++) {
+        const item = items[i];
+
+        if (item !== undefined && prefetchImage(urlOf(item))) issued++;
+    }
+
+    for (let i = from; i < first; i++) {
+        const item = items[i];
+
+        if (item !== undefined && prefetchImage(urlOf(item))) issued++;
+    }
+
+    return issued;
+}
+
+/** Forget what has been asked for. For tests; the app never needs it. */
+export function resetImagePrefetch(): void {
+    requested.clear();
+    inFlight.clear();
+}

frontend/test/components/art-prefetch.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+/**
+ * The grids ask for the art below the fold before the card exists
+ * (#65).
+ *
+ * Reported as "scrolling through albums, the art pops in". The cards
+ * already draw the smallest adequate tier and are already
+ * `loading="lazy"`, so what was left is *when*: `<lit-virtualizer>`
+ * renders about 1000px past the viewport and the `<img>` — and
+ * therefore the request — does not exist until it does. On the
+ * reference device that is about two screens.
+ *
+ * These assert the mechanism, since no tier here can photograph a
+ * pop-in: that the rows past the rendered range are requested, that
+ * the request is for the same tier the card will draw, and that the
+ * window has an end — an unbounded prefetch of a 5 000-album library
+ * is the failure this trades against.
+ *
+ * What is *not* asserted here is that a rendered card was never
+ * prefetched. It often was, honestly: the grid lays out more than once
+ * on mount, so a row warmed by the first pass is drawn by the second,
+ * which is the whole point. The rule that a single pass skips its own
+ * rendered range is `image-prefetch.test.ts`'s, where one call can be
+ * looked at on its own.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
+import type { LitElement } from 'lit';
+
+import '@components/cover-grid/cover-grid';
+import '@components/artists-view/artists-view';
+import { emit, stub, flush, resetHarness } from '@test/support/harness';
+import { Events } from '../../src/events';
+import { fixture, shadowAll } from '@test/support/render';
+import {
+  PREFETCH_AHEAD,
+  imagePrefetched,
+  resetImagePrefetch,
+} from '@utils/image-prefetch';
+
+/** Enough albums that the virtualizer's own window is nowhere near the end. */
+const ALBUMS = Array.from({ length: 400 }, (_, i) => {
+  const n = String(i + 1).padStart(4, '0');
+
+  return {
+    ID: i + 1,
+    Name: `Album ${n}`,
+    ArtistName: 'Aurora Fields',
+    Year: 2020,
+    CoverArtPath: `/covers/${n}.jpg`,
+    CoverArtSmall: `/covers/${n}_sm.jpg`,
+    CoverArtMedium: `/covers/${n}_md.jpg`,
+    CoverArtLarge: `/covers/${n}_lg.jpg`,
+  };
+});
+
+const ARTISTS = Array.from({ length: 400 }, (_, i) => {
+  const n = String(i + 1).padStart(4, '0');
+
+  return {
+    ID: i + 1,
+    Name: `Artist ${n}`,
+    AlbumCount: 2,
+    TrackCount: 9,
+    ImageSmall: `/artists/${n}_sm.jpg`,
+    ImageMedium: `/artists/${n}_md.jpg`,
+    ImageLarge: `/artists/${n}_lg.jpg`,
+  };
+});
+
+/** Give the virtualizer a viewport; a zero-height host renders nothing. */
+function sized(el: HTMLElement): void {
+  el.style.display = 'block';
+  el.style.height = '600px';
+  el.style.width = '900px';
+}
+
+async function settle(el: LitElement): Promise<void> {
+  await flush();
+  await el.updateComplete;
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 200));
+}
+
+/** The `src` of every card the grid actually rendered. */
+function renderedSources(el: LitElement, selector: string): string[] {
+  return shadowAll(el, selector)
+    .map((img) => (img as HTMLImageElement).getAttribute('src') ?? '')
+    .filter(Boolean);
+}
+
+/**
+ * The last index the virtualizer has rendered, read off the cards
+ * rather than counted: the rendered range is what the prefetch window
+ * is measured from, and a count assumes it starts at 0 and has no
+ * gaps.
+ */
+function lastRenderedIndex(el: LitElement, selector: string): number {
+  const indices = shadowAll(el, selector).map((card) =>
+    Number(card.getAttribute('data-index')),
+  );
+
+  return Math.max(...indices);
+}
+
+/**
+ * The tier the cards chose, read off a rendered card rather than
+ * recomputed — the point of the assertion is that the prefetch and the
+ * card agree, so deriving both from the same ladder here would prove
+ * nothing.
+ */
+function tierSuffix(src: string): string {
+  const m = /_(sm|md|lg)\.jpg$/.exec(src);
+
+  return m ? `_${m[1]}` : '';
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  resetHarness();
+  resetImagePrefetch();
+  localStorage.clear();
+  stub('library.Library.GetAlbums', ALBUMS);
+  stub('library.Library.GetArtists', ARTISTS);
+  stub('library.Library.GetTracks', []);
+  stub('library.Library.GetGenres', []);
+  emit(Events.LibraryScanComplete);
+});
+
+describe('the albums grid warms the covers below the fold', () => {
+  it('asks for the covers past the rendered range, in the tier the card draws', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture<LitElement>('cover-grid');
+
+    sized(el);
+    await settle(el);
+
+    const rendered = renderedSources(el, 'img.cover-image');
+
+    expect(rendered.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    const tier = tierSuffix(rendered[0]!);
+    const url = (index: number) =>
+      `/covers/${String(index + 1).padStart(4, '0')}${tier}.jpg`;
+
+    // The grid starts at the top and never scrolls here, so the whole
+    // window lies past the last card drawn.
+    const last = lastRenderedIndex(el, '.album-card');
+
+    expect(imagePrefetched(url(last + 1))).toBe(true);
+    expect(imagePrefetched(url(last + PREFETCH_AHEAD))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('stops at the end of the window rather than warming the library', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture<LitElement>('cover-grid');
+
+    sized(el);
+    await settle(el);
+
+    const rendered = renderedSources(el, 'img.cover-image');
+    const tier = tierSuffix(rendered[0]!);
+    const url = (index: number) =>
+      `/covers/${String(index + 1).padStart(4, '0')}${tier}.jpg`;
+
+    // Not "exactly `last + PREFETCH_AHEAD`": the grid lays out more
+    // than once on mount and each pass warms a window from wherever
+    // the rendered range was then, so the reachable set is a few
+    // windows wide. The property that matters is that it is a window
+    // at all rather than the library.
+    expect(imagePrefetched(url(399))).toBe(false);
+    expect(window.__yjCacheStats?.()['imagePrefetch']?.entries ?? 0)
+      .toBeLessThan(ALBUMS.length / 2);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('the artists grid warms its avatars the same way', () => {
+  it('asks for the avatars past the rendered range', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture<LitElement>('artists-view');
+
+    sized(el);
+    await settle(el);
+
+    const rendered = renderedSources(el, 'img.avatar-image');
+
+    expect(rendered.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    const tier = tierSuffix(rendered[0]!);
+    const last = lastRenderedIndex(el, '.artist-card');
+    const url = (index: number) =>
+      `/artists/${String(index + 1).padStart(4, '0')}${tier}.jpg`;
+
+    expect(imagePrefetched(url(last + 1))).toBe(true);
+    expect(imagePrefetched(url(399))).toBe(false);
+  });
+});

frontend/test/components/bottom-nav.test.ts

@@ -193,4 +193,119 @@ describe('bottom-nav', () => {
     expect(shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'app-sidebar')?.hasAttribute('expanded'))
       .toBe(true);
   });
+
+  it('draws "More" as a sheet rising from the bottom', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture<Nav>('bottom-nav');
+    const drawer = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'wa-drawer');
+
+    // #71. A side drawer is a desktop shape: it opened away from the
+    // thumb that asked for it and drew a 200px column of a 424px
+    // screen. `placement` is the whole of the change to *where* it
+    // comes from, and `without-header` is what makes it the same sheet
+    // `menu-surface` draws rather than a second pattern with a title
+    // bar and a close button.
+    expect(drawer?.getAttribute('placement')).toBe('bottom');
+    expect(drawer?.hasAttribute('without-header')).toBe(true);
+
+    // Named all the same: `nameDialog`'s documented aria-label path,
+    // since without-header renders no heading to point at.
+    expect(drawer?.getAttribute('label')).toBe('All views');
+  });
+
+  it('leaves exactly one scroll container, and it is the sheet body', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture<Nav>('bottom-nav');
+    const drawer = shadow<HTMLElement & { open: boolean }>(el, 'wa-drawer');
+
+    if (!drawer) throw new Error('no drawer');
+
+    const shown = once(drawer, 'wa-after-show');
+
+    shadow<HTMLButtonElement>(el, '[data-testid="tab-more"]')?.click();
+    await shown;
+    await update(el, {});
+
+    // The report is "only part of the screen scrolls under my finger",
+    // and the cause is three boxes that each scroll: the dialog, its
+    // body, and the sidebar's own overflow-y host. Which one a drag
+    // moves depends on where the finger landed.
+    const dialog = drawer.shadowRoot?.querySelector('[part~="dialog"]');
+    const body = drawer.shadowRoot?.querySelector('[part~="body"]');
+    const sidebar = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'app-sidebar');
+
+    if (!dialog || !body || !sidebar) throw new Error('no sheet');
+
+    expect(getComputedStyle(dialog).overflowY).toBe('hidden');
+    expect(getComputedStyle(body).overflowY).toBe('auto');
+    expect(getComputedStyle(sidebar).overflowY).toBe('visible');
+
+    // And the one that does scroll keeps it to itself, or reaching the
+    // end of the destinations scrolls the page behind the sheet.
+    expect(getComputedStyle(body).overscrollBehaviorY).toBe('contain');
+  });
+
+  it('gives the sheet the whole width, which the sidebar does not take', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture<Nav>('bottom-nav');
+
+    shadow<HTMLButtonElement>(el, '[data-testid="tab-more"]')?.click();
+    await update(el, {});
+
+    const sidebar = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'app-sidebar');
+
+    if (!sidebar) throw new Error('no sidebar');
+
+    // `app-sidebar` writes an *inline* width and caps itself at 400px,
+    // which beats any rule this host could write — so "the host owns
+    // the box" has to be part of what `expanded` means, or the sheet
+    // draws the old 200px column inside a full-width surface.
+    expect(sidebar.style.width).toBe('100%');
+    expect(getComputedStyle(sidebar).maxWidth).toBe('none');
+  });
+
+  it('sizes the sheet rows for a thumb, below the phone breakpoint', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture<Nav>('bottom-nav');
+
+    shadow<HTMLButtonElement>(el, '[data-testid="tab-more"]')?.click();
+    await update(el, {});
+
+    const sidebar = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'app-sidebar');
+    const sheets = sidebar?.shadowRoot?.adoptedStyleSheets ?? [];
+    const phoneRules: string[] = [];
+
+    for (const sheet of sheets) {
+      for (const rule of Array.from(sheet.cssRules)) {
+        if (!(rule instanceof CSSMediaRule)) continue;
+
+        if (!/max-width:\s*599px/.test(rule.conditionText)) continue;
+
+        for (const inner of Array.from(rule.cssRules)) {
+          phoneRules.push(inner.cssText);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Asserted against the parsed stylesheet, like
+    // `hover-affordance.test.ts` and for the same reason: this tier's
+    // iframe is not 599px wide, so the rule cannot be *rendered* here —
+    // but the regression worth catching is someone moving it out of the
+    // query, which nothing on a desktop draws differently.
+    expect(phoneRules.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(phoneRules.some((r) => /min-height:\s*48px/.test(r))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('takes the resize handle out of the sheet', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture<Nav>('bottom-nav');
+
+    shadow<HTMLButtonElement>(el, '[data-testid="tab-more"]')?.click();
+    await update(el, {});
+
+    const handle = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'app-sidebar')
+      ?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('.resize-handle');
+
+    if (!handle) throw new Error('no resize handle');
+
+    // A col-resize strip on the right edge of a touch surface: the
+    // compatibility mouse events a tap synthesises reach its
+    // `mousedown`, so it can start a resize nobody asked for.
+    expect(getComputedStyle(handle).display).toBe('none');
+  });
 });

frontend/test/components/press-feedback.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
+/**
+ * What a tap looks like now that the web view's own highlight is gone
+ * (#54).
+ *
+ * `index.css` sets `-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent` on
+ * `html`, which — the property being inherited — reaches every shadow
+ * root in the app. That takes away the grey box a phone drew over the
+ * bounding rect of whatever was tapped, and with it the only touch
+ * feedback the rows, the tab bar, the sidebar's destinations and the
+ * shared menu items had. So the press states below are not decoration:
+ * without them this change trades wrong feedback for none.
+ *
+ * **Asserted against the parsed stylesheet**, on `hover-affordance`'s
+ * precedent and with the same limitation stated out loud: CDP's
+ * `Emulation.setEmulatedMedia` does not reach this tier's iframe, so
+ * there is no way here to render a component as a phone would, and
+ * `:active` cannot be forced from a test either. What the browser will
+ * answer is the shape it built from the `css` literal — which rule sits
+ * inside which media query, and what the press selector actually is.
+ *
+ * Two regressions are worth catching that way, and both are silent on a
+ * desktop:
+ *
+ * - someone hoisting a hover tint back out of its query as a tidy-up,
+ *   which on a phone is a highlight that arrives because a finger
+ *   touched the row and stays after it has gone;
+ * - someone simplifying the press selector to a bare `:active`, which
+ *   is one class short of `.selected` / `.active` and so does nothing
+ *   on the row a phone is most likely to press — the one it has just
+ *   selected.
+ *
+ * The pixels are the Android tier's, and the tap highlight itself is
+ * `e2e/specs/native-touch-feel.spec.ts`, since only the real app loads
+ * `index.css` at all.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import '@components/track-list/track-list';
+import '@components/queue-panel/queue-panel';
+import '@components/playlist-details/playlist-details';
+import '@components/smart-playlist-details/smart-playlist-details';
+import '@components/bottom-nav/bottom-nav';
+import '@components/sidebar/app-sidebar';
+import { fixture } from '@test/support/render';
+
+/** Every rule in the element's own adopted stylesheets, flattened. */
+function rulesOf(host: Element): { text: string; condition: string | null }[] {
+  const sheets = host.shadowRoot?.adoptedStyleSheets ?? [];
+  const out: { text: string; condition: string | null }[] = [];
+
+  for (const sheet of sheets) {
+    for (const rule of Array.from(sheet.cssRules)) {
+      if (rule instanceof CSSMediaRule) {
+        for (const inner of Array.from(rule.cssRules)) {
+          out.push({ text: inner.cssText, condition: rule.conditionText });
+        }
+
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      out.push({ text: rule.cssText, condition: null });
+    }
+  }
+
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** The four lists, their row selector, and the tag that draws them. */
+const LISTS: Array<[string, string]> = [
+  ['track-list', '.track-row'],
+  ['queue-panel', '.track-item'],
+  ['playlist-details', '.track-item'],
+  ['smart-playlist-details', '.track-item'],
+];
+
+describe('a row says it is being pressed', () => {
+  for (const [tag, row] of LISTS) {
+    it(`${tag} draws a press state that survives its state classes`, async () => {
+      const el = await fixture(tag, {});
+      const rules = rulesOf(el);
+
+      // Worth nothing if it read no rules at all — the first assertion
+      // icon-language.test.ts makes, for the same reason.
+      expect(rules.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+      const press = rules.filter(
+        (r) => r.text.includes(`${row}:active`) && r.text.includes('background-color'),
+      );
+
+      expect(press.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+      for (const rule of press) {
+        // A press is not a hover: it is the one thing a touch device
+        // can say, so it must not sit behind a pointer query.
+        expect(rule.condition).toBeNull();
+        expect(rule.text).toContain('--yj-press-overlay');
+      }
+
+      // The load-bearing half: the selector carries a state class, or
+      // it loses to `.selected` / `.selected.active` and the press is
+      // invisible on a selected or playing row.
+      expect(press.some((r) => r.text.includes(`${row}.selected:active`))).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it(`${tag} keeps its hover tint for devices that hover`, async () => {
+      const el = await fixture(tag, {});
+      const rules = rulesOf(el);
+
+      expect(rules.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+      const hover = rules.filter(
+        (r) =>
+          r.text.includes(`${row}:hover`) &&
+          r.text.includes('--yj-hover-overlay'),
+      );
+
+      expect(hover.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+      for (const rule of hover) {
+        expect(rule.condition).toMatch(/hover:\s*hover/);
+        expect(rule.condition).toMatch(/pointer:\s*fine/);
+      }
+    });
+  }
+});
+
+describe('the two navigations say they are being pressed', () => {
+  it('the phone tab bar, which had no state of its own at all', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture('bottom-nav', {});
+    const rules = rulesOf(el);
+
+    expect(rules.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    const press = rules.filter((r) => r.text.startsWith('button:active'));
+
+    expect(press.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(press[0]!.condition).toBeNull();
+    expect(press[0]!.text).toContain('--yj-press-overlay');
+  });
+
+  it("the sidebar, which is also the phone's More sheet", async () => {
+    const el = await fixture('app-sidebar', {});
+    const rules = rulesOf(el);
+
+    expect(rules.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    const press = rules.filter((r) => r.text.startsWith('li button:active'));
+
+    expect(press.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(press[0]!.condition).toBeNull();
+    expect(press[0]!.text).toContain('--yj-press-overlay');
+
+    // Its hover tint is a destination looking picked, if it is left to
+    // a synthesised hover inside the More sheet.
+    const hover = rules.filter((r) => r.text.startsWith('li button:hover'));
+
+    expect(hover.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    for (const rule of hover) {
+      expect(rule.condition).toMatch(/hover:\s*hover/);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('the shared context menu', () => {
+  // One stylesheet, fourteen menus — the same reason the sheet's row
+  // height lives there rather than in each host.
+  it('presses its items, in the one place every menu includes', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture('queue-panel', {});
+    const rules = rulesOf(el);
+
+    const press = rules.filter((r) =>
+      r.text.startsWith('.context-menu-panel wa-dropdown-item:active'),
+    );
+
+    expect(press.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(press[0]!.condition).toBeNull();
+    expect(press[0]!.text).toContain('--yj-press-overlay');
+
+    const hover = rules.filter((r) =>
+      r.text.startsWith('.context-menu-panel wa-dropdown-item:hover'),
+    );
+
+    expect(hover.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    for (const rule of hover) {
+      expect(rule.condition).toMatch(/hover:\s*hover/);
+      expect(rule.condition).toMatch(/pointer:\s*fine/);
+    }
+  });
+});

frontend/test/support/pixel.svg

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+<!-- A real, servable image for the prefetch tests: one transparent pixel. -->
+<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1" height="1"></svg>

frontend/test/utils/image-prefetch.test.ts

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+/**
+ * What the grids ask for ahead of the scroll (#65).
+ *
+ * The virtualizer renders about 1000px past its viewport and nothing
+ * else can be asked for, because the `<img>` does not exist until the
+ * card does — two screens on the reference device, which is a fraction
+ * of a second at speed. `prefetchImageWindow` issues the request
+ * before the element, so the assertions here are about *which* rows
+ * are asked for, that none is asked for twice, and that a request is
+ * really made rather than merely recorded.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
+
+import {
+  PREFETCH_MEMORY,
+  imagePrefetched,
+  prefetchImage,
+  prefetchImageWindow,
+  resetImagePrefetch,
+} from '@utils/image-prefetch';
+
+/** A hundred cards, each with its own cover URL. */
+const CARDS = Array.from({ length: 100 }, (_, i) => ({ url: `/covers/${i}_sm.jpg` }));
+
+const urlOf = (card: { url: string }) => card.url;
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  resetImagePrefetch();
+});
+
+describe('warming the images a scroll is about to reach', () => {
+  it('asks for the rows just past the rendered range, and no further', () => {
+    const issued = prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, urlOf, 3);
+
+    // Three past each edge: 51-53 and 37-39.
+    expect(issued).toBe(6);
+    expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/51_sm.jpg')).toBe(true);
+    expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/53_sm.jpg')).toBe(true);
+    expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/54_sm.jpg')).toBe(false);
+    expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/39_sm.jpg')).toBe(true);
+    expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/37_sm.jpg')).toBe(true);
+    expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/36_sm.jpg')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves the rendered rows alone — they have their own <img>', () => {
+    prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, urlOf, 3);
+
+    expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/45_sm.jpg')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('asks for nothing twice, so a scroll back over the same rows is free', () => {
+    prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, urlOf, 3);
+
+    expect(prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, urlOf, 3)).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('clamps at both ends of the list', () => {
+    // At the top of a five-item list nothing precedes the range, and
+    // the tail runs out after two.
+    expect(prefetchImageWindow(CARDS.slice(0, 5), 0, 2, urlOf, 10)).toBe(2);
+  });
+
+  it('asks for nothing when the virtualizer reports an empty range', () => {
+    // `visibilityChanged` reports -1/-1 before anything is laid out.
+    expect(prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, -1, -1, urlOf)).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('skips a card that draws a placeholder rather than an image', () => {
+    expect(prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, () => '', 3)).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('really issues the request, rather than only recording it', async () => {
+    // A served file, so the load succeeds and the resource timing entry
+    // is unambiguous; the query string keeps it distinct per run.
+    const url = `/test/support/pixel.svg?prefetch=${Date.now()}`;
+    const href = new URL(url, location.href).href;
+
+    expect(prefetchImage(url)).toBe(true);
+
+    for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
+      if (performance.getEntriesByName(href).length > 0) break;
+
+      await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20));
+    }
+
+    expect(performance.getEntriesByName(href)).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(prefetchImage(url)).toBe(false);
+    expect(performance.getEntriesByName(href)).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it('reports what it is holding, with its cap, to the cache stats', () => {
+    prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, urlOf, 3);
+
+    const stat = window.__yjCacheStats?.()['imagePrefetch'];
+
+    expect(stat).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(stat!.entries).toBe(6);
+    expect(stat!.limit).toBe(PREFETCH_MEMORY);
+    // It holds URLs, not images — the bytes are the browser's cache.
+    expect(stat!.chars).toBe(6 * '/covers/51_sm.jpg'.length);
+  });
+
+  it('keeps its record bounded, so a 50 000-album scroll cannot grow it', () => {
+    const many = Array.from(
+      { length: PREFETCH_MEMORY * 2 },
+      (_, i) => ({ url: `/covers/bulk-${i}_sm.jpg` }),
+    );
+
+    prefetchImageWindow(many, 0, 0, urlOf, many.length);
+
+    expect(window.__yjCacheStats?.()['imagePrefetch']?.entries).toBe(PREFETCH_MEMORY);
+  });
+});