feat(website): bring the live demo into the homepage hero

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Summary

The homepage previously filled the first screen with the product name and introduced the editor only after scrolling. It now leads with the result visitors can create, supported by the free/open-source promise, a live, wide preview and a download button for their platform.

• Loop the existing DOM animation in real time, with a pause control. Dock on the first scroll pixel and rewind while the picture moves into the editor, then resume the five-part walkthrough under scroll control. Keep movement and rewind on one smoothed progression, with a stable handoff to the sticky editor.
• Centre the caption/inspector and desktop preview in a container capped at 1600px, while keeping the initial live preview wide. Let the footage retain its larger 16:9 size when it is taller than the inspector; only extend its background height when it would be shorter, aligning both edges with the left group. Fit the picture proportionally above the timeline on short screens. Cache each pane's settled height and overlap outgoing/incoming panes during their fade, so the preview transitions directly to its next height without temporarily growing and shrinking. Preserve the recorded page's 16:9 proportions inside the responsive background frame, and remove the outer green glow that was clipped at the hero boundary.
• Add a bottom margin below the timeline when the viewport and largest closing group, including the footage, leave enough space. Calculate it on resize, keep it constant across scroll beats, and reduce it to zero when space is tight.
• Give the timeline tool palette more room: 14px outer padding, 12px gaps, 72px buttons and extra space below the caption. Use compact spacing on phones and short desktop windows.
• Lead with "Beautiful demos on the first take." ("De belles démos du premier coup." in French), translated into all seven locales. Announce "OpenScreen v2 is here" in a compact green badge above the homepage heading, linking to its making-of article. Give the introduction more vertical padding, wider gaps between its elements and more title line spacing, with smaller increases on phones and short desktop windows. Preserve reduced-motion, narrow-screen and no-JavaScript fallbacks.
• Show an OS logo and "Download for Mac / Windows / Linux" on the primary homepage button. Resolve Mac and Linux downloads from the current release assets; use Microsoft's official Store web installer on Windows. Use architecture hints or explicit Mac GPU names to select Apple Silicon or Intel, with a two-option chooser when the browser hides the CPU. Select deb/rpm/pacman when the Linux distribution is exposed, otherwise AppImage, and provide a format chooser. Keep mobile, unknown platforms, unavailable assets and known unsupported Linux architectures on the downloads page. Label the header link "Downloads" and keep it pointing to all formats. The Windows Store card also downloads the Store installer on Windows. Translate the new controls into all seven locales.
• Replace the compressed 1200px homepage wallpapers with responsive AVIF/WebP variants generated from the original assets at 960, 1920 and 2560px. Publish all 24 variants to the existing R2 bucket and media domain under an immutable folder covered by the existing year-long CDN cache. Retain two picture layers, prepare the next wallpaper and decode each incoming image before fading it over the outgoing one. Collapse interrupted scroll requests to the latest frame and retain local JPEG fallbacks. Record source/output hashes, dimensions, sizes and encoder settings in a manifest; validate the published files in website CI. Thumbnails remain local.

Related issue

None.

Type of change

• Enhancement

Release impact

• No release note needed (website only)

Desktop impact

• Not platform-specific

Screenshots / video

To inspect locally, run npm run build and npm run serve from website/, open the homepage, and scroll from the top or follow #editor. Responsive checks cover phones through 3840×2160 displays, including 1041×605 and a 574px-tall desktop window.

Testing

• npm run typecheck and npm run build in website/: pass; all eight locales build.
• npm test in website/: all 41 tests pass, including five background-loading tests, nine download-target tests, four footage-sizing cases, playback coverage and three height-transition tests for bounded resizing, interrupted reversal and refresh-rate independence.
• npm run check:recreation, npm run check:media, npm run check:loops -- --live and npm run lint:fix -- --staged: pass.
• Browser checks cover the live loop, pause/resume, first-pixel docking, rewind, reverse scrolling, all five editor beats, reduced motion, 320px and no-JavaScript fallbacks.
• Browser checks verify that the preview height is the larger of its natural 16:9 height and the left group height, within 1px, across all five beats. Trace checks keep transition heights between their endpoints. The fully visible timeline keeps the same bottom margin across beats and during pane transitions. Phone/tablet checks verify clearance above the timeline and no horizontal overflow.
• Resizing repeatedly between desktop, short windows and phones recalculates the layout and margin correctly in English and German; the full viewport matrix also passes in French. Width, centring, alignment and cursor targets are also checked from 390px phones through 1920px, 2560px, 3440px and 3840px displays, including all five beats, resize, reverse scroll and static fallbacks.
• Badge/headline checks cover light/dark themes, desktop and mobile layouts, JavaScript disabled, and all eight locales at 320px. The badge stays above the heading, links to the English making-of article, and no longer adds a full-width announcement bar above navigation. Docking and timeline alignment still pass after the layout change.
• Introduction spacing checks cover seven viewport sizes from 360×640 to 1920×954: the copy remains separated, the live picture starts below it and stays partly visible, and first-pixel docking, timeline clearance and reverse scrolling still pass. All eight locales remain free of horizontal overflow at 320px without JavaScript.
• Browser checks cover 12 emulated platform scenarios, the detected labels and release URLs, download clicks, Mac and Linux choosers, keyboard dismissal, and the Windows Store card. Package responses are intercepted for click tests; the real Microsoft endpoint independently returned HTTP 200 with an attachment named OpenScreen Installer.exe. All eight locales pass at 320px and 997px, with no-JavaScript fallbacks at 320px. First-pixel docking, timeline clearance and reverse scrolling pass again with the dynamic button in short desktop windows.
• npm run i18n:check: homepage strings are current; seven existing warnings concern unrelated ai-editing.md translations.
• npm run check:backgrounds -- --live: all 24 R2 variants respond at their recorded sizes and MIME types. Re-running the publisher confirms that existing objects have matching MD5 hashes and skips all uploads. Cache headers confirm one year and MISS → HIT.
• Background browser checks verify 1920px on a 1920×1080 1x screen, 2560px at 2x, and 960px on a 390×844 2x phone; forward/reverse scrolling retains two layers. Reduced motion, no JavaScript, WebP selection, aborted CDN requests with local JPEG recovery, a 450ms image delay, and teardown during loading all pass. Short-window docking/timeline checks pass again.
• A before/after Chromium scroll trace records the same 16.7ms p95 frame interval with no interval over 50ms on desktop and emulated mobile. The four backgrounds total 53,466 B on mobile versus 143,865 B before; desktop now uses 1920px files totalling 154,143 B instead of the 1200px JPEGs. This is a local browser measurement, not a hardware mobile benchmark.

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Walkthrough

The homepage now presents updated product messaging and a localized v2 announcement badge. The recreation preview plays on a clock, then docks into the editor as the reader scrolls. The editor layout, preview controls, and translations support these changes.

Changes

Homepage demo experience

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preview playback and scroll driver website/src/components/Recreation/playback.ts, website/src/components/Recreation/driver.ts, website/src/components/Recreation/layout.ts, website/src/components/Recreation/*test.ts, website/src/components/Recreation/ART-DIRECTION.md	Playback now has preview, docking, and editor phases. The driver handles scrolling, pause state, visibility, layout measurements, and card positioning. Tests cover playback, docking, and height interpolation.
Recreation component and docking layout website/src/components/Recreation/index.tsx, website/src/components/Recreation/styles.module.css, website/src/components/Recreation/scene.ts, website/src/components/Editor/*	The recreation adds preview controls, an editor anchor, and driver hooks. The layout transitions the preview card into the editor and provides a static layout when the driver is not active.
Homepage layout and localized copy website/src/pages/index.tsx, website/src/pages/index.module.css, website/src/components/ReleaseBadge/*, website/i18n/code.source.json, website/i18n/*/code.json	The hero content and layout change, and a release badge links to the v2 announcement. Source strings and translations add the revised homepage copy, announcement text, and preview-control labels.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor Reader
  participant RecreationDriver
  participant createPlayback
  participant RecreationStage
  Reader->>RecreationDriver: Scroll, pause, or resume
  RecreationDriver->>createPlayback: Sample time, offset, and playing state
  createPlayback-->>RecreationDriver: Return phase, time, and dock progress
  RecreationDriver->>RecreationStage: Apply stage position and card geometry

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b4797

The homepage preview now loops before docking into the editor, alongside updated localized messaging. No concrete merge-blocking behavior is indicated; normal CI should be sufficient.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b4797

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: website

Architecture concerns
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Review details

Systems and components

• observed — website (ui) was modified; 23 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in website/src/components/Editor/index.tsx: The file comment now describes the editor as a live preview that docks into nine editor viewports while the reader scrolls; it previously described nine viewports of editor with nothing above them.
• observed — Modified behavior in website/src/components/Editor/styles.module.css: .section now has no top padding instead of 24px; the comment now describes the live preview beginning beneath the promise.
• observed — Modified behavior in website/src/components/Recreation/ART-DIRECTION.md: The document adds the hero-loop and scroll-docking behavior, including rewind at docking, reverse movement and playback resumption on scroll-back, pause and reduced-motion handling, seam-crossing wheel input, and a stage handoff that remains fixed between animation frames. It also specifies a desktop background frame sized to the caption and inspector, with a separately fitted 16:9 recorded-page canvas.
• observed — Modified behavior in website/src/components/Recreation/ART-DIRECTION.md: The timing rule now says the preview clock precedes scroll position as the source of scene seconds; the existing mapping to document seconds and synchronized playhead, pill, magnification, and transcript cue remain. The prior rule began directly with scroll position and explicitly excluded a media element and second timebase.

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 55.56% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 11 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: bringing the live demo into the homepage hero.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required summary, related issue, change type, release impact, desktop impact, screenshots/video guidance, and detailed testing information. It is complete and relevant to …

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🟡 Minor · Clear focus before hiding the preview controls. · driver.ts:658-671

website/src/components/Recreation/driver.ts:658-671
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear focus before hiding the preview controls.

When a focused pause button is scrolled past docking, createPlayback changes the phase from preview to docking or editor. The .previewControls ancestor then changes to display: none. No focus handoff runs, so keyboard users can lose focus on a control that is no longer rendered.

Suggested fix

 	const apply = (f: Frame, dock: number, phase: string) => {
+		const leavingPreview = root.dataset.phase === "preview" && phase !== "preview";
+		if (leavingPreview && document.activeElement === pause) pause.blur();
 		num("--dock", dock);

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Review comment at @website/src/components/Recreation/driver.ts around lines 658
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Update the apply function to clear focus from the pause control when
transitioning from the preview phase to docking or editor, before the preview
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