Real-device report: the Tasks page "looks like it has no CSS at all, with
blurry borders". Two hypotheses were falsified before the real cause surfaced:
the sheet IS delivered (the chunk carries both the CSS and its injector, and
the bundle route serves it) and the cascade is NOT the problem (with the real
host stylesheet plus the real compiled sheet, a controlled sample keeps our
padding, radius, border, background and font; host CSS-module selectors only
match host nodes, and its global element rules are element-level specificity).
The cause is what we deliberately excluded: PREFLIGHT is also what normalizes
form controls. Measured on a plugin icon button that sets only an icon size,
the UA chrome survived as padding 1px 6px, border 2px outset, background
ButtonFace (#efefef) and a 13.33px system font - gray beveled buttons with a
soft double border, i.e. "no CSS".
- ui/theme.css: a .dsw-tasks-scoped preflight subset (zero margins/padding,
border width+style, background, appearance none, inherit color/spacing,
cursor rules) inside @layer base, written with :where() so it stays at
(0,1,0) and utilities in the later layer still win; plus an explicit
"@layer theme, base, components, utilities;" statement - layer order follows
first appearance, and without it the utilities import registered utilities
BEFORE base, so the reset beat rounded-md (measured: square buttons). The
built chunk's order was re-checked: properties, theme, base, components,
utilities.
- Stock shadcn restyle: static cards carry stock shadow-xs/shadow-sm again
(floating layers keep shadow-lg), body/meta text is text-sm/text-xs instead
of 11-13px, status uses stock Badge variants, controls use stock Button
variants and sizes, row actions appear on hover/focus while staying keyboard
reachable, node cards are 176x68 with shadow-xs.
- bandColsFor budgets columns at the readability floor (width / 0.78) instead
of 1:1, so a 360px panel keeps two columns; FIT_MIN_SCALE moved into the
layout module as GRAPH_FIT_MIN_SCALE so the fit and the column budget share
one constant.
- Guards: tests/ui-foundation.spec.ts pins the scoped reset declarations and
the layer-order statement; tests/ui-shadows.spec.ts now allows shadow-xs and
shadow-sm on static panels and bans md and above; the theme guard's inert
paint rule forced the reset to spell border-width/border-style instead of the
"border: 0 solid" shorthand.
Verified: typecheck and lint clean; 136 files / 1505 tests; build with the
core/chunk bundle guards; mount e2e 7/7 (mount 444ms, longtasks 2 of 8); the
visual mirror page (real host stylesheet + real components) re-shot at 360 and
720 for graph, tree and the 77-node stress fixture.