Reported right after the native-controls replacement shipped: the
bottom bar, now always visible, sits exactly where a native <track>
subtitle renders and was masking it. Same fix every real video player
already uses: collapse to a minimal state after a stretch of no
activity, expand again on the slightest interaction.
#bottomBar gets a .minimal class (3s of no activity) that transitions
away its padding/background/border and the buttons row's height/
opacity - #progressBar itself (and its own generous invisible seek
hit-area) is untouched, so a thin line is always there, just without
the box around it once minimal. Expands on any pointer activity
anywhere in the player, or while the pointer sits on the bar itself
(hovering pauses the countdown entirely rather than racing it). Stays
expanded outright while genuinely paused, and every discrete playback
event re-arms the countdown too - not just raw pointer movement - so
resuming from pause restarts it instead of leaving the bar stuck open.
Applies to host and follower alike.
Verified: full typecheck/build. Confirmed in a real browser against
the compiled bundle, side by side with an actual subtitle-shaped
overlay: the expanded bar visibly overlaps it, the minimal state
leaves it fully readable. Not driven through a real wall-clock wait
for the timer itself - the class-toggling/transition logic was
checked directly instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nicolas
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