Opening Continuous made the first frame wait for nine months of recurrence
expansion when only one was about to be looked at — a provider Instances query
expands across its whole range, so the window's generosity was paid for up
front, every time.
The window now starts at one month either side of the visible one — about what
the paged style costs — and each completed load reaches two months further in
both directions until it spans eleven. The months a scroll can reach arrive
while the first one is already on screen, and because a widening is triggered by
the previous load landing rather than by a timer, the ladder can never outrun
the provider.
- The paged and split styles no longer run this query at all. The screen
collects the flow whatever the style is set to, so until now every Month view
opening paid for a window it would never draw.
- The reload trigger is derived from the current pad instead of being fixed, and
is held strictly inside it: a trigger at or beyond the pad would re-fire the
moment its own reload landed.
- The scrolling styles get their own skeleton — the layout they are about to
become, at the same measurements, so arriving months replace it in place. It
and the per-month placeholders now breathe, so a slow load reads as work
rather than as an empty grid. Held still under reduced motion.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jean-Luc Makiola
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