The served trace chart's x-axis no longer plots against raw timestamps by
default — non-trading gaps (nights, weekends) left horizontal blanks that
dominated the view. The x spine is now ordinal by default: every recorded slot
sits at an even position, so gaps collapse and the signal fills the width. A
header toggle flips to continuous (real-time-proportional) spacing and back;
default ordinal honours the requested "x-axis should not be continuous", with
continuous as the one-click option.
Comfort, all on the read/render side (the engine and the Rust serve contract
are untouched — window.AURA_TRACES still carries the real xs, the ordinal
indices are derived client-side):
- ordinal mode keeps the axis honest: ticks and the legend value-readout map a
collapsed index back to the real xs[i], never the index itself.
- wheel-zoom (x, cursor-anchored), drag-pan, double-click-reset on the plot
(uPlot's default drag-box-zoom is disabled so drag pans).
- panels share a cursor.sync key, so the crosshair lines up across stacked
panels.
Confined to chart-viewer.js (buildCharts gains an xMode param + a wheelZoomPlugin
factory; mount re-renders on the toggle) and render.rs (CHART_HEAD toggle button
+ a chart-only style). The two twin node guards (build/gaps) re-point to the
ordinal default in lockstep; a new x-mode guard pins ordinal-default / continuous
/ panel-sync / plugin wiring, and a label-honesty guard (gappy-traces fixture,
xs far from the index spine) pins that ordinal ticks report the real timestamp.
Verified: cargo test --workspace green (incl. the four chart guards + render
inline tests), clippy --all-targets -D warnings clean, e2e (aura run --trace +
aura chart) emits a self-contained page defaulting to ordinal with the toggle.
Spec docs/specs/0057, plan docs/plans/0057 (boss-signed; grounding-check PASS).
Derived-fork decision log in the issue comments.
closes#103
Brummel
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