From 3aa237f00eca13bbf46be58811e45b8bb3e897f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: onmax <maximogarciamtnez@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 10:17:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat(media): copy a link at the player's second and the
 frame on screen

The settings panel gets Copy link, which copies the file's address with #t= and the second the player is at, and a video's Copy frame, which copies the frame on screen as a PNG. The address comes from the fallback link inside the media element, so a host that plays the file from a blob: URL still copies the real one. Both send a cancelable comark-media-copy event first, for hosts that copy another way.
---
 AGENTS.md                         |   1 +
 e2e/media.e2e.ts                  |  62 ++++++++++++++-
 packages/media/README.md          |   2 +-
 packages/media/docs/index.md      |  19 +++++
 packages/media/src/client.ts      | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 packages/media/src/styles.ts      |   7 ++
 packages/media/test/media.test.ts |   2 +
 7 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 34f2f96c2..2ca7e4ad7 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ How most packages work, so the bullets below don't repeat it:
   - A video's `width` and `height` are as written, both or neither, or read with comark-zoom's `measure()` unless the `size` option is `false`. Every renderer writes them on the `<video>`, and the 16:9 box its styles reserve applies only without them.
   - The renderers wrap the `<video controls>` or `<audio controls>` in `.cm-video` or `.cm-audio` with a bar of controls, one string from `controls()` in `src/client.ts` that every renderer inlines.
   - The script in `start()` marks each player `data-media-ready` to show the bar and drops a video's own controls. Without the script, and when the file can't play, the browser's controls show. The script is built like carousel's.
+  - The settings panel's Copy link takes the file's address from the fallback `<a>` inside the media element, so a host that plays it from a `blob:` URL still copies the real one. Copy link and Copy frame first send a cancelable `comark-media-copy` event, so a host can copy another way.
 - `packages/metrics` is `comark-metrics`.
   - Its parse plugin works out each `:delta`'s arrow, percent, and verdict, and renames `:progress` to `progress-bar` with its percent, so a raw `<progress>` never reaches a component.
   - It replaces `::stats` with its table plus a Change column of `delta` cells, or with `tiles` with a `stat-tiles` node of `div` tiles holding a `dt` name, a `dd` value, and a `delta`.
diff --git a/e2e/media.e2e.ts b/e2e/media.e2e.ts
index 5f1655694..edb313b18 100644
--- a/e2e/media.e2e.ts
+++ b/e2e/media.e2e.ts
@@ -45,21 +45,22 @@ const serve = (body: Buffer, type: string) => (route: Route) => {
 const open = async (
   page: Page,
   markdown: string,
-  options: { script?: boolean; typeset?: boolean; width?: string } = {},
+  options: { script?: boolean; typeset?: boolean; width?: string; origin?: string } = {},
 ) => {
+  const origin = options.origin ?? "http://media.test";
   await page.route("**/silence.wav*", serve(silence, "audio/wav"));
   await page.route("**/clip.webm", serve(clip, "video/webm"));
   await page.route("**/missing.wav", (route) => route.fulfill({ status: 404 }));
   let html = await render(markdown);
   if (options.script === false) html = html.replace(/<script>[\s\S]*?<\/script>/g, "");
   if (options.typeset) html = `<main><style>${typesetCss}</style>${html}</main>`;
-  await page.route("http://media.test/", (route) =>
+  await page.route(`${origin}/`, (route) =>
     route.fulfill({
       contentType: "text/html",
       body: `<!doctype html><html><body style="width:${options.width ?? "32rem"};margin:2rem">${html}</body></html>`,
     }),
   );
-  await page.goto("http://media.test/", { waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
+  await page.goto(`${origin}/`, { waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
 };
 
 test("an audio player plays, pauses, and seeks with its own controls", async ({ page }) => {
@@ -533,3 +534,58 @@ test("the browser's player shows without the script, and when the file can't pla
   await expect(missing.locator("audio")).toBeVisible();
   await expect(missing.locator(".cm-bar")).toBeHidden();
 });
+
+test("Copy link gives the file's address at the second the player is at, and Copy frame the frame as a PNG", async ({
+  page,
+  context,
+}) => {
+  // localhost is a secure context, so the clipboard is there to grant.
+  await context.grantPermissions(["clipboard-read", "clipboard-write"]);
+  await open(page, "![A gray clip](clip.webm)\n\n![Silence](silence.wav)", {
+    origin: "http://localhost:4790",
+  });
+  const player = page.getByRole("group", { name: "A gray clip" });
+  await expect(player.locator(".cm-time").last()).toHaveText("0:04");
+  await player.getByRole("button", { name: "Settings" }).click();
+  await expect(player.getByRole("button", { name: "Copy link" })).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByRole("group", { name: "Silence" }).locator(".cm-copy-frame")).toHaveCount(
+    0,
+  );
+
+  await player.locator("video").evaluate((video: HTMLVideoElement) => (video.currentTime = 2.6));
+  const link = player.getByRole("button", { name: "Copy link at 0:02" });
+  await link.click();
+  await expect(player.getByRole("status")).toHaveText("Copied");
+  expect(await page.evaluate(() => navigator.clipboard.readText())).toBe(
+    "http://localhost:4790/clip.webm#t=2",
+  );
+
+  // A host that copies by other means takes the copy by cancelling the event.
+  const taken = page.evaluate(
+    () =>
+      new Promise<{ kind: string; type: string; size: number; time: number }>((resolve) =>
+        document.addEventListener(
+          "comark-media-copy",
+          (event) => {
+            event.preventDefault();
+            const { detail } = event;
+            if (detail.kind === "frame")
+              resolve({
+                kind: detail.kind,
+                type: detail.image.type,
+                size: detail.image.size,
+                time: detail.time,
+              });
+          },
+          { once: true },
+        ),
+      ),
+  );
+  await player.getByRole("button", { name: "Copy frame" }).click();
+  const frame = await taken;
+  expect(frame).toMatchObject({ kind: "frame", type: "image/png" });
+  expect(frame.size).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  expect(frame.time).toBeCloseTo(2.6, 1);
+  await expect(player.getByRole("status")).toHaveText("Copied");
+  await expect(player).not.toHaveAttribute("data-playing");
+});
diff --git a/packages/media/README.md b/packages/media/README.md
index 7d82b071c..26a2f55bd 100644
--- a/packages/media/README.md
+++ b/packages/media/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2f3c0e3e-1c4b-4c3a-9a6b-0b1e2f3a4b5c
 
 An image ending in `.mp4`, `.webm`, `.mov`, or `.m4v` becomes `<video controls playsinline preload="metadata">`, and one ending in `.mp3`, `.wav`, `.ogg`, or `.m4a` becomes `<audio controls preload="metadata">`. The alt text labels the player. `autoplay`, `loop`, `muted`, `poster`, `width`, and `height` pass through. Give a video paired pixel dimensions like `{width=1280 height=720}` to reserve its room. `media({ size: true })` measures remote videos without dimensions while parsing. Enable it only for trusted documents: requests follow redirects and can reach private networks. By default measurement reads only data URIs; `media({ size: false })` disables it.
 
-Players come with a play button, the time, a seek bar, and a mute button with a volume slider over it, and a settings panel for the speed and looping, drawn with the shared `--comark-*` tokens; a video's float over its bottom edge and add a full screen button, and on a touch screen spread over the video with the sound and settings in its top corner. A small script runs them. Until it does, and when a file can't play, the browser's own controls show instead, so the file plays without any script. Pass `media({ controls: "native" })` to keep the browser's controls and leave the script out.
+Players come with a play button, the time, a seek bar, and a mute button with a volume slider over it, and a settings panel for the speed and looping, with Copy link (at the current second, as `#t=`) and a video's Copy frame, drawn with the shared `--comark-*` tokens; a video's float over its bottom edge and add a full screen button, and on a touch screen spread over the video with the sound and settings in its top corner. A small script runs them. Until it does, and when a file can't play, the browser's own controls show instead, so the file plays without any script. Pass `media({ controls: "native" })` to keep the browser's controls and leave the script out.
 
 comark-zoom never zooms a video and comark-chips never turns an attachment link into a chip, in any plugin order.
 
diff --git a/packages/media/docs/index.md b/packages/media/docs/index.md
index 42dd798b0..f3e9e1723 100644
--- a/packages/media/docs/index.md
+++ b/packages/media/docs/index.md
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ The alert sound the reviewer asked for:
 - Only the first frame and the length load until the reader presses play.
 - The controls match the page. The browser's own show before the script runs and when the file can't play.
 - A settings panel sets the speed, from 0.5× to 2×, and turns looping on or off.
+- The settings panel copies a link to the file at the second the player is at, as a `#t=` media fragment, and a video's frame on screen as a PNG. See [Copying](#copying).
 - On a touch screen, a video's controls spread over the picture, with play in the middle.
 - Starting a player with sound pauses the others. Muted ones play on.
 
@@ -97,6 +98,24 @@ https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2f3c0e3e-1c4b-4c3a-9a6b-0b1e2f3a4b5c
 
 A link with text of its own, or one inside a sentence, stays a link.
 
+
+## Copying
+
+**Copy link** gives the file's address with `#t=` and the second the player is at, so the link opens the file there. The address comes from the fallback link inside the `<video>` or `<audio>`, so it stays the file's own when a host plays it from a `blob:` URL.
+
+**Copy frame** pauses a video and copies the frame on screen as a PNG. A file from another host needs CORS headers for that, or the panel says it can't.
+
+Both write to the clipboard. A host that can't, or wants to copy another way, listens for `comark-media-copy` on the player or above it and cancels the event:
+
+```ts
+import type { MediaCopyDetail } from "comark-media/client";
+
+document.addEventListener("comark-media-copy", (event: CustomEvent<MediaCopyDetail>) => {
+  event.preventDefault();
+  if (event.detail.kind === "link") share(event.detail.text);
+  else upload(event.detail.image);
+});
+```
 ## Examples
 
 ### Recordings as evidence
diff --git a/packages/media/src/client.ts b/packages/media/src/client.ts
index 6affdab16..97da410b8 100644
--- a/packages/media/src/client.ts
+++ b/packages/media/src/client.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,25 @@
+/**
+ * What the `comark-media-copy` event carries: the link to the file at the time the player is at (`#t=` seconds, none
+ * at the start), or the frame on screen as a PNG.
+ */
+export type MediaCopyDetail =
+  | { kind: "link"; text: string; time: number }
+  | { kind: "frame"; image: Blob; time: number };
+
 declare global {
   interface Window {
     __comarkMedia?: { users: number; stop: () => void; sync: () => void };
   }
+  // The event bubbles from the player, so a listener anywhere above it gets a typed `detail`.
+  interface HTMLElementEventMap {
+    "comark-media-copy": CustomEvent<MediaCopyDetail>;
+  }
+  interface DocumentEventMap {
+    "comark-media-copy": CustomEvent<MediaCopyDetail>;
+  }
+  interface WindowEventMap {
+    "comark-media-copy": CustomEvent<MediaCopyDetail>;
+  }
   // Safari's, on an iPhone, which has no full screen for any other element.
   interface HTMLVideoElement {
     webkitEnterFullscreen?: () => void;
@@ -25,9 +43,14 @@ const option = (name: string, label: string, paths: string, choices: string[][])
     .join("") +
   "</span>";
 
+const linkIcon =
+  '<path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"/><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"/>';
+const frameIcon =
+  '<rect x="3" y="3" width="18" height="18" rx="2"/><circle cx="9" cy="9" r="2"/><path d="m21 15-3.09-3.09a2 2 0 0 0-2.82 0L6 21"/>';
+
 /**
  * A player's controls, the same in every renderer: play, the time, volume, and a settings panel for the speed and
- * looping; a video's add a full screen button. They show once the script runs;
+ * looping, with Copy link (at the time it's at) and a video's Copy frame; a video's add a full screen button. They show once the script runs;
  * until then, and when the file can't play, the browser's own controls show instead.
  */
 export const controls = (kind: "audio" | "video") =>
@@ -52,6 +75,11 @@ export const controls = (kind: "audio" | "video") =>
       ["on", "On"],
     ],
   ) +
+  `<span class="cm-actions"><button type="button" class="cm-copy-link">${icon("link", linkIcon, false)}<span>Copy link</span></button>` +
+  (kind === "video"
+    ? `<button type="button" class="cm-copy-frame">${icon("frame", frameIcon, false)}<span>Copy frame</span></button>`
+    : "") +
+  '<span class="cm-status" role="status"></span></span>' +
   "</span></span>" +
   (kind === "video"
     ? `<button type="button" class="cm-full" aria-label="Full screen">${icon("full", '<path d="M8 3H5a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v3"/><path d="M21 8V5a2 2 0 0 0-2-2h-3"/><path d="M3 16v3a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h3"/><path d="M16 21h3a2 2 0 0 0 2-2v-3"/>', false)}${icon("exit", '<path d="M8 3v3a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H3"/><path d="M21 8h-3a2 2 0 0 1-2-2V3"/><path d="M3 16h3a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v3"/><path d="M16 21v-3a2 2 0 0 1 2-2h3"/>', false)}</button>`
@@ -163,6 +191,10 @@ export function start(css: string): () => void {
           ? Number(input.value) === media.playbackRate
           : (input.value === "on") === media.loop;
     }
+    const link = player.querySelector(".cm-copy-link>span");
+    const second = Math.floor(at);
+    if (link && !player.hasAttribute("data-copied"))
+      link.textContent = second ? `Copy link at ${clock(second)}` : "Copy link";
     const seek = player.querySelector<HTMLInputElement>(".cm-seek");
     if (!seek) return;
     seek.max = String(total);
@@ -306,6 +338,93 @@ export function start(css: string): () => void {
     { signal },
   );
 
+  // The file's own address is the fallback link's: a host may play the file from a blob: URL of its own.
+  const linkAt = (media: HTMLMediaElement, second: number) => {
+    const href = media.querySelector<HTMLAnchorElement>(":scope>a[href]")?.href || media.currentSrc;
+    const url = href.replace(/#t=[^&]*$/, "").replace(/#$/, "");
+    return second ? `${url}${url.includes("#") ? "&" : "#"}t=${second}` : url;
+  };
+  const frameOf = (video: HTMLVideoElement) =>
+    new Promise<Blob>((resolve, reject) => {
+      const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
+      canvas.width = video.videoWidth;
+      canvas.height = video.videoHeight;
+      const context = canvas.getContext("2d");
+      if (!context || !canvas.width) return reject(new Error("No frame yet"));
+      context.drawImage(video, 0, 0);
+      // A file from another host without CORS taints the canvas, and reading it throws.
+      try {
+        canvas.toBlob(
+          (blob) => (blob ? resolve(blob) : reject(new Error("No frame"))),
+          "image/png",
+        );
+      } catch (error) {
+        reject(error);
+      }
+    });
+  const said = new WeakMap<Element, number>();
+  function say(player: HTMLElement, button: Element, text: string) {
+    const status = player.querySelector(".cm-status");
+    if (status) status.textContent = text;
+    const label = button.querySelector("span");
+    const before = label?.textContent ?? "";
+    player.setAttribute("data-copied", "");
+    if (label) label.textContent = text;
+    clearTimeout(said.get(player));
+    said.set(
+      player,
+      window.setTimeout(() => {
+        player.removeAttribute("data-copied");
+        if (status) status.textContent = "";
+        if (label && button.classList.contains("cm-copy-frame")) label.textContent = before;
+        draw(player);
+      }, 1500),
+    );
+  }
+  async function copy(player: HTMLElement, button: Element, media: HTMLMediaElement) {
+    const time = Math.floor(media.currentTime);
+    let detail: MediaCopyDetail;
+    if (button.classList.contains("cm-copy-link"))
+      detail = { kind: "link", text: linkAt(media, time), time };
+    else if (media instanceof HTMLVideoElement) {
+      media.pause();
+      try {
+        detail = { kind: "frame", image: await frameOf(media), time: media.currentTime };
+      } catch {
+        return say(player, button, "Can't copy this video's frames");
+      }
+    } else return;
+    // A host that copies by other means, such as a page in a sandboxed frame, takes the copy by cancelling the event.
+    const event = new CustomEvent("comark-media-copy", { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, detail });
+    if (!player.dispatchEvent(event)) return say(player, button, "Copied");
+    // SAFETY: `clipboard` is missing outside secure contexts, whatever the DOM types say.
+    const clipboard = navigator.clipboard as Clipboard | undefined;
+    const written =
+      detail.kind === "link"
+        ? clipboard?.writeText(detail.text)
+        : "ClipboardItem" in window
+          ? clipboard?.write([new ClipboardItem({ "image/png": detail.image })])
+          : undefined;
+    if (!written) return say(player, button, "Couldn't copy");
+    written.then(
+      () => say(player, button, "Copied"),
+      () => say(player, button, "Couldn't copy"),
+    );
+  }
+  document.addEventListener(
+    "click",
+    (event) => {
+      const button =
+        event.target instanceof Element
+          ? event.target.closest(".cm-copy-link,.cm-copy-frame")
+          : null;
+      const player = playerOf(button);
+      const media = player && mediaOf(player);
+      if (button && player && media) void copy(player, button, media);
+    },
+    { signal },
+  );
+
   document.addEventListener(
     "fullscreenchange",
     () => {
diff --git a/packages/media/src/styles.ts b/packages/media/src/styles.ts
index e50e07da7..7433dc221 100644
--- a/packages/media/src/styles.ts
+++ b/packages/media/src/styles.ts
@@ -90,6 +90,13 @@ export const css = `@layer comark{${[
   ".cm-choices input{position:absolute;inset:0;margin:0;opacity:0;cursor:inherit}",
   ".cm-choices label:has(:checked){background:var(--_comark-background);color:var(--_comark-foreground);box-shadow:0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0/.08)}",
   "@media (hover:hover){.cm-choices label:hover{color:var(--_comark-foreground)}}",
+  // Copy link and Copy frame are a row of their own under the settings, plain like a menu's items.
+  ".cm-actions{grid-column:1/-1;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:2px;margin:.125rem -.25rem 0;padding-top:.375rem;border-top:1px solid var(--_comark-border)}",
+  ".cm-actions button{display:flex;align-items:center;gap:.5rem;height:1.75rem;padding:0 .5rem;border:0;border-radius:calc(var(--_comark-radius) - 3px);background:none;color:var(--_comark-foreground);font:inherit;font-weight:500;font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap;text-align:start;cursor:pointer}",
+  ".cm-actions svg{color:var(--_comark-muted)}",
+  "@media (hover:hover){.cm-actions button:hover{background:var(--_comark-accent)}}",
+  `.cm-actions button:focus-visible{outline:none;${ring}}`,
+  ".cm-status{position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden;clip-path:inset(50%);white-space:nowrap}",
   `.cm-choices label:has(:focus-visible){${ring}}`,
   // Fit the panel to the bar, leaving room for the full screen button beside its desktop anchor. Choices can wrap
   // in a smaller player without shrinking their text; the touch anchor sits at the bar's right edge instead.
diff --git a/packages/media/test/media.test.ts b/packages/media/test/media.test.ts
index 02dfe85a9..9458107dc 100644
--- a/packages/media/test/media.test.ts
+++ b/packages/media/test/media.test.ts
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ describe("comark-media", () => {
     expect(html).toContain(
       '<span class="cm-choices" role="radiogroup" aria-label="Loop"><label><input type="radio" data-option="loop" value="off">Off</label><label><input type="radio" data-option="loop" value="on">On</label></span>',
     );
+    expect(html.match(/class="cm-copy-link"/g)).toHaveLength(3);
+    expect(html.match(/class="cm-copy-frame"/g)).toHaveLength(1);
     expect(html.match(/<script>/g)).toHaveLength(1);
   });
 

From 551bdcbd5722101b209d681e71dab8936625cc77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: onmax <maximogarciamtnez@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 10:33:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix(media): keep the copy actions' icons from shrinking
 to nothing

---
 e2e/media.e2e.ts             | 3 +++
 packages/media/src/styles.ts | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/e2e/media.e2e.ts b/e2e/media.e2e.ts
index edb313b18..493aef745 100644
--- a/e2e/media.e2e.ts
+++ b/e2e/media.e2e.ts
@@ -548,6 +548,9 @@ test("Copy link gives the file's address at the second the player is at, and Cop
   await expect(player.locator(".cm-time").last()).toHaveText("0:04");
   await player.getByRole("button", { name: "Settings" }).click();
   await expect(player.getByRole("button", { name: "Copy link" })).toBeVisible();
+  // Each action keeps its icon beside its label.
+  for (const action of [".cm-copy-link", ".cm-copy-frame"])
+    expect((await player.locator(`${action} svg`).boundingBox())?.width).toBeGreaterThan(10);
   await expect(page.getByRole("group", { name: "Silence" }).locator(".cm-copy-frame")).toHaveCount(
     0,
   );
diff --git a/packages/media/src/styles.ts b/packages/media/src/styles.ts
index 7433dc221..8623d6202 100644
--- a/packages/media/src/styles.ts
+++ b/packages/media/src/styles.ts
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ export const css = `@layer comark{${[
   // Copy link and Copy frame are a row of their own under the settings, plain like a menu's items.
   ".cm-actions{grid-column:1/-1;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:2px;margin:.125rem -.25rem 0;padding-top:.375rem;border-top:1px solid var(--_comark-border)}",
   ".cm-actions button{display:flex;align-items:center;gap:.5rem;height:1.75rem;padding:0 .5rem;border:0;border-radius:calc(var(--_comark-radius) - 3px);background:none;color:var(--_comark-foreground);font:inherit;font-weight:500;font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;white-space:nowrap;text-align:start;cursor:pointer}",
-  ".cm-actions svg{color:var(--_comark-muted)}",
+  ".cm-actions svg{flex:none;color:var(--_comark-muted)}",
   "@media (hover:hover){.cm-actions button:hover{background:var(--_comark-accent)}}",
   `.cm-actions button:focus-visible{outline:none;${ring}}`,
   ".cm-status{position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden;clip-path:inset(50%);white-space:nowrap}",