King of Nothing by Sarah Curnutte on Pipit

) used to be SCROLLABLE while the app booted, so a visitor could drag a wall of headings up into view, and on desktop it put a scrollbar beside the splash — which moved the logo ~7px left of where the app's own splash (SessionSplash) draws it, so the hand-over jumped. The page also kept the browser's default 8px body margin, which put the splash 8px low. So while the app boots the page does not scroll: the text stays in the document, in normal flow, below the fold — nothing is hidden, moved or faded, which is what keeps it progressive enhancement for crawlers — and a person sees the splash alone. The lock is a CLASS added by script, so with scripting off nothing is locked and the links stay readable; it lifts on the engine's first frame (the app owns the page from then), or after 20 seconds if the app never boots, so a stuck page can still be read. Here in , not in the seo block: the API's page renderer replaces that block for every route but `/` (renderBody() in pagePreview.ts) and keeps as it is, so only this reaches every page. -->