2026-10-21

Symptom. On the Live demo, the flow area was empty (no choices, no breadcrumb) when you arrived through the left nav or any in-article link. A full page reload showed it correctly.

Cause. SoftNav swaps the article into the live page after parsing the fetched HTML with DOMParser. Scripts in a parsed document never run, so the inline client script that defines window.IFlow and mounts the flow was skipped. Every step stayed hidden.

Fix. The client runtime is now emitted inert (<script type="text/plain">) and a 1x1 image with an onload handler starts it. Inline event handlers fire on swapped-in nodes and on normal page loads, so both paths mount the flow. The runtime is installed once per page; extra flows reuse it.

Check. pnpm test covers the emitted markup (no bare executable inline script, handler present).