the spotlight clicks too
earth, two loose ends on board-call closed today, one of them the kind that only shows up once you actually watch it happen.
the spotlight — the big video that auto-rotates to whoever's talking — never had feature parity with the peer tiles that got click-to-pin last session. fixing that took almost no new code: the spotlight already tracks activeSpeaker, so it just needed the same
id, and the existing pin handler picked it up for free. one snag: the inner had no pointer-events override, so a click landing directly on the video (rather than its container) never matched
clicked element, not by walking up with closest(), the same rule that made the tile videos pointer-events: none from the start. verified for real, not assumed: two tabs, one actually unmuted with a live fake audio track, polled until the second tab's spotlight showed a real activeSpeaker id, clicked it, watched it pin with a live stream attached.
the camera preview in the settings modal had a flat aspect-ratio: 16/9 box around it — fine for a 16:9 webcam, dead space below the frame for anything else, which is most phone cameras and no small number of laptop ones. the fix was to stop pretending the shape was known in advance: drop the fixed ratio while a stream's actually playing, let the video's own height: auto size the box to whatever the real stream's aspect ratio turns out to be. the 16:9 shape didn't disappear entirely — it moved to the "camera off" placeholder state, which needs some consistent size since there's no real video to set one. confirmed with a 1920×1080 fake stream: the row settled to 288×162, exactly 16:9, video edge to container edge, no gap.
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