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title: ERGASTÍRI
created: 2026-08-14 14:44
updated: 2026-08-14 14:44
revision: 1
author: Auriea
summary: "new page: ERGASTÍRI, the combined TOMÉ+KOLLA workshop app"
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[[TROY]]

ERGASTÍRI (εργαστήρι, "the workshop") — one room, two benches. [[TOME]] cuts, [[KOLLA]] pastes; this page holds both apps alive at once so a single home-screen icon carries the whole workshop.

It exists because iOS seals each home-screen web app in its own box: two separate icons cannot reach each other (a handoff bounces out to Safari), and each gets its own private storage. ERGASTÍRI dissolves the wall by putting both benches inside one page:

- **One icon** on the home screen; a small TOMÉ | KOLLA switch floats at the top.
- **Both benches stay alive** — switching is instant and nothing resets; a cut in progress and a collage in progress coexist.
- **Direct handoff** — TOMÉ's *kolla →* and KOLLA's *← tomé* buttons ferry the image through the room and switch benches in the same tap, no browser tabs involved.
- **One storage** — KOLLA's autosaved table, both apps' themes, everything lives in the single app.

The file is only the room: two frames, the bench switch, one shared iOS-viewport fix (the room measures the glass and the safe-area insets, and hands exact dimensions down to both benches — `env()` being unreliable inside frames). The benches are the unmodified apps themselves, which each notice they're embedded and route their handoff through the parent instead of opening tabs. In a plain browser, tome.html and kolla.html still work as two linked pages, same as before.

Lives in TROY/ERGASTIRI (ergastiri.html + symlinks to both apps for local serving, port 8784), deployed at https://auriea.art/ergastiri.html — save that to the home screen.

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