Add the FEATURES_SPEC process for turning explorations into specs and PRs

FEATURES_SPEC/AGENTS.md describes how an exploration is distilled into a
feature spec and how a spec is turned into PRs against a current main; the
product spec template is the sidecar a brainstorming session fills in.

The folder is excluded from oxfmt: a product spec is immutable once a spec
leaves draft, and the process documents are prose in their own style.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 > Every PR must have a linked issue
 > that a maintainer has reviewed and approved **before you started writing code**.
 > PRs that don't meet this requirement will not be reviewed.
-> See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/blob/livekit/CONTRIBUTING.md) for ElementCall decided for this approach.
+> See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for ElementCall decided for this approach.
 
 ## Content
 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Uncomment the markdown table below and fill in the last line:
 ## Checklist
 
 - [ ] A linked, pre-approved issue exists for this feature or UI change.
-- [ ] I have read [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/blob/livekit/CONTRIBUTING.md) in full.
+- [ ] I have read [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) in full.
 - [ ] Pull request includes screenshots or videos for any UI changes.
 - [ ] Tests written for new code (and existing touched code where feasible).
 - [ ] Linter and other CI checks pass.

.github/workflows/build.yaml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ on:
       - opened
       - labeled
   push:
-    branches: [livekit, full-mesh]
+    branches: [main]
 jobs:
   build_full_element_call:
     # Use the full package vite build
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ jobs:
       SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN }}
       CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
   deploy_develop:
-    # Deploy livekit branch to call.element.dev after build completes
-    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/livekit'
+    # Deploy main branch to call.element.dev after build completes
+    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
     needs: build_full_element_call
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ jobs:
                 }
             })
   docker_for_develop:
-    # Build docker and publish docker for livekit branch after build completes
-    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/livekit'
+    # Build docker and publish docker for main branch after build completes
+    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
     needs: build_full_element_call
     permissions:
       contents: write

.github/workflows/publish-embedded-packages.yaml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ on:
       - opened
       - labeled
   push:
-    branches: [livekit]
+    branches: [main]
 
 jobs:
   versioning:

.github/workflows/sync-labels.yml

@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ on:
 
   push:
     branches:
-      - livekit
+      - main
     paths:
       - .github/labels.yml
       - .github/workflows/sync-labels.yml
 
-permissions: {} # We use ELEMENT_BOT_TOKEN instead
+permissions: {} # We use LABEL_SYNC_GITHUB_TOKEN instead
 
 jobs:
   sync-labels:
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ jobs:
       DELETE: true
       WET: true
     secrets:
-      ELEMENT_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ELEMENT_BOT_TOKEN }}
+      ELEMENT_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.LABEL_SYNC_GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/test.yaml

@@ -2,15 +2,11 @@ name: Test
 on:
   pull_request: {}
   push:
-    branches: [livekit]
+    branches: [main]
 jobs:
   vitest:
     name: Run unit tests
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container:
-      # Make sure to grab the latest version of the Playwright image
-      # https://playwright.dev/docs/docker#pull-the-image
-      image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.61.1-noble
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5 # v4
@@ -26,6 +22,18 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         # ignore-pnpmfile should never be commited. Make CI crash if it happened (`pnpmfileChecksum` is present)
         run: "pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --ignore-pnpmfile"
+      - name: Get Playwright version
+        run: echo "PLAYWRIGHT_VERSION=$(pnpm list @playwright/test --depth=0 --json | jq -r '.[0].devDependencies["@playwright/test"].version')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Cache Playwright binaries
+        uses: actions/cache@55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 # v6
+        id: playwright-cache
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/.cache/ms-playwright
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-playwright-${{ env.PLAYWRIGHT_VERSION }}
+      - name: Install Playwright binaries
+        if: steps.playwright-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: pnpm playwright install --with-deps
       - name: Vitest
         run: "pnpm run test:coverage"
       - name: Upload to codecov
@@ -52,12 +60,22 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         # ignore-pnpmfile should never be commited. Make CI crash if it happened (`pnpmfileChecksum` is present)
         run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --ignore-pnpmfile
-      - name: Install Playwright Browsers
-        run: pnpm exec playwright install --with-deps
+      - name: Get Playwright version
+        run: echo "PLAYWRIGHT_VERSION=$(pnpm list @playwright/test --depth=0 --json | jq -r '.[0].devDependencies["@playwright/test"].version')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Cache Playwright binaries
+        uses: actions/cache@55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 # v6
+        id: playwright-cache
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/.cache/ms-playwright
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-playwright-${{ env.PLAYWRIGHT_VERSION }}
+      - name: Install Playwright binaries
+        if: steps.playwright-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: pnpm playwright install --with-deps
       - name: Run backend components
         run: |
-          docker compose -f playwright-backend-docker-compose.yml -f playwright-backend-docker-compose.override.yml pull
-          docker compose -f playwright-backend-docker-compose.yml -f playwright-backend-docker-compose.override.yml up -d
+          docker compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml -f docker-compose-playwright.yml pull
+          docker compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml -f docker-compose-playwright.yml up -d
           docker ps
       - name: Run Playwright tests
         env:

.github/workflows/translations-download.yaml

@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Fix the owner of the downloaded files
         run: "sudo chown runner:docker -R locales"
 
+      # Localazy doesn't write file contents in the same order that i18next-cli's
+      # extractor uses. We re-run the extractor after downloading to fix the order.
+      - name: i18n
+        run: pnpm i18n
+
       - name: Formatting
         run: pnpm format
 
@@ -53,7 +58,7 @@ jobs:
           title: Localazy Download
           commit-message: Translations updates
           labels: |
-            T-Task
+            PR-Task
 
       - name: Enable automerge
         run: gh pr merge --merge --auto "$PR_NUMBER"

.github/workflows/translations-upload.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: Upload translation files to Localazy
 on:
   push:
     branches:
-      - livekit
+      - main
     paths-ignore:
       - ".github/**"
 

.github/workflows/zizmor.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: GitHub Actions Security Analysis with zizmor 🌈
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: ["livekit", "full-mesh"]
+    branches: ["main", "full-mesh"]
   pull_request: {}
 
 permissions: {}

.oxfmtrc.json

@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
   "$schema": "./node_modules/oxfmt/configuration_schema.json",
   "printWidth": 80,
   "sortPackageJson": false,
-  "ignorePatterns": ["pnpm-lock.yaml", "node_modules", "dist"]
+  "ignorePatterns": ["pnpm-lock.yaml", "node_modules", "dist", "FEATURES_SPEC"]
 }

.oxlintrc.json

@@ -34,10 +34,22 @@
       "/*\nCopyright %%CURRENT_YEAR%% Element Creations Ltd.\n\nSPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial\nPlease see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.\n*/\n\n"
     ],
     "element-call/no-observablescope-leak": "error",
+    "element-call/no-top-level-logger-get-child": "error",
     "jsdoc/empty-tags": "error",
     "jsdoc/check-property-names": "error",
     "jsdoc/require-param-description": "warn",
     "react/display-name": "error",
+    // TODO: These React Compiler-based rules joined oxlint's correctness
+    // category in v1.81 and flag many pre-existing patterns, including hooks
+    // like useLatest/useInitial/useReactiveState that intentionally access
+    // refs during render. Re-evaluate them when adopting the React Compiler.
+    "react/immutability": "off",
+    "react/no-deriving-state-in-effects": "off",
+    "react/preserve-manual-memoization": "off",
+    "react/refs": "off",
+    "react/set-state-in-effect": "off",
+    "react/static-components": "off",
+    "react/use-memo": "off",
     // TODO: Re-enable once oxlint supports lint rules that rely on TypeScript type-awareness.
     // "rxjs/no-exposed-subjects": "error",
     // "rxjs/finnish": [

.storybook/preview.tsx

@@ -7,14 +7,16 @@ Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
 
 import type { Preview } from "@storybook/react-vite";
 import { TooltipProvider } from "@vector-im/compound-web";
-import i18n from "i18next";
 import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
 
 import EN from "../locales/en/app.json";
 import { initReactI18next } from "react-i18next";
+import { i18n } from "../src/utils/i18n";
 import "../src/index.css";
 
-// Bare-minimum i18n config
+// Bare-minimum i18n config.
+// Unlike the app, stories register the instance as react-i18next's default
+// rather than wrapping every story in an <I18nextProvider>.
 i18n
   .use(initReactI18next)
   .init({

FEATURES_SPEC/AGENTS.md

@@ -0,0 +1,415 @@
+# FEATURE_SPEC — Agent Instructions
+
+This folder holds **feature specs distilled from experiments**. A spec is the durable
+artifact of an exploration; the exploration branch is not. Each spec must contain
+enough information for an agent to produce mergeable PRs against a *current* `main`
+without access to the original branch.
+
+## What this folder is not
+
+- Not a design-doc archive. Specs that are not intended to be implemented do not
+  belong here.
+- Not a place for narrative. Prose that does not constrain the implementation or its
+  verification should be cut.
+- Not a substitute for the PR description. The spec explains *why* and *what must be
+  true*; the PR explains *this diff*.
+
+## File naming
+
+`YYYY-MM_Snake_Case_Title.md` — e.g. `2026-09_Raise_Hand_Improvements.md`
+
+The filename is immutable once committed. Renames break links from PRs, issues and
+the drift log. If scope changes fundamentally, write a new spec and set
+`supersedes:` / `superseded_by:`.
+
+A sidecar `YYYY-MM_Snake_Case_Title.product.md` holds the product spec — user stories,
+functional requirements, success criteria. Copy `_TEMPLATE.product.md`. Product owns
+it; see "Brainstorming: the product spec".
+
+An optional sidecar `YYYY-MM_Snake_Case_Title.notes.md` holds lessons learned,
+narrative, dead-end logs and anything else that is worth keeping but does not
+constrain the implementation. Rules:
+
+- The sidecar is **never load-bearing**. Agents do not read it to derive
+  implementation, and nothing in it may contradict or extend the spec. If a note
+  constrains the work, it belongs in `## Decisions`, `## Rejected alternatives` or
+  `## Measurements` instead.
+- Agents may append to it (an observation from a drift check, a wrong turn during
+  implementation) and must never rewrite or delete existing content.
+- An agent that is `blocked` may read the sidecar to draft an open question, but
+  quotes what it found rather than acting on it.
+- No sidecar is required. An empty one is worse than none.
+
+## Style: facts only
+
+Applies to the spec file only. The product spec is prose by design and the notes
+sidecar is unconstrained. The spec is re-read on every regeneration, where prose costs context
+and dilutes the contract, so:
+
+- Bullets, not paragraphs. Declarative present tense. No motivation, no background,
+  no summary of what the code currently does beyond locating the change.
+- Name things instead of describing them — a path, a symbol, an event type, a command,
+  an event id. A reference is shorter and more precise than a sentence about it. Which
+  kind of reference is allowed depends on the section; see "Reference durability".
+- One line per decision plus at most one sentence of rationale. If the rationale needs
+  more, the extra goes in the sidecar.
+- No judgement adjectives (clean, elegant, proper, obviously) and no hedging (should
+  probably, might be nice). Either it is a constraint or it is not in the spec.
+- `## Problem` is at most five bullets.
+- Target under 200 lines for the whole spec; over 300 lines, split the feature or move
+  material to the sidecar.
+
+The test for any line: does it constrain the implementation, constrain its
+verification, or record a measured fact? If not, delete it or move it to the sidecar.
+
+## Reference durability
+
+The spec must stay implementable against a `main` nobody has seen yet, so which
+references are allowed depends on how fast they rot. Most to least durable:
+
+1. Protocol identifiers — `m.reaction`, `m.call.member`, `m.relates_to`, a reaction
+   key. MSC-bound; effectively permanent.
+2. Observable behaviour. Permanent.
+3. Concept names — membership, participation, session.
+4. Test names. Survive file moves and renames, because the test moves with the code.
+5. Exported symbols. Survive refactors sometimes.
+6. File paths. Rot fast.
+7. Line numbers. Never.
+
+Per section:
+
+- `## Problem`, `## Measurements`, `## Slicing plan`, `## Drift log` — any reference,
+  paths and internal symbols included. These describe the codebase **as of `base`**. A
+  reference going stale here is a finding for the drift check, not a defect, and
+  removing the concrete references would leave the drift check with nothing to verify.
+- `## Decisions`, `## Acceptance criteria` — levels 1 to 4 only. No file paths, no
+  internal symbols. This is the part that has to hold against a future `main`.
+- An acceptance criterion that is not user-observable is tagged `[internal]` and
+  anchored by **its test name**, not by the symbol under test. The test name moves with
+  a refactor; the symbol does not.
+
+`[internal]` ACs are legitimate and expected: an invariant that no current consumer can
+observe is exactly what protects the consumer that does not exist yet. Tagging them
+keeps visible which ACs defend a product requirement and which defend a code
+invariant.
+
+## Required frontmatter
+
+```yaml
+---
+status: draft            # see state machine below
+blocked_from: null       # state to return to when leaving `blocked`
+title: Raise hand improvements
+owner: <human handle>    # a human, always
+signoff:                 # join condition for leaving exploration.signoff
+  eng: pending
+  design: pending
+  product: pending
+experiment_ref: <branch name or commit sha of the spike, if any>
+base: <sha of main the spec was validated against>
+repos: [matrix-js-sdk, element-call]    # in dependency order
+specs: [MSC4143]         # protocol documents touched, if any
+supersedes: []
+superseded_by: null
+---
+```
+
+`base` is mandatory and is what makes drift detectable. `owner` is a human even when
+every section was drafted by an agent.
+
+## Brainstorming: the product spec
+
+The usual entry point is a human handing an agent a one-line feature idea. The output
+of that session is `<stem>.product.md`, not code and not a feature spec. Copy
+`_TEMPLATE.product.md` and fill it.
+
+Ownership: an agent may create and fill this file during `brainstorm`. From `draft`
+onwards **product owns it and agents do not edit it** — not to fix wording, not to
+resolve a marker, not to reconcile it with the code. Agents raise mismatches in the
+feature spec's `## Open questions`.
+
+If product's source of truth lives outside the repo (a tracker, a design doc), put its
+URL in the header `**Source**:` line and keep the requirement text and ids in the repo
+anyway. The ids are what the feature spec references; a link alone cannot be traced.
+
+Agent behaviour during the session:
+
+- **Ask, do not assume.** An unanswered question is recorded as
+  `[NEEDS CLARIFICATION: <the question>]`, inline where the answer would go. Filling a
+  gap with a plausible guess is the main failure mode of this state — the marker is a
+  deliverable, not a defect.
+- Ask in one round of at most five questions, ordered by how much the answer changes
+  the shape of the feature. Do not interview.
+- **No implementation in the product spec.** No file paths, symbols, libraries, event
+  types, API shapes or framework names. If a requirement cannot be stated without them,
+  it is not a product requirement.
+- Every user story must be independently deployable and demonstrable on its own. A
+  story that only makes sense once another story ships is not a story; merge it.
+- More than four priority levels means more than one feature. Split before `draft`.
+- Never invent an SC number. Ask for the target, or mark it
+  `[NEEDS CLARIFICATION]`.
+
+For protocol and infrastructure work, success criteria may be expressed as observable
+client behaviour or a wire-level invariant ("a client joining mid-session converges
+within one sync"), but still never as a code path or an internal API.
+
+`FR-###` and `SC-###` ids are immutable once assigned. Product may revise the document
+at any time, including after `in_production`, but a changed requirement gets a **new
+id** and the old one is marked superseded — never edited in place. Renumbering silently
+breaks every AC that references it, and there is no way to detect that afterwards.
+
+A new or changed FR after `implement` does not amend the current spec's scope. It is
+either a new feature spec or the next iteration; the mapping table simply shows an
+unmapped FR, which is the intended signal.
+
+## Traceability
+
+The product spec states intent; the feature spec states what must be true and how it is
+checked. They are kept in sync by ids, not by duplication.
+
+- Every `FR-###` maps to at least one acceptance criterion. Tag the AC with its
+  origin: `AC2 [FR-003] — <observable behaviour>`.
+- Every `SC-###` maps to an entry in `## Measurements` with a method. An SC with no
+  measurement blocks `exploration.signoff`.
+- Every user story maps to at least one slice. **Slice order follows story priority**
+  (P1 first) unless a technical dependency overrides it, and the override is recorded
+  in the slicing plan with its reason.
+- An AC with no `FR` origin is allowed and expected — implementation-level invariants
+  have no counterpart in the product spec. The converse is not: an unmapped FR is an
+  incomplete spec.
+- Agents do not resolve a mismatch between the two. The product spec wins on intent,
+  the feature spec wins on verification; a genuine contradiction is `blocked`.
+
+## Status state machine
+
+Transitions are explicit; an agent may perform only the ones marked (agent).
+
+```
+brainstorm ─► draft ─► exploration ─► implement ─► qa ─► in_production
+                           │              │        │
+                           └──────────────┴────────┴──► blocked ──► (blocked_from)
+                                                           │
+                                                           └──► abandoned
+```
+
+Exploration has sub-states, written dotted in `status`:
+
+```
+exploration.scoping ─► exploration.iterating ─► exploration.signoff
+        ▲                       │                      │
+        └───────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
+```
+
+- `brainstorm` → `draft`: human. Requires `<stem>.product.md` to exist with at least one
+  P1 story carrying acceptance scenarios, every FR and SC id assigned, and every
+  remaining `[NEEDS CLARIFICATION]` copied into the feature spec's `## Open questions`.
+- `draft` → `exploration.scoping`: human. Requires `## Problem` and `## Out of scope`.
+  Scoping before the branch exists is what keeps exploration from becoming the
+  long-lived branch this folder replaces.
+- `exploration.scoping` → `.iterating`: human. `experiment_ref` must name the branch.
+- `.iterating` → `.signoff`: human. Requires `## Decisions`, `## Acceptance criteria`,
+  `## Rejected alternatives` and `## Measurements` to be complete, no
+  `[NEEDS CLARIFICATION]` left in the product spec, and full traceability (below).
+- `.signoff` → `implement`: **only when all three sign-offs in `signoff:` are `ok`.**
+  This is a join, not a sequence — a single reviewer cannot advance it. On entering
+  `implement`, the exploration branch stops being a base: it is reference material,
+  and implementation branches off current `main` (see "Turning a spec into PRs").
+- `.signoff` → `.iterating`: human, on any sign-off returning changes. Reset the
+  rejecting role to `pending`; leave the others as they are.
+- `implement` → `qa`: (agent) when every acceptance criterion is covered, as recorded
+  in `## PRs`, and the feature flag is enabled in the QA environment.
+- `qa` → `in_production`: human. The flag is on by default in production.
+- `qa` → `implement`: (agent) when a QA finding needs code. See "QA feedback".
+- any active state → `blocked`: (agent) when drift or an unresolved question prevents
+  progress. Requires a drift-log entry and `blocked_from: <state>`. Do not guess and
+  continue. Leaving `blocked` returns to `blocked_from`, never to a fixed state.
+- any state → `abandoned`: human only.
+
+`in_production` is terminal. A production regression does not reopen the spec: it
+either is an ordinary bug fix with no spec, or it is a new spec. The acceptance
+criteria remain as the regression contract (see "QA feedback").
+
+## QA feedback
+
+The point of the `qa` state is not to record that testing happened. It is to make the
+spec a better regeneration source than it was before implementation. So:
+
+- Every reproduced QA finding becomes **either** a new acceptance criterion **or** a
+  new entry in `## Rejected alternatives`. Never a prose note, never only a bug
+  tracker link.
+- (agent) may **append** ACs during `qa`, with provenance:
+  `AC7 [qa: <issue ref>] — <observable behaviour>` plus its check. Appending is
+  allowed; rewriting or reordering existing ACs is not.
+- A finding that invalidates a decision does not become an AC. It sets `blocked` — a
+  decision is human-owned in every state.
+- A finding that is out of scope goes to `## Out of scope` with its issue ref, so the
+  next regeneration does not treat it as a gap.
+
+This also applies after `in_production`: a production bug that reveals a missing AC is
+appended with `[prod: <ref>]` provenance without any state change.
+
+## Required sections
+
+Order matters — agents read top-down and the first three sections are the contract.
+
+1. **`## Problem`** — up to five bullets. What breaks today, for whom, observably,
+   with the file or symbol where it breaks.
+2. **`## Decisions`** — the choices the exploration settled, each with a one-line
+   rationale. **Human-owned. An agent must never add, remove or reword a decision.**
+   If a decision is missing, set `blocked` and ask.
+3. **`## Acceptance criteria`** — the load-bearing section. Each item must be
+   mechanically checkable and name its check:
+   - `AC1 [FR-002] — <observable behaviour>` / `check: yarn vitest run src/reactions/ReactionsReader.test.tsx -t "backfill"`
+   - `AC2 [FR-002] — <observable behaviour>` / `check: manual, <exact steps>`
+   - `AC3 [internal] — <invariant>` / `check: yarn vitest run <file> -t "<test name>"`
+   An acceptance criterion without a check is a wish; reject the spec (`blocked`).
+4. **`## Rejected alternatives`** — what the experiment tried and why it failed,
+   including measurements. This exists so regeneration does not re-walk dead ends. If
+   this section is empty for a spec with an `experiment_ref`, the spec is incomplete.
+5. **`## Measurements`** — numbers from the experiment with the method used to obtain
+   them (command, hardware, load profile). Numbers without a method are not usable as
+   regression baselines and must be marked `unverified`. A baseline states its direction: a
+   count that unrelated work grows — tests passing, test files — is a floor (`≥ n`); a
+   cost — latency, CPU, bundle size — is a ceiling (`≤ n`). An exact count is stale as
+   soon as `main` moves and is not a drift finding.
+6. **`## Out of scope`** — explicit non-goals, so agents stop expanding the diff.
+7. **`## Slicing plan`** — ordered, independently mergeable PRs (see below).
+8. **`## Drift log`** — append-only, agent-written.
+9. **`## PRs`** — append-only list of `#<n> — <state> — <ACs covered>`.
+
+Optional: `## Open questions` (blocks `exploration.signoff`), `## Migration / compat` (mandatory
+whenever wire format, event schema, or a published API changes).
+
+## Turning a spec into PRs
+
+Run these steps in order. Do not skip step 2.
+
+1. **Fetch and pin.** `git fetch origin` and record `origin/main`'s sha as `head`.
+   Never start from the exploration branch, and never rebase it — the branch is
+   reference material, not a base.
+2. **Drift check** against `base..head`:
+   - Do all files, symbols and modules named in the spec still exist?
+   - Have the invariants in `## Decisions` been contradicted by changes in main?
+   - Do the commands in `## Acceptance criteria` still run?
+   Write the result as a drift-log entry. On a contradicted decision: set `blocked`,
+   do not implement.
+3. **Re-derive the slicing plan** if drift changed it. Each slice must:
+   - build and pass CI on its own,
+   - be reviewable in one sitting (target < 400 changed lines, hard stop at 800 —
+     split further rather than exceeding it),
+   - map to at least one acceptance criterion, and
+   - land behind a flag or be inert if it is not the last slice of a user-visible
+     change.
+4. **Implement one slice at a time**, branch `spec/<spec-slug>/<n>-<short>` off the
+   pinned `head`. Tests for the slice's ACs go in the same PR as the code. A PR merges
+   only when every check of every AC it lists passes on that PR: automated checks in
+   CI, manual checks performed by a human reviewer with the result recorded in the PR
+   description. An AC is *covered* once such a PR has merged.
+5. **Open the PR** linking the spec path and listing the ACs it covers. Update
+   `## PRs` and `status`.
+6. **Do not touch merged or reviewed slices.** See the regeneration rule.
+
+## The regeneration rule
+
+Regeneration from spec is only allowed **before a human has reviewed the PR**.
+
+Once review has started, the PR is a shared artifact: rebase, fix forward, push
+incremental commits. Regenerating discards the reviewer's context and silently
+invalidates their approvals. If regeneration is unavoidable after review, close the
+old PR with an explanation and open a new one — never force-push a fresh generation
+over a reviewed branch.
+
+## Cross-repo and protocol work
+
+When `repos` has more than one entry, PRs are opened in `repos` order and each PR
+body states which upstream PR it depends on. Merging out of order is a spec
+violation, not an optimisation.
+
+When `specs` is non-empty:
+- the implementation PR references the section of the MSC it implements,
+- unmerged MSCs require the implementation to be feature-flagged and documented as
+  unstable (unstable prefixes, not stable identifiers), and
+- any deviation from the MSC text is recorded in `## Drift log`, not silently
+  resolved in favour of the code.
+
+## Drift-log format
+
+Append-only, newest last:
+
+```
+### 2026-09-14 — drift check (base 4f2a1c9 → head 9b17e02)
+- `ReactionsReader.getLastReactionEvent` now takes a `CallMembership` instead of an
+  event id → AC2 and AC3 check commands still valid, slice 3 needs rework
+- BLOCKING: decision D2 assumes a membership event change may keep a hand raised; main
+  now clears all reaction relations on membership replacement. Needs owner decision.
+```
+
+Drift entries are never rewritten or deleted, including entries that were later
+resolved. The log is the record of why the implementation diverged from the
+exploration.
+
+## Hard rules
+
+- Never fill a `[NEEDS CLARIFICATION]` marker with a guess, in any state.
+- Never put file paths, symbols or library names in the product spec.
+- Never reference a file path or an internal symbol in `## Decisions` or
+  `## Acceptance criteria`. Behaviour, protocol identifiers, concepts and test names
+  only.
+- Never edit `<stem>.product.md` after `draft`, and never renumber an FR or SC id.
+- Never add a line that does not constrain the implementation, constrain its
+  verification, or record a measured fact. It goes in the sidecar or nowhere.
+- Never modify `## Decisions`, `## Problem`, or `## Acceptance criteria`. These are
+  the human contract. Propose changes in `## Open questions` and set `blocked`.
+- Never invent measurements or acceptance checks. Absent is better than plausible.
+- Never widen scope past `## Out of scope`, even when the fix looks trivial.
+- Never open a PR while `status` is `draft`, any `exploration.*`, or `blocked`.
+- Never delete a spec file. Terminal states are `in_production` or `abandoned`.
+- If the spec and current `main` disagree about how the system works, **main wins as
+  description, the spec wins as intent** — record the difference and stop.
+
+## Spec template
+
+```markdown
+---
+status: draft
+blocked_from: null
+title:
+owner:
+signoff:
+  eng: pending
+  design: pending
+  product: pending
+experiment_ref:
+base:
+repos: []
+specs: []
+supersedes: []
+superseded_by: null
+---
+
+## Problem
+
+## Decisions
+- D1 — <decision> — <why>
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+- AC1 [FR-###] — <observable behaviour>
+  - check: <command or exact manual steps>
+- AC2 [internal] — <invariant>
+  - check: <command, anchored by test name>
+
+## Rejected alternatives
+- <approach> — <why it failed> — <evidence>
+
+## Measurements
+- <metric>: <value> (method: <command / setup>)
+
+## Out of scope
+
+## Slicing plan
+1. <slice> — covers AC1 — depends on: none
+
+## Drift log
+
+## PRs
+```

FEATURES_SPEC/_TEMPLATE.product.md

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+# Feature Specification: [FEATURE NAME]
+
+**Feature Branch**: `[###-feature-name]`
+**Created**: [DATE]
+**Feature Spec**: `[YYYY-MM_Title.md]`  <!-- status lives in the feature spec's frontmatter, not here -->
+**Owner**: [product handle]
+**Source**: [URL of the tracker/doc this mirrors, or "this file"]
+**Input**: User description: "$ARGUMENTS"
+
+## User Scenarios & Testing *(mandatory)*
+
+<!--
+  IMPORTANT: User stories should be PRIORITIZED as user journeys ordered by importance.
+  Each user story/journey must be INDEPENDENTLY TESTABLE - meaning if you implement just ONE of them,
+  you should still have a viable MVP (Minimum Viable Product) that delivers value.
+
+  Assign priorities (P1, P2, P3, etc.) to each story, where P1 is the most critical.
+  Think of each story as a standalone slice of functionality that can be:
+  - Developed independently
+  - Tested independently
+  - Deployed independently
+  - Demonstrated to users independently
+-->
+
+### User Story 1 - [Brief Title] (Priority: P1)
+
+[Describe this user journey in plain language]
+
+**Why this priority**: [Explain the value and why it has this priority level]
+
+**Independent Test**: [Describe how this can be tested independently - e.g., "Can be fully tested by [specific action] and delivers [specific value]"]
+
+**Acceptance Scenarios**:
+
+1. **Given** [initial state], **When** [action], **Then** [expected outcome]
+2. **Given** [initial state], **When** [action], **Then** [expected outcome]
+
+---
+
+### User Story 2 - [Brief Title] (Priority: P2)
+
+[Describe this user journey in plain language]
+
+**Why this priority**: [Explain the value and why it has this priority level]
+
+**Independent Test**: [Describe how this can be tested independently]
+
+**Acceptance Scenarios**:
+
+1. **Given** [initial state], **When** [action], **Then** [expected outcome]
+
+---
+
+### User Story 3 - [Brief Title] (Priority: P3)
+
+[Describe this user journey in plain language]
+
+**Why this priority**: [Explain the value and why it has this priority level]
+
+**Independent Test**: [Describe how this can be tested independently]
+
+**Acceptance Scenarios**:
+
+1. **Given** [initial state], **When** [action], **Then** [expected outcome]
+
+---
+
+[Add more user stories as needed, each with an assigned priority]
+
+### Edge Cases
+
+<!--
+  ACTION REQUIRED: The content in this section represents placeholders.
+  Fill them out with the right edge cases.
+-->
+
+- What happens when [boundary condition]?
+- How does system handle [error scenario]?
+
+## Requirements *(mandatory)*
+
+<!--
+  ACTION REQUIRED: The content in this section represents placeholders.
+  Fill them out with the right functional requirements.
+-->
+
+### Functional Requirements
+
+- **FR-001**: System MUST [specific capability, e.g., "allow users to create accounts"]
+- **FR-002**: System MUST [specific capability, e.g., "validate email addresses"]
+- **FR-003**: Users MUST be able to [key interaction, e.g., "reset their password"]
+- **FR-004**: System MUST [data requirement, e.g., "persist user preferences"]
+- **FR-005**: System MUST [behavior, e.g., "log all security events"]
+
+*Example of marking unclear requirements:*
+
+- **FR-006**: System MUST authenticate users via [NEEDS CLARIFICATION: auth method not specified - email/password, SSO, OAuth?]
+- **FR-007**: System MUST retain user data for [NEEDS CLARIFICATION: retention period not specified]
+
+### Key Entities *(include if feature involves data)*
+
+- **[Entity 1]**: [What it represents, key attributes without implementation]
+- **[Entity 2]**: [What it represents, relationships to other entities]
+
+## Success Criteria *(mandatory)*
+
+<!--
+  ACTION REQUIRED: Define measurable success criteria.
+  These must be technology-agnostic and measurable.
+-->
+
+### Measurable Outcomes
+
+- **SC-001**: [Measurable metric, e.g., "Users can complete account creation in under 2 minutes"]
+- **SC-002**: [Measurable metric, e.g., "System handles 1000 concurrent users without degradation"]
+- **SC-003**: [User satisfaction metric, e.g., "90% of users successfully complete primary task on first attempt"]
+- **SC-004**: [Business metric, e.g., "Reduce support tickets related to [X] by 50%"]

README.md

@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ You can find the latest development version continuously deployed to
 ✅ **Decentralized & Federated** – No central authority; works across Matrix
 homeservers.  
 ✅ **End-to-End Encrypted** – Secure and private calls.  
-✅ **Standalone & Widget Mode** – Use as an independent app or embed in Matrix
-clients.  
+✅ **Standalone, Widget & Component Mode** – Use as an independent app, embed
+in Matrix clients as a widget, or (experimentally) mount it as a React component
+inside your own application.  
 ✅ **WebRTC-based** – No additional software required.  
 ✅ **Scalable with LiveKit** – Supports large meetings via SFU
 ([MSC4195: MatrixRTC using LiveKit backend](https://github.com/hughns/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/hughns/matrixrtc-livekit/proposals/4195-matrixrtc-livekit.md)).  
@@ -90,7 +91,9 @@ and voice calls within Matrix rooms.
 
 Element Call offers two packaging options: one for standalone or widget
 deployment, and another for seamless widget-based integration into messenger
-apps. Below is an overview of each option.
+apps. A third, experimental option builds it as a React component library for
+applications that want to render a call inside their own page rather than in an
+iframe. Below is an overview of each option.
 
 **Full Package** – Supports both **Standalone** and **Widget** mode. It is
 hosted as a static web page and can be accessed via a URL when used as a widget.
@@ -107,6 +110,11 @@ recommended method for embedding Element Call.
   <img src="./docs/embedded_package.drawio.png" alt="Element Call Embedded Package">
 </p>
 
+**Component Package (experimental)** – A library build of Element Call as a
+React component, consumed as a dependency by a host application that already
+has a Matrix client. See
+[Element Call as a component](#element-call-as-a-component-experimental) below.
+
 For more details on the packages, see the
 [Embedded vs. Standalone Guide](./docs/embedded_standalone.md).
 
@@ -115,30 +123,33 @@ For more details on the packages, see the
 For operating and deploying Element Call on your own server, refer to the
 [**Self-Hosting Guide**](./docs/self_hosting.md).
 
-## 🧭 MatrixRTC Backend Discovery and Selection
+## MatrixRTC Transports
 
-For proper Element Call operation each site deployment needs a MatrixRTC backend
-setup as outlined in the [Self-Hosting Guide](./docs/self_hosting.md). A typical
-federated site deployment for three different sites A, B and C is depicted below.
+For proper operation of Element Call, each deployment needs to set up a
+MatrixRTC transport in the form of a LiveKit server as outlined in the
+[Self-Hosting Guide](./docs/self_hosting.md). A typical federated site
+deployment for three different sites A, B and C is depicted below.
 
 <p align="center">
   <img src="./docs/Federated_Setup.drawio.png" alt="Element Call federated setup">
 </p>
 
-### Backend Discovery
+### Transport Discovery
 
-The MatrixRTC backend (according to
-[MSC4143](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4143)) is
-announced by the Matrix site's `.well-known/matrix/client` file and discovered
-via the `org.matrix.msc4143.rtc_foci` key, e.g.:
+Element Call discovers the available MatrixRTC transports (as defined by
+[MSC4519](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4519)) by
+hitting the `GET /_matrix/client/unstable/org.matrix.msc4143/rtc/transports`
+endpoint of the Client-Server API. An example response:
 
 ```json
-"org.matrix.msc4143.rtc_foci": [
+{
+  "rtc_transports": [
     {
-        "type": "livekit",
-        "livekit_service_url": "https://matrix-rtc.example.com/livekit/jwt"
-    },
-]
+      "type": "livekit",
+      "livekit_service_url": "https://matrix-rtc.example.com/livekit/jwt"
+    }
+  ]
+}
 ```
 
 where the format for MatrixRTC using LiveKit backend is defined in
@@ -149,7 +160,7 @@ via `livekit_service_url`.
 
 ### Backend Selection
 
-- Each call participant proposes their discovered MatrixRTC backend from
+- Each call participant proposes their discovered MatrixRTC transport from
   `org.matrix.msc4143.rtc_foci` in their `org.matrix.msc3401.call.member` state event.
 - For the **LiveKit** MatrixRTC backend
   ([MSC4195](https://github.com/hughns/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/hughns/matrixrtc-livekit/proposals/4195-matrixrtc-livekit.md)),
@@ -210,9 +221,97 @@ See also:
 
 - [Developing with linked packages](./docs/linking.md)
 
+#### Element Call as a component (experimental)
+
+Element Call can also be embedded directly into another React application
+rather than being loaded in an iframe as a widget. `pnpm build:component`
+builds it as a library into `component/dist` (the bundle, its stylesheet and
+type declarations), and
+
+```sh
+pnpm dev:component
+```
+
+serves a harness on port 3001 that stands in for such an application: it signs
+in twice against the development backend and shows two calls side by side, in
+resizable boxes, with page furniture of its own around them. Use it to see how
+Element Call behaves when it does not own the page — the size it is given,
+whether it stays inside its container, and what it says to its host, which is
+logged along the bottom. The harness is served with the same development
+certificate as the app, so unless the development CA is trusted, the browser
+needs a certificate exception for `https://localhost:3001` as well (see the
+note under [Backend](#backend)). It reads the same `public/config.json` as
+`pnpm dev` if one exists, and runs with Element Call's defaults otherwise.
+
+The call lays itself out for the size of the element it is mounted in, not the
+window: a host that shrinks the container to a corner of its page gets the
+picture-in-picture layout, just as a host that shrank the whole iframe used to.
+The breakpoints in the stylesheets the component uses are
+`@container element-call` queries against its root element for the same reason;
+for the standalone app the root is the page, so they mean what the media queries
+they replaced did. (The standalone-only views, such as the home and login pages,
+still use plain media queries, since the component never shows them.)
+
+The component's stylesheet is confined to the element it is mounted in: the
+build rewrites every selector so that it matches only Element Call's root or
+what is inside it, with `html`, `body` and `:root` standing for that root (see
+`component/build/scopeStylesToRoot.ts`). A host's own page keeps its styles,
+and Element Call brings its own fonts and design tokens along.
+
+The component speaks every language the app does. English is bundled in; the
+other locales are split into chunks the host's bundler loads the first time
+they are needed. It starts in the browser's language, and follows the host's
+own language setting through the `language` prop (`supportedLanguages` lists
+the tags it accepts, and anything else falls back to its base language or to
+English). The `theme` prop works the same way and takes the same values as the
+widget's `theme` URL parameter: `light`, `dark`, `light-high-contrast` or
+`dark-high-contrast`. Both can change while a call is running without
+disturbing it.
+
+A host must call and await `initializeElementCall(config)` once before
+rendering the component: it loads the `Intl` polyfills, applies the
+deployment-wide `config.json`-style configuration and sets up translations.
+The component itself takes the host's `client` and the `roomId` to call in, an
+`intent` saying what the user asked for (which decides whether to show the
+lobby, ring, and so on), an optional `config` overriding what the intent
+implies, and an optional `hostBridge` through which Element Call tells the host
+that the user has joined or hung up, that it wants to stay on screen, and so
+on. The host makes its own requests (`join`, `hangUp`, `setDeviceMute`) through
+the handle exposed on `ref`. The full API is documented in the type declarations
+(`component/index.tsx` and `component/host.ts`).
+
+A few things differ from the widget on purpose: the component draws a solid
+background rather than a gradient unless told otherwise, never offers to edit
+the user's profile (the account is the host's), scopes its keyboard shortcuts to
+its own root element so that several instances can share a page, and only shows
+its own post-call and error screens when the host has not supplied a `close()`
+callback; with one, it asks the host to unmount it instead. The
+[global JS controls](./docs/controls.md) on `window` are unchanged and remain
+page-wide, so with several instances on one page they apply to all of them.
+
+The package is not published yet. A host installs it as a git dependency on the
+`component` directory of this repository,
+
+```json
+"@element-hq/element-call-component": "github:element-hq/element-call#main&path:/component"
+```
+
+whose `prepare` script runs the build on install. That build needs pnpm (via
+Corepack) on the host's machine, runs a full `pnpm install` of this repository
+and is memory-hungry, since it inherits the `--max-old-space-size` setting of
+the app build; the host's pnpm also has to allow it to run at all
+(`allowBuilds` in its `pnpm-workspace.yaml`). Note that `component/` is a pnpm
+project of its own for this reason, so pnpm commands run from inside that
+directory target it rather than the repository; run them from the repository
+root. The host imports the component from
+`@element-hq/element-call-component` and the stylesheet from
+`@element-hq/element-call-component/style.css`, and has to provide `react`,
+`react-dom`, `matrix-js-sdk` and `livekit-client` itself, since the bundle leaves
+them external.
+
 ### Backend
 
-A docker compose file `dev-backend-docker-compose.yml` is provided to start the
+A docker compose file `docker-compose-dev.yml` is provided to start the
 whole stack of components which is required for a local development environment
 including federation:
 
@@ -239,15 +338,14 @@ the backend components:
 ```sh
 pnpm backend
 # or for podman-compose:
-# podman-compose -f dev-backend-docker-compose.yml up
+# podman-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml up
 ```
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > To ensure your local development frontend functions properly, you’ll need to
-> add certificate exceptions in your browser for `https://localhost:3000`,
-> `https://matrix-rtc.m.localhost/livekit/jwt/healthz` and
-> `https://synapse.m.localhost/.well-known/matrix/client`. This can be either
-> done by adding the minimum localhost CA
+> add certificate exceptions in your browser for `https://localhost:3000` and
+> `https://matrix-rtc.m.localhost/livekit/jwt/healthz`. This can be done either
+> by adding the minimum localhost CA
 > ([./backend/dev_tls_local-ca.crt](./backend/dev_tls_local-ca.crt)) to your web
 > browser's trusted certificates or by simply copying and pasting each URL into
 > your browser’s address bar and follow the prompts to add the exception.
@@ -272,7 +370,10 @@ running Playwright by following
 
 However the Playwright tests are run, an element-call instance must be running
 on https://localhost:3000 (this is configured in `playwright.config.ts`) - this
-is what will be tested.
+is what will be tested. The tests under `playwright/component` instead drive
+the component harness (`pnpm dev:component`) on https://localhost:3001, which
+Playwright starts as a second web server; it is always a Vite dev server, even
+when the app itself is served from Docker with `USE_DOCKER`.
 
 The local backend environment should be running for the test to work:
 `pnpm backend`
@@ -371,7 +472,7 @@ We do this so that we can reuse the labels between repositories.
 
 ## 📝 Copyright & License
 
-Copyright 2021-2025 New Vector Ltd
+Copyright 2021-2026 New Vector Ltd
 
 This software is dual-licensed by New Vector Ltd (Element). It can be used
 either:

backend/dev_homeserver-othersite.yaml

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ experimental_features:
   msc4222_enabled: true
   # sticky events for MatrixRTC user state
   msc4354_enabled: true
+  # MatrixRTC
+  msc4143_enabled: true
 
 # The maximum allowed duration by which sent events can be delayed, as
 # per MSC4140. Must be a positive value if set.  Defaults to no
@@ -54,7 +56,6 @@ enable_registration_without_verification: true
 registration_shared_secret: "test_shared_secret_for_local_dev_only"
 
 report_stats: false
-serve_server_wellknown: true
 
 # Ratelimiting settings for client actions (registration, login, messaging).
 #
@@ -67,3 +68,8 @@ rc_message:
   # Currently the heart-beat is every 5 seconds which translates into a rate of 0.2s
   per_second: 0.5
   burst_count: 30
+
+matrix_rtc:
+  transports:
+    - type: livekit
+      livekit_service_url: https://matrix-rtc.othersite.m.localhost/livekit/jwt

backend/dev_homeserver.yaml

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ experimental_features:
   msc4222_enabled: true
   # sticky events for MatrixRTC user state
   msc4354_enabled: true
+  # MatrixRTC
+  msc4143_enabled: true
 
 # The maximum allowed duration by which sent events can be delayed, as
 # per MSC4140. Must be a positive value if set.  Defaults to no
@@ -54,7 +56,6 @@ enable_registration_without_verification: true
 registration_shared_secret: "test_shared_secret_for_local_dev_only"
 
 report_stats: false
-serve_server_wellknown: true
 
 # Ratelimiting settings for client actions (registration, login, messaging).
 #
@@ -67,3 +68,8 @@ rc_message:
   # Currently the heart-beat is every 5 seconds which translates into a rate of 0.2s
   per_second: 0.5
   burst_count: 30
+
+matrix_rtc:
+  transports:
+    - type: livekit
+      livekit_service_url: https://matrix-rtc.m.localhost/livekit/jwt

backend/dev_nginx.conf

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Synapse reverse proxy including .well-known/matrix/client
+# Synapse reverse proxy
 # domain synapse.m.localhost
 server {
     listen                  80;
@@ -11,18 +11,6 @@ server {
     ssl_certificate         /root/ssl/cert.pem;
     ssl_certificate_key     /root/ssl/key.pem;
 
-    # well-known config adding rtc_foci backend
-    # Note well-known is currently not effective due to:
-    # https://spec.matrix.org/v1.12/client-server-api/#well-known-uri the spec
-    # says it must be at https://$server_name/... (implied port 443) Hence, we
-    # currently rely for local development environment on deprecated config.json
-    # setting for livekit_service_url
-    location /.well-known/matrix/client {
-        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
-        return 200 '{"m.homeserver": {"base_url": "https://synapse.m.localhost"}, "org.matrix.msc4143.rtc_foci": [{"type": "livekit", "livekit_service_url": "https://matrix-rtc.m.localhost/livekit/jwt"}]}';
-        default_type application/json;
-    }
-
     # Reverse proxy for Matrix Synapse Homeserver
     # This is also required for development environment.
     # Reason: the lk-jwt-service uses the federation API for the openid token
@@ -44,7 +32,7 @@ server {
 
 }
 
-# Synapse reverse proxy including .well-known/matrix/client
+# Synapse reverse proxy
 # domain synapse.othersite.m.localhost
 server {
     listen                  80;
@@ -57,18 +45,6 @@ server {
     ssl_certificate         /root/ssl/cert.pem;
     ssl_certificate_key     /root/ssl/key.pem;
 
-    # well-known config adding rtc_foci backend
-    # Note well-known is currently not effective due to:
-    # https://spec.matrix.org/v1.12/client-server-api/#well-known-uri the spec
-    # says it must be at https://$server_name/... (implied port 443) Hence, we
-    # currently rely for local development environment on deprecated config.json
-    # setting for livekit_service_url
-    location /.well-known/matrix/client {
-        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
-        return 200 '{"m.homeserver": {"base_url": "https://synapse.othersite.m.localhost"}, "org.matrix.msc4143.rtc_foci": [{"type": "livekit", "livekit_service_url": "https://matrix-rtc.othersite.m.localhost/livekit/jwt"}]}';
-        default_type application/json;
-    }
-
     # Reverse proxy for Matrix Synapse Homeserver
     # This is also required for development environment.
     # Reason: the lk-jwt-service uses the federation API for the openid token

backend/playwright_homeserver-othersite.yaml

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ experimental_features:
   msc4222_enabled: true
   # sticky events for MatrixRTC user state
   msc4354_enabled: true
+  # MatrixRTC
+  msc4143_enabled: true
 
 # The maximum allowed duration by which sent events can be delayed, as
 # per MSC4140. Must be a positive value if set.  Defaults to no
@@ -54,7 +56,6 @@ enable_registration_without_verification: true
 registration_shared_secret: "test_shared_secret_for_local_dev_only"
 
 report_stats: false
-serve_server_wellknown: true
 
 # Ratelimiting settings for client actions (registration, login, messaging).
 #
@@ -84,3 +85,8 @@ rc_login:
 rc_registration:
   per_second: 10000
   burst_count: 10000
+
+matrix_rtc:
+  transports:
+    - type: livekit
+      livekit_service_url: https://matrix-rtc.othersite.m.localhost/livekit/jwt

backend/playwright_homeserver.yaml

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ experimental_features:
   msc4222_enabled: true
   # sticky events for MatrixRTC user state
   msc4354_enabled: true
+  # MatrixRTC
+  msc4143_enabled: true
 
 # The maximum allowed duration by which sent events can be delayed, as
 # per MSC4140. Must be a positive value if set.  Defaults to no
@@ -54,7 +56,6 @@ enable_registration_without_verification: true
 registration_shared_secret: "test_shared_secret_for_local_dev_only"
 
 report_stats: false
-serve_server_wellknown: true
 
 # Ratelimiting settings for client actions (registration, login, messaging).
 #
@@ -84,3 +85,8 @@ rc_login:
 rc_registration:
   per_second: 10000
   burst_count: 10000
+
+matrix_rtc:
+  transports:
+    - type: livekit
+      livekit_service_url: https://matrix-rtc.m.localhost/livekit/jwt

component/ElementCall.module.css

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+/* The container a host mounts us into. It fills whatever space the host gives
+it, and nothing we draw may leave it.
+
+That takes two separate things, which are easy to mistake for one. `isolation`
+gives us a stacking context, so nothing inside can be layered above the host's
+own interface. Containment makes us the containing block for `position: fixed`
+descendants, and clips what we paint to our own box: without it, the modal
+scrim and dialog — which are positioned `fixed` and centred, since in the app
+they are meant to cover the page — resolve against the viewport and appear in
+the middle of the host's window rather than in the middle of the call.
+
+The clipping cuts both ways: a menu near the edge of a small container is
+trimmed rather than overflowing into the host. That is the trade being a
+component rather than a page makes. */
+.root {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  inline-size: 100%;
+  block-size: 100%;
+  isolation: isolate;
+  contain: layout paint;
+  position: relative;
+  background-color: var(--cpd-color-bg-canvas-default);
+  color: var(--cpd-color-text-primary);
+  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
+  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
+  -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;
+}
+
+/* Compound's overlay container, which holds tooltips and popovers, has to fill
+the container for the elements inside it to be positioned against it. The
+standalone page does the same for the container under `#root`. */
+.root > [data-overlay-container] {
+  position: relative;
+  block-size: 100%;
+}

component/build/scopeStylesToRoot.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import postcss from "postcss";
+
+import { ROOT_SELECTOR, scopeStylesToRoot } from "./scopeStylesToRoot";
+
+const inRoot = `:where(${ROOT_SELECTOR}, ${ROOT_SELECTOR} *)`;
+const isRoot = `:where(${ROOT_SELECTOR})`;
+
+async function scope(css: string, file = "base.css"): Promise<string> {
+  const result = await postcss([scopeStylesToRoot()]).process(css, {
+    from: file,
+  });
+  return result.css;
+}
+
+describe("scopeStylesToRoot", () => {
+  it("makes the root stand in for the document", async () => {
+    expect(await scope("html { line-height: 1.15 }")).toBe(
+      `${isRoot} { line-height: 1.15 }`,
+    );
+    expect(await scope("body { margin: 0 }")).toBe(`${isRoot} { margin: 0 }`);
+    expect(await scope(":root { --a: 1 }")).toBe(`${isRoot} { --a: 1 }`);
+    expect(await scope("body.no-scroll-body { position: fixed }")).toBe(
+      `${isRoot}.no-scroll-body { position: fixed }`,
+    );
+    expect(await scope("body .x { color: red }")).toBe(
+      `${isRoot} .x { color: red }`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("collapses selectors that all became the root", async () => {
+    expect(await scope("html, body, input { font: inherit }")).toBe(
+      `${isRoot},input${inRoot} { font: inherit }`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("confines everything else to the root and what is inside it", async () => {
+    expect(await scope("h1 { margin: 0 }")).toBe(`h1${inRoot} { margin: 0 }`);
+    expect(await scope(".cpd-theme-dark { --a: 1 }")).toBe(
+      `.cpd-theme-dark${inRoot} { --a: 1 }`,
+    );
+    expect(await scope("* { box-sizing: border-box }")).toBe(
+      `*${inRoot} { box-sizing: border-box }`,
+    );
+    expect(await scope(".a > .b + .c { color: red }")).toBe(
+      `.a>.b+.c${inRoot} { color: red }`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("keeps pseudo-elements last", async () => {
+    expect(await scope("button::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0 }")).toBe(
+      `button${inRoot}::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0 }`,
+    );
+    expect(await scope(".a .b:hover::after { content: '' }")).toBe(
+      `.a .b:hover${inRoot}::after { content: '' }`,
+    );
+    expect(await scope("p:first-letter { color: red }")).toBe(
+      `p${inRoot}:first-letter { color: red }`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("leaves alone what already names the root", async () => {
+    const css = `${ROOT_SELECTOR}[data-platform="ios"] { --a: 1 }`;
+    expect(await scope(css)).toBe(css);
+  });
+
+  it("reaches into layers and media queries", async () => {
+    expect(
+      await scope(
+        "@layer normalize { h1 { margin: 0 } } @media (min-width: 1px) { p { margin: 0 } }",
+      ),
+    ).toBe(
+      `@layer normalize { h1${inRoot} { margin: 0 } } @media (min-width: 1px) { p${inRoot} { margin: 0 } }`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("does not touch keyframes or nested rules", async () => {
+    expect(
+      await scope("@keyframes spin { from { opacity: 0 } to { opacity: 1 } }"),
+    ).toBe("@keyframes spin { from { opacity: 0 } to { opacity: 1 } }");
+    expect(
+      await scope(
+        ".a { color: red; &:hover { color: blue } .b { color: green } }",
+      ),
+    ).toBe(
+      `.a${inRoot} { color: red; &:hover { color: blue } .b { color: green } }`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("only touches the bare selectors of a CSS module", async () => {
+    const file = "Settings.module.css";
+    expect(await scope("pre { font-size: 1px }", file)).toBe(
+      `pre${inRoot} { font-size: 1px }`,
+    );
+    expect(await scope(".modal pre { font-size: 1px }", file)).toBe(
+      `.modal pre${inRoot} { font-size: 1px }`,
+    );
+    expect(await scope(".box_abc12 { border: 0 }", file)).toBe(
+      ".box_abc12 { border: 0 }",
+    );
+    expect(await scope(".a .b_abc12:hover { border: 0 }", file)).toBe(
+      ".a .b_abc12:hover { border: 0 }",
+    );
+  });
+});

component/build/scopeStylesToRoot.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import {
+  type AtRule,
+  type Container,
+  type Document,
+  type Plugin,
+  type Rule,
+} from "postcss";
+import selectorParser, {
+  type Node,
+  type Pseudo,
+  type Selector,
+} from "postcss-selector-parser";
+
+/**
+ * How the stylesheets find Element Call's root element. The attribute is put
+ * there by `useTheme`, on the container the host gives the component.
+ */
+export const ROOT_SELECTOR = "[data-element-call-root]";
+
+// Both are `:where()`, which has no specificity of its own, so the rules keep
+// exactly the weight they had before being scoped and nothing in Element Call's
+// cascade changes — only where it applies.
+//
+// The root, or anything inside it. Appended to the element a rule is about,
+// rather than prepended to the whole selector, so that a rule about the root
+// itself (its theme class, say) still matches.
+const IN_ROOT = `:where(${ROOT_SELECTOR}, ${ROOT_SELECTOR} *)`;
+// The root itself, standing in for the document.
+const IS_ROOT = `:where(${ROOT_SELECTOR})`;
+
+/**
+ * Confines a stylesheet to Element Call's root element, for the build of
+ * Element Call as a component.
+ *
+ * As a page of its own, Element Call can style the document: normalize.css and
+ * Compound speak of `html`, `body` and bare elements, and the design tokens are
+ * declared on `:root`. As a component, all of that would land on the host's
+ * document too. This rewrites every selector so that it matches only the root
+ * or its descendants:
+ *
+ * - `html`, `body` and `:root` become the root element, which is what stands in
+ *   for the document inside a host.
+ * - Everything else keeps its selector and gains `:where([data-element-call-root],
+ *   [data-element-call-root] *)` on the element it styles.
+ * - Selectors that already name the root are left alone, as are keyframe
+ *   selectors and rules nested inside another rule, which are relative to it.
+ *
+ * CSS modules are scoped by their class names already, so only their selectors
+ * that would match by element alone — `pre` rather than `.pre` — are touched.
+ *
+ * The root's fonts and design tokens are still inherited by everything inside
+ * it, the way they were from `body` and `:root`, and `@font-face` declarations
+ * stay global, which they are by nature.
+ */
+export function scopeStylesToRoot(): Plugin {
+  return {
+    postcssPlugin: "element-call-scope-styles-to-root",
+    Once(root) {
+      const isModule =
+        root.source?.input.file?.endsWith(".module.css") ?? false;
+      root.walkRules((rule) => {
+        if (isRelative(rule)) return;
+        rule.selector = (isModule ? scopeBare : scopeAll).processSync(
+          rule.selector,
+          { lossless: false },
+        );
+      });
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+/** Whether a rule's selectors are relative to something other than the document. */
+function isRelative(rule: Rule): boolean {
+  let parent: Container | Document | undefined = rule.parent;
+  while (parent !== undefined) {
+    if (parent.type === "rule") return true;
+    if (parent.type === "atrule") {
+      const { name } = parent as AtRule;
+      if (name.endsWith("keyframes") || name === "page") return true;
+    }
+    parent = parent.parent;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+const processor = (isModule: boolean): ReturnType<typeof selectorParser> =>
+  selectorParser((selectors) => {
+    selectors.each((selector) => {
+      scopeSelector(selector, isModule);
+    });
+    // Mapping `html, body` onto the root leaves the same selector twice
+    const seen = new Set<string>();
+    selectors.each((selector) => {
+      const text = String(selector).trim();
+      if (seen.has(text)) selector.remove();
+      else seen.add(text);
+    });
+  });
+
+// Everything, for stylesheets that speak of the document; only what a class
+// does not already confine, for CSS modules
+const scopeAll = processor(false);
+const scopeBare = processor(true);
+
+function scopeSelector(selector: Selector, isModule: boolean): void {
+  if (String(selector).includes(ROOT_SELECTOR)) return;
+
+  const compounds = splitCompounds(selector);
+  if (compounds.length === 0) return;
+
+  // Something said of the document is said of the root instead
+  const document = compounds[0].find(isDocumentSelector);
+  if (document !== undefined) {
+    document.replaceWith(pseudo(IS_ROOT));
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const subject = compounds.at(-1)!;
+  if (isModule && subject.some((node) => node.type === "class")) return;
+
+  // Pseudo-elements have to come last in a compound selector
+  const pseudoElement = subject.find(isPseudoElement);
+  if (pseudoElement === undefined) selector.append(pseudo(IN_ROOT));
+  else selector.insertBefore(pseudoElement, pseudo(IN_ROOT));
+}
+
+/** The compound selectors making up a complex selector, in order. */
+function splitCompounds(selector: Selector): Node[][] {
+  const compounds: Node[][] = [[]];
+  for (const node of selector.nodes) {
+    if (node.type === "combinator") compounds.push([]);
+    else if (node.type !== "comment") compounds.at(-1)!.push(node);
+  }
+  return compounds.filter((compound) => compound.length > 0);
+}
+
+function isDocumentSelector(node: Node): boolean {
+  return (
+    (node.type === "tag" && (node.value === "html" || node.value === "body")) ||
+    (node.type === "pseudo" && node.value === ":root")
+  );
+}
+
+function isPseudoElement(node: Node): node is Pseudo {
+  if (node.type !== "pseudo") return false;
+  return (
+    node.value.startsWith("::") ||
+    [":before", ":after", ":first-line", ":first-letter"].includes(node.value)
+  );
+}
+
+function pseudo(text: string): Pseudo {
+  return selectorParser().astSync(text).nodes[0].nodes[0].clone() as Pseudo;
+}

component/dev/DevHostBridge.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { type ElementCallHostBridge } from "../index";
+
+/**
+ * A host bridge that reports everything it is told, so that the harness can
+ * watch what Element Call says to its host. (What the host says to Element
+ * Call goes through the component's handle, and is logged by the pane.)
+ */
+export function createDevHostBridge(
+  log: (message: string) => void,
+  /** What the host does when Element Call asks to be closed. */
+  onClose: () => void,
+): ElementCallHostBridge {
+  /**
+   * Records something Element Call told the host. Nothing is sent anywhere, so
+   * this is only asynchronous because a real host's answer would have to be.
+   */
+  const told = async (message: string): Promise<void> => {
+    log(`→ ${message}`);
+    await Promise.resolve();
+  };
+
+  return {
+    setAlwaysOnScreen: async (alwaysOnScreen): Promise<void> =>
+      await told(`setAlwaysOnScreen(${alwaysOnScreen})`),
+    contentLoaded: async (): Promise<void> => await told("contentLoaded"),
+    notifyJoined: async (): Promise<void> => await told("notifyJoined"),
+    notifyHungUp: async (): Promise<void> => await told("notifyHungUp"),
+    notifyDeviceMute: async (state): Promise<void> =>
+      await told(
+        `notifyDeviceMute(audio: ${state.audio_enabled}, video: ${state.video_enabled})`,
+      ),
+    // Present because this host really can dismiss Element Call, which is what
+    // makes it offer a close affordance at all
+    close: async (): Promise<void> => {
+      await told("close");
+      onClose();
+    },
+  };
+}

component/dev/Harness.module.css

@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+.credentials {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 8px;
+  max-inline-size: 420px;
+  margin: 48px auto;
+  padding: 24px;
+  background-color: #ffffff;
+  border: 1px solid #d4d4d8;
+  border-radius: 8px;
+}
+
+.field {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 4px;
+}
+
+.error {
+  color: #b91c1c;
+}
+
+.harness {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-rows: auto 1fr auto;
+  block-size: 100%;
+}
+
+.header,
+.paneBar {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 12px;
+  padding: 8px 12px;
+  border-block-end: 1px solid #d4d4d8;
+  background-color: #ffffff;
+}
+
+.header h1 {
+  font-size: 16px;
+  margin: 0;
+}
+
+.middle {
+  display: flex;
+  min-block-size: 0;
+}
+
+.sidebar {
+  flex: 0 0 220px;
+  padding: 12px;
+  border-inline-end: 1px solid #d4d4d8;
+  background-color: #ffffff;
+  overflow-y: auto;
+}
+
+.panes {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  /* So that a pane is the size it was dragged to, rather than being stretched
+  to fill the row */
+  align-items: flex-start;
+  align-content: flex-start;
+  gap: 16px;
+  padding: 16px;
+  flex: 1;
+  min-inline-size: 0;
+  overflow: auto;
+}
+
+.pane {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  border: 1px solid #d4d4d8;
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  background-color: #ffffff;
+}
+
+.paneBar {
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  gap: 6px;
+  border-block-end: none;
+}
+
+/* The space the host gives Element Call. Resizable so that the sizes it has to
+cope with can be found by dragging rather than by rebuilding, and `overflow:
+hidden` both to enable the resize handle and to show up anything inside Element
+Call that does not fit the box it was given. */
+.paneCall {
+  inline-size: 560px;
+  block-size: 420px;
+  min-inline-size: 180px;
+  min-block-size: 180px;
+  resize: both;
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+
+.log {
+  max-block-size: 180px;
+  overflow-y: auto;
+  padding: 8px 12px;
+  border-block-start: 1px solid #d4d4d8;
+  background-color: #ffffff;
+  font-size: 12px;
+}
+
+.log h2 {
+  font-size: 13px;
+  margin: 0 0 4px;
+}
+
+.log ol {
+  margin: 0;
+  padding: 0;
+  list-style: none;
+}
+
+/* A host overlay, which Element Call must not be able to draw over */
+.dialogScrim {
+  position: fixed;
+  inset: 0;
+  display: grid;
+  place-items: center;
+  background-color: rgb(0 0 0 / 50%);
+  z-index: 10;
+}
+
+.dialog {
+  padding: 24px;
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  background-color: #ffffff;
+}

component/dev/Harness.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,380 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import {
+  type FC,
+  type FormEvent,
+  type ReactNode,
+  useCallback,
+  useMemo,
+  useRef,
+  useState,
+} from "react";
+import { type MatrixClient } from "matrix-js-sdk";
+import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
+
+import {
+  ElementCall,
+  type ElementCallHandle,
+  supportedLanguages,
+} from "../index";
+import { createDevHostBridge } from "./DevHostBridge";
+import { createSession, joinRoom } from "./session";
+import styles from "./Harness.module.css";
+
+interface Credentials {
+  homeserver: string;
+  username: string;
+  password: string;
+  room: string;
+}
+
+const CREDENTIALS_KEY = "element-call-component-harness";
+
+const DEFAULT_CREDENTIALS: Credentials = {
+  homeserver: "https://synapse.m.localhost",
+  username: "",
+  password: "",
+  room: "",
+};
+
+/**
+ * The credentials to start with: the last ones used, so that a reload does not
+ * mean typing them again, overridden by anything in the query string.
+ *
+ * A host reading its own URL is entirely proper — it was Element Call doing so
+ * that was the mistake. It lets the end-to-end tests, or a shared link, say
+ * which account and room to use.
+ */
+function loadCredentials(): Credentials {
+  let stored: Partial<Credentials> = {};
+  try {
+    const json = localStorage.getItem(CREDENTIALS_KEY);
+    if (json !== null) stored = JSON.parse(json) as Credentials;
+  } catch (e) {
+    logger.warn("Could not read the stored harness credentials", e);
+  }
+
+  const query = new URLSearchParams(location.search);
+  const fromUrl = Object.fromEntries(
+    (["homeserver", "username", "password", "room"] as const)
+      .map((name) => [name, query.get(name)])
+      .filter(([, value]) => value !== null),
+  ) as Partial<Credentials>;
+
+  return { ...DEFAULT_CREDENTIALS, ...stored, ...fromUrl };
+}
+
+interface Session {
+  label: string;
+  client: MatrixClient;
+}
+
+type State =
+  | { phase: "credentials" }
+  | { phase: "starting"; progress: string }
+  | { phase: "started"; roomId: string; sessions: Session[] }
+  | { phase: "failed"; error: string };
+
+interface LogEntry {
+  pane: string;
+  message: string;
+  at: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * One Element Call component, with the controls a host would have over it: the
+ * requests it can make of Element Call, and the ability to take it off screen
+ * altogether.
+ */
+const Pane: FC<{
+  session: Session;
+  roomId: string;
+  theme: string | undefined;
+  language: string | undefined;
+  log: (pane: string, message: string) => void;
+}> = ({ session, roomId, theme, language, log }): ReactNode => {
+  const [mounted, setMounted] = useState(true);
+
+  const bridge = useMemo(
+    () =>
+      createDevHostBridge(
+        (message) => log(session.label, message),
+        () => setMounted(false),
+      ),
+    [log, session.label],
+  );
+
+  // What the host asks of Element Call goes through the component's handle.
+  // Worth saying out loud when a request is refused — asking to hang up when
+  // there is no call, say — since that is the sort of thing the harness is for.
+  const handle = useRef<ElementCallHandle>(null);
+  const ask = (
+    name: string,
+    make: (handle: ElementCallHandle) => Promise<unknown>,
+  ): void => {
+    if (handle.current === null) {
+      log(session.label, `← ${name}: not mounted`);
+      return;
+    }
+    log(session.label, `← ${name}`);
+    make(handle.current).then(
+      (reply) =>
+        log(
+          session.label,
+          `→ ${name} acknowledged${reply === undefined ? "" : `: ${JSON.stringify(reply)}`}`,
+        ),
+      (e: unknown) => log(session.label, `→ ${name} refused: ${e}`),
+    );
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <section className={styles.pane} data-testid="call-pane">
+      <div className={styles.paneBar}>
+        <strong>{session.label}</strong>
+        <code>{session.client.getDeviceId()}</code>
+        <button onClick={(): void => setMounted((m) => !m)}>
+          {mounted ? "Unmount" : "Mount"}
+        </button>
+        <button
+          onClick={(): void =>
+            ask(
+              "setDeviceMute(audio: false)",
+              async (h) => await h.setDeviceMute({ audio_enabled: false }),
+            )
+          }
+        >
+          Mute
+        </button>
+        <button
+          onClick={(): void => ask("hangUp", async (h) => await h.hangUp())}
+        >
+          Hang up
+        </button>
+      </div>
+      {/* Resizable, because how Element Call copes with the size it is given is
+      one of the things we cannot find out from the standalone app */}
+      <div className={styles.paneCall} data-testid="call-container">
+        {mounted && (
+          <ElementCall
+            ref={handle}
+            client={session.client}
+            roomId={roomId}
+            hostBridge={bridge}
+            theme={theme}
+            language={language}
+          />
+        )}
+      </div>
+    </section>
+  );
+};
+
+/** Host furniture, to make it visible if Element Call styles anything but itself. */
+const HostChrome: FC = (): ReactNode => (
+  <nav className={styles.sidebar}>
+    <h2>Host chrome</h2>
+    <p>
+      This column belongs to the host. If Element Call&apos;s stylesheet reaches
+      outside its own container, it shows up here.
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <ul>
+      <li>Some room</li>
+      <li>Another room</li>
+    </ul>
+    <button>A host button</button>
+  </nav>
+);
+
+/**
+ * A dialog of the host's own, over the top of the calls. Element Call as a
+ * component has to sit underneath this — being unable to is one of the reasons
+ * for a component rather than an iframe.
+ */
+const HostDialog: FC<{ onClose: () => void }> = ({ onClose }): ReactNode => (
+  <div className={styles.dialogScrim}>
+    <div className={styles.dialog}>
+      <h2>A dialog belonging to the host</h2>
+      <p>This should cover the calls completely.</p>
+      <button onClick={onClose}>Close</button>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+);
+
+/**
+ * Stands in for a host application using the Element Call component: it owns the Matrix
+ * clients, the page and the space each call is given, and reaches Element Call
+ * only through the component's public interface.
+ *
+ * Two calls at once, from two devices of the same account, so that a real call
+ * happens between them and anything Element Call keeps once per process rather
+ * than once per call shows itself.
+ */
+export const Harness: FC = (): ReactNode => {
+  const [credentials, setCredentials] = useState(loadCredentials);
+  const [state, setState] = useState<State>({ phase: "credentials" });
+  const [entries, setEntries] = useState<LogEntry[]>([]);
+  const [dialogOpen, setDialogOpen] = useState(false);
+  // The host's language setting, which Element Call follows. Undefined means
+  // the host has none and Element Call uses the browser's.
+  const [language, setLanguage] = useState<string | undefined>(undefined);
+  const [theme, setTheme] = useState<string | undefined>(undefined);
+
+  const log = useCallback((pane: string, message: string): void => {
+    setEntries((entries) =>
+      [
+        ...entries,
+        { pane, message, at: new Date().toLocaleTimeString() },
+      ].slice(-100),
+    );
+  }, []);
+
+  const start = useCallback(
+    (event: FormEvent): void => {
+      event.preventDefault();
+      localStorage.setItem(CREDENTIALS_KEY, JSON.stringify(credentials));
+      const { homeserver, username, password, room } = credentials;
+
+      const progress = (message: string): void =>
+        setState({ phase: "starting", progress: message });
+      progress("Starting");
+
+      void (async (): Promise<void> => {
+        try {
+          // One at a time: two logins at once from the same account is the
+          // shape of request homeservers rate limit
+          const sessions: Session[] = [];
+          for (const label of ["Call A", "Call B"])
+            sessions.push({
+              label,
+              client: await createSession(
+                homeserver,
+                username,
+                password,
+                (message) => progress(`${label}: ${message}`),
+              ),
+            });
+
+          progress("Joining the room");
+          let roomId = room;
+          for (const { client } of sessions)
+            roomId = await joinRoom(client, roomId);
+
+          setState({ phase: "started", roomId, sessions });
+        } catch (e) {
+          logger.error("The harness could not start", e);
+          setState({ phase: "failed", error: `${e}` });
+        }
+      })();
+    },
+    [credentials],
+  );
+
+  const field = (
+    name: keyof Credentials,
+    label: string,
+    type = "text",
+  ): ReactNode => (
+    <label className={styles.field}>
+      {label}
+      <input
+        type={type}
+        value={credentials[name]}
+        onChange={(e): void =>
+          setCredentials((c) => ({ ...c, [name]: e.target.value }))
+        }
+      />
+    </label>
+  );
+
+  if (state.phase !== "started")
+    return (
+      <form className={styles.credentials} onSubmit={start}>
+        <h1>Element Call component harness</h1>
+        <p>
+          Signs in twice and shows the Element Call component twice, in a page
+          that is not Element Call&apos;s own.
+        </p>
+        {field("homeserver", "Homeserver")}
+        {field("username", "Username")}
+        {field("password", "Password", "password")}
+        {field("room", "Room ID or alias")}
+        <button type="submit" disabled={state.phase === "starting"}>
+          Start
+        </button>
+        {state.phase === "starting" && <p>{state.progress}</p>}
+        {state.phase === "failed" && (
+          <p className={styles.error}>{state.error}</p>
+        )}
+      </form>
+    );
+
+  return (
+    <div className={styles.harness}>
+      <header className={styles.header}>
+        <h1>Element Call component harness</h1>
+        <code>{state.roomId}</code>
+        <button onClick={(): void => setDialogOpen(true)}>
+          Open a host dialog
+        </button>
+        <label>
+          Theme{" "}
+          <select
+            value={theme ?? ""}
+            onChange={(e): void => setTheme(e.target.value || undefined)}
+          >
+            <option value="">Element Call&apos;s choice</option>
+            <option value="light">light</option>
+            <option value="dark">dark</option>
+          </select>
+        </label>
+        <label>
+          Language{" "}
+          <select
+            value={language ?? ""}
+            onChange={(e): void => setLanguage(e.target.value || undefined)}
+          >
+            <option value="">Browser default</option>
+            {supportedLanguages.map((tag) => (
+              <option key={tag} value={tag}>
+                {tag}
+              </option>
+            ))}
+          </select>
+        </label>
+      </header>
+      <div className={styles.middle}>
+        <HostChrome />
+        <main className={styles.panes}>
+          {state.sessions.map((session) => (
+            <Pane
+              key={session.label}
+              session={session}
+              roomId={state.roomId}
+              theme={theme}
+              language={language}
+              log={log}
+            />
+          ))}
+        </main>
+      </div>
+      <section className={styles.log} data-testid="bridge-log">
+        <h2>Host bridge</h2>
+        <ol>
+          {entries.map((entry, i) => (
+            <li key={i}>
+              <code>{entry.at}</code> <strong>{entry.pane}</strong>{" "}
+              {entry.message}
+            </li>
+          ))}
+        </ol>
+      </section>
+      {dialogOpen && <HostDialog onClose={(): void => setDialogOpen(false)} />}
+    </div>
+  );
+};

component/dev/host.css

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+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+/* The host page's own styles. Deliberately plain, and deliberately not using
+Element Call's design tokens: the harness should look like it does because of
+this file, not because Element Call styled it. */
+
+html,
+body,
+#root {
+  height: 100%;
+}
+
+body {
+  margin: 0;
+  font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
+  background-color: #f4f4f5;
+  color: #18181b;
+}

component/dev/index.html

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+<!doctype html>
+<!--
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+-->
+<html lang="en">
+  <head>
+    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
+    <title>Element Call component harness</title>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <!-- Deliberately plain: this page stands in for a host application, so
+    anything it looks like must have come from the host's own styles or from
+    Element Call reaching outside its container. -->
+    <div id="root"></div>
+    <script type="module" src="./main.tsx"></script>
+  </body>
+</html>

component/dev/main.tsx

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+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { StrictMode } from "react";
+import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client";
+import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
+
+import { type ConfigOptions, initializeElementCall } from "../index";
+import { Harness } from "./Harness";
+// After Element Call's, so that the host has the last word on its own page
+import "./host.css";
+
+/**
+ * The development app's own `config.json`, so that the harness runs Element
+ * Call the way `pnpm dev` does. It is not in the repository — developers copy
+ * it from `config/config.devenv.json` — so its absence is expected rather than
+ * an error.
+ */
+async function loadConfig(): Promise<ConfigOptions> {
+  try {
+    const response = await fetch("/config.json");
+    if (response.ok) return (await response.json()) as ConfigOptions;
+    logger.warn(
+      `No config.json (${response.status}); running with Element Call's defaults`,
+    );
+  } catch (e) {
+    logger.warn("Could not read config.json", e);
+  }
+  return {};
+}
+
+await initializeElementCall(await loadConfig());
+
+createRoot(document.getElementById("root")!).render(
+  <StrictMode>
+    <Harness />
+  </StrictMode>,
+);

component/dev/session.ts

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+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import {
+  ClientEvent,
+  createClient,
+  type MatrixClient,
+  MemoryStore,
+  SyncState,
+} from "matrix-js-sdk";
+
+/**
+ * Logs in and brings up a client the way a host application would, so that the
+ * component is handed a real one rather than something Element Call built for
+ * itself.
+ *
+ * Everything is kept in memory and a fresh login happens on every reload. That
+ * costs a device on the development homeserver each time, which is harmless,
+ * and buys the harness two clients that cannot tread on each other's storage.
+ * Persisting the login to make reloads quicker would mean persisting the
+ * crypto store too: reusing a device ID with a fresh crypto store generates new
+ * device keys, and uploading them conflicts with the ones the server already
+ * holds.
+ */
+export async function createSession(
+  homeserver: string,
+  username: string,
+  password: string,
+  onProgress: (message: string) => void,
+): Promise<MatrixClient> {
+  onProgress("Logging in");
+  const login = await createClient({ baseUrl: homeserver }).login(
+    "m.login.password",
+    { identifier: { type: "m.id.user", user: username }, password },
+  );
+
+  const client = createClient({
+    baseUrl: homeserver,
+    accessToken: login.access_token,
+    userId: login.user_id,
+    deviceId: login.device_id,
+    store: new MemoryStore(),
+    useAuthorizationHeader: true,
+    fallbackICEServerAllowed: true,
+  });
+
+  onProgress(`Setting up crypto for ${login.device_id}`);
+  await client.initRustCrypto({ useIndexedDB: false });
+
+  onProgress(`Syncing ${login.device_id}`);
+  await client.startClient();
+  await new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+    const onSync = (state: SyncState): void => {
+      if (state !== SyncState.Prepared && state !== SyncState.Syncing) return;
+      client.off(ClientEvent.Sync, onSync);
+      resolve();
+    };
+    client.on(ClientEvent.Sync, onSync);
+  });
+
+  return client;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The room to call in, joining it if this session is not in it yet — a host
+ * hands Element Call a room it already knows about, so the harness has to get
+ * itself into that position first.
+ */
+export async function joinRoom(
+  client: MatrixClient,
+  roomIdOrAlias: string,
+): Promise<string> {
+  const room = await client.joinRoom(roomIdOrAlias);
+  return room.roomId;
+}

component/host.test.ts

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+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { renderHook } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { createRef } from "react";
+import { describe, expect, test, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import {
+  type ElementCallHandle,
+  type ElementCallHostBridge,
+  useComponentHostBridge,
+} from "./host";
+
+describe("useComponentHostBridge", () => {
+  test("keeps one identity while the host supplies new objects", () => {
+    const { result, rerender } = renderHook(
+      ({ supplied }: { supplied: ElementCallHostBridge }) =>
+        useComponentHostBridge(supplied, undefined, undefined),
+      { initialProps: { supplied: {} } },
+    );
+    const first = result.current;
+    rerender({ supplied: { notifyJoined: async () => {} } });
+    expect(result.current).toBe(first);
+  });
+
+  test("forwards to whatever the host most recently supplied", async () => {
+    const before = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    const after = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    const { result, rerender } = renderHook(
+      ({ supplied }: { supplied: ElementCallHostBridge }) =>
+        useComponentHostBridge(supplied, undefined, undefined),
+      { initialProps: { supplied: { notifyJoined: before } } },
+    );
+    rerender({ supplied: { notifyJoined: after } });
+
+    await result.current.notifyJoined();
+    expect(before).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(after).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+  });
+
+  test("is quiet about what the host did not implement", async () => {
+    const { result } = renderHook(() =>
+      useComponentHostBridge(undefined, undefined, undefined),
+    );
+    await expect(result.current.contentLoaded()).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+    await expect(
+      result.current.notifyDeviceMute({
+        audio_enabled: true,
+        video_enabled: false,
+      }),
+    ).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+    expect(result.current.supportsReactions).toBe(true);
+    // Starting the user unmuted unasked is something a host has to opt into
+    expect(result.current.allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  test("lets the host allow joining unmuted on the intent", () => {
+    const { result, rerender } = renderHook(
+      ({ supplied }: { supplied: ElementCallHostBridge }) =>
+        useComponentHostBridge(supplied, undefined, undefined),
+      { initialProps: { supplied: {} } },
+    );
+    expect(result.current.allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent).toBe(false);
+
+    // Read through to whatever the host most recently said
+    rerender({ supplied: { allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent: true } });
+    expect(result.current.allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test("only has a close when the host has one, since that is a signal", () => {
+    const { result, rerender } = renderHook(
+      ({ supplied }: { supplied: ElementCallHostBridge }) =>
+        useComponentHostBridge(supplied, undefined, undefined),
+      { initialProps: { supplied: {} } },
+    );
+    expect(result.current.close).toBeUndefined();
+
+    const close = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    rerender({ supplied: { close } });
+    expect(result.current.close).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  test("never offers profile changes, since the account is the host's", () => {
+    const { result } = renderHook(() =>
+      useComponentHostBridge(undefined, undefined, undefined),
+    );
+    expect(result.current.supportsProfileChanges).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  describe("the handle", () => {
+    test("delivers a request to what is listening and resolves on its reply", async () => {
+      const ref = createRef<ElementCallHandle>();
+      const { result } = renderHook(() =>
+        useComponentHostBridge(undefined, ref, undefined),
+      );
+
+      const received = vi.fn();
+      result.current.deviceMute$.subscribe(({ data, reply }) => {
+        received(data);
+        reply({ audio_enabled: data.audio_enabled!, video_enabled: true });
+      });
+
+      await expect(
+        ref.current!.setDeviceMute({ audio_enabled: false }),
+      ).resolves.toEqual({ audio_enabled: false, video_enabled: true });
+      expect(received).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ audio_enabled: false });
+    });
+
+    test("refuses a request nothing in Element Call is listening for", async () => {
+      const ref = createRef<ElementCallHandle>();
+      renderHook(() => useComponentHostBridge(undefined, ref, undefined));
+
+      await expect(ref.current!.hangUp()).rejects.toThrow(
+        "Nothing in Element Call can hang up right now",
+      );
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("the theme", () => {
+    test("reaches a subscriber that arrives after it was set", () => {
+      const { result } = renderHook(() =>
+        useComponentHostBridge(undefined, undefined, "light"),
+      );
+      const names: (string | undefined)[] = [];
+      result.current.themeChange$.subscribe(({ data }) =>
+        names.push(data.name),
+      );
+      expect(names).toEqual(["light"]);
+    });
+
+    test("follows the prop", () => {
+      const { result, rerender } = renderHook(
+        ({ theme }: { theme: string | undefined }) =>
+          useComponentHostBridge(undefined, undefined, theme),
+        { initialProps: { theme: "light" } },
+      );
+      const names: (string | undefined)[] = [];
+      result.current.themeChange$.subscribe(({ data }) =>
+        names.push(data.name),
+      );
+
+      rerender({ theme: "dark" });
+      expect(names).toEqual(["light", "dark"]);
+    });
+
+    test("says nothing when the host leaves the theme to Element Call", () => {
+      const { result } = renderHook(() =>
+        useComponentHostBridge(undefined, undefined, undefined),
+      );
+      const names: (string | undefined)[] = [];
+      result.current.themeChange$.subscribe(({ data }) =>
+        names.push(data.name),
+      );
+      expect(names).toEqual([]);
+    });
+  });
+});

component/host.ts

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+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+/**
+ * How a host application and the Element Call component talk to each other.
+ *
+ * Inside Element Call the host is a {@link HostBridge}, which carries the
+ * host's requests as rxjs observables because that is what the widget API and
+ * the view models work in. A host should not have to know about rxjs, or agree
+ * with us on a version of it, so a component host sees neither: it implements
+ * plain async callbacks for what Element Call tells it, and makes its own
+ * requests through an imperative handle on the component, the way it would
+ * call `play()` on a video element. This module adapts the one to the other.
+ */
+
+import { type Ref, useEffect, useImperativeHandle } from "react";
+import { ReplaySubject, Subject } from "rxjs";
+
+import {
+  type DeviceMuteRequest,
+  type DeviceMuteState,
+  type HostBridge,
+  type HostRequest,
+} from "../src/HostBridge";
+import { type JoinCallData } from "../src/widget";
+import { useInitial } from "../src/useInitial";
+import { useLatest } from "../src/useLatest";
+
+/**
+ * What Element Call tells the application hosting it as a component.
+ * Everything is optional: a host implements what it wants to hear about.
+ *
+ * Compared by nothing — Element Call always calls whichever one it was most
+ * recently given, so this may be written inline.
+ */
+export interface ElementCallHostBridge {
+  /**
+   * Asks the host to keep Element Call on screen (or stop doing so), so that a
+   * call in progress is not torn down when the user navigates elsewhere.
+   */
+  setAlwaysOnScreen?(alwaysOnScreen: boolean): Promise<void>;
+  /** Tells the host that Element Call has finished loading. */
+  contentLoaded?(): Promise<void>;
+  /** Tells the host that the user has joined the call. */
+  notifyJoined?(): Promise<void>;
+  /** Tells the host that the user has hung up. */
+  notifyHungUp?(): Promise<void>;
+  /** Tells the host the user's current audio and video mute state. */
+  notifyDeviceMute?(state: DeviceMuteState): Promise<void>;
+  /**
+   * Asks the host to close Element Call: to unmount the component. Its
+   * presence is what makes Element Call offer a close button on its error
+   * screens, and leave the host to decide what is shown once a call has ended.
+   * Without it, Element Call shows its own post-call screen, if it has one for
+   * the situation, or nothing.
+   */
+  close?(): Promise<void>;
+  /**
+   * Whether Element Call may send and receive reactions in this room.
+   * Defaults to true.
+   */
+  readonly supportsReactions?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Whether the user may start unmuted when the intent skips the lobby, so
+   * that they never see their devices before joining. Defaults to false: the
+   * user starts muted and unmutes themselves. A host that chose the intent on
+   * the user's behalf, and is sure they expect to be heard and seen at once,
+   * says so here — as a Matrix client hosting Element Call as a widget does.
+   */
+  readonly allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent?: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * What a host can ask of a mounted Element Call, reached through the
+ * component's `ref`. Each request resolves once Element Call has acted on it,
+ * and rejects if nothing in Element Call is in a position to act: hanging up
+ * when there is no call, say.
+ */
+export interface ElementCallHandle {
+  /**
+   * Joins the call, when Element Call was configured to `preload` and is
+   * waiting to be told to. Says which devices to join with.
+   */
+  join(devices: JoinCallData): Promise<void>;
+  /** Leaves the call. */
+  hangUp(): Promise<void>;
+  /**
+   * Changes the mute state, for whichever of audio and video is given, and
+   * reports the state that results.
+   */
+  setDeviceMute(request: DeviceMuteRequest): Promise<DeviceMuteState>;
+}
+
+/** Hands a request to Element Call and waits for it to be acknowledged. */
+async function request<Data, Reply>(
+  listeners: Subject<HostRequest<Data, Reply>>,
+  what: string,
+  data: Data,
+): Promise<Reply> {
+  if (!listeners.observed)
+    throw new Error(`Nothing in Element Call can ${what} right now`);
+  return await new Promise((resolve) =>
+    listeners.next({ data, reply: resolve }),
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * The {@link HostBridge} the rest of Element Call sees, built from what a
+ * component host supplies and wired to the handle it is given.
+ *
+ * The bridge is created once and never changes identity — everything that
+ * depends on it would otherwise restart when the host re-rendered with a new
+ * object — and forwards each call to whatever the host most recently passed.
+ */
+export function useComponentHostBridge(
+  supplied: ElementCallHostBridge | undefined,
+  ref: Ref<ElementCallHandle> | undefined,
+  /** The theme the host wants, or undefined to leave it to Element Call. */
+  theme: string | undefined,
+): HostBridge {
+  const latest = useLatest(supplied ?? {});
+
+  const requests = useInitial(() => ({
+    // The theme is state, not an event: a `theme` prop rather than a request
+    // on the handle. It travels this channel because that is how the rest of
+    // Element Call hears about a host's theme, and replays so that whatever
+    // subscribes after the host has set it — everything, on first render —
+    // still hears the current one.
+    themeChange$: new ReplaySubject<HostRequest<{ name?: string }>>(1),
+    join$: new Subject<HostRequest<JoinCallData>>(),
+    hangUp$: new Subject<HostRequest<Record<string, never>>>(),
+    deviceMute$: new Subject<HostRequest<DeviceMuteRequest, DeviceMuteState>>(),
+  }));
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (theme !== undefined)
+      requests.themeChange$.next({ data: { name: theme }, reply: () => {} });
+  }, [requests, theme]);
+
+  const bridge = useInitial((): HostBridge => ({
+    setAlwaysOnScreen: async (alwaysOnScreen) => {
+      await latest.current.setAlwaysOnScreen?.(alwaysOnScreen);
+    },
+    contentLoaded: async () => {
+      await latest.current.contentLoaded?.();
+    },
+    notifyJoined: async () => {
+      await latest.current.notifyJoined?.();
+    },
+    notifyHungUp: async () => {
+      await latest.current.notifyHungUp?.();
+    },
+    notifyDeviceMute: async (state) => {
+      await latest.current.notifyDeviceMute?.(state);
+    },
+    // Whether these exist is itself information, so they are read through
+    // rather than wrapped unconditionally
+    get close() {
+      const close = latest.current.close;
+      return close === undefined
+        ? undefined
+        : async (): Promise<void> => await close();
+    },
+    // Not offered to a component host: the client it hands over holds the
+    // credentials to fetch media itself. A widget's client does not, which
+    // is what the internal bridge's `downloadMedia` is for.
+    get supportsReactions(): boolean {
+      return latest.current.supportsReactions ?? true;
+    },
+    get allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent(): boolean {
+      return latest.current.allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent ?? false;
+    },
+    // Whatever the host says or does not say, the account is its own: it
+    // signed the user in and handed us the client. So Element Call never
+    // offers to edit the profile from inside a component.
+    supportsProfileChanges: false,
+    ...requests,
+  }));
+
+  useImperativeHandle(
+    ref,
+    (): ElementCallHandle => ({
+      join: async (devices) =>
+        await request(requests.join$, "join a call", devices),
+      hangUp: async () => await request(requests.hangUp$, "hang up", {}),
+      setDeviceMute: async (muteRequest) =>
+        await request(
+          requests.deviceMute$,
+          "change the mute state",
+          muteRequest,
+        ),
+    }),
+    [requests],
+  );
+
+  return bridge;
+}

component/index.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,358 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+/**
+ * EXPERIMENTAL
+ *
+ * Element Call as a React component, for an application that wants to show a
+ * call inside itself rather than in an iframe.
+ *
+ * The host supplies the client and says which room to call in; Element Call
+ * supplies the call. Everything it would otherwise take from the page it is on
+ * — the URL, the document body, a Matrix session of its own — comes from the
+ * host instead, or is confined to the container it is mounted in.
+ */
+
+// The design tokens, fonts and element defaults every Element Call stylesheet
+// builds on. Written for a page, they speak of `html`, `body` and bare
+// elements; the component build confines them, and every other stylesheet in
+// this bundle, to the root element below (see build/scopeStylesToRoot.ts), so
+// that the host's document is left as it was.
+//
+// Where these land relative to the component stylesheets is the bundler's
+// choice — the standalone app puts them first, this build puts them in the
+// middle — so nothing in base.css may depend on winning or losing against a
+// component's own rules at equal specificity. It currently does not: what it
+// declares unlayered is custom properties on Element Call's root, which
+// components inherit rather than compete with, and everything from Compound
+// sits in a `@layer`, which loses to unlayered rules either way.
+import "../src/base.css";
+
+import {
+  type FC,
+  type JSX,
+  type ReactNode,
+  type Ref,
+  useEffect,
+  useLayoutEffect,
+  useMemo,
+  useRef,
+  useState,
+} from "react";
+import { type MatrixClient } from "matrix-js-sdk";
+import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
+import { I18nextProvider } from "react-i18next";
+import { TooltipProvider } from "@vector-im/compound-web";
+import { ErrorBoundary } from "@sentry/react";
+import { shouldPolyfill as shouldPolyfillSegmenter } from "@formatjs/intl-segmenter/should-polyfill";
+import { shouldPolyfill as shouldPolyfillDurationFormat } from "@formatjs/intl-durationformat/should-polyfill.js";
+
+import LanguageDetector from "i18next-browser-languagedetector";
+
+import EN from "../locales/en/app.json";
+import { CallView } from "../src/room/CallView";
+import { ErrorPage } from "../src/FullScreenView";
+import { ClientProvider } from "../src/ClientContext";
+import { HostBridgeProvider } from "../src/HostBridge";
+import { RootElementProvider, useRootElement } from "../src/RootElementContext";
+import {
+  configurationForIntent,
+  componentProperties,
+  type UrlConfiguration,
+  type UrlParams,
+  UrlParamsProvider,
+  type UrlProperties,
+  UserIntent,
+  useUrlParams,
+} from "../src/UrlParams";
+import { MediaDevicesContext } from "../src/MediaDevicesContext";
+import { MediaDevices } from "../src/state/MediaDevices";
+import { ObservableScope } from "../src/state/ObservableScope";
+import { ProcessorProvider } from "../src/livekit/TrackProcessorContext";
+import { Config } from "../src/config/Config";
+import { type ConfigOptions } from "../src/config/ConfigOptions";
+import { i18n } from "../src/utils/i18n";
+import { useTheme } from "../src/useTheme";
+import { useStableValue } from "../src/useStableValue";
+import styles from "./ElementCall.module.css";
+import {
+  type ElementCallHandle,
+  type ElementCallHostBridge,
+  useComponentHostBridge,
+} from "./host";
+import { supportedLanguages, translationsBackend } from "./localization";
+
+// The languages Element Call can be shown in
+export { supportedLanguages } from "./localization";
+
+// How the host and Element Call talk to each other, and what they say
+export { type ElementCallHandle, type ElementCallHostBridge } from "./host";
+export {
+  type DeviceMuteRequest,
+  type DeviceMuteState,
+} from "../src/HostBridge";
+export { type JoinCallData } from "../src/widget";
+// The deployment-wide configuration, as distinct from ElementCallConfiguration
+// above, which is per call
+export { type ConfigOptions } from "../src/config/ConfigOptions";
+// The values that appear in ElementCallConfiguration and in the intent
+export {
+  BackgroundStyle,
+  HeaderStyle,
+  UserIntent,
+  type UrlConfiguration,
+} from "../src/UrlParams";
+
+/**
+ * How Element Call should behave. Everything is optional; anything left out
+ * takes the default that {@link ElementCallProps.intent} implies.
+ *
+ * This is the behaviour a widget can be configured with through its URL, plus
+ * the one fact about the call a host has a say in here, the background. The
+ * rest of what a widget's URL carries — who the user is, how to reach the
+ * homeserver, where to report analytics, the shared secret of a room that is
+ * encrypted with one — a component host supplies by other routes, or not at
+ * all; and what can change while the call is running, the theme and the
+ * language, is a prop of its own.
+ */
+export type ElementCallConfiguration = Partial<UrlConfiguration> &
+  Partial<Pick<UrlProperties, "background">>;
+
+export interface ElementCallProps {
+  /**
+   * The client to place the call with. Element Call does not authenticate
+   * anyone or manage a session of its own; this one is the host's.
+   */
+  client: MatrixClient;
+  /** The room to call in. The host's client must already know about it. */
+  roomId: string;
+  /**
+   * What the user asked for — whether they started the call or joined one that
+   * was already running, and whether it is a call in a group or a DM. Element
+   * Call decides what each of those means: whether to show the lobby first,
+   * whether to ring, and so on.
+   *
+   * Defaults to joining an existing group call, which is the most conservative
+   * reading, but a host that knows which button the user pressed should say so.
+   */
+  intent?: UserIntent;
+  /**
+   * How Element Call should behave, overriding whatever {@link intent} implies.
+   * A host that finds itself setting a lot of these probably wants a different
+   * intent instead.
+   *
+   * Compared by value, so it is fine to write this inline; only a change to
+   * what it says restarts anything.
+   */
+  config?: ElementCallConfiguration;
+  /**
+   * What Element Call tells the host while the call is running: that the user
+   * has joined or hung up, that it would like to be kept on screen, and so on.
+   * Without one, Element Call assumes nobody is listening.
+   */
+  hostBridge?: ElementCallHostBridge;
+  /**
+   * What the host tells Element Call: to hang up, to mute, to join. Available
+   * once the component has rendered.
+   */
+  ref?: Ref<ElementCallHandle>;
+  /**
+   * The theme to show Element Call in, `light` or `dark`. Left out, Element
+   * Call picks. Changes take effect at once, and cost nothing else.
+   */
+  theme?: string;
+  /**
+   * The language to show Element Call in, as a BCP 47 tag: one of
+   * {@link supportedLanguages}, or something that falls back to one (`de-AT`
+   * to `de`). Left out, the browser's language is used.
+   *
+   * Translations are one thing shared by every Element Call on the page, so
+   * the most recently set language wins for all of them.
+   */
+  language?: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Prepares the things Element Call needs before it can be shown: translations,
+ * `Intl` polyfills for older browsers, and its configuration.
+ *
+ * Await this once, before rendering {@link ElementCall}.
+ */
+export async function initializeElementCall(
+  config: ConfigOptions = {},
+): Promise<void> {
+  const polyfills: Promise<unknown>[] = [];
+  if (shouldPolyfillSegmenter())
+    polyfills.push(import("@formatjs/intl-segmenter/polyfill-force"));
+  if (shouldPolyfillDurationFormat())
+    polyfills.push(import("@formatjs/intl-durationformat/polyfill-force.js"));
+  await Promise.all(polyfills);
+
+  Config.initWith(config);
+  await i18n
+    .use(translationsBackend)
+    .use(new LanguageDetector())
+    .init({
+      fallbackLng: "en",
+      defaultNS: "app",
+      keySeparator: ".",
+      nsSeparator: false,
+      pluralSeparator: "_",
+      contextSeparator: "|",
+      supportedLngs: [...supportedLanguages],
+      interpolation: { escapeValue: false },
+      // English is bundled in, so the fallback never has to be loaded; every
+      // other language arrives from the backend when first asked for.
+      partialBundledLanguages: true,
+      resources: { en: { app: EN } },
+      detection: {
+        // The browser's language, until the host says otherwise through the
+        // `language` prop. Nothing is remembered: the choice is the host's.
+        order: ["navigator"],
+        caches: [],
+      },
+    });
+}
+
+/** Applies the theme and background to the container, before it is painted. */
+const Decoration: FC<{ children: JSX.Element }> = ({ children }) => {
+  useTheme();
+  const { background } = useUrlParams();
+  const rootElement = useRootElement();
+  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    rootElement.setAttribute("data-background", background);
+  }, [rootElement, background]);
+  return children;
+};
+
+export const ElementCall: FC<ElementCallProps> = ({
+  client,
+  roomId,
+  intent = UserIntent.JoinExistingCall,
+  config,
+  hostBridge: suppliedHostBridge,
+  ref,
+  theme,
+  language,
+}): ReactNode => {
+  const hostBridge = useComponentHostBridge(suppliedHostBridge, ref, theme);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (language !== undefined)
+      i18n
+        .changeLanguage(language)
+        .catch((e) => logger.error(`Could not switch to ${language}`, e));
+  }, [language]);
+
+  // The container is what Element Call decorates and portals into, so nothing
+  // inside can render until we have it.
+  const [container, setContainer] = useState<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
+
+  // Element Call has no URL of its own to read any of this from, and the
+  // host's URL is not Element Call's business, so the defaults come from the
+  // intent with the host's wishes over the top.
+  //
+  // Everything downstream — the mute state, the call view model and with it
+  // the media connection — is keyed on the identity of this object, so it has
+  // to be stable for as long as its contents are. A host writing `config`
+  // inline would otherwise tear the call down on every render.
+  const stableConfig = useStableValue(config);
+  const params = useMemo(
+    (): UrlParams => ({
+      ...componentProperties,
+      roomId,
+      ...configurationForIntent(intent),
+      ...stableConfig,
+    }),
+    [roomId, intent, stableConfig],
+  );
+
+  // Created in an effect so that the scope it lives in ends when the component
+  // is unmounted (or these options change), rather than keeping its device
+  // observers running for the rest of the page's life. Null until then, which
+  // is one render.
+  const { controlledAudioDevices, callIntent } = params;
+  const [mediaDevices, setMediaDevices] = useState<MediaDevices | null>(null);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const scope = new ObservableScope();
+    setMediaDevices(
+      new MediaDevices(scope, { controlledAudioDevices, callIntent }),
+    );
+    return (): void => {
+      setMediaDevices(null);
+      scope.end();
+    };
+  }, [controlledAudioDevices, callIntent]);
+
+  const room = client.getRoom(roomId);
+  const rtcSession = useMemo(
+    () => (room === null ? null : client.matrixRTC.getRoomSession(room)),
+    [client, room],
+  );
+
+  if (rtcSession === null)
+    logger.error(
+      `Element Call was asked to call in ${roomId}, which its host's client does not know about`,
+    );
+
+  // Everything the call needs is in hand once these exist, and the first
+  // render with them is where the call itself appears: the moment the host
+  // is told that Element Call has loaded, as the widget tells its client once
+  // its own initialisation is over. Once per mount, however often the pieces
+  // are later swapped out.
+  const ready =
+    container !== null && rtcSession !== null && mediaDevices !== null;
+  const announcedLoaded = useRef(false);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!ready || announcedLoaded.current) return;
+    announcedLoaded.current = true;
+    hostBridge
+      .contentLoaded()
+      .catch((e) => logger.error("Could not tell the host we had loaded", e));
+  }, [ready, hostBridge]);
+
+  return (
+    <I18nextProvider i18n={i18n}>
+      <HostBridgeProvider value={hostBridge}>
+        <UrlParamsProvider value={params}>
+          <div ref={setContainer} className={styles.root}>
+            {ready && (
+              <RootElementProvider value={container}>
+                {/* Whatever goes wrong in here is shown in here. Left to
+                  propagate, an error would unmount the host's own tree. */}
+                <ErrorBoundary
+                  fallback={(error) => <ErrorPage error={error} />}
+                  // A broken call should not hold the host on screen
+                  onError={() => void hostBridge.setAlwaysOnScreen(false)}
+                >
+                  <Decoration>
+                    <TooltipProvider>
+                      <ClientProvider client={client}>
+                        <MediaDevicesContext value={mediaDevices}>
+                          <ProcessorProvider>
+                            <CallView
+                              client={client}
+                              rtcSession={rtcSession}
+                              isPasswordlessUser={false}
+                              confineToRoom={params.confineToRoom}
+                              preload={params.preload}
+                              skipLobby={params.skipLobby}
+                            />
+                          </ProcessorProvider>
+                        </MediaDevicesContext>
+                      </ClientProvider>
+                    </TooltipProvider>
+                  </Decoration>
+                </ErrorBoundary>
+              </RootElementProvider>
+            )}
+          </div>
+        </UrlParamsProvider>
+      </HostBridgeProvider>
+    </I18nextProvider>
+  );
+};

component/localization.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { describe, expect, test } from "vitest";
+
+import { supportedLanguages, translationsBackend } from "./localization";
+
+const read = async (
+  language: string,
+  namespace = "app",
+): Promise<Record<string, unknown>> =>
+  await new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
+    translationsBackend.read(language, namespace, (error, data) => {
+      if (error) reject(error);
+      else resolve(data as Record<string, unknown>);
+    }),
+  );
+
+describe("component translations", () => {
+  test("offer every language in locales/, tagged as its directory is", () => {
+    expect(supportedLanguages).toContain("en");
+    expect(supportedLanguages).toContain("de");
+    expect(supportedLanguages).toContain("zh-Hans");
+    expect(new Set(supportedLanguages).size).toBe(supportedLanguages.length);
+  });
+
+  test("load a language's translations on demand", async () => {
+    const de = await read("de");
+    expect(de).toHaveProperty("action");
+    expect(de).not.toEqual(await read("en"));
+  });
+
+  test("refuse a language there are no translations for", async () => {
+    await expect(read("xx")).rejects.toThrow("No app translations for xx");
+  });
+
+  test("refuse a namespace there are no translations for", async () => {
+    await expect(read("en", "other")).rejects.toThrow(
+      "No other translations for en",
+    );
+  });
+});

component/localization.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+/**
+ * Translations for Element Call as a component.
+ *
+ * The standalone app fetches its locale files at runtime from URLs its own
+ * build emits, which a host serving the library from somewhere else could not
+ * resolve. The component instead has the bundler split every locale into a
+ * chunk of its own, loaded the first time its language is asked for; English,
+ * the fallback, is bundled in so that the first paint never waits for it.
+ */
+
+import { type BackendModule, type ResourceKey } from "i18next";
+
+import { languageOfLocalePath } from "../src/utils/i18n";
+
+/** Every locale, as a lazily imported module. */
+const translations = import.meta.glob<{ default: ResourceKey }>(
+  "../locales/*/app.json",
+);
+
+/**
+ * The languages Element Call can be shown in, as BCP 47 tags — `en`, `de`,
+ * `zh-Hans` and so on. A language that is not one of these falls back to its
+ * base language where there is one (`de-AT` to `de`), and to English otherwise.
+ */
+export const supportedLanguages: readonly string[] = [
+  ...new Set(Object.keys(translations).map(languageOfLocalePath)),
+];
+
+/** Loads translations on demand. */
+export const translationsBackend: BackendModule = {
+  type: "backend",
+  init(): void {},
+  read(language: string, namespace: string, callback): void {
+    const load = translations[`../locales/${language}/${namespace}.json`];
+    if (load === undefined) {
+      callback(new Error(`No ${namespace} translations for ${language}`), null);
+      return;
+    }
+    load().then(
+      (module) => callback(null, module.default),
+      (error: unknown) =>
+        callback(
+          error instanceof Error ? error : new Error(String(error)),
+          null,
+        ),
+    );
+  },
+};

component/package.json

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{
+  "name": "@element-hq/element-call-component",
+  "version": "0.0.0",
+  "description": "Element Call as a React component. Consumed straight from the repository as a git dependency (github:element-hq/element-call#<ref>&path:/component): the host's package manager runs `prepare`, which builds `dist/`.",
+  "license": "SEE LICENSE IN ../README.md",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "https://github.com/element-hq/element-call",
+    "directory": "component"
+  },
+  "type": "module",
+  "devEngines": {
+    "packageManager": {
+      "name": "pnpm"
+    }
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "dist"
+  ],
+  "main": "./dist/element-call.js",
+  "module": "./dist/element-call.js",
+  "types": "./dist/types/component/index.d.ts",
+  "exports": {
+    ".": {
+      "types": "./dist/types/component/index.d.ts",
+      "default": "./dist/element-call.js"
+    },
+    "./style.css": "./dist/element-call.css"
+  },
+  "sideEffects": [
+    "*.css"
+  ],
+  "scripts": {
+    "prepare": "cd .. && pnpm install --frozen-lockfile && pnpm build:component"
+  },
+  "peerDependencies": {
+    "livekit-client": "^2.18.1",
+    "matrix-js-sdk": "*",
+    "react": "^19",
+    "react-dom": "^19"
+  }
+}

component/pnpm-lock.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+lockfileVersion: '9.0'
+
+settings:
+  autoInstallPeers: false
+  excludeLinksFromLockfile: false
+
+importers:
+
+  .: {}

component/pnpm-workspace.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Makes `component/` a pnpm project of its own rather than a directory inside
+# the repository's workspace. That matters when a host installs the component
+# straight from this repository (`github:element-hq/element-call#…&path:/component`):
+# pnpm prepares such a dependency by running `pnpm install` in this directory,
+# and only a project root gets its `prepare` script (see package.json) run, which
+# is what builds `dist/`. Inside the repository's own workspace the install
+# would silently target the repository instead and build nothing.
+#
+# Consequence for development: pnpm commands run from within this directory see
+# this project, not the repository; run them from the repository root.
+
+# Nothing to install here: the peers in package.json are the host's, and the
+# build runs against the repository's own node_modules (see `prepare`).
+autoInstallPeers: false

component/tsconfig.build.json

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+  // Declaration output for the component package (`pnpm build:component:types`).
+  // The root tsconfig only type-checks; this one emits `.d.ts` files, and nothing
+  // else, for everything the component's entry point reaches. The layout under
+  // `dist/types` mirrors the repository (`component/index.d.ts`, `src/…`), which
+  // is what `package.json` points its `types` at.
+  "extends": "../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "noEmit": false,
+    "emitDeclarationOnly": true,
+    "declaration": true,
+    "declarationMap": false,
+    "rootDir": "..",
+    "outDir": "./dist/types"
+  },
+  // The entry point, plus the ambient declarations (CSS modules, `?react` SVGs,
+  // `import.meta.env`, …) that the sources it reaches rely on.
+  "include": ["./index.tsx", "../src/@types/*.d.ts"],
+  "exclude": []
+}

config/config.devenv.json

@@ -5,15 +5,10 @@
       "server_name": "synapse.m.localhost"
     }
   },
-  "features": {
-    "feature_use_device_session_member_events": true
-  },
   "ssla": "https://static.element.io/legal/element-software-and-services-license-agreement-uk-1.pdf",
   "matrix_rtc_session": {
     "wait_for_key_rotation_ms": 3000,
     "membership_event_expiry_ms": 180000000,
-    "delayed_leave_event_delay_ms": 18000,
-    "delayed_leave_event_restart_ms": 4000,
     "network_error_retry_ms": 100
   }
 }

config/config.sample.json

@@ -8,16 +8,11 @@
   "livekit": {
     "livekit_service_url": "https://livekit-jwt.mydomain.com"
   },
-  "features": {
-    "feature_use_device_session_member_events": true
-  },
   "ssla": "https://static.element.io/legal/element-software-and-services-license-agreement-uk-1.pdf",
   "matrix_rtc_mode": "compatibility",
   "matrix_rtc_session": {
     "wait_for_key_rotation_ms": 3000,
     "membership_event_expiry_ms": 180000000,
-    "delayed_leave_event_delay_ms": 18000,
-    "delayed_leave_event_restart_ms": 4000,
     "network_error_retry_ms": 100
   }
 }

config/config_netlify_preview.json

@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
   "matrix_rtc_session": {
     "wait_for_key_rotation_ms": 3000,
     "membership_event_expiry_ms": 180000000,
-    "delayed_leave_event_delay_ms": 18000,
-    "delayed_leave_event_restart_ms": 4000,
     "network_error_retry_ms": 100
   },
   "posthog": {

config/config_netlify_preview_sdk.json

@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
   "matrix_rtc_session": {
     "wait_for_key_rotation_ms": 3000,
     "membership_event_expiry_ms": 180000000,
-    "delayed_leave_event_delay_ms": 18000,
-    "delayed_leave_event_restart_ms": 4000,
     "network_error_retry_ms": 100
   }
 }

docker-compose-dev.yml

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ services:
       - ecbackend
 
   livekit:
-    image: livekit/livekit-server:v1.10.1
+    image: livekit/livekit-server:v1.13.4
     pull_policy: always
     hostname: livekit-sfu
     command: --dev --config /etc/livekit.yaml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ services:
       - ecbackend
 
   livekit-1:
-    image: livekit/livekit-server:v1.10.1
+    image: livekit/livekit-server:v1.13.4
     pull_policy: always
     hostname: livekit-sfu-1
     command: --dev --config /etc/livekit.yaml
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ services:
   nginx:
     #  see backend/dev_tls_setup for how to generate the tls certs
     hostname: synapse.m.localhost
-    image: nginx:latest
+    image: nginx:latest@sha256:4ae259ae64fbedb67918c07d167fdcb0e05855a1615480ca445bea485e7d65ff
     pull_policy: always
     volumes:
       - ./backend/dev_nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:Z

docker-compose-playwright.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# This file contains overrides to docker-compose-dev.yml and should
+# only be used in combination with that file.
+services:
+  synapse:
+    # Pin to a SHA so that upstream cannot break our tests. Renovate handles regular updates.
+    image: ghcr.io/element-hq/synapse:latest@sha256:da325af40104051923899e5f5a2f1d537e6e3ccf2f0f38285689ae9bbfdb190a
+    volumes:
+      - ./backend/playwright_homeserver.yaml:/data/cfg/homeserver.yaml:Z
+  synapse-1:
+    # Pin to a SHA so that upstream cannot break our tests. Renovate handles regular updates.
+    image: ghcr.io/element-hq/synapse:latest@sha256:da325af40104051923899e5f5a2f1d537e6e3ccf2f0f38285689ae9bbfdb190a
+    volumes:
+      - ./backend/playwright_homeserver-othersite.yaml:/data/cfg/homeserver.yaml:Z
+  element-web:
+    # Pin to a SHA so that upstream cannot break our tests. Renovate handles regular updates.
+    image: ghcr.io/element-hq/element-web:develop@sha256:6ed62b2963ae098a1f79521eb516834dcf29452168e281cc359d9cfb4380adf6
+  element-web-1:
+    # Pin to a SHA so that upstream cannot break our tests. Renovate handles regular updates.
+    image: ghcr.io/element-hq/element-web:develop@sha256:6ed62b2963ae098a1f79521eb516834dcf29452168e281cc359d9cfb4380adf6

docs/README.md

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 This folder contains documentation for setup, usage, and development of Element Call.
 
 - [Embedded vs standalone mode](./embedded_standalone.md)
+- [Element Call as a React component (experimental)](../README.md#element-call-as-a-component-experimental)
 - [Url format and parameters](./url_params.md)
 - [Global JS controls](./controls.md)
+- [MatrixRTC modes](./matrix_rtc_modes.md)
 - [Self-Hosting](./self_hosting.md)
 - [Developing with linked packages](./linking.md)

docs/embedded_standalone.md

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 Element Call is available as two different packages: Full Package and Embedded Package.
 
 The Full Package is designed for standalone use, while the Embedded Package is designed for widget mode only.
+There is also an experimental third option, a build of Element Call as a React component for applications
+that want to render a call inside their own page rather than in an iframe; see
+[Element Call as a component](../README.md#element-call-as-a-component-experimental) in the README.
 
 The table below provides a comparison of the two packages:
 

docs/matrix_rtc_modes.md

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# MatrixRTC modes
+
+Element Call is in the middle of a transition of how a call session is
+represented: from room _state_ events (`org.matrix.msc3401.call.member`) to
+_sticky_ events
+([MSC4354](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4354)),
+which are a much better fit for the short lived, per-device nature of call
+memberships.
+
+Not every homeserver supports sticky events yet. The two MatrixRTC modes
+controls whether Element Call uses them.
+
+## The modes
+
+| Mode            | Membership events | SFU selection | JWT endpoint                 |
+| --------------- | ----------------- | ------------- | ---------------------------- |
+| `compatibility` | state events      | multi SFU     | legacy                       |
+| `matrix_2_0`    | sticky events     | multi SFU     | Matrix 2.0 (hashed identity) |
+
+**`compatibility`** — multi SFU, but still state events. Use it when the
+homeserver does not support sticky events. This is the default.
+
+**`matrix_2_0`** — the target state. Requires a homeserver that advertises
+MSC4354 and all clients on v0.17.0 or later. The local membership requests its
+token from the Matrix 2.0 JWT endpoint of the
+[MatrixRTC Authorization Service](https://github.com/element-hq/lk-jwt-service)
+and identifies the room by a hashed identity instead of a `livekit_alias`.
+(Remote memberships always try the new endpoint first and fall back to the
+legacy one, so remote participants can be on either.)
+
+## Selecting a mode
+
+Users can choose a mode under **Settings → Developer → MatrixRTC mode**. The
+Matrix 2.0 option is disabled if the homeserver does not support sticky events.
+
+A deployment can pin the mode for all its clients in `config.json`, which
+disables the Developer Settings choice:
+
+```json
+{
+  "matrix_rtc_mode": "compatibility"
+}
+```
+
+Valid values are `compatibility` and `matrix_2_0`; an invalid value is
+ignored (with a warning) and the user's choice applies. Pinning `matrix_2_0` on a
+homeserver without sticky event support makes joining fail with a "sticky events
+required" error.

docs/self_hosting.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 The following [MSCs](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals) are
 required for Element Call to work properly:
 
-- **[MSC3266](https://github.com/deepbluev7/matrix-doc/blob/room-summaries/proposals/3266-room-summary.md):
+- **[MSC3266](https://github.com/deepbluev7/matrix-doc/blob/room-summaries/proposals/3266-room-summary.md)
   Room Summary API**: In Standalone mode Element Call is able to join rooms
   over federation using knocking. In this context MSC3266 is required as it
   allows to request a room summary of rooms you are not joined. The summary
@@ -29,19 +29,26 @@ required for Element Call to work properly:
   signalling. If disabled it is very likely that you end up with stuck calls in
   Matrix rooms.
 
+- **[MSC4519](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/travis/msc/voip-transports-registry/proposals/4519-rtc-transports-registry.md)
+  MatrixRTC Transports Registry**: Defines an endpoint that clients can use to
+  query the available MatrixRTC transports (i.e. find your LiveKit SFU).
+
 - **[MSC4222](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/erikj/sync_v2_state_after/proposals/4222-sync-v2-state-after.md)
   Adding `state_after` to sync v2**: Allow clients to opt-in to a change of the
   sync v2 API that allows them to correctly track the state of the room. This is
   required by Element Call to track room state reliably.
 
 If you're using [Synapse](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/) as your
-homeserver, you'll need to additionally add the following config items to
-`homeserver.yaml` to comply with Element Call:
+homeserver, you can configure these features by adding the following entries to
+`homeserver.yaml`:
 
 ```yaml
 experimental_features:
   # MSC3266: Room summary API. Used for knocking over federation
   msc3266_enabled: true
+  # MSC4143: MatrixRTC. For historical reasons this flag enables the transports
+  # endpoint defined in MSC4519.
+  msc4143_enabled: true
   # MSC4222 needed for syncv2 state_after. This allow clients to
   # correctly track the state of the room.
   msc4222_enabled: true
@@ -61,6 +68,15 @@ rc_delayed_event_mgmt:
   # Currently the heart-beat is every 5 seconds which translates into a rate of 0.2Hz
   per_second: 1
   burst_count: 20
+
+matrix_rtc:
+  transports:
+    # The transport you specify will be made available to clients over the
+    # /_matrix/client/unstable/org.matrix.msc4143/rtc/transports endpoint as
+    # defined in MSC4519.
+    - type: livekit
+      # Replace this with the actual URL of your MatrixRTC Authorization Service
+      livekit_service_url: https://matrix-rtc.example.com/livekit/jwt
 ```
 
 As a prerequisite for the
@@ -68,10 +84,10 @@ As a prerequisite for the
 make sure that your Synapse server has either a `federation` or `openid`
 [listener configured](https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html#listeners).
 
-### MatrixRTC Backend
+### LiveKit backend
 
-In order to **guarantee smooth operation** of Element Call, a MatrixRTC backend is
-required for each site deployment.
+In order to **guarantee smooth operation** of Element Call, a dedicated LiveKit
+backend is required for each site deployment.
 
 ![MSC4195 compatible setup](MSC4195_setup.drawio.png)
 
@@ -86,10 +102,11 @@ to implement
 In the context of MatrixRTC, we suggest using a single hostname for backend
 communication by implementing endpoint routing within a reverse proxy setup. For
 the example above, this results in:
-| Service | Endpoint | Example |
-| -------- | ------- | ------- |
+
+| Service                                                                           | Endpoint       | Example                              |
+| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | ------------------------------------ |
 | [Livekit SFU](https://github.com/livekit/livekit) WebSocket signalling connection | `/livekit/sfu` | `matrix-rtc.example.com/livekit/sfu` |
-| [MatrixRTC Authorization Service](https://github.com/element-hq/lk-jwt-service) | `/livekit/jwt` | `matrix-rtc.example.com/livekit/jwt` |
+| [MatrixRTC Authorization Service](https://github.com/element-hq/lk-jwt-service)   | `/livekit/jwt` | `matrix-rtc.example.com/livekit/jwt` |
 
 Using Nginx, you can achieve this by:
 
@@ -164,7 +181,7 @@ Using Haproxy, you can achieve this by:
     use_backend mxrtc_auth_backend if is_mxrtc_auth matrixrtc_domain
 
 # Backend
-## MatrixRTC backend
+## LiveKit backend
 backend sfu_backend
     server livekit 127.0.0.1:7880
     http-request set-path %[path,regsub(^/livekit/sfu/,/)]
@@ -186,44 +203,6 @@ backend mxrtc_auth_backend
 
 ```
 
-#### MatrixRTC backend announcement
-
-> [!IMPORTANT]
-> As defined in
-> [MSC4143](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4143),
-> the MatrixRTC backend(s) must be announced to the client via your **Matrix site's
-> `.well-known/matrix/client`** file (e.g.
-> `example.com/.well-known/matrix/client` matching the site deployment example
-> from above). The configuration is a list of Foci configs:
-
-```json
-"org.matrix.msc4143.rtc_foci": [
-    {
-        "type": "livekit",
-        "livekit_service_url": "https://matrix-rtc.example.com/livekit/jwt"
-    },
-    {
-        "type": "livekit",
-        "livekit_service_url": "https://matrix-rtc-2.example.com/livekit/jwt"
-    }
-]
-```
-
-Make sure this file is served with the correct MIME type (`application/json`).
-Additionally, ensure the appropriate CORS headers are set to allow web clients
-to access it across origins. For more details, refer to the
-[Matrix Client-Server API: 2. Web Browser Clients](https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#web-browser-clients).
-
-```
-Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
-Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS
-Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Authorization
-```
-
-> [!NOTE]  
-> Most `org.matrix.msc4143.rtc_foci` configurations will only have one entry in
-> the array.
-
 ## Building Element Call
 
 > [!NOTE]  
@@ -277,7 +256,7 @@ runtime. Documentation and default values for `public/config.json` can be found
 in [ConfigOptions.ts](../src/config/ConfigOptions.ts).
 
 > [!CAUTION]
-> Please note configuring MatrixRTC backend via `config.json` of
+> Please note configuring LiveKit backend via `config.json` of
 > Element Call is only available for developing and debug purposes. Relying on
 > it might break Element Call going forward!
 

docs/url_params.md

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ These parameters are relevant to both [widget](./embedded_standalone.md) and [st
 | `showControls`                                 | `true` or `false`                                                                                                                                                  | No, defaults to `true`                                                                            | No, defaults to `true`       | Displays controls like mute, screen-share, invite, and hangup buttons during a call.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
 | `skipLobby` (deprecated: use `intent` instead) | `true` or `false`                                                                                                                                                  | No. If `intent` is explicitly `start_call` then defaults to `true`. Otherwise defaults to `false` | No, defaults to `false`      | Skips the lobby to join a call directly, can be combined with preload in widget. When `true` the audio and video inputs will be muted by default. (This means there currently is no way to start without muted video if one wants to skip the lobby. Also not in widget mode.)                                                                                                                      |
 | `theme`                                        | One of: `light`, `dark`, `light-high-contrast`, `dark-high-contrast`                                                                                               | No, defaults to `dark`                                                                            | No, defaults to `dark`       | UI theme to use.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `background`                                   | One of: `solid`, `gradient`                                                                                                                                        | No, defaults to `gradient`                                                                        | No, defaults to `gradient`   | Visual style of the page background.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
 | `viaServers`                                   | Comma separated list of [Matrix Server Names](https://spec.matrix.org/v1.12/appendices/#server-name)                                                               | Not applicable                                                                                    | No                           | Homeserver for joining a room, non-empty value required for rooms not on the user’s default homeserver.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 | `sendNotificationType`                         | `ring` or `notification`                                                                                                                                           | No                                                                                                | No                           | Will send a "ring" or "notification" `m.rtc.notification` event if the user is the first one in the call.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
 | `autoLeave`                                    | `true` or `false`                                                                                                                                                  | No, defaults to `false`                                                                           | No, defaults to `false`      | Whether the app should automatically leave the call when there is no one left in the call.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |

eslint/NoTopLevelLoggerGetChild.js

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { ESLintUtils } from "@typescript-eslint/utils";
+
+/**
+ * Node types that introduce a new non-module scope. A getChild() call nested
+ * inside any of these is considered "not at the top level".
+ */
+const FUNCTION_OR_CLASS_TYPES = new Set([
+  "FunctionDeclaration",
+  "FunctionExpression",
+  "ArrowFunctionExpression",
+  "ClassBody",
+]);
+
+const rule = ESLintUtils.RuleCreator(
+  () => "https://github.com/element-hq/element-call",
+)({
+  name: "no-top-level-logger-get-child",
+  meta: {
+    type: "problem",
+    docs: {
+      description:
+        "Disallow calling logger.getChild() at the top level of a module." +
+        "`getChild` has to be called after the rageshake logger `init()`." +
+        "If it is called at the top level the child logger will never be setup for rageshakes.",
+    },
+    messages: {
+      noTopLevelGetChild:
+        "Do not call logger.getChild() at the top level of a module; move it inside a function or class instead that gets called after rageshake logger `init()` is called.",
+    },
+    schema: [],
+  },
+  create(context) {
+    // Tracks the local binding names that refer to the logger imported from
+    // 'matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger', e.g. both `logger` and `rootLogger` in:
+    //   import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
+    //   import { logger as rootLogger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
+    const loggerNames = new Set();
+
+    return {
+      ImportDeclaration(node) {
+        if (node.source.value !== "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger") return;
+        for (const specifier of node.specifiers) {
+          if (
+            specifier.type === "ImportSpecifier" &&
+            specifier.imported.name === "logger"
+          ) {
+            loggerNames.add(specifier.local.name);
+          }
+        }
+      },
+
+      CallExpression(node) {
+        // Must be a non-computed member expression call: something.getChild(...)
+        if (
+          node.callee.type !== "MemberExpression" ||
+          node.callee.computed ||
+          node.callee.property.type !== "Identifier" ||
+          node.callee.property.name !== "getChild"
+        )
+          return;
+
+        // The receiver must be one of the tracked logger names.
+        const object = node.callee.object;
+        if (object.type !== "Identifier" || !loggerNames.has(object.name))
+          return;
+
+        // Flag the call only when it is at module top level — i.e. there is no
+        // enclosing function or class body anywhere in the ancestor chain.
+        const ancestors = context.sourceCode.getAncestors(node);
+        const isTopLevel = !ancestors.some((a) =>
+          FUNCTION_OR_CLASS_TYPES.has(a.type),
+        );
+
+        if (isTopLevel) {
+          context.report({
+            messageId: "noTopLevelGetChild",
+            node,
+          });
+        }
+      },
+    };
+  },
+});
+
+export default rule;

eslint/index.js

@@ -2,5 +2,7 @@ module.exports = {
   rules: {
     "copyright-header": require("./CopyrightHeader").default,
     "no-observablescope-leak": require("./NoObservableScopeLeak").default,
+    "no-top-level-logger-get-child": require("./NoTopLevelLoggerGetChild")
+      .default,
   },
 };

knip.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ import { type KnipConfig } from "knip";
 
 export default {
   vite: {
-    config: ["vite.config.ts", "vite-embedded.config.ts", "vite-sdk.config.ts"],
+    config: [
+      "vite.config.ts",
+      "vite-embedded.config.ts",
+      "vite-sdk.config.ts",
+      "vite-component.config.ts",
+      "vite-component-dev.config.ts",
+    ],
   },
   entry: ["src/main.tsx", "eslint/index.js", "i18next.config.ts"],
   ignoreBinaries: [
@@ -20,7 +26,12 @@ export default {
     // This is a shell built-in.
     "printf",
   ],
-  ignoreFiles: ["scripts/.pnpmfile.cjs"],
+  ignoreFiles: [
+    "scripts/.pnpmfile.cjs",
+    // Deliberately added prior to any component or business logic
+    // implementation
+    "src/state/ServiceInterruptionsViewModel.ts",
+  ],
   ignoreDependencies: [
     // Used in CSS
     "normalize.css",

locales/cs/app.json

@@ -102,11 +102,15 @@
     "connection_lost_description": "Hovor byl přerušen.",
     "e2ee_unsupported": "Nekompatibilní prohlížeč",
     "e2ee_unsupported_description": "Váš webový prohlížeč nepodporuje šifrované hovory. Mezi podporované prohlížeče patří Chrome, Safari a Firefox 117+.",
+    "failed_to_start_livekit": "Nepodařilo se navázat připojení k Livekitu",
     "generic": "Něco se pokazilo.",
     "generic_description": "Odeslání protokolů ladění nám pomůže vystopovat problém.",
     "insufficient_capacity": "Nedostatečná kapacita",
     "insufficient_capacity_description": "Server dosáhl své maximální kapacity a v tuto chvíli se nemůžete připojit k hovoru. Zkuste to později nebo se obraťte na správce serveru, pokud problém přetrvává.",
     "matrix_rtc_transport_missing": "Server není nakonfigurován pro práci s {{brand}}. Obraťte se na správce serveru (Doména: {{domain}}, Kód chyby: {{ errorCode }}).",
+    "membership_manager": "Chyba Správce členství",
+    "membership_manager_description": "Správce členství musel být ukončen. To je způsobeno mnoha po sobě jdoucími neúspěšnými síťovými požadavky.",
+    "no_matrix_2_authorization_service": "Autorizační služba vašeho mediálního serveru (SFU) je zastaralá.",
     "open_elsewhere": "Otevřeno na jiné kartě",
     "open_elsewhere_description": "{{brand}} byl otevřen v jiné záložce. Pokud to nezní správně, zkuste stránku znovu načíst.",
     "room_creation_restricted": "Nepodařilo se vytvořit hovor",
@@ -141,6 +145,7 @@
   },
   "layout_grid_label": "Mřížka",
   "layout_spotlight_label": "Soustředěný mód",
+  "layout_switch_label": "Rozvržení",
   "lobby": {
     "ask_to_join": "Žádost o připojení k hovoru",
     "join_as_guest": "Připojte se jako host",
@@ -241,11 +246,14 @@
   "version": "{{productName}}verze: {{version}}",
   "video_tile": {
     "always_show": "Vždy zobrazit",
+    "call_ended": "Hovor ukončen",
+    "calling": "Volání…",
     "camera_starting": "Načítání videa...",
     "collapse": "Sbalit",
     "expand": "Rozbalit",
     "mute_for_me": "Pro mě ztlumit",
     "muted_for_me": "Pro mě ztlumené",
+    "screen_share_volume": "Hlasitost sdílení obrazovky",
     "volume": "Hlasitost",
     "waiting_for_media": "Čekání na média..."
   }

locales/en/app.json

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
     "crypto_version": "Crypto version: {{version}}",
     "custom_livekit_url": {
       "current_url": "Currently set to: ",
-      "from_config": "Currently, no overwrite is set. Url from well-known or config is used.",
+      "from_config": "Currently, no overwrite is set. Url from config is used.",
       "label": "Custom Livekit-url",
       "reset": "Reset overwrite",
       "save": "Save",
@@ -80,10 +80,6 @@
         "description": "Compatible with homeservers that do not support sticky events (but all other EC clients are v0.17.0 or later)",
         "label": "Compatibility: state events & multi SFU"
       },
-      "Legacy": {
-        "description": "Compatible with old versions of EC that do not support multi SFU",
-        "label": "Legacy: state events & oldest membership SFU"
-      },
       "Matrix_2_0": {
         "description": "Compatible only with homservers supporting sticky events and all EC clients v0.17.0 or later",
         "label": "Matrix 2.0: sticky events & multi SFU"
@@ -120,6 +116,7 @@
     "peer_connection_timeout_description": "Connection to the media server timed out. Try switching to a different network or disabling your VPN. If the problem persists, see our <0>troubleshooting guide</0> or contact your server administrator.",
     "room_creation_restricted": "Failed to create call",
     "room_creation_restricted_description": "Call creation might be restricted to authorized users only. Try again later, or contact your server admin if the problem persists.",
+    "screen_share_failed": "Could not start screen sharing",
     "sticky_events_required": "Homeserver does not support Matrix 2.0 calls",
     "sticky_events_required_description": "This deployment is configured to use Matrix 2.0 call mode, but the homeserver does not advertise support for sticky events (MSC4354). Ask your server admin to upgrade, or switch the deployment to a compatible mode.",
     "unexpected_ec_error": "An unexpected error occurred (<0>Error Code:</0> <1>{{ errorCode }}</1>). Please contact your server admin."
@@ -196,13 +193,23 @@
   "room_auth_view_ssla_caption": "By clicking \"Join call now\", you agree to our <2>Software and Services License Agreement (SSLA)</2>",
   "screenshare_button_label": "Share screen",
   "settings": {
+    "advanced_camera_description": "Configure resolution, framerate, bitrate, and codec for camera video. Changes apply on next call join.",
+    "advanced_camera_label": "Advanced camera settings",
+    "advanced_screen_share_description": "Configure resolution, framerate, bitrate, and codec for screen sharing",
+    "advanced_screen_share_label": "Advanced screen share settings",
+    "audio_processing_description": "Changes apply on next call join.",
+    "audio_processing_header": "Audio processing",
     "audio_tab": {
       "effect_volume_description": "Adjust the volume at which reactions and hand raised effects play.",
       "effect_volume_label": "Sound effect volume"
     },
+    "auto_gain_control_label": "Automatic gain control",
     "background_blur_header": "Background",
     "background_blur_label": "Blur the background of the video",
+    "bitrate_label": "Bitrate",
     "blur_not_supported_by_browser": "(Background blur is not supported by this device.)",
+    "camera_header": "Camera quality",
+    "codec_label": "Codec",
     "developer_tab_title": "Developer",
     "devices": {
       "activating": "Activating…",
@@ -218,12 +225,15 @@
       "speaker": "Speaker",
       "speaker_numbered": "Speaker {{n}}"
     },
+    "echo_cancellation_label": "Echo cancellation",
     "feedback_tab_body": "If you are experiencing issues or simply would like to provide some feedback, please send us a short description below.",
     "feedback_tab_description_label": "Your feedback",
     "feedback_tab_h4": "Submit feedback",
     "feedback_tab_send_logs_label": "Include debug logs",
     "feedback_tab_thank_you": "Thanks, we received your feedback!",
     "feedback_tab_title": "Feedback",
+    "framerate_label": "Framerate",
+    "noise_suppression_label": "Noise suppression",
     "opt_in_description": "<0></0><1></1>You may withdraw consent by unchecking this box. If you are currently in a call, this setting will take effect at the end of the call.",
     "preferences_tab": {
       "developer_mode_label": "Developer mode",
@@ -235,7 +245,9 @@
       "reactions_show_label": "Show reactions",
       "show_hand_raised_timer_description": "Show a timer when a participant raises their hand",
       "show_hand_raised_timer_label": "Show hand raise duration"
-    }
+    },
+    "resolution_label": "Resolution",
+    "screen_share_header": "Screen sharing"
   },
   "star_rating_input_label_one": "{{count}} star",
   "star_rating_input_label_other": "{{count}} stars",

locales/et/app.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "user_menu": "Kasutajamenüü"
   },
   "action": {
+    "blur_background": "Hägusta tausta",
     "close": "Sulge",
     "copy_link": "Kopeeri link",
     "edit": "Muuda",
@@ -72,8 +73,20 @@
     "environment_variables": "Keskkonnamuutujad",
     "hostname": "Hosti nimi: {{hostname}}",
     "livekit_server_info": "LiveKiti serveri teave",
-    "livekit_sfu": "LiveKit SFU: {{url}}",
+    "livekit_sfu": "LiveKiti meediaedastusserver (SFU): {{url}}",
     "matrixRTCMode": {
+      "Comptibility": {
+        "description": "Ühildub koduserveritega, mis ei toeta määratud kestusega sündmuseid (kuid kõik teised EC kliendid on v0.17.0 või hilisemad)",
+        "label": "Ühilduvus: olekusündmused ja mitu meediaedastusserverit (SFU)"
+      },
+      "Legacy": {
+        "description": "Ühildub EC vanemate versioonidega, millel puudub mitme meediaedastusserveri (SFU) tugi",
+        "label": "Vana lahendus: oleku üritused ja vanim meediaedastusserver (SFU)"
+      },
+      "Matrix_2_0": {
+        "description": "Ühildub ainult määratud kestusega sündmuseid toetavate koduserveritega ja kõigi EC-klientidega alates versioonist 0.17.0",
+        "label": "Matrix 2.0: määratud kestusega sündmused ja mitu meediaedastusserverit (SFU)"
+      },
       "title": "MatrixRTC režiim"
     },
     "matrix_id": "Matrixi kasutajatunnus: {{id}}",
@@ -95,13 +108,20 @@
     "generic_description": "Silumis- ja vealogide saatmine võib aidata meid vea põhjuseni jõuda.",
     "insufficient_capacity": "Mittepiisav jõudlus",
     "insufficient_capacity_description": "Serveri jõudluse ülempiir on hetkel ületatud ja sa ei saa hetkel selle kõnega liituda. Proovi hiljem uuesti või kui probleem kestab kauem, siis võta ühendust serveri haldajaga.",
+    "livekit_connection_error": "Livekiti serveriga ühendamine ei õnnestunud",
+    "livekit_connection_error_description": "Livekiti serveriga ühendamisel tekkis viga (<1>Põhjus: </1> <2>{{ reason }}</2>).",
     "matrix_rtc_transport_missing": "See server pole seadistatud töötama rakendusega {{brand}}. Palun võta ühendust serveri halduriga (domeen: {{domain}}, veakood: {{ errorCode }}).",
     "membership_manager": "Viga liikmelisuse haldamisel",
     "membership_manager_description": "Liikmelisuse haldur pidi oma töö lõpetama. Selle põhjuseks olid paljud järjestikused ebaõnnestunud võrgupäringud.",
+    "no_matrix_2_authorization_service": "Sinu meediaedastusserveri (SFU) autoriseerimisteenus on aegunud.",
     "open_elsewhere": "Avatud teisel vahekaardil",
     "open_elsewhere_description": "{{brand}} on avatud teisel vahekaardil. Kui see ei tundu olema õige, proovi selle lehe uuesti laadimist.",
+    "peer_connection_timeout": "Ühendus aegus",
+    "peer_connection_timeout_description": "Meediaserveriga ühenduspäring aegus. Proovi kasutada muud võrku või keelata VPN-i kasutamine. Kui probleem püsib, vaata meie <0> veaotsingu juhendit</0> või võta ühendust oma serveri peakasutajaga.",
     "room_creation_restricted": "Kõne loomine ei õnnestunud",
     "room_creation_restricted_description": "Kõne loomine võib olla lubatud ainult volitatud kasutajatele. Proovi hiljem uuesti või probleemi püsimisel võta ühendust oma serveri haldajaga.",
+    "sticky_events_required": "Koduserver ei toeta Matrix 2.0 kõnesid",
+    "sticky_events_required_description": "See server on seadistatud kasutama Matrix 2.0 kõnerežiimi, kuid koduserver ei teata, et tal selleks vajalike sündmuste (MSC4354) tugi. Palu serveri peakasutajal see uuendada või kasuta koduserveris ühilduvat režiimi.",
     "unexpected_ec_error": "Tekkis ootamatu viga (<0>Veakood:</0> <1>{{ errorCode }}</1>). Palun võta ühendust serveri haldajaga."
   },
   "group_call_loader": {
@@ -132,6 +152,7 @@
   },
   "layout_grid_label": "Ruudustik",
   "layout_spotlight_label": "Rambivalgus",
+  "layout_switch_label": "Paigutus",
   "lobby": {
     "ask_to_join": "Küsi võimalust liituda kõnega",
     "join_as_guest": "Liitu külalisena",
@@ -184,6 +205,7 @@
     "blur_not_supported_by_browser": "(Tausta hägustamine pole selles seadmes toetatud.)",
     "developer_tab_title": "Arendaja",
     "devices": {
+      "activating": "Aktiveerin…",
       "camera": "Kaamera",
       "camera_numbered": "Kaamera {{n}}",
       "change_device_button": "Muuda heliseadet",
@@ -223,6 +245,7 @@
   "stop_video_button_label": "Peata videovoog",
   "submitting": "Saadan…",
   "switch_camera": "Vaheta kaamerat",
+  "technical_details": "Tehnilised üksikasjad",
   "unauthenticated_view_body": "Sa pole veel registreerunud? <2>Loo kasutajakonto</2>",
   "unauthenticated_view_login_button": "Logi oma kontosse sisse",
   "unauthenticated_view_ssla_caption": "Klõpsides „Jätka“ nõustud sa meie <2>Tarkvara ja teenuste litsentseerimise lepinguga (Software and Services License Agreement - SSLA)</2>",
@@ -230,11 +253,14 @@
   "version": "{{productName}}, versioon: {{version}}",
   "video_tile": {
     "always_show": "Näita alati",
+    "call_ended": "Kõne lõppes",
+    "calling": "Helistan…",
     "camera_starting": "Video on laadimisel...",
     "collapse": "Näita vähem",
     "expand": "Näita rohkem",
     "mute_for_me": "Summuta minu jaoks",
     "muted_for_me": "Minule summutatud",
+    "screen_share_volume": "Helivaljus ekraanijagaamisel",
     "volume": "Helivaljus",
     "waiting_for_media": "Ootame kuni meedia on olemas..."
   }

locales/fi/app.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "user_menu": "Käyttäjävalikko"
   },
   "action": {
+    "blur_background": "Sumenna tausta",
     "close": "Sulje",
     "copy_link": "Kopioi linkki",
     "edit": "Muokkaa",
@@ -107,14 +108,20 @@
     "generic_description": "Vianmäärityslokien lähettäminen auttaa meitä jäljittämään ongelman.",
     "insufficient_capacity": "Riittämätön kapasiteetti",
     "insufficient_capacity_description": "Palvelin on saavuttanut maksimikapasiteettinsa, etkä voi liittyä puheluun tällä hetkellä. Yritä myöhemmin uudelleen tai ota yhteyttä palvelimen ylläpitäjään, jos ongelma jatkuu.",
+    "livekit_connection_error": "Yhteyden muodostaminen Livekit-palvelimeen epäonnistui",
+    "livekit_connection_error_description": "Livekit-palvelimeen yhteyden muodostamisessa tapahtui virhe (<1>Syy: </1> <2>{{ reason }}</2>).",
     "matrix_rtc_transport_missing": "Palvelinta ei ole määritetty toimimaan {{brand}} -sovelluksen kanssa. Ota yhteyttä palvelimen ylläpitäjään (Verkkotunnus: {{domain}}, Virhekoodi: {{ errorCode }}).",
     "membership_manager": "Jäsenyydenhallinnan virhe",
     "membership_manager_description": "Jäsenyyshallinta jouduttiin sulkemaan. Tämä johtui useista peräkkäisistä epäonnistuneista verkkopyynnöistä.",
     "no_matrix_2_authorization_service": "Mediapalvelimesi (SFU) valtuutuspalvelu on vanhentunut.",
     "open_elsewhere": "Avattu toisessa välilehdessä",
     "open_elsewhere_description": "{{brand}} on avattu toisessa välilehdessä. Jos tämä ei kuulosta oikealta, yritä ladata sivu uudelleen.",
+    "peer_connection_timeout": "Yhteyden aikakatkaisu",
+    "peer_connection_timeout_description": "Yhteys mediapalvelimeen aikakatkaistiin. Kokeile vaihtaa verkkoa tai poistaa VPN käytöstä. Jos ongelma jatkuu, katso <0>vianetsintäoppaamme</0> tai ota yhteyttä palvelimesi ylläpitäjään.",
     "room_creation_restricted": "Puhelun luominen epäonnistui",
     "room_creation_restricted_description": "Puheluiden luominen saattaa olla rajoitettu vain valtuutetuille käyttäjille. Yritä myöhemmin uudelleen tai ota yhteyttä palvelimen ylläpitäjään, jos ongelma jatkuu.",
+    "sticky_events_required": "Kotipalvelin ei tue Matrix 2.0 -puheluita",
+    "sticky_events_required_description": "Tämä asennus on määritetty käyttämään Matrix 2.0 -puhelutilaa, mutta kotipalvelin ei mainosta tukea tarttuville tapahtumille (MSC4354). Pyydä palvelimen järjestelmänvalvojaa päivittämään tai vaihtamaan asennus yhteensopivaan tilaan.",
     "unexpected_ec_error": "Tapahtui odottamaton virhe (<0>Virhekoodi:</0> <1>{{ errorCode }}</1>). Ota yhteyttä palvelimen ylläpitäjään."
   },
   "group_call_loader": {
@@ -145,6 +152,7 @@
   },
   "layout_grid_label": "Ruudukko",
   "layout_spotlight_label": "Valokeila",
+  "layout_switch_label": "Asettelu",
   "lobby": {
     "ask_to_join": "Pyydä liittymistä puheluun",
     "join_as_guest": "Liity vieraana",
@@ -197,6 +205,7 @@
     "blur_not_supported_by_browser": "(Tämä laite ei tue taustan sumennusta.)",
     "developer_tab_title": "Kehittäjä",
     "devices": {
+      "activating": "Aktivoidaan…",
       "camera": "Kamera",
       "camera_numbered": "Kamera {{n}}",
       "change_device_button": "Vaihda äänilaite",
@@ -236,6 +245,7 @@
   "stop_video_button_label": "Lopeta video",
   "submitting": "Lähetetään…",
   "switch_camera": "Vaihda kameraa",
+  "technical_details": "Tekniset tiedot",
   "unauthenticated_view_body": "Etkö ole vielä rekisteröitynyt? <2>Luo tili</2>",
   "unauthenticated_view_login_button": "Kirjaudu tilillesi",
   "unauthenticated_view_ssla_caption": "Klikkaamalla \"Siirry\" hyväksyt <2>ohjelmisto- ja palvelulisenssisopimuksen (SSLA)</2>",

locales/pl/app.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "user_menu": "Menu użytkownika"
   },
   "action": {
+    "blur_background": "Rozmycie tła",
     "close": "Zamknij",
     "copy_link": "Kopiuj link",
     "edit": "Edytuj",
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@
     "submit": "Wyślij",
     "upload_file": "Prześlij plik"
   },
-  "analytics_notice": "Uczestnicząc w tej becie, upoważniasz nas do zbierania anonimowych danych, które wykorzystamy do ulepszenia produktu. Dowiedz się więcej na temat danych, które zbieramy w naszej <2>Polityce prywatności</2> i <5>Polityce ciasteczek</5>.",
+  "analytics_notice": "Biorąc udział w wersji beta, wyrażasz zgodę na gromadzenie anonimowych danych, które wykorzystujemy w celu ulepszenia naszego produktu. Więcej informacji na temat danych, które śledzimy, znajdziesz w naszej <2>Polityce prywatności</2> dla i <6>Polityce ciasteczek</6>.",
   "call_ended_view": {
     "create_account_button": "Utwórz konto",
     "create_account_prompt": "<0>Może zechcesz ustawić hasło, aby zachować swoje konto?</0><1>Będziesz w stanie utrzymać swoją nazwę i ustawić awatar do wyświetlania podczas połączeń w przyszłości</1>",
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@
     "display_name": "Nazwa wyświetlana",
     "encrypted": "Szyfrowane",
     "home": "Strona domowa",
-    "loading": "Ładowanie…",
+    "loading": "Wczytywanie…",
     "next": "Dalej",
     "options": "Opcje",
     "password": "Hasło",
@@ -58,6 +59,14 @@
   "developer_mode": {
     "always_show_iphone_earpiece": "Pokaż opcję słuchawki iPhone na wszystkich platformach",
     "crypto_version": "Wersja krypto: {{version}}",
+    "custom_livekit_url": {
+      "current_url": "Aktualnie ustawione na: ",
+      "from_config": "Aktualnie nie nadpisano ustawienia. Używany jest adres URL z dobrego źródła lub konfiguracji.",
+      "label": "Własny Livekit-url",
+      "reset": "Zresetuj nadpisanie",
+      "save": "Zapisz",
+      "saving": "Zapisuję..."
+    },
     "debug_tile_layout_label": "Układ kafelków Debug",
     "device_id": "ID urządzenia: {{id}}",
     "duplicate_tiles_label": "Liczba dodatkowych kopii kafelków na uczestnika",
@@ -65,6 +74,21 @@
     "hostname": "Nazwa hosta: {{hostname}}",
     "livekit_server_info": "Informacje serwera LiveKit",
     "livekit_sfu": "LiveKit SFU: {{url}}",
+    "matrixRTCMode": {
+      "Comptibility": {
+        "description": "Kompatybilny z serwerami domowymi, które nie obsługują sticky events (ale wszyscy inni klienci EC mają wersję v0.17.0 lub nowszą)",
+        "label": "Kompatybilność: state events & multi SFU"
+      },
+      "Legacy": {
+        "description": "Kompatybilny ze starszymi wersjami EC, które nie wspierają multi SFU",
+        "label": "Przestarzałe: state events & oldest membership SFU"
+      },
+      "Matrix_2_0": {
+        "description": "Kompatybilny tylko z serwerami domowymi obsługującymi sticky events i wszystkimi klientami EC w wersji v0.17.0 lub nowszej",
+        "label": "Matrix 2.0: sticky events & multi SFU"
+      },
+      "title": "Tryb MatrixRTC"
+    },
     "matrix_id": "ID Matrix: {{id}}",
     "mute_all_audio": "Wycisz cały dźwięk (uczestnicy, reakcje, dźwięki dołączenia)",
     "show_connection_stats": "Pokaż statystyki połączenia",
@@ -74,25 +98,36 @@
   "error": {
     "call_is_not_supported": "Połączenie nie jest obsługiwane",
     "call_not_found": "Nie znaleziono połączenia",
-    "call_not_found_description": "<0>Wygląda na to, że ten link nie należy do żadnego istniejącego połączenia. Sprawdź, czy posiadasz prawidłowy link lub <1>utwórz nowy</1>.</0>",
+    "call_not_found_description": "<0>Wygląda na to, że ten link nie należy do żadnego istniejącego połączenia. Sprawdź, czy masz prawidłowy link lub <2> utwórz nowy</2>.</0>",
     "connection_lost": "Utracono połączenie",
     "connection_lost_description": "Zostałeś rozłączony z rozmowy.",
     "e2ee_unsupported": "Niekompatybilna przeglądarka",
     "e2ee_unsupported_description": "Twoja przeglądarka nie wspiera szyfrowanych połączeń. Obsługiwane przeglądarki obejmują Chrome, Safari i Firefox 117+.",
+    "failed_to_start_livekit": "Nie udało się uruchomić połączenia Livekit",
     "generic": "Coś poszło nie tak",
     "generic_description": "Wysłanie dziennika debug, pozwoli nam namierzyć problem.",
     "insufficient_capacity": "Za mało miejsca",
     "insufficient_capacity_description": "Serwer osiągnął maksymalną pojemność, przez co nie możesz dołączyć do połączenia. Spróbuj ponownie później lub skontaktuj się z administratorem serwera, jeśli problem nie zniknie.",
+    "livekit_connection_error": "Nie udało się połączyć z serwerem Livekit",
+    "livekit_connection_error_description": "Wystąpił błąd podczas łączenia się z serwerem Livekit (<1>Przyczyna:</1> <2>{{ reason }}</2>).",
+    "matrix_rtc_transport_missing": "Serwer nie jest skonfigurowany do pracy z {{brand}}. Prosimy o kontakt z administratorem serwera (Domena: {{domain}}, Kod błędu: {{ errorCode }}).",
+    "membership_manager": "Błąd menedżera członkostwa",
+    "membership_manager_description": "Menedżer członkostwa został zamknięty przez zbyt wiele powtarzających się błędów połączenia.",
+    "no_matrix_2_authorization_service": "Usługa autoryzacji dla serwera multimediów (SFU) jest nieaktualna.",
     "open_elsewhere": "Otwarto w innej karcie",
     "open_elsewhere_description": "{{brand}} został otwarty w innej karcie. Jeśli tak nie jest, spróbuj odświeżyć stronę.",
+    "peer_connection_timeout": "Upłynął limit czasu połączenia",
+    "peer_connection_timeout_description": "Upłynął czas oczekiwania na połączenie z serwerem multimediów. Spróbuj połączyć się z inną siecią lub wyłączyć VPN. Jeśli problem nadal występuje, zapoznaj się z naszym <0>poradnikiem rozwiązywania problemów</0> lub skontaktuj się z administratorem serwera.",
     "room_creation_restricted": "Nie udało się utworzyć połączenia",
     "room_creation_restricted_description": "Tworzenie połączeń mogło zostać ograniczone tylko do autoryzowanych użytkowników. Spróbuj ponownie później lub skontaktuj się z administratorem serwera, jeśli problem nie minie.",
+    "sticky_events_required": "Serwer domowy nie wspiera połączeń Matrix 2.0",
+    "sticky_events_required_description": "Wybrana konfiguracja została ustawiona na korzystanie z połączeń Matrix 2.0, lecz serwer domowy nie wspiera ogłaszania sticky events (MSC4354). Poproś administratora serwera o aktualizację lub zmień konfigurację.",
     "unexpected_ec_error": "Wystąpił nieoczekiwany błąd (<0>Kod błędu:</0> <1>{{ errorCode }}</1>). Skontaktuj się z administratorem serwera."
   },
   "group_call_loader": {
     "banned_body": "Zostałeś zbanowany z pokoju.",
     "banned_heading": "Zbanowany",
-    "call_ended_body": "Zostałeś usunięty z rozmowy.",
+    "call_ended_body": "Zostałeś usunięty z połączenia.",
     "call_ended_heading": "Połączenie zakończone",
     "knock_reject_body": "Członkowie pokoju odrzucili Twoją prośbę o dołączenie.",
     "knock_reject_heading": "Nie możesz dołączyć",
@@ -112,17 +147,18 @@
   },
   "join_existing_call_modal": {
     "join_button": "Tak, dołącz do połączenia",
-    "text": "Te połączenie już istnieje, czy chcesz do niego dołączyć?",
+    "text": "Połączenie już istnieje, czy chcesz do niej dołączyć?",
     "title": "Dołączyć do istniejącego połączenia?"
   },
   "layout_grid_label": "Siatka",
   "layout_spotlight_label": "Centrum uwagi",
+  "layout_switch_label": "Układ",
   "lobby": {
-    "ask_to_join": "Poproś o dołączenie do rozmowy",
+    "ask_to_join": "Poproś o dołączenie do połączenia",
     "join_as_guest": "Dołącz jako gość",
     "join_button": "Dołącz do połączenia",
     "leave_button": "Wróć do ostatnie",
-    "waiting_for_invite": "Żądanie wysłane"
+    "waiting_for_invite": "Prośba wysłana! Oczekiwanie na zatwierdzenie…"
   },
   "log_in": "Zaloguj",
   "logging_in": "Logowanie…",
@@ -162,14 +198,15 @@
   "screenshare_button_label": "Udostępnij ekran",
   "settings": {
     "audio_tab": {
-      "effect_volume_description": "Dostosuj głośność, z jaką odtwarzane są efekty reakcji i podniesionej ręki",
-      "effect_volume_label": "Głośność efektu dźwiękowego"
+      "effect_volume_description": "Dostosuj głośność efektów reakcji i podniesienia ręki.",
+      "effect_volume_label": "Głośność efektów dźwiękowych"
     },
     "background_blur_header": "Tło",
     "background_blur_label": "Rozmycie tła wideo",
     "blur_not_supported_by_browser": "(Rozmycie tła nie jest wspierane przez to urządzenie.)",
     "developer_tab_title": "Programista",
     "devices": {
+      "activating": "Aktywuję…",
       "camera": "Kamera",
       "camera_numbered": "Kamera {{n}}",
       "change_device_button": "Zmień urządzenie audio",
@@ -192,7 +229,7 @@
     "preferences_tab": {
       "developer_mode_label": "Tryb programisty",
       "developer_mode_label_description": "Włącz tryb programisty i wyświetl kartę ustawień programisty.",
-      "introduction": "Tutaj możesz skonfigurować dodatkowe opcje dla lepszych doświadczeń.",
+      "introduction": "Tutaj możesz skonfigurować dodatkowe opcje dla lepszego komfortu użytkowania.",
       "reactions_play_sound_description": "Odtwórz efekt dźwiękowy, gdy ktoś wyślę reakcję w trakcie połączenia.",
       "reactions_play_sound_label": "Odtwórz dźwięki reakcji",
       "reactions_show_description": "Odtwórz animację, gdy ktoś wyślę reakcję.",
@@ -201,26 +238,31 @@
       "show_hand_raised_timer_label": "Pokaż czas po podniesieniu ręki"
     }
   },
-  "star_rating_input_label_one": "{{count}} gwiazdki",
-  "star_rating_input_label_other": "{{count}} gwiazdki",
+  "star_rating_input_label_one": "{{count}} gwiazdka",
+  "star_rating_input_label_few": "{{count}} gwiazdki",
+  "star_rating_input_label_many": "{{count}} gwiazdek",
   "start_new_call": "Rozpocznij nowe połączenie",
   "start_video_button_label": "Rozpocznij wideo",
   "stop_screenshare_button_label": "Udostępnianie ekranu",
   "stop_video_button_label": "Zakończ wideo",
   "submitting": "Wysyłanie…",
   "switch_camera": "Przełącz kamerę",
+  "technical_details": "Szczegóły techniczne",
   "unauthenticated_view_body": "Nie masz konta? <2>Utwórz je</2>",
-  "unauthenticated_view_login_button": "Zaloguj się do swojego konta",
+  "unauthenticated_view_login_button": "Zaloguj się na swoje konto",
   "unauthenticated_view_ssla_caption": "Klikając \"Przejdź\", wyrażasz zgodę na naszą <2>Umowę licencyjną oprogramowania i usług (SSLA)</2>",
-  "unmute_microphone_button_label": "Odcisz mikrofon",
-  "version": "Wersja: {{version}}",
+  "unmute_microphone_button_label": "Wyłącz wyciszenie mikrofonu",
+  "version": "{{productName}} wersja: {{version}}",
   "video_tile": {
     "always_show": "Zawsze pokazuj",
+    "call_ended": "Połączenie zakończone",
+    "calling": "Łączenie...",
     "camera_starting": "Wczytywanie wideo...",
     "collapse": "Zwiń",
     "expand": "Rozwiń",
     "mute_for_me": "Wycisz dla mnie",
     "muted_for_me": "Wyciszone dla mnie",
+    "screen_share_volume": "Głośność udostępniania ekranu",
     "volume": "Głośność",
     "waiting_for_media": "Oczekiwanie na media..."
   }

package.json

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     "dev": "pnpm dev:full",
     "dev:full": "vite",
     "dev:embedded": "vite --config vite-embedded.config.js",
+    "dev:component": "vite --config vite-component-dev.config.ts",
     "build": "pnpm build:full",
     "build:full": "NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=16384 vite build",
     "build:full:production": "pnpm build:full",
@@ -16,13 +17,19 @@
     "build:sdk:development": "pnpm build:sdk --mode development",
     "build:sdk": "pnpm build:full --config vite-sdk.config.js",
     "build:sdk:production": "pnpm build:sdk",
+    "build:component": "pnpm build:component:js && pnpm build:component:types",
+    "build:component:js": "pnpm build:full --config vite-component.config.js",
+    "build:component:types": "tsc -p component/tsconfig.build.json",
+    "build:component:production": "pnpm build:component",
+    "build:component:development": "pnpm build:component:js --mode development && pnpm build:component:types",
     "serve": "vite preview",
     "format": "oxfmt",
     "format:check": "oxfmt --check; rc=$?; [[ $rc -ne 0 ]] && printf '\\033[46;30m INFO \\033[0m To fix, run: pnpm format\\n' >&2; exit $rc",
-    "lint": "pnpm lint:types && pnpm lint:oxlint && pnpm lint:knip",
-    "lint:oxlint": "oxlint src playwright",
-    "lint:oxlint-fix": "oxlint --fix src playwright",
+    "lint": "pnpm lint:types && pnpm lint:oxlint && pnpm lint:knip && pnpm lint:externals",
+    "lint:oxlint": "oxlint src component playwright",
+    "lint:oxlint-fix": "oxlint --fix src component playwright",
     "lint:knip": "knip",
+    "lint:externals": "node scripts/check-component-externals.mjs",
     "lint:types": "tsc",
     "i18n": "npx i18next-cli extract",
     "i18n:check": "npx i18next-cli extract --ci",
@@ -30,8 +37,8 @@
     "test:storybook": "vitest --project=storybook",
     "test:unit": "vitest --project=unit",
     "test:coverage": "vitest --coverage",
-    "backend": "docker-compose -f dev-backend-docker-compose.yml up",
-    "backend-playwright": "docker-compose -f playwright-backend-docker-compose.yml -f playwright-backend-docker-compose.override.yml up",
+    "backend": "docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml up",
+    "backend-playwright": "docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml -f docker-compose-playwright.yml up",
     "test:playwright": "playwright test",
     "test:playwright:open": "pnpm test:playwright --ui",
     "links:on": "cp scripts/.pnpmfile.cjs .pnpmfile.cjs & pnpm install",
@@ -54,6 +61,7 @@
     "@radix-ui/react-slider": "^1.1.2",
     "@radix-ui/react-visually-hidden": "^1.0.3",
     "@react-spring/web": "^10.0.0",
+    "@rolldown/plugin-babel": "^0.2.3",
     "@sentry/react": "^8.0.0",
     "@sentry/vite-plugin": "^3.0.0",
     "@storybook/addon-docs": "^10.3.6",
@@ -76,17 +84,18 @@
     "@typescript-eslint/utils": "^8.61.0",
     "@use-gesture/react": "^10.2.11",
     "@vector-im/compound-design-tokens": "^10.0.0",
-    "@vector-im/compound-web": "^9.3.0",
+    "@vector-im/compound-web": "^10.0.0",
     "@vitejs/plugin-react": "^6.0.2",
     "@vitest/browser-playwright": "^4.1.5",
     "@vitest/coverage-v8": "^4.0.18",
-    "@vitest/ui": "4.1.9",
+    "@vitest/ui": "4.1.11",
+    "babel-plugin-react-compiler": "^1.0.0",
     "classnames": "^2.3.1",
     "copy-to-clipboard": "^3.3.3",
     "eslint-plugin-element-call": "link:eslint",
     "eslint-plugin-storybook": "^10.3.6",
     "fetch-mock": "11.1.5",
-    "i18next": "^25.0.0",
+    "i18next": "^26.0.0",
     "i18next-browser-languagedetector": "^8.0.0",
     "i18next-cli": "^1.61.0",
     "jsdom": "^26.0.0",
@@ -95,17 +104,18 @@
     "lodash-es": "^4.17.21",
     "loglevel": "^1.9.1",
     "matrix-js-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop",
-    "matrix-widget-api": "^1.16.1",
+    "matrix-widget-api": "^1.18.0",
     "node-stdlib-browser": "^1.3.1",
     "normalize.css": "^8.0.1",
     "observable-hooks": "^4.2.3",
-    "oxfmt": "^0.56.0",
+    "oxfmt": "^0.66.0",
     "oxlint": "^1.70.0",
-    "oxlint-tsgolint": "^0.23.0",
+    "oxlint-tsgolint": "^0.25.0",
     "pako": "^2.0.4",
     "postcss": "^8.4.41",
     "postcss-preset-env": "^10.0.0",
-    "posthog-js": "1.374.0",
+    "postcss-selector-parser": "^7.1.1",
+    "posthog-js": "1.408.2",
     "qrcode": "^1.5.4",
     "react": "19",
     "react-dom": "19",
@@ -129,5 +139,5 @@
     "vitest": "^4.1.5",
     "vitest-axe": "^1.0.0-pre.3"
   },
-  "packageManager": "pnpm@11.6.0+sha512.9a36518224080c6fe5165afdcfe79bfa118c29be703f3f462b1e32efe1e98e47e8750b148e08286250aad4113cc7993ca413c4e2cd447752708c2ee5751bc95f"
+  "packageManager": "pnpm@11.21.0+sha512.521705bce689924eac72f5a3587122f362689ef6571e55ba80076fd637c11132ecffada26fad4ea79c485bfddbfd3d5a2a5b05805a77e893de71ec8a6cca3bb1"
 }

playwright-backend-docker-compose.override.yml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-services:
-  synapse:
-    volumes:
-      - ./backend/playwright_homeserver.yaml:/data/cfg/homeserver.yaml:Z
-  synapse-1:
-    volumes:
-      - ./backend/playwright_homeserver-othersite.yaml:/data/cfg/homeserver.yaml:Z

playwright-backend-docker-compose.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-include:
-  - dev-backend-docker-compose.yml

playwright.config.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import { join } from "path";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 
+import { COMPONENT_HARNESS_URL } from "./playwright/component/harness.ts";
+
 const baseURL = process.env.USE_DOCKER
   ? "http://localhost:8080"
   : "https://localhost:3000";
@@ -84,6 +86,11 @@ export default defineConfig({
             // enumerateDevices work on CI runners without real hardware.
             "media.navigator.streams.fake": true,
             "media.navigator.permission.disabled": true,
+            // Vite serves HTTPS over HTTP/2, and Firefox intermittently stalls
+            // on Node's HTTP/2 server with a page that never finishes loading
+            // (one run in five or so, locally). Every server in the suite
+            // still speaks HTTP/1.1, so nothing is lost by insisting on it.
+            "network.http.http2.enabled": false,
           },
         },
       },
@@ -115,14 +122,29 @@ export default defineConfig({
   ],
 
   /* Run your local dev server before starting the tests */
-  webServer: {
-    command: "./scripts/playwright-webserver-command.sh",
-    url: baseURL,
-    reuseExistingServer: !process.env.CI,
-    ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
-    gracefulShutdown: {
-      signal: "SIGTERM",
-      timeout: 500,
+  webServer: [
+    {
+      command: "./scripts/playwright-webserver-command.sh",
+      url: baseURL,
+      reuseExistingServer: !process.env.CI,
+      ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
+      gracefulShutdown: {
+        signal: "SIGTERM",
+        timeout: 500,
+      },
     },
-  },
+    {
+      // The harness that embeds Element Call as a component. Always a Vite dev
+      // server, whether or not the app itself is being served from Docker,
+      // since there is nothing to build: it is a development page only.
+      command: "pnpm dev:component",
+      url: COMPONENT_HARNESS_URL,
+      reuseExistingServer: !process.env.CI,
+      ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
+      gracefulShutdown: {
+        signal: "SIGTERM",
+        timeout: 500,
+      },
+    },
+  ],
 });

playwright/component/component-call.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { expect, type Locator, type Page, test } from "@playwright/test";
+
+import {
+  createUserAndRoom,
+  expectWithin,
+  resizeContainer,
+  startHarness,
+} from "./harness.ts";
+import { SpaHelpers } from "../spa-helpers.ts";
+
+/**
+ * Element Call embedded as a React component, driven through the development
+ * harness in `component/dev`.
+ *
+ * What these cover that the widget tests cannot is everything that follows from
+ * sharing a page with a host: whether Element Call stays inside the space it
+ * was given, and whether two of it can exist at once. As a widget, the iframe
+ * guaranteed both.
+ */
+
+// Each test signs in twice, sets up crypto twice and syncs twice before
+// anything is on screen, and then waits for media to connect; the waits below
+// are sized for that, so the tests have to be too
+test.describe.configure({ timeout: 180_000 });
+
+/** The settings button, whichever of the two the footer is currently showing. */
+function settingsButton(pane: Locator): Locator {
+  return pane
+    .getByTestId("settings-bottom-left")
+    .or(pane.getByTestId("settings-bottom-center"))
+    .filter({ visible: true })
+    .first();
+}
+
+test("holds a call between two components on one page", async ({ page }) => {
+  const { username, roomId } = await createUserAndRoom("twocomponents");
+  const panes = await startHarness(page, username, roomId);
+
+  // Each component shows a lobby of its own, and neither has joined anything
+  // just by being rendered
+  for (const index of [0, 1])
+    await expect(panes.nth(index).getByTestId("lobby_joinCall")).toBeVisible({
+      timeout: 60_000,
+    });
+
+  for (const index of [0, 1])
+    await panes.nth(index).getByTestId("lobby_joinCall").click();
+
+  // Two devices of one account, so each component should see itself and the
+  // other. This is the part that proves two Element Calls in one page are two
+  // calls, and not one shared thing wearing two hats.
+  for (const index of [0, 1])
+    await expect(panes.nth(index).getByTestId("videoTile")).toHaveCount(2, {
+      timeout: 60_000,
+    });
+});
+
+test("keeps its modals inside the container it was given", async ({ page }) => {
+  const { username, roomId } = await createUserAndRoom("containment");
+  const panes = await startHarness(page, username, roomId);
+  const pane = panes.first();
+  const container = pane.getByTestId("call-container");
+
+  // In the flat container the harness gives it by default, Element Call hides
+  // its controls a few seconds after the call starts, as it would in a flat
+  // window. A full-size container keeps them on screen to be clicked.
+  await resizeContainer(container, { width: 900, height: 640 });
+  await pane.getByTestId("lobby_joinCall").click({ timeout: 60_000 });
+  await expect(pane.getByTestId("footer-container")).toBeVisible({
+    timeout: 60_000,
+  });
+
+  // Both of these are positioned `fixed`, and were centred on the window
+  // rather than the container until it was made a containing block. The
+  // settings dialog spilled over the host's interface; the reaction picker sat
+  // at 82vh, which put it below the container entirely and so out of sight.
+  await settingsButton(pane).click();
+  await expectWithin(pane.getByRole("dialog"), container);
+  await pane.getByTestId("modal_close").click();
+
+  await pane.getByRole("button", { name: "Reactions" }).click();
+  await expectWithin(
+    pane.getByRole("dialog", { name: "Pick reaction" }),
+    container,
+  );
+});
+
+test("keeps the call inside the container, wherever the host put it", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  const { username, roomId } = await createUserAndRoom("tileswithin");
+  const panes = await startHarness(page, username, roomId);
+  const pane = panes.first();
+  const container = pane.getByTestId("call-container");
+
+  // Large enough for the layout switch to be offered
+  await resizeContainer(container, { width: 900, height: 640 });
+  await pane.getByTestId("lobby_joinCall").click({ timeout: 60_000 });
+  await expect(pane.getByTestId("footer-container")).toBeVisible({
+    timeout: 60_000,
+  });
+
+  // The spotlight layout draws its tile in the fixed grid, which is positioned
+  // against Element Call's root rather than laid out in flow. The harness puts
+  // the container below a header of its own, so a grid offset measured from
+  // the top of the page instead of from the root would land the tile on top of
+  // the footer and out of the bottom of the container.
+  await pane.getByRole("radio", { name: "Spotlight" }).check();
+  const tile = pane.getByTestId("videoTile").first();
+  await expect(tile).toBeVisible({ timeout: 60_000 });
+  await expectWithin(tile, container);
+});
+
+test("leaves the host's own page unstyled", async ({ page }) => {
+  const { username, roomId } = await createUserAndRoom("hoststyles");
+  const panes = await startHarness(page, username, roomId);
+  await expect(panes.first().getByTestId("lobby_joinCall")).toBeVisible({
+    timeout: 60_000,
+  });
+
+  // Element Call's stylesheet is written for a page of its own: normalize.css
+  // gives `html` a line height, Compound gives `body` its font and feature
+  // settings, and the design tokens live on `:root`. None of that may reach the
+  // host's document — the harness sets none of these itself, so anything other
+  // than the browser's defaults here came from us.
+  const host = await page.evaluate(() => {
+    const html = getComputedStyle(document.documentElement);
+    const body = getComputedStyle(document.body);
+    return {
+      lineHeight: html.lineHeight,
+      fontFeatureSettings: body.fontFeatureSettings,
+      token: html.getPropertyValue("--cpd-color-text-primary"),
+    };
+  });
+  expect(host).toEqual({
+    lineHeight: "normal",
+    fontFeatureSettings: "normal",
+    token: "",
+  });
+
+  // While inside the container, the same rules do apply
+  const root = panes.first().locator("[data-element-call-root]");
+  await expect(root).toHaveCSS("font-feature-settings", /"kern"/);
+});
+
+test("tells its host what it is doing", async ({ page }) => {
+  const { username, roomId } = await createUserAndRoom("hostbridge");
+  const panes = await startHarness(page, username, roomId);
+  const pane = panes.first();
+  const log = page.getByTestId("bridge-log");
+
+  // Every component reports to its host through the bridge, whether that host
+  // is a widget container or an application embedding it directly
+  await expect(log).toContainText("contentLoaded", { timeout: 60_000 });
+
+  await pane.getByTestId("lobby_joinCall").click({ timeout: 60_000 });
+  await expect(log).toContainText("notifyJoined", { timeout: 60_000 });
+  await expect(log).toContainText("setAlwaysOnScreen(true)", {
+    timeout: 60_000,
+  });
+
+  // And takes instructions back: the host asking for a mute should come back
+  // as the component reporting the new state
+  await pane.getByRole("button", { name: "Mute" }).click();
+  await expect(log).toContainText("notifyDeviceMute(audio: false", {
+    timeout: 30_000,
+  });
+});
+
+test("lays itself out for the space it is given, not the page", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  const { username, roomId } = await createUserAndRoom("containersize");
+  const panes = await startHarness(page, username, roomId);
+  const pane = panes.first();
+  const container = pane.getByTestId("call-container");
+  const call = pane.locator("[data-layout]");
+
+  await pane.getByTestId("lobby_joinCall").click({ timeout: 60_000 });
+  await expect(call).toBeVisible({ timeout: 60_000 });
+  await expect(call).not.toHaveAttribute("data-layout", "pip");
+
+  // As a widget, Element Call's container and its window were one and the same:
+  // a host wanting a picture-in-picture made the iframe small, and Element Call
+  // saw the window shrink. A component gets no such signal from the window,
+  // which stays as large as it ever was; only the container changes.
+  await resizeContainer(container, { width: 300, height: 300 });
+  await expect(call).toHaveAttribute("data-layout", "pip");
+
+  await resizeContainer(container, { width: 900, height: 700 });
+  await expect(call).not.toHaveAttribute("data-layout", "pip");
+});
+
+/**
+ * The shape of a call at whatever size it has been given: the layout it chose,
+ * how much of the height the tile and the footer take, and which controls the
+ * footer shows. Two calls with the same shape look the same, participants aside.
+ */
+async function callShape(scope: Page | Locator): Promise<{
+  layout: string | null;
+  tileHeight: number;
+  footerHeight: number;
+  buttons: (string | null)[];
+}> {
+  const call = scope.locator("[data-layout]");
+  const footer = scope.getByTestId("footer-container");
+  await expect(footer).toBeVisible();
+  // The tile arrives with the media connection, which can take a while
+  const tile = scope.getByTestId("videoTile").first();
+  await expect(tile).toBeVisible({ timeout: 60_000 });
+  const tileBox = (await tile.boundingBox())!;
+  const footerBox = (await footer.boundingBox())!;
+  // Buttons and switches alike: the mute controls are switches
+  const buttons = await footer
+    .locator("button")
+    .filter({ visible: true })
+    .evaluateAll((elements) =>
+      elements.map((element) => element.getAttribute("aria-label")),
+    );
+  return {
+    layout: await call.getAttribute("data-layout"),
+    tileHeight: Math.round(tileBox.height),
+    footerHeight: Math.round(footerBox.height),
+    buttons,
+  };
+}
+
+test("looks the same in a small container as in a small window", async ({
+  page,
+  browser,
+}) => {
+  // Two calls to set up, one of them through the harness's two logins
+  test.setTimeout(300_000);
+  const size = { width: 300, height: 300 };
+
+  // The reference is Element Call owning a window of that size, which is what
+  // a mobile app's webview or a browser's picture-in-picture gives it, and
+  // what its small-window styling was written for.
+  // No permissions to grant: each browser is launched with fake media that is
+  // handed out without asking (see playwright.config.ts), and Firefox rejects
+  // a request for `camera` or `microphone` outright
+  const referenceContext = await browser.newContext({
+    viewport: size,
+    ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
+  });
+  const referencePage = await referenceContext.newPage();
+  await referencePage.goto("/");
+  await SpaHelpers.createCall(referencePage, "Reference", "smallwindow", true);
+  const reference = await callShape(referencePage);
+  await referencePage.screenshot({
+    path: test.info().outputPath("small-window.png"),
+  });
+
+  // The component gets a container of that size, in a window that is far larger
+  const { username, roomId } = await createUserAndRoom("smallcontainer");
+  const panes = await startHarness(page, username, roomId);
+  const pane = panes.first();
+  const container = pane.getByTestId("call-container");
+  await resizeContainer(container, size);
+  await pane.getByTestId("lobby_joinCall").click({ timeout: 60_000 });
+  await expect(pane.locator("[data-layout]")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 60_000 });
+  const component = await callShape(pane);
+  await container.screenshot({
+    path: test.info().outputPath("small-container.png"),
+  });
+  await referenceContext.close();
+
+  // The breakpoints in Element Call's stylesheets are container queries, so a
+  // small container gets the compact footer a small window does, rather than
+  // the full-width one the window's own size would call for
+  expect(component).toEqual(reference);
+  // And that footer is the compact one: a single row of controls, not the
+  // full-height bar with its logo and layout switch that a large window gets
+  expect(component.footerHeight).toBeLessThan(size.height / 3);
+  expect(component.tileHeight + component.footerHeight).toBeLessThanOrEqual(
+    size.height,
+  );
+});

playwright/component/harness.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { expect, type Locator, type Page } from "@playwright/test";
+
+import { SynapseAdmin } from "../utils/synapse-admin.ts";
+
+/**
+ * Where the component harness is served — `component/dev`, which embeds Element
+ * Call the way a host application would. Not the `baseURL` the rest of the
+ * suite uses: these tests drive a page that contains Element Call rather than
+ * Element Call itself.
+ */
+export const COMPONENT_HARNESS_URL = "https://localhost:3001";
+
+const HOMESERVER_URL = "https://synapse.m.localhost";
+const PASSWORD = "foobarbaz1!";
+
+/**
+ * Registers a user through the Synapse admin API and creates a room for it to
+ * call in, without touching a browser. The harness signs into this account
+ * twice, giving two devices in one page and so a real call between the two
+ * components.
+ */
+export async function createUserAndRoom(
+  name: string,
+): Promise<{ username: string; roomId: string }> {
+  const username = `${name}_${Date.now()}`;
+  const { access_token: accessToken } = await SynapseAdmin.forHomeserver(
+    HOMESERVER_URL,
+  ).registerUser(username, PASSWORD, name);
+
+  const response = await fetch(
+    `${HOMESERVER_URL}/_matrix/client/v3/createRoom`,
+    {
+      method: "POST",
+      headers: {
+        Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
+        "Content-Type": "application/json",
+      },
+      body: JSON.stringify({ name: `${name}'s call`, preset: "private_chat" }),
+    },
+  );
+  if (!response.ok)
+    throw new Error(
+      `Could not create a room: ${response.status} ${await response.text()}`,
+    );
+  const { room_id: roomId } = (await response.json()) as { room_id: string };
+
+  return { username, roomId };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Opens the harness signed in as the given user, and waits for both embedded
+ * calls to appear.
+ *
+ * @returns The two containers the host gave Element Call, in order.
+ */
+export async function startHarness(
+  page: Page,
+  username: string,
+  roomId: string,
+): Promise<Locator> {
+  const query = new URLSearchParams({
+    homeserver: HOMESERVER_URL,
+    username,
+    password: PASSWORD,
+    room: roomId,
+  });
+  await page.goto(`${COMPONENT_HARNESS_URL}/?${query.toString()}`);
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Start" }).click();
+
+  const panes = page.getByTestId("call-pane");
+  // Two logins, two crypto setups and two initial syncs happen first
+  await expect(panes).toHaveCount(2, { timeout: 120_000 });
+  return panes;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Asserts that one element is drawn entirely inside another.
+ *
+ * This is the check that being a component rather than an iframe costs us: an
+ * iframe could not paint outside itself whatever its stylesheets said, whereas
+ * a component shares the page and has to be made to stay put.
+ */
+export async function expectWithin(
+  inner: Locator,
+  outer: Locator,
+): Promise<void> {
+  await expect(inner).toBeVisible();
+  const innerBox = await inner.boundingBox();
+  const outerBox = await outer.boundingBox();
+  if (innerBox === null || outerBox === null)
+    throw new Error("Expected both elements to be laid out");
+
+  // A pixel of slack, for subpixel layout
+  const slack = 1;
+  expect(innerBox.x).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(outerBox.x - slack);
+  expect(innerBox.y).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(outerBox.y - slack);
+  expect(innerBox.x + innerBox.width).toBeLessThanOrEqual(
+    outerBox.x + outerBox.width + slack,
+  );
+  expect(innerBox.y + innerBox.height).toBeLessThanOrEqual(
+    outerBox.y + outerBox.height + slack,
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Gives one of the harness's containers a new size. Element Call lays itself
+ * out for the size of its container, so this is how a test puts it into a
+ * particular mode: a flat or narrow one, a picture-in-picture, or a full-size
+ * window, without the window itself changing at all.
+ */
+export async function resizeContainer(
+  container: Locator,
+  size: { width: number; height: number },
+): Promise<void> {
+  await container.evaluate((element, { width, height }) => {
+    element.style.width = `${width}px`;
+    element.style.height = `${height}px`;
+  }, size);
+}

playwright/fixtures/widget-user.ts

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ export const widgetTest = test.extend<MyFixtures>({
 
       // Accept the DM invite from brooks
       // This how playwright record selects the DM invite in the room list
-      await ewPage2.getByRole("option", { name: "Open room" }).click();
+      await ewPage2.getByRole("button", { name: "Open room" }).click();
       await ewPage2.getByRole("button", { name: "Start chatting" }).click();
     }
 

playwright/spa-helpers.ts

@@ -101,9 +101,7 @@ async function setRtcModeFromSettings(
 
   // Move to Developer tab now
   await page.getByRole("tab", { name: "Developer" }).click();
-  if (mode == "legacy") {
-    await page.getByText("Legacy: state events").click();
-  } else if (mode == "2_0") {
+  if (mode == "2_0") {
     await page.getByText("Matrix 2.0").click();
   } else {
     // compat
@@ -125,21 +123,10 @@ async function expectVideoTilesCount(page: Page, count: number): Promise<void> {
   });
 
   // There should be `count` video elements, visible and autoplaying
-  await expect(page.locator("video")).toHaveCount(count);
-
-  await expect(async () => {
-    const videoBlockCount = await page
-      .locator("video")
-      .evaluateAll(
-        (videos: Element[]) =>
-          videos.filter(
-            (v: Element) => window.getComputedStyle(v).display === "block",
-          ).length,
-      );
-    expect(videoBlockCount).toBe(count);
-  }).toPass({
-    timeout: 10000,
-  });
+  await expect(page.locator("video").filter({ visible: true })).toHaveCount(
+    count,
+    { timeout: 10000 },
+  );
 }
 
 export const SpaHelpers = {

playwright/widget/federated-call.test.ts

@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ import { HOST1, HOST2, type RtcMode, TestHelpers } from "./test-helpers";
 
 const modePairs: [RtcMode, RtcMode][] = [
   ["compat", "compat"],
-  ["legacy", "legacy"],
-  ["legacy", "compat"],
-  ["compat", "legacy"],
+  // TODO: Compatibility + Matrix 2.0?
 ];
 
 modePairs.forEach(([rtcMode1, rtcMode2]) => {

playwright/widget/federation-oldest-membership-bug.spec.ts

@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-/*
-Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
-
-SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
-Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
-*/
-
-import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
-
-import { widgetTest } from "../fixtures/widget-user";
-import { HOST1, HOST2, TestHelpers } from "./test-helpers";
-
-widgetTest(
-  "Bug new joiner was not publishing on correct SFU",
-  async ({ addUser, browserName }) => {
-    test.skip(
-      browserName === "firefox",
-      "This is a bug in the old widget, not a browser problem.",
-    );
-
-    test.slow();
-
-    // 2 users in federation
-    const florian = await addUser("floriant", HOST1);
-    const timo = await addUser("timo", HOST2);
-
-    // Florian creates a room and invites Timo to it
-    const roomName = "Call Room";
-    await TestHelpers.createRoom(roomName, florian.page, [timo.mxId]);
-
-    // Timo joins the room
-    await TestHelpers.acceptRoomInvite(roomName, timo.page);
-
-    // Ensure we are in legacy mode (should be the default)
-    await TestHelpers.openWidgetSetEmbeddedElementCallRtcModeCloseWidget(
-      florian.page,
-      "legacy",
-    );
-    await TestHelpers.openWidgetSetEmbeddedElementCallRtcModeCloseWidget(
-      timo.page,
-      "legacy",
-    );
-
-    // Let timo create a call
-    await TestHelpers.startCallInCurrentRoom(timo.page, false);
-    await TestHelpers.joinCallFromLobby(timo.page);
-
-    // We want to simulate that the oldest membership authentication is way slower than
-    // the preffered auth.
-    // In this setup, timo advertised$ transport will be it's own, and the active will be the one from florian
-    await florian.page.route(
-      "**/matrix-rtc.othersite.m.localhost/livekit/jwt/**",
-      async (route) => {
-        await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 2000)); // 5 second delay
-        await route.continue();
-      },
-    );
-
-    // Florian joins the call
-    await expect(florian.page.getByTestId("join-call-button")).toBeVisible();
-    await florian.page.getByTestId("join-call-button").click();
-    await TestHelpers.joinCallFromLobby(florian.page);
-
-    await florian.page.waitForTimeout(3000);
-    await timo.page.waitForTimeout(3000);
-
-    // We should see 2 video tiles everywhere now
-    for (const user of [timo, florian]) {
-      const frame = user.page
-        .locator('iframe[title="Element Call"]')
-        .contentFrame();
-      await expect(frame.getByTestId("videoTile")).toHaveCount(2);
-
-      // No one should be waiting for media
-      await expect(frame.getByText("Waiting for media...")).not.toBeVisible();
-
-      // There should be 2 video elements, visible and autoplaying
-      await expect(frame.locator("video")).toHaveCount(2, {
-        timeout: 10000,
-      });
-
-      await TestHelpers.expectVisibleVideoCount(frame, 2);
-    }
-  },
-);

playwright/widget/hotswap-legacy-compat.test.ts

@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-/*
-Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
-
-SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
-Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
-*/
-
-import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
-
-import { widgetTest } from "../fixtures/widget-user";
-import { HOST1, HOST2, TestHelpers } from "./test-helpers";
-
-// ## Issue
-// This test reproduces an issue with the publisher.
-// When switching local focus, we need to recreate the publisher.
-// This failed because of a dead lock in the old publishers destruction.
-//
-// There are numerus ways to enforece this situation:
-//  - oldest member swap (manually set the oldest member focus and leave with the prev oldest member)
-//    This almost never happens in the real worls since clients will set their preferredFoci list to what the oldest member is.
-//  - switch from oldest member to multi sfu as the NOT the first joiner + the first joiner is on a different sfu than your preferred sfu.
-//
-// This test uses the "switch from oldest member to multi sfu" approach.
-//
-// It is a copy of federated-call.test.ts in the `["legacy", "legacy"]` setup,
-// which once connected will make the second user switch to multi sfu.
-widgetTest(
-  `Test swapping publisher from ${HOST1} to ${HOST2}`,
-  async ({ addUser, browserName }) => {
-    test.slow();
-    test.skip(
-      browserName === "firefox",
-      "The is test is not working on firefox CI environment. No mic/audio device inputs so cam/mic are disabled",
-    );
-
-    const florian = await addUser("floriant", HOST1);
-    const timo = await addUser("timo", HOST2);
-
-    const roomName = "Call Room";
-
-    await TestHelpers.createRoom(roomName, florian.page, [timo.mxId]);
-
-    await TestHelpers.acceptRoomInvite(roomName, timo.page);
-
-    await florian.page.pause();
-
-    await TestHelpers.openWidgetSetEmbeddedElementCallRtcModeCloseWidget(
-      florian.page,
-      "legacy",
-    );
-    await TestHelpers.openWidgetSetEmbeddedElementCallRtcModeCloseWidget(
-      timo.page,
-      "legacy",
-    );
-
-    await TestHelpers.startCallInCurrentRoom(florian.page, false);
-    await TestHelpers.joinCallFromLobby(florian.page);
-
-    // timo joins
-    await TestHelpers.joinCallInCurrentRoom(timo.page);
-
-    // We should see 2 video tiles everywhere now
-    for (const user of [timo, florian]) {
-      const frame = user.page
-        .locator('iframe[title="Element Call"]')
-        .contentFrame();
-      await expect(frame.getByTestId("videoTile")).toHaveCount(2);
-
-      // Wait for "Waiting for media..." to disappear (with timeout)
-      await expect(frame.getByText("Waiting for media...")).not.toBeVisible({
-        timeout: 10000, // Maximum time to wait
-      });
-
-      // There should be 2 video elements, visible and autoplaying
-      await expect(frame.locator("video")).toHaveCount(2, {
-        timeout: 10000,
-      });
-
-      await TestHelpers.expectVisibleVideoCount(frame, 2);
-    }
-
-    // now we switch the mode for timo (second joiner on multi-sfu HOST2 but currently HOST1)
-    await TestHelpers.setEmbeddedElementCallRtcMode(timo.page, "compat");
-    await timo.page.waitForTimeout(3000);
-
-    await TestHelpers.expectVisibleVideoCount(
-      timo.page.locator('iframe[title="Element Call"]').contentFrame(),
-      2,
-    );
-  },
-);

playwright/widget/pip-call-button-interaction.test.ts

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ widgetTest("Footer interaction in PiP", async ({ addUser, browserName }) => {
   await valere.page.waitForTimeout(600);
 
   // Switch to the other room, the call should go to PIP
+  await TestHelpers.expandRoomList(valere.page);
   await TestHelpers.switchToRoomNamed(valere.page, "OtherRoom");
 
   // We should see the PIP overlay

playwright/widget/pip-call.test.ts

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ widgetTest("Put call in PIP", async ({ addUser, browserName }) => {
   });
 
   // Switch to the other room, the call should go to PIP
+  await TestHelpers.expandRoomList(valere.page);
   await TestHelpers.switchToRoomNamed(valere.page, "DoubleTask");
 
   // We should see the PIP overlay

playwright/widget/test-helpers.ts

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ const PASSWORD = "foobarbaz1!";
 export const HOST1 = "https://app.m.localhost/#/welcome";
 export const HOST2 = "https://app.othersite.m.localhost/#/welcome";
 
-export type RtcMode = "legacy" | "compat" | "2_0";
+export type RtcMode = "compat" | "2_0";
 
 export class TestHelpers {
   public static async startCallInCurrentRoom(
@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ export class TestHelpers {
     audioOnly: boolean = false,
     isDM: boolean = false,
   ): Promise<void> {
-    // XXX This using the notification toast to join the room.
-    // Not the button in the header
-
     await page.waitForTimeout(3000);
     const label = isDM
       ? audioOnly
@@ -85,7 +82,9 @@ export class TestHelpers {
     await expect(page.getByText(label)).toBeVisible({
       timeout: 10000,
     });
-    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Join" }).click({
+    // XXX This using the notification toast to join the room.
+    // Not the buttons in the header or timeline
+    await page.getByRole("alert").getByRole("button", { name: "Join" }).click({
       timeout: 5000,
     });
   }
@@ -310,9 +309,7 @@ export class TestHelpers {
 
     // Move to Developer tab now
     await iframe.getByRole("tab", { name: "Developer" }).click();
-    if (mode == "legacy") {
-      await iframe.getByText("Legacy: state events").click();
-    } else if (mode == "2_0") {
+    if (mode == "2_0") {
       await iframe.getByText("Matrix 2.0").click();
     } else {
       // compat
@@ -347,6 +344,12 @@ export class TestHelpers {
     }
   }
 
+  public static async expandRoomList(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+    await page
+      .getByRole("separator", { name: "Click or drag to expand" })
+      .click();
+  }
+
   /**
    * Switches to a room in the room list by its name.
    * @param page - The EW page
@@ -385,25 +388,9 @@ export class TestHelpers {
     frame: FrameLocator,
     count: number,
   ): Promise<void> {
-    // XXX we need to be better at our HTML markup and accessibility, it would make
-    // this kind of stuff way easier to test if we could look out for aria attributes.
-    await expect
-      .poll(
-        async () => {
-          return await frame
-            .locator("video")
-            .evaluateAll(
-              (videos: Element[]) =>
-                videos.filter(
-                  (v: Element) =>
-                    window.getComputedStyle(v).display === "block",
-                ).length,
-            );
-        },
-        {
-          timeout: 10000,
-        },
-      )
-      .toBe(count);
+    await expect(frame.locator("video").filter({ visible: true })).toHaveCount(
+      count,
+      { timeout: 10000 },
+    );
   }
 }

playwright/widget/voice-call-dm.spec.ts

@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ widgetTest(
     ).toBeVisible();
 
     await expect(whistler.page.getByText("Incoming voice call")).toBeVisible();
-    await whistler.page.getByRole("button", { name: "Join" }).click();
+    await whistler.page
+      .getByRole("alert")
+      .getByRole("button", { name: "Join" })
+      .click();
 
     await expect(
       whistler.page.locator('iframe[title="Element Call"]'),
@@ -129,7 +132,10 @@ widgetTest(
     ).toBeVisible();
 
     await expect(whistler.page.getByText("Incoming video call")).toBeVisible();
-    await whistler.page.getByRole("button", { name: "Join" }).click();
+    await whistler.page
+      .getByRole("alert")
+      .getByRole("button", { name: "Join" })
+      .click();
 
     await expect(
       whistler.page.locator('iframe[title="Element Call"]'),

pnpm-workspace.yaml

@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
+supportedArchitectures:
+  os: [current, linux]
+  cpu: [current, arm64]
+  libc: [current, glibc]
+minimumReleaseAgeExclude:
+  - "@vector-im/compound-design-tokens"
+  - "@vector-im/compound-web"
+  - matrix-js-sdk
+  - matrix-widget-api
 allowBuilds:
   "@parcel/watcher": true
   "@sentry/cli": true
   "@swc/core": true
   "core-js": true
   "esbuild": true
-  "matrix-js-sdk@https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/8c95727b6278fe7942c20d0b9485f984dd0694b7": true
+  "matrix-js-sdk@git+https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk.git": true
   "protobufjs": true
 overrides:
   # We need compatible versions of RxJS in our dependencies and LiveKit's dependencies, but
@@ -24,12 +33,30 @@ overrides:
   # Security fixes:
   # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/110
   # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/122
-  "qs": "^6.14.1"
-  # Security fix: https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/106
-  "js-yaml": "^4.1.1"
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/179
+  "qs": "^6.15.2"
+  # Security fixes:
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/106
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/203
+  "js-yaml": "^4.2.0"
   # Storybook declares support for 0.27.0 only but empirically works fine with 0.28.0.
   "esbuild": "^0.28.0"
-  # Multiple security fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v6.24.0
-  "undici": "^6.24.0"
+  # Security fixes:
+  # - https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v6.24.0
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/201
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/199
+  "undici": "^6.27.0"
   # Security fix: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rf6f-7fwh-wjgh
   "flatted": "^3.4.2"
+  # Security fix: https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/184
+  "ws": "^8.21.0"
+  # Security fixes:
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/191
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/190
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/192
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/194
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/198
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/196
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/195
+  # - https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/security/dependabot/193
+  "dompurify": "^3.4.11"

renovate.json

@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@
     {
       "groupName": "Pnpm",
       "matchDepNames": ["pnpm"]
+    },
+    {
+      "description": "Update the element-web image digest daily, in its own PR",
+      "groupName": "Element Web",
+      "matchPackageNames": ["ghcr.io/element-hq/element-web"],
+      "matchUpdateTypes": ["digest"],
+      "schedule": ["* 0-3 * * *"],
+      "minimumReleaseAge": null,
+      "automerge": true
     }
   ],
   "semanticCommits": "disabled",

scripts/check-component-externals.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+/**
+ * Checks that the component build leaves the packages a host must supply to
+ * the host.
+ *
+ * A host application already has React, the Matrix SDK and LiveKit, and a
+ * second copy of any of them is worse than dead weight: React would hold two
+ * sets of hooks, and the Matrix client would run two sync loops. So the
+ * component build lists them as external — but that list has to name every
+ * subpath, since the bundler silently ignores the pattern and callback forms
+ * of the option, and an import it does not cover is bundled with no warning at
+ * all. That is the failure this guards against.
+ *
+ * It reads the list from the build config itself, so there is one copy of it,
+ * and compares it against every import of those packages in the source.
+ *
+ * The comparison is deliberately over-approximate: it looks at all of `src`
+ * rather than only the modules the component actually pulls in, so it will
+ * sometimes ask for a subpath that only the standalone app imports. Listing
+ * one the component never imports costs nothing — the bundler ignores it —
+ * whereas missing one costs a duplicate package.
+ */
+
+import { readdir, readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { loadConfigFromFile } from "vite";
+
+const CONFIG = "vite-component.config.ts";
+const SOURCES = ["src", "component"];
+
+/** The packages whose duplication would break a host, rather than merely enlarge it. */
+const MUST_BE_EXTERNAL = [
+  "react",
+  "react-dom",
+  "matrix-js-sdk",
+  "livekit-client",
+];
+
+const isTestFile = (name) =>
+  name.includes(".test.") || name.includes(".stories.");
+
+/** Every source file under the given directories, recursively. */
+async function* sourceFiles(dir) {
+  for (const entry of await readdir(dir, { withFileTypes: true })) {
+    const path = join(dir, entry.name);
+    if (entry.isDirectory()) yield* sourceFiles(path);
+    else if (/\.(ts|tsx)$/.test(entry.name) && !isTestFile(entry.name))
+      yield path;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The module specifiers a source file imports. Covers `from "…"` (which is
+ * both static imports and re-exports), bare `import "…"` for side effects, and
+ * dynamic `import("…")`.
+ */
+function imports(source) {
+  const specifiers = [];
+  for (const pattern of [
+    /\bfrom\s*["']([^"']+)["']/g,
+    /\bimport\s*\(\s*["']([^"']+)["']\s*\)/g,
+    /^\s*import\s+["']([^"']+)["']/gm,
+  ])
+    for (const [, specifier] of source.matchAll(pattern))
+      specifiers.push(specifier);
+  return specifiers;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether a specifier is an import of one of the packages we care about.
+ *
+ * Imports carrying a resource query — `?worker`, `?inline` and friends — are
+ * not, whatever package they name. Those ask the bundler for a script to run
+ * in a context of its own, which has to be self-contained and shares no state
+ * with the host's copy of anything. Worker sub-builds do not inherit this
+ * option anyway.
+ */
+const mustBeExternal = (specifier) =>
+  !specifier.includes("?") &&
+  MUST_BE_EXTERNAL.some(
+    (pkg) => specifier === pkg || specifier.startsWith(`${pkg}/`),
+  );
+
+const loaded = await loadConfigFromFile(
+  { command: "build", mode: "production" },
+  CONFIG,
+);
+if (loaded === null) {
+  console.error(`Could not load ${CONFIG}`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+const declared = new Set(loaded.config.build?.rollupOptions?.external ?? []);
+if (declared.size === 0) {
+  console.error(
+    `${CONFIG} declares nothing external. Either the option moved, or the ` +
+      `list is empty; either way this check is not looking at what it thinks.`,
+  );
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+// Where each missing specifier is imported, so the message can point at it
+const missing = new Map();
+const seen = new Set();
+for (const dir of SOURCES)
+  for await (const file of sourceFiles(dir)) {
+    const source = await readFile(file, "utf8");
+    for (const specifier of imports(source)) {
+      if (!mustBeExternal(specifier)) continue;
+      seen.add(specifier);
+      if (declared.has(specifier)) continue;
+      const files = missing.get(specifier) ?? [];
+      files.push(file);
+      missing.set(specifier, files);
+    }
+  }
+
+if (missing.size > 0) {
+  console.error(
+    `${CONFIG} does not declare these imports external, so the component ` +
+      `build would bundle its own copy of them:\n`,
+  );
+  for (const [specifier, files] of [...missing].sort())
+    console.error(`  ${specifier}\n    imported by ${files.join(", ")}`);
+  console.error(`\nAdd each one to the \`external\` list in ${CONFIG}.`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+// Deliberately no complaint about declarations nothing imports. Some of them
+// cannot be seen from the source at all — `react/jsx-runtime` is injected by
+// the JSX transform — and an extra declaration is inert, so there is nothing
+// to warn about.
+console.log(
+  `${declared.size} external declarations cover all ${seen.size} imports of ${MUST_BE_EXTERNAL.join(", ")}.`,
+);

sdk/helper.ts

@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@ import { scan } from "rxjs";
 import { type WidgetHelpers } from "../src/widget";
 import { type LivekitRoomItem } from "../src/state/CallViewModel/CallViewModel";
 
-export const logger = rootLogger.getChild("[MatrixRTCSdk]");
-
 export const tryMakeSticky = (widget: WidgetHelpers): void => {
+  const logger = rootLogger.getChild("[MatrixRTCSdk]");
   logger.info("try making sticky MatrixRTCSdk");
   void widget.api
     .setAlwaysOnScreen(true)

sdk/main.ts

@@ -46,19 +46,21 @@ import {
 // Can this be done in the tsconfig.json
 import { type TextStreamInfo } from "../node_modules/livekit-client/dist/src/room/types";
 import { type Behavior, constant } from "../src/state/Behavior";
-import { createCallViewModel$ } from "../src/state/CallViewModel/CallViewModel";
+import {
+  callViewModelOptionsFromParams,
+  createCallViewModel$,
+} from "../src/state/CallViewModel/CallViewModel";
 import { ObservableScope } from "../src/state/ObservableScope";
 import { getUrlParams } from "../src/UrlParams";
 import { MuteStates } from "../src/state/MuteStates";
 import { MediaDevices } from "../src/state/MediaDevices";
 import { E2eeType } from "../src/e2ee/e2eeType";
-import { currentAndPrev, logger, TEXT_LK_TOPIC, tryMakeSticky } from "./helper";
-import {
-  ElementWidgetActions,
-  widget as _widget,
-  initializeWidget,
-} from "../src/widget";
+import { currentAndPrev, TEXT_LK_TOPIC, tryMakeSticky } from "./helper";
+import { logger as rootLogger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
+import { initializeWidget } from "../src/widget";
 import { type Connection } from "../src/state/CallViewModel/remoteMembers/Connection";
+import { createWidgetHostBridge } from "../src/HostBridge";
+import { observeElementSize$ } from "../src/utils/elementSize";
 
 interface MatrixRTCSdk {
   /**
@@ -104,17 +106,19 @@ export async function createMatrixRTCSdk(
   id: string = "",
   sticky: boolean = false,
 ): Promise<MatrixRTCSdk> {
+  const logger = rootLogger.getChild("[MatrixRTCSdk]");
   const scope = new ObservableScope();
 
   // widget client
-  initializeWidget(application, true);
-  const widget = _widget;
+  const widget = initializeWidget(application, true);
   if (!widget) throw Error("No widget. This webapp can only start as a widget");
   const client = await widget.client;
+  const hostBridge = createWidgetHostBridge(widget);
   logger.info("client created");
 
   // url params
-  const { roomId } = getUrlParams();
+  const urlParams = getUrlParams();
+  const { roomId, controlledAudioDevices, callIntent } = urlParams;
   if (roomId === null) throw Error("could not get roomId from url params");
   const room = client.getRoom(roomId);
   if (room === null) throw Error("could not get room from client");
@@ -126,11 +130,16 @@ export async function createMatrixRTCSdk(
   const rtcSession = rtcSessionManager.getRoomSession(room);
 
   // media devices
-  const mediaDevices = new MediaDevices(scope);
-  const muteStates = new MuteStates(scope, mediaDevices, {
-    audioEnabled: false,
-    videoEnabled: false,
+  const mediaDevices = new MediaDevices(scope, {
+    controlledAudioDevices,
+    callIntent,
   });
+  const muteStates = new MuteStates(
+    scope,
+    mediaDevices,
+    { audioEnabled: false, videoEnabled: false },
+    hostBridge,
+  );
 
   // call view model
   const callViewModel = createCallViewModel$(
@@ -139,7 +148,13 @@ export async function createMatrixRTCSdk(
     room,
     mediaDevices,
     muteStates,
-    { encryptionSystem: { kind: E2eeType.PER_PARTICIPANT } },
+    {
+      ...callViewModelOptionsFromParams(urlParams),
+      encryptionSystem: { kind: E2eeType.PER_PARTICIPANT },
+      hostBridge,
+      // The SDK owns its page, so the body is the space it has
+      windowSize$: scope.behavior(observeElementSize$(document.body)),
+    },
     of({}),
     of({}),
     constant({ supported: false, processor: undefined }),
@@ -280,18 +295,17 @@ export async function createMatrixRTCSdk(
       });
       await leaveResolver.promise;
       logger.info("send Unstick");
-      await widget.api
+      await hostBridge
         .setAlwaysOnScreen(false)
-        .catch((e) =>
-          logger.error(
-            "Failed to set call widget `alwaysOnScreen` to false",
-            e,
-          ),
+        .catch((e: unknown) =>
+          logger.error("Failed to set `alwaysOnScreen` to false", e),
         );
       logger.info("send Close");
-      await widget.api.transport
-        .send(ElementWidgetActions.Close, {})
-        .catch((e) => logger.error("Failed to send close action", e));
+      await hostBridge
+        .close?.()
+        .catch((e: unknown) =>
+          logger.error("Failed to ask the host to close", e),
+        );
     };
 
     // schedule close first and then leave (scope.end)

src/App.tsx

@@ -9,14 +9,22 @@ import {
   type FC,
   type JSX,
   Suspense,
+  useCallback,
   useEffect,
-  useMemo,
   useState,
 } from "react";
-import { BrowserRouter, Route, useLocation, Routes } from "react-router-dom";
+import {
+  BrowserRouter,
+  Route,
+  useLocation,
+  useNavigate,
+  Routes,
+} from "react-router-dom";
 import * as Sentry from "@sentry/react";
 import { TooltipProvider } from "@vector-im/compound-web";
 import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
+import { type MatrixClient } from "matrix-js-sdk";
+import { I18nextProvider } from "react-i18next";
 
 import { HomePage } from "./home/HomePage";
 import { LoginPage } from "./auth/LoginPage";
@@ -25,13 +33,27 @@ import { RoomPage } from "./room/RoomPage";
 import { ClientProvider } from "./ClientContext";
 import { ErrorPage, LoadingPage } from "./FullScreenView";
 import { Initializer } from "./initializer";
-import { widget } from "./widget";
+import { type WidgetHelpers } from "./widget";
 import { useTheme } from "./useTheme";
 import { ProcessorProvider } from "./livekit/TrackProcessorContext";
 import { type AppViewModel } from "./state/AppViewModel";
 import { MediaDevicesContext } from "./MediaDevicesContext";
-import { getUrlParams, HeaderStyle } from "./UrlParams";
+import {
+  HeaderStyle,
+  UrlParamsProvider,
+  useUrlParams,
+  useUrlParamsFromLocation,
+} from "./UrlParams";
 import { AppBar } from "./AppBar";
+import { i18n } from "./utils/i18n";
+import { useRootElement } from "./RootElementContext";
+import {
+  createWidgetHostBridge,
+  HostBridgeProvider,
+  nullHostBridge,
+} from "./HostBridge";
+import { useInitial } from "./useInitial";
+import { LeaveToHomeProvider } from "./LeaveToHomeContext";
 
 const SentryRoute = Sentry.withSentryReactRouterV7Routing(Route);
 
@@ -39,81 +61,130 @@ interface SimpleProviderProps {
   children: JSX.Element;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Supplies the URL-derived params to the rest of the app. Only the standalone
+ * and widget builds own the URL, so this lives here in the app shell rather
+ * than alongside the context itself.
+ */
+const LocationUrlParamsProvider: FC<SimpleProviderProps> = ({ children }) => {
+  const urlParams = useUrlParamsFromLocation();
+  return <UrlParamsProvider value={urlParams}>{children}</UrlParamsProvider>;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Supplies the way home. Only the app has one — its home page, with the list
+ * of recent calls — so this, too, lives in the app shell.
+ */
+const HomeProvider: FC<SimpleProviderProps> = ({ children }) => {
+  const navigate = useNavigate();
+  const leaveToHome = useCallback(() => {
+    navigate("/")?.catch((e) => logger.error("Failed to navigate home", e));
+  }, [navigate]);
+  return (
+    <LeaveToHomeProvider value={leaveToHome}>{children}</LeaveToHomeProvider>
+  );
+};
+
 const BackgroundProvider: FC<SimpleProviderProps> = ({ children }) => {
   const { pathname } = useLocation();
+  const { background } = useUrlParams();
+  const rootElement = useRootElement();
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    let backgroundImage = "";
-    if (!["/login", "/register"].includes(pathname) && !widget) {
-      backgroundImage = "var(--background-gradient)";
-    }
+    rootElement.setAttribute("data-background", background);
+  }, [pathname, background, rootElement]);
 
-    document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.backgroundImage =
-      backgroundImage;
-  }, [pathname]);
-
-  return <>{children}</>;
+  return children;
 };
+
 const ThemeProvider: FC<SimpleProviderProps> = ({ children }) => {
   useTheme();
   return children;
 };
 
+/** Wraps the app in an {@link AppBar}, if the params ask for one. */
+const MaybeAppBar: FC<SimpleProviderProps> = ({ children }) => {
+  const { header } = useUrlParams();
+  return header === HeaderStyle.AppBar ? <AppBar>{children}</AppBar> : children;
+};
+
 interface Props {
   vm: AppViewModel;
+  /** A point of access to the widget API, if running as a widget. */
+  widget: WidgetHelpers | null;
 }
 
-export const App: FC<Props> = ({ vm }) => {
+export const App: FC<Props> = ({ vm, widget }) => {
+  // The standalone build has no host; the widget build's host is the client it
+  // is a widget of.
+  const hostBridge = useInitial(() =>
+    widget === null ? nullHostBridge : createWidgetHostBridge(widget),
+  );
   const [loaded, setLoaded] = useState(false);
   useEffect(() => {
     Initializer.init()
       ?.then(async () => {
         if (loaded) return;
         setLoaded(true);
-        await widget?.api.sendContentLoaded();
+        await hostBridge.contentLoaded();
       })
       .catch(logger.error);
   });
 
-  // Since we are outside the router component, we cannot use useUrlParams here
-  const { header } = useMemo(getUrlParams, []);
-
-  const content = loaded ? (
-    <ClientProvider>
-      <MediaDevicesContext value={vm.mediaDevices}>
-        <ProcessorProvider>
-          <Sentry.ErrorBoundary
-            fallback={(error) => <ErrorPage error={error} widget={widget} />}
-          >
-            <Routes>
-              <SentryRoute path="/" element={<HomePage />} />
-              <SentryRoute path="/login" element={<LoginPage />} />
-              <SentryRoute path="/register" element={<RegisterPage />} />
-              <SentryRoute path="*" element={<RoomPage />} />
-            </Routes>
-          </Sentry.ErrorBoundary>
-        </ProcessorProvider>
-      </MediaDevicesContext>
-    </ClientProvider>
-  ) : (
-    <LoadingPage />
+  // As a widget, the client comes from the host over the widget API. Standalone,
+  // Element Call finds one itself, so there is nothing to wait for here.
+  const [widgetClient, setWidgetClient] = useState<MatrixClient | undefined>(
+    undefined,
   );
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (widget === null) return;
+    widget.client
+      .then(setWidgetClient)
+      .catch((e) => logger.error("Failed to obtain the host's client", e));
+  }, [widget]);
+  const clientReady = widget === null || widgetClient !== undefined;
+
+  const content =
+    loaded && clientReady ? (
+      <ClientProvider client={widgetClient}>
+        <MediaDevicesContext value={vm.mediaDevices}>
+          <ProcessorProvider>
+            <Sentry.ErrorBoundary
+              fallback={(error) => <ErrorPage error={error} />}
+            >
+              <Routes>
+                <SentryRoute path="/" element={<HomePage />} />
+                <SentryRoute path="/login" element={<LoginPage />} />
+                <SentryRoute path="/register" element={<RegisterPage />} />
+                <SentryRoute path="*" element={<RoomPage />} />
+              </Routes>
+            </Sentry.ErrorBoundary>
+          </ProcessorProvider>
+        </MediaDevicesContext>
+      </ClientProvider>
+    ) : (
+      <LoadingPage />
+    );
 
   return (
-    <BrowserRouter>
-      <BackgroundProvider>
-        <ThemeProvider>
-          <TooltipProvider>
-            <Suspense fallback={null}>
-              {header === HeaderStyle.AppBar ? (
-                <AppBar>{content}</AppBar>
-              ) : (
-                content
-              )}
-            </Suspense>
-          </TooltipProvider>
-        </ThemeProvider>
-      </BackgroundProvider>
-    </BrowserRouter>
+    <I18nextProvider i18n={i18n}>
+      <HostBridgeProvider value={hostBridge}>
+        <BrowserRouter>
+          <LocationUrlParamsProvider>
+            <HomeProvider>
+              <BackgroundProvider>
+                <ThemeProvider>
+                  <TooltipProvider>
+                    <Suspense fallback={null}>
+                      <MaybeAppBar>{content}</MaybeAppBar>
+                    </Suspense>
+                  </TooltipProvider>
+                </ThemeProvider>
+              </BackgroundProvider>
+            </HomeProvider>
+          </LocationUrlParamsProvider>
+        </BrowserRouter>
+      </HostBridgeProvider>
+    </I18nextProvider>
   );
 };

src/AppBar.module.css

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 }
 
 /* Hide everything but the subtitle in small windows */
-@media (max-height: 450px) {
+@container element-call (max-height: 450px) {
   .bar {
     display: none;
   }
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
   }
 }
 
-body[data-platform="ios"] {
+[data-element-call-root][data-platform="ios"] {
   .bar > header {
     grid-template-rows: minmax(var(--cpd-space-11x), auto) var(--cpd-space-4x);
     grid-template-areas: "primaryButton title secondaryButton";
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ body[data-platform="ios"] {
   }
 
   /* Hide everything but the subtitle in small windows */
-  @media (max-height: 450px) {
+  @container element-call (max-height: 450px) {
     .bar:has(.subtitle) > header {
       grid-template-rows: var(--cpd-space-4x) minmax(var(--cpd-space-5x), auto);
       grid-template-areas: "." "subtitle";

src/Avatar.test.tsx

@@ -9,18 +9,22 @@ import { afterEach, expect, test, vi } from "vitest";
 import { render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
 import { type MatrixClient } from "matrix-js-sdk";
 import { type FC, type PropsWithChildren } from "react";
-import { type WidgetApi } from "matrix-widget-api";
 
 import { ClientContextProvider } from "./ClientContext";
-import { Avatar, getAvatarFromWidgetAPI } from "./Avatar";
+import { Avatar } from "./Avatar";
 import { mockMatrixRoomMember, mockRtcMembership } from "./utils/test";
-import { widget } from "./widget";
+import {
+  type HostBridge,
+  HostBridgeProvider,
+  nullHostBridge,
+} from "./HostBridge";
 
 const TestComponent: FC<
   PropsWithChildren<{
     client: MatrixClient;
+    hostBridge?: HostBridge;
   }>
-> = ({ client, children }) => {
+> = ({ client, hostBridge = nullHostBridge, children }) => {
   return (
     <ClientContextProvider
       value={{
@@ -38,17 +42,11 @@ const TestComponent: FC<
         },
       }}
     >
-      {children}
+      <HostBridgeProvider value={hostBridge}>{children}</HostBridgeProvider>
     </ClientContextProvider>
   );
 };
 
-vi.mock("./widget", () => ({
-  widget: {
-    api: null, // Ideally we'd only mock this in the as a widget test so the whole module is otherwise null, but just nulling `api` by default works well enough
-  },
-}));
-
 afterEach(() => {
   vi.unstubAllGlobals();
 });
@@ -135,7 +133,7 @@ test("should attempt to fetch authenticated media from the server", async () =>
   });
 });
 
-test("should attempt to use widget API if running as a widget", async () => {
+test("should download media through the host when it offers to", async () => {
   const expectedMXCUrl = "mxc://example.org/alice-avatar";
   const expectedObjectURL = "my-object-url";
   const theBlob = new Blob([]);
@@ -151,8 +149,8 @@ test("should attempt to use widget API if running as a widget", async () => {
     getAccessToken: () => undefined,
   } as unknown as MatrixClient);
 
-  widget!.api = { downloadFile: vi.fn() } as unknown as WidgetApi;
-  vi.spyOn(widget!.api, "downloadFile").mockResolvedValue({ file: theBlob });
+  const downloadMedia = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(theBlob);
+  const hostBridge: HostBridge = { ...nullHostBridge, downloadMedia };
   const member = mockMatrixRoomMember(
     mockRtcMembership("@alice:example.org", "AAAA"),
     {
@@ -161,7 +159,7 @@ test("should attempt to use widget API if running as a widget", async () => {
   );
   const displayName = "Alice";
   render(
-    <TestComponent client={client}>
+    <TestComponent client={client} hostBridge={hostBridge}>
       <Avatar
         id={member.userId}
         name={displayName}
@@ -176,38 +174,5 @@ test("should attempt to use widget API if running as a widget", async () => {
     document.querySelector(`img[src='${expectedObjectURL}']`),
   );
 
-  expect(widget!.api.downloadFile).toBeCalledWith(expectedMXCUrl);
-});
-
-test("Supports download files as base64", async () => {
-  const expectedMXCUrl = "mxc://example.org/alice-avatar";
-  const expectedBase64 =
-    "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAIAAACQkWg2AAADIElEQVR4nAAQA+/8ApxhEfFNuwna" +
-    "+DO1pFMx5YDg6gb8p1WFkbFSox9H6r5c8jp1gxlHXrDfA/oQFi4A0gTXH9YBNgwRm12xO68QP6lv" +
-    "ZLKH9qW1VM6kz6zA3T1Ui8J+Xbnh2BZ7oXDe/2gajzoA6j1JGotpz99xO+T2NR634Nhx3zhuera/" +
-    "UdrpMLdEpwWXLnSqZRasGsrl93FjdTwRBMaqsx6vJksnPOmV9ttbXFIOb0XDGPbVythSC2n7P/bS" +
-    "Zv0U0QqbBLk/5Wu1werYzAHiz11Bj8bEylQ92Pxvo+PwF6/KbGnIHTvGZkFzDkMnqz3g7Pw3NOSP" +
-    "oV+qfyJuSI0AeZmrPejFQ8kzBSDWO8D7lr4+6ePRBRmZtKCf+fNjSCOyb5jqwhBnD2cycbJtQQbR" +
-    "A4qdPG2ONfTPeQgi96+zT7grBI0JwvgFBceJdLJd4BX1VQIyY+j7OYueNWqEpf8iYgMj78I95eRt" +
-    "nfPLwlxhVns84iL4Yvw8jDrB9vQi8ktpsdJOMiDwKrBGD3q56COD2oIA96CCBgiro4tkvkumZSAc" +
-    "ZKXRLsziUFGytWJLaPjwnzXv2hicPy6k9AXsF3QkysOZAkB3m9XPpixhq9b0OKqV/zZx3L79o6wZ" +
-    "Dr40J7sj7f+ARd545CP01r5omHt94tbnjgA46HsM2OhP+qQ882LN+Bhscq2WSHGSHT4J9MQcsWZP" +
-    "2+N2LdPy61MN4/1++BJHmDcDLQBUEwLvjZp1fRfzxV7yirwIiOA7Vr8z+1yvS/pSkfUzkjswybOd" +
-    "M5i0I8Q69MTXAKxqtR0/tyGkfCmHfupGASp/SAT9J8f3aQV+gDbpva592v4w8Cv5EMm7CzZPwThF" +
-    "kgTChNPts7F03ccxpblfIz0EiAON1DKk71rX07BvDlLHY1ItPuqZ7hjy19jrAgl+QqEE1btHVA5R" +
-    "uAnRXpEWc6rjARlJY5G1wbMk12rrqpr8rhR3YpFgLgOx4BtQ0D/hGe7KANSGBMQojmObId0asCmd" +
-    "XzmnQI9P8QnwsO9vtqZlgIoU4g+f2/G8Q3/nVMX7dujniwEAAP//KmiQs7P8MeIAAAAASUVORK5C" +
-    "YII=";
-  const mockWidgetAPI = {
-    downloadFile: vi.fn().mockImplementation(async (contentUri) => {
-      if (contentUri !== expectedMXCUrl) {
-        return Promise.reject(new Error("Unexpected content URI"));
-      }
-      return { file: expectedBase64 };
-    }),
-  } as unknown as WidgetApi;
-
-  const blob = await getAvatarFromWidgetAPI(mockWidgetAPI, expectedMXCUrl);
-
-  expect(blob).toBeInstanceOf(Blob);
+  expect(downloadMedia).toBeCalledWith(expectedMXCUrl);
 });

src/Avatar.tsx

@@ -14,10 +14,9 @@ import {
 } from "react";
 import { Avatar as CompoundAvatar } from "@vector-im/compound-web";
 import { type MatrixClient } from "matrix-js-sdk";
-import { type WidgetApi } from "matrix-widget-api";
 
 import { useClientState } from "./ClientContext";
-import { widget } from "./widget";
+import { useHostBridge } from "./HostBridge";
 
 export enum Size {
   XS = "xs",
@@ -76,6 +75,7 @@ export const Avatar: FC<Props> = ({
   ...props
 }) => {
   const clientState = useClientState();
+  const hostBridge = useHostBridge();
 
   const sizePx = useMemo(
     () =>
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ export const Avatar: FC<Props> = ({
 
   const [avatarUrl, setAvatarUrl] = useState<string | undefined>(undefined);
 
-  // In theory, a change in `clientState` or `sizePx` could run extra getAvatarFromWidgetAPI calls, but in practice they should be stable long before this code runs.
+  // In theory, a change in `clientState` or `sizePx` could run extra media
+  // downloads, but in practice they should be stable long before this code runs.
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!src) {
       setAvatarUrl(undefined);
@@ -96,8 +97,8 @@ export const Avatar: FC<Props> = ({
 
     let blob: Promise<Blob>;
 
-    if (widget?.api) {
-      blob = getAvatarFromWidgetAPI(widget.api, src);
+    if (hostBridge.downloadMedia) {
+      blob = hostBridge.downloadMedia(src);
     } else if (
       clientState?.state === "valid" &&
       clientState.authenticated?.client &&
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ export const Avatar: FC<Props> = ({
         URL.revokeObjectURL(objectUrl);
       }
     };
-  }, [clientState, src, sizePx]);
+  }, [clientState, hostBridge, src, sizePx]);
 
   return (
     <CompoundAvatar
@@ -172,24 +173,3 @@ async function getAvatarFromServer(
 
   return blob;
 }
-
-// export for testing
-export async function getAvatarFromWidgetAPI(
-  api: WidgetApi,
-  src: string,
-): Promise<Blob> {
-  const response = await api.downloadFile(src);
-  const file = response.file;
-
-  // element-web sends a Blob, and the MSC4039 is considering changing the spec to strictly Blob, so only handling that
-  if (file instanceof Blob) {
-    return file;
-  } else if (typeof file === "string") {
-    // it is a base64 string
-    const bytes = Uint8Array.from(atob(file), (c) => c.charCodeAt(0));
-    return new Blob([bytes]);
-  }
-  throw new Error(
-    "Downloaded file format is not supported: " + typeof file + "",
-  );
-}

src/ClientContext.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { expect, test, vi } from "vitest";
+import { render, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { BrowserRouter } from "react-router-dom";
+import { type MatrixClient } from "matrix-js-sdk";
+import { type FC } from "react";
+
+import { ClientProvider, useClientState } from "./ClientContext";
+
+const mockClient = (userId = "@alice:example.org"): MatrixClient =>
+  ({
+    on: vi.fn(),
+    removeListener: vi.fn(),
+    getUserId: () => userId,
+    getDeviceId: () => "AAAA",
+    stopClient: vi.fn(),
+  }) as Partial<MatrixClient> as MatrixClient;
+
+/** Reports what the context says, so a test can assert on it. */
+const ShowClientState: FC = () => {
+  const state = useClientState();
+  if (state === undefined) return <span>loading</span>;
+  if (state.state === "error") return <span>error</span>;
+  return (
+    <span>{state.authenticated?.client.getUserId() ?? "unauthenticated"}</span>
+  );
+};
+
+test("uses a client supplied by the host without waiting", () => {
+  const client = mockClient();
+
+  const { container } = render(
+    <BrowserRouter>
+      <ClientProvider client={client}>
+        <ShowClientState />
+      </ClientProvider>
+    </BrowserRouter>,
+  );
+
+  // Available on the very first render: a supplied client needs no session
+  // restoring, so there is no loading state to pass through.
+  expect(container.textContent).toBe("@alice:example.org");
+});
+
+test("does not claim exclusive use of storage when given a client", () => {
+  // The channel is created when the module loads, so spy on the prototype
+  // rather than trying to replace the global.
+  const postMessage = vi.spyOn(BroadcastChannel.prototype, "postMessage");
+
+  render(
+    <BrowserRouter>
+      <ClientProvider client={mockClient()}>
+        <ShowClientState />
+      </ClientProvider>
+    </BrowserRouter>,
+  );
+
+  // The broadcast shuts down other instances to protect Element Call's own
+  // stores. A host's client brings its own, so there is nothing to protect.
+  expect(postMessage).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+  postMessage.mockRestore();
+});
+
+test("follows the client when the host swaps it", () => {
+  const first = mockClient();
+  const second = mockClient("@bob:example.org");
+
+  const { container, rerender } = render(
+    <BrowserRouter>
+      <ClientProvider client={first}>
+        <ShowClientState />
+      </ClientProvider>
+    </BrowserRouter>,
+  );
+  expect(container.textContent).toBe("@alice:example.org");
+
+  // A host that re-authenticates hands us a new client on a mounted component
+  rerender(
+    <BrowserRouter>
+      <ClientProvider client={second}>
+        <ShowClientState />
+      </ClientProvider>
+    </BrowserRouter>,
+  );
+
+  expect(container.textContent).toBe("@bob:example.org");
+});
+
+test("finds a client of its own when the host supplies none", async () => {
+  const client = mockClient();
+  vi.doMock("./utils/spa", () => ({
+    initSPA: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({ client, passwordlessUser: true }),
+  }));
+
+  const { container } = render(
+    <BrowserRouter>
+      <ClientProvider>
+        <ShowClientState />
+      </ClientProvider>
+    </BrowserRouter>,
+  );
+
+  // Nothing to show until a session has been restored or created
+  expect(container.textContent).toBe("loading");
+  await waitFor(() => expect(container.textContent).toBe("@alice:example.org"));
+
+  vi.doUnmock("./utils/spa");
+});

src/ClientContext.tsx

@@ -16,14 +16,13 @@ import {
   useMemo,
   type JSX,
 } from "react";
-import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
 import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
 import { type ISyncStateData, type SyncState } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/sync";
 import { ClientEvent, type MatrixClient } from "matrix-js-sdk";
 
-import type { WidgetApi } from "matrix-widget-api";
 import { ErrorPage } from "./FullScreenView";
-import { widget } from "./widget";
+import { useHostBridge } from "./HostBridge";
+import { useLeaveToHome } from "./LeaveToHomeContext";
 import {
   PosthogAnalytics,
   RegistrationType,
@@ -134,18 +133,48 @@ const loadChannel =
 
 interface Props {
   children: JSX.Element;
+  /**
+   * The client Element Call should use.
+   *
+   * An application hosting Element Call as a component already has a client,
+   * and owns the user's session; supplying it here means Element Call neither
+   * authenticates anyone nor manages their session. Left out, Element Call finds a client
+   * itself — from the widget API, or by restoring or creating a session of its
+   * own.
+   */
+  client?: MatrixClient;
 }
 
-export const ClientProvider: FC<Props> = ({ children }) => {
-  const navigate = useNavigate();
+export const ClientProvider: FC<Props> = ({ children, client }) => {
+  const leaveToHome = useLeaveToHome();
+  const hostBridge = useHostBridge();
 
   // null = signed out, undefined = loading
   const [initClientState, setInitClientState] = useState<
     InitResult | null | undefined
-  >(undefined);
+  >(
+    client === undefined
+      ? undefined
+      : // A supplied client belongs to the host, so there is no session of ours
+        // to restore and nothing to wait for.
+        { client, passwordlessUser: false },
+  );
 
   const initializing = useRef(false);
   useEffect(() => {
+    if (client !== undefined) {
+      // Nothing to load, but a host may hand us a different client later — on
+      // re-authenticating, say — so follow whichever one it has given us.
+      setInitClientState((current) =>
+        current?.client === client
+          ? current
+          : { client, passwordlessUser: false },
+      );
+      // Analytics still need to follow the user's choices.
+      if (PosthogAnalytics.instance.isEnabled())
+        PosthogAnalytics.instance.startListeningToSettingsChanges();
+      return;
+    }
     // In case the component is mounted, unmounted, and remounted quickly (as
     // React does in strict mode), we need to make sure not to doubly initialize
     // the client.
@@ -160,7 +189,7 @@ export const ClientProvider: FC<Props> = ({ children }) => {
       })
       .catch((err) => logger.error(err))
       .finally(() => (initializing.current = false));
-  }, []);
+  }, [client]);
 
   const changePassword = useCallback(
     async (password: string) => {
@@ -201,7 +230,6 @@ export const ClientProvider: FC<Props> = ({ children }) => {
 
       saveSession(session);
       setInitClientState({
-        widgetApi: null,
         client,
         passwordlessUser: session.passwordlessUser,
       });
@@ -221,18 +249,20 @@ export const ClientProvider: FC<Props> = ({ children }) => {
     await client.clearStores();
     clearSession();
     setInitClientState(null);
-    await navigate("/");
+    leaveToHome?.();
     PosthogAnalytics.instance.logout();
     PosthogAnalytics.instance.setRegistrationType(RegistrationType.Guest);
-  }, [navigate, initClientState?.client]);
+  }, [leaveToHome, initClientState?.client]);
 
   // To protect against multiple sessions writing to the same storage
   // simultaneously, we send a broadcast message that shuts down all other
-  // running instances of the app. This isn't necessary if the app is running in
-  // a widget though, since then it'll be mostly stateless.
+  // running instances of the app. Element Call only has storage of its own to
+  // protect when it created the session itself; given a client — by a host, or
+  // over the widget API — it is mostly stateless.
+  const ownsSession = client === undefined;
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (!widget) loadChannel?.postMessage({});
-  }, []);
+    if (ownsSession) loadChannel?.postMessage({});
+  }, [ownsSession]);
 
   const [alreadyOpenedErr, setAlreadyOpenedErr] = useState<Error | undefined>(
     undefined,
@@ -307,64 +337,36 @@ export const ClientProvider: FC<Props> = ({ children }) => {
       initClientState.client.on(ClientEvent.Sync, onSync);
     }
 
-    if (initClientState.widgetApi) {
-      const reactSend = initClientState.widgetApi.hasCapability(
-        "org.matrix.msc2762.send.event:m.reaction",
-      );
-      const redactSend = initClientState.widgetApi.hasCapability(
-        "org.matrix.msc2762.send.event:m.room.redaction",
-      );
-      const reactRcv = initClientState.widgetApi.hasCapability(
-        "org.matrix.msc2762.receive.event:m.reaction",
-      );
-      const redactRcv = initClientState.widgetApi.hasCapability(
-        "org.matrix.msc2762.receive.event:m.room.redaction",
-      );
-
-      if (!reactSend || !reactRcv || !redactSend || !redactRcv) {
-        logger.warn("Widget does not support reactions");
-        setSupportsReactions(false);
-      } else {
-        setSupportsReactions(true);
-      }
-    } else {
-      setSupportsReactions(true);
-    }
+    if (!hostBridge.supportsReactions)
+      logger.warn("The host does not permit reactions");
+    setSupportsReactions(hostBridge.supportsReactions);
 
     return (): void => {
       if (initClientState.client) {
         initClientState.client.removeListener(ClientEvent.Sync, onSync);
       }
     };
-  }, [initClientState, onSync]);
+  }, [initClientState, onSync, hostBridge]);
 
   if (alreadyOpenedErr) {
-    return <ErrorPage widget={widget} error={alreadyOpenedErr} />;
+    return <ErrorPage error={alreadyOpenedErr} />;
   }
 
   return <ClientContext value={state}>{children}</ClientContext>;
 };
 
 export type InitResult = {
-  widgetApi: WidgetApi | null;
   client: MatrixClient;
   passwordlessUser: boolean;
 };
 
+/**
+ * Restores or creates a session of Element Call's own. Only reached when no
+ * client was supplied for it to use.
+ */
 async function loadClient(): Promise<InitResult | null> {
-  if (widget) {
-    // We're inside a widget, so let's engage *matryoshka mode*
-    logger.log("Using a matryoshka client");
-    const client = await widget.client;
-    return {
-      widgetApi: widget.api,
-      client,
-      passwordlessUser: false,
-    };
-  } else {
-    const { initSPA } = await import("./utils/spa");
-    return initSPA(loadSession, clearSession);
-  }
+  const { initSPA } = await import("./utils/spa");
+  return initSPA(loadSession, clearSession);
 }
 
 export interface Session {

src/ErrorView.tsx

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
 import { RageshakeButton } from "./settings/RageshakeButton";
 import styles from "./ErrorView.module.css";
 import { useUrlParams } from "./UrlParams";
-import { LinkButton } from "./button";
-import { ElementWidgetActions, type WidgetHelpers } from "./widget.ts";
+import { useLeaveToHome } from "./LeaveToHomeContext";
+import { useHostBridge } from "./HostBridge.ts";
 
 interface Props {
   Icon: ComponentType<SVGAttributes<SVGElement>>;
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ interface Props {
    */
   fatal?: boolean;
   children: ReactNode;
-  widget: WidgetHelpers | null;
 }
 
 export const ErrorView: FC<Props> = ({
@@ -47,53 +46,47 @@ export const ErrorView: FC<Props> = ({
   rageshake,
   fatal,
   children,
-  widget,
 }) => {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const { confineToRoom } = useUrlParams();
+  const hostBridge = useHostBridge();
+  const leaveToHome = useLeaveToHome();
 
   const onReload = useCallback(() => {
     window.location.href = "/";
   }, []);
 
-  const CloseWidgetButton: FC<{ widget: WidgetHelpers }> = ({
-    widget,
+  const CloseButton: FC<{ close: () => Promise<void> }> = ({
+    close,
   }): ReactElement => {
-    // in widget mode we don't want to show the return home button but a close button
-    const closeWidget = (): void => {
-      widget.api.transport
-        .send(ElementWidgetActions.Close, {})
-        .catch((e) => {
-          // What to do here?
-          logger.error("Failed to send close action", e);
-        })
-        .finally(() => {
-          widget.api.transport.stop();
-        });
+    // When the host can dismiss us, offer that instead of a link home
+    const onClose = (): void => {
+      close().catch((e) => {
+        // What to do here?
+        logger.error("Failed to ask the host to close Element Call", e);
+      });
     };
     return (
-      <Button kind="primary" onClick={closeWidget}>
+      <Button kind="primary" onClick={onClose}>
         {t("action.close")}
       </Button>
     );
   };
 
   // Whether the error is considered fatal or pathname is `/` then reload the all app.
-  // If not then navigate to home page.
-  const ReturnToHomeButton = (): ReactElement => {
-    if (fatal || location.pathname === "/") {
-      return (
-        <Button kind="tertiary" className={styles.homeLink} onClick={onReload}>
-          {t("return_home_button")}
-        </Button>
-      );
-    } else {
-      return (
-        <LinkButton kind="tertiary" className={styles.homeLink} to="/">
-          {t("return_home_button")}
-        </LinkButton>
-      );
-    }
+  // If not then navigate to home page. Neither applies when there is no home
+  // to go to.
+  const ReturnToHomeButton = (): ReactElement | null => {
+    if (leaveToHome === null) return null;
+    return (
+      <Button
+        kind="tertiary"
+        className={styles.homeLink}
+        onClick={fatal || location.pathname === "/" ? onReload : leaveToHome}
+      >
+        {t("return_home_button")}
+      </Button>
+    );
   };
 
   return (
@@ -108,8 +101,8 @@ export const ErrorView: FC<Props> = ({
       {rageshake && (
         <RageshakeButton description={`***Error View***: ${title}`} />
       )}
-      {widget ? (
-        <CloseWidgetButton widget={widget} />
+      {hostBridge.close ? (
+        <CloseButton close={hostBridge.close} />
       ) : (
         !confineToRoom && <ReturnToHomeButton />
       )}

src/FullScreenView.tsx

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import styles from "./FullScreenView.module.css";
 import { useUrlParams } from "./UrlParams";
 import { RichError } from "./RichError";
 import { ErrorView } from "./ErrorView";
-import { type WidgetHelpers } from "./widget.ts";
 
 interface FullScreenViewProps {
   className?: string;
@@ -48,12 +47,11 @@ export const FullScreenView: FC<FullScreenViewProps> = ({
 
 interface ErrorPageProps {
   error: unknown;
-  widget: WidgetHelpers | null;
 }
 
 // Due to this component being used as the crash fallback for Sentry, which has
 // weird type requirements, we can't just give this a type of FC<ErrorPageProps>
-export const ErrorPage = ({ error, widget }: ErrorPageProps): ReactElement => {
+export const ErrorPage = ({ error }: ErrorPageProps): ReactElement => {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   useEffect(() => {
     logger.error(error);
@@ -66,7 +64,6 @@ export const ErrorPage = ({ error, widget }: ErrorPageProps): ReactElement => {
         error.richMessage
       ) : (
         <ErrorView
-          widget={widget}
           Icon={ErrorSolidIcon}
           title={t("error.generic")}
           rageshake

src/Header.module.css

@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
   display: none;
   align-items: center;
   text-decoration: none;
+  /* A button when it leads home, so undo the browser's button styling */
+  background: none;
+  border: none;
+  padding: 0;
+  cursor: pointer;
 }
 
 .leftNav.hideMobile {
@@ -107,7 +112,7 @@ Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
   gap: var(--cpd-space-1-5x);
 }
 
-@media (min-width: 800px) {
+@container element-call (min-width: 800px) {
   .headerLogo,
   .leftNav.hideMobile,
   .rightNav.hideMobile {

src/Header.tsx

@@ -6,8 +6,13 @@ Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
 */
 
 import classNames from "classnames";
-import { type Ref, type FC, type HTMLAttributes, type ReactNode } from "react";
-import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
+import {
+  type Ref,
+  type FC,
+  type HTMLAttributes,
+  type ReactNode,
+  useCallback,
+} from "react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { Heading, Text } from "@vector-im/compound-web";
 import { UserProfileIcon } from "@vector-im/compound-design-tokens/assets/web/icons";
@@ -16,7 +21,8 @@ import styles from "./Header.module.css";
 import Logo from "./icons/Logo.svg?react";
 import { Avatar, Size } from "./Avatar";
 import { EncryptionLock } from "./room/EncryptionLock";
-import { useMediaQuery } from "./useMediaQuery";
+import { useRootSizeMatches } from "./useRootSize";
+import { useLeaveToHome } from "./LeaveToHomeContext";
 import { DisconnectedBanner } from "./DisconnectedBanner";
 
 interface HeaderProps extends HTMLAttributes<HTMLElement> {
@@ -112,17 +118,30 @@ interface HeaderLogoProps {
   className?: string;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The logo, which is also the way home — when there is a home to go to. As a
+ * component there is not, and it is just the logo.
+ */
 export const HeaderLogo: FC<HeaderLogoProps> = ({ className }) => {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const leaveToHome = useLeaveToHome();
+  const onClick = useCallback(() => leaveToHome?.(), [leaveToHome]);
 
+  if (leaveToHome === null)
+    return (
+      <div className={classNames(styles.headerLogo, className)}>
+        <Logo />
+      </div>
+    );
   return (
-    <Link
+    <button
+      type="button"
       className={classNames(styles.headerLogo, className)}
-      to="/"
+      onClick={onClick}
       aria-label={t("header_label")}
     >
       <Logo />
-    </Link>
+    </button>
   );
 };
 
@@ -142,7 +161,7 @@ export const RoomHeaderInfo: FC<RoomHeaderInfoProps> = ({
   participantCount,
 }) => {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
-  const size = useMediaQuery("(max-width: 550px)") ? "sm" : "lg";
+  const size = useRootSizeMatches(({ width }) => width <= 550) ? "sm" : "lg";
 
   return (
     <div className={styles.roomHeaderInfo} data-size={size}>

src/HostBridge.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,306 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { describe, expect, test, vi } from "vitest";
+import { type WidgetApi, WidgetApiToWidgetAction } from "matrix-widget-api";
+import EventEmitter from "events";
+
+import { type Observable } from "rxjs";
+
+import {
+  createWidgetHostBridge,
+  type HostBridge,
+  nullHostBridge,
+} from "./HostBridge";
+import { ElementWidgetActions, type WidgetHelpers } from "./widget";
+
+function mockWidget(api: Partial<WidgetApi>): WidgetHelpers {
+  return {
+    api: api as WidgetApi,
+    lazyActions: new EventEmitter(),
+    client: Promise.resolve(),
+  } as unknown as WidgetHelpers;
+}
+
+/** A widget whose transport records what Element Call sends it. */
+function mockTransport(): {
+  send: ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>;
+  reply: ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>;
+  stop: ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>;
+} {
+  return {
+    send: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+    reply: vi.fn(),
+    stop: vi.fn(),
+  };
+}
+
+describe("createWidgetHostBridge", () => {
+  describe("telling the host what Element Call is doing", () => {
+    test("asks to be kept on screen, and to stop being", async () => {
+      const setAlwaysOnScreen = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(true);
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(mockWidget({ setAlwaysOnScreen }));
+
+      await bridge.setAlwaysOnScreen(true);
+      await bridge.setAlwaysOnScreen(false);
+
+      expect(setAlwaysOnScreen).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, true);
+      expect(setAlwaysOnScreen).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(2, false);
+    });
+
+    test("reports that it has loaded", async () => {
+      const sendContentLoaded = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(mockWidget({ sendContentLoaded }));
+
+      await bridge.contentLoaded();
+
+      expect(sendContentLoaded).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+    });
+
+    test.each([
+      ["notifyJoined", ElementWidgetActions.JoinCall, {}],
+      ["notifyHungUp", ElementWidgetActions.HangupCall, {}],
+    ] as const)("sends %s as %s", async (method, action, payload) => {
+      const transport = mockTransport();
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(mockWidget({ transport } as never));
+
+      await bridge[method]();
+
+      expect(transport.send).toHaveBeenCalledWith(action, payload);
+    });
+
+    test("sends the mute state the host needs to mirror", async () => {
+      const transport = mockTransport();
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(mockWidget({ transport } as never));
+
+      await bridge.notifyDeviceMute({
+        audio_enabled: true,
+        video_enabled: false,
+      });
+
+      expect(transport.send).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        ElementWidgetActions.DeviceMute,
+        { audio_enabled: true, video_enabled: false },
+      );
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("relaying what the host asks for", () => {
+    /** Emits a widget action the way widget.ts does, and returns the event. */
+    function askHost(
+      widget: WidgetHelpers,
+      action: string,
+      data: unknown,
+    ): CustomEvent {
+      const ev = new CustomEvent(action, { detail: { action, data } });
+      widget.lazyActions.emit(action, ev);
+      return ev;
+    }
+
+    // Selectors rather than keys, so each stream keeps its own request type
+    const inboundStreams: [
+      name: string,
+      select: (bridge: HostBridge) => Observable<{ data: unknown }>,
+      action: string,
+    ][] = [
+      [
+        "themeChange$",
+        (bridge) => bridge.themeChange$,
+        WidgetApiToWidgetAction.ThemeChange,
+      ],
+      ["join$", (bridge) => bridge.join$, ElementWidgetActions.JoinCall],
+      ["hangUp$", (bridge) => bridge.hangUp$, ElementWidgetActions.HangupCall],
+      [
+        "deviceMute$",
+        (bridge) => bridge.deviceMute$,
+        ElementWidgetActions.DeviceMute,
+      ],
+    ];
+
+    test.each(inboundStreams)(
+      "surfaces %s with the host's data",
+      (_name, select, action) => {
+        const widget = mockWidget({ transport: mockTransport() } as never);
+        const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(widget);
+        const seen: unknown[] = [];
+        select(bridge).subscribe((request) => seen.push(request.data));
+
+        askHost(widget, action, { some: "payload" });
+
+        expect(seen).toEqual([{ some: "payload" }]);
+      },
+    );
+
+    test("replies to the host against the request it made", () => {
+      const transport = mockTransport();
+      const widget = mockWidget({ transport } as never);
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(widget);
+      bridge.deviceMute$.subscribe((request) =>
+        request.reply({ audio_enabled: false, video_enabled: true }),
+      );
+
+      const ev = askHost(widget, ElementWidgetActions.DeviceMute, {
+        audio_enabled: false,
+      });
+
+      expect(transport.reply).toHaveBeenCalledWith(ev.detail, {
+        audio_enabled: false,
+        video_enabled: true,
+      });
+    });
+
+    test("still replies when there is nothing to say", () => {
+      const transport = mockTransport();
+      const widget = mockWidget({ transport } as never);
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(widget);
+      bridge.hangUp$.subscribe((request) => request.reply());
+
+      const ev = askHost(widget, ElementWidgetActions.HangupCall, {});
+
+      // The widget API requires an answer, so an empty reply becomes {}
+      expect(transport.reply).toHaveBeenCalledWith(ev.detail, {});
+    });
+
+    test("stops listening once unsubscribed", () => {
+      const widget = mockWidget({ transport: mockTransport() } as never);
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(widget);
+      const seen: unknown[] = [];
+      const subscription = bridge.hangUp$.subscribe((r) => seen.push(r.data));
+
+      subscription.unsubscribe();
+      askHost(widget, ElementWidgetActions.HangupCall, {});
+
+      expect(seen).toEqual([]);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("downloadMedia", () => {
+    const mxcUri = "mxc://example.org/alice-avatar";
+
+    test("passes a Blob through unchanged", async () => {
+      const file = new Blob([]);
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(
+        mockWidget({ downloadFile: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({ file }) }),
+      );
+
+      await expect(bridge.downloadMedia!(mxcUri)).resolves.toBe(file);
+    });
+
+    test("decodes a base64 string into a Blob", async () => {
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(
+        mockWidget({
+          // "hello" in base64
+          downloadFile: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({ file: "aGVsbG8=" }),
+        }),
+      );
+
+      const blob = await bridge.downloadMedia!(mxcUri);
+
+      expect(blob).toBeInstanceOf(Blob);
+      // The five decoded bytes, rather than the eight characters of base64 —
+      // which is what we'd get if the string were stored verbatim.
+      expect(blob.size).toBe(5);
+    });
+
+    test("rejects a file format it does not understand", async () => {
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(
+        mockWidget({ downloadFile: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({ file: 42 }) }),
+      );
+
+      await expect(bridge.downloadMedia!(mxcUri)).rejects.toThrow(
+        "Downloaded file format is not supported",
+      );
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("close", () => {
+    test("asks the host to close, then stops the transport", async () => {
+      const transport = {
+        send: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+        stop: vi.fn(),
+      };
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(mockWidget({ transport } as never));
+
+      await bridge.close!();
+
+      expect(transport.send).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        ElementWidgetActions.Close,
+        {},
+      );
+      expect(transport.stop).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+    });
+
+    test("stops the transport even when the host refuses to close", async () => {
+      const transport = {
+        send: vi.fn().mockRejectedValue(new Error("no")),
+        stop: vi.fn(),
+      };
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(mockWidget({ transport } as never));
+
+      // Leaving the messaging live would leave the close affordance dead
+      await expect(bridge.close!()).rejects.toThrow("no");
+      expect(transport.stop).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+    });
+  });
+
+  test("does not offer profile changes, since the host signed the user in", () => {
+    const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(mockWidget({}));
+    expect(bridge.supportsProfileChanges).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  test("allows joining unmuted on the intent, since the host asked for the call", () => {
+    const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(mockWidget({}));
+    expect(bridge.allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  describe("supportsReactions", () => {
+    const capabilities = [
+      "org.matrix.msc2762.send.event:m.reaction",
+      "org.matrix.msc2762.send.event:m.room.redaction",
+      "org.matrix.msc2762.receive.event:m.reaction",
+      "org.matrix.msc2762.receive.event:m.room.redaction",
+    ];
+
+    test("is true when the host grants every reaction capability", () => {
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(
+        mockWidget({ hasCapability: () => true }),
+      );
+
+      expect(bridge.supportsReactions).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    test.each(capabilities)("is false without %s", (missing) => {
+      const bridge = createWidgetHostBridge(
+        mockWidget({ hasCapability: (c) => c !== missing }),
+      );
+
+      expect(bridge.supportsReactions).toBe(false);
+    });
+  });
+});
+
+describe("nullHostBridge", () => {
+  test("offers no way to close, so the interface falls back to navigation", () => {
+    expect(nullHostBridge.close).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  test("supports profile changes, since Element Call signed the user in itself", () => {
+    expect(nullHostBridge.supportsProfileChanges).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test("offers no media download, so Element Call uses its own client", () => {
+    expect(nullHostBridge.downloadMedia).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  test("supports reactions, since nothing is mediating its homeserver access", () => {
+    expect(nullHostBridge.supportsReactions).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test("does not allow joining unmuted on the intent, since nobody vouched for it", () => {
+    expect(nullHostBridge.allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent).toBe(false);
+  });
+});

src/HostBridge.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { createContext, use } from "react";
+import { fromEvent, map, NEVER, type Observable } from "rxjs";
+import {
+  type IWidgetApiRequest,
+  type IWidgetApiRequestData,
+  WidgetApiToWidgetAction,
+} from "matrix-widget-api";
+
+import {
+  ElementWidgetActions,
+  type JoinCallData,
+  type WidgetHelpers,
+} from "./widget";
+
+// Note: these are type aliases rather than interfaces so that they satisfy the
+// widget API's index-signature payload types.
+
+/** The mute state Element Call and its host exchange. */
+export type DeviceMuteState = {
+  audio_enabled: boolean;
+  video_enabled: boolean;
+};
+
+/**
+ * A mute state change requested by the host. An absent field means "leave this
+ * one as it is".
+ */
+export type DeviceMuteRequest = {
+  audio_enabled?: boolean;
+  video_enabled?: boolean;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Something the host has asked of Element Call, which it is expected to
+ * acknowledge.
+ */
+export interface HostRequest<Data, Reply = void> {
+  data: Data;
+  /** Acknowledges the request. Should be called exactly once. */
+  reply(reply: Reply): void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Element Call's view of the application hosting it.
+ *
+ * Element Call can run as its own page, as a widget inside a Matrix client, or
+ * as a component inside one. Only the last two give it a host, and each of
+ * them reaches it by a different route — so everything Element Call needs from
+ * whatever is hosting it goes through this interface, rather than being
+ * expressed in terms of the widget API.
+ *
+ * This covers the interactions Element Call has with its host while running.
+ * The Matrix client it talks to is supplied separately, at startup.
+ */
+export interface HostBridge {
+  // What Element Call tells the host.
+
+  /**
+   * Asks the host to keep Element Call on screen (or stop doing so), so that a
+   * call in progress is not torn down when the user navigates elsewhere.
+   */
+  setAlwaysOnScreen(alwaysOnScreen: boolean): Promise<void>;
+  /** Tells the host that Element Call has finished loading. */
+  contentLoaded(): Promise<void>;
+  /** Tells the host that the user has joined the call. */
+  notifyJoined(): Promise<void>;
+  /** Tells the host that the user has hung up. */
+  notifyHungUp(): Promise<void>;
+  /** Tells the host the user's current audio and video mute state. */
+  notifyDeviceMute(state: DeviceMuteState): Promise<void>;
+  /**
+   * Asks the host to close Element Call, and stops communicating with it. No
+   * further calls should be made on this bridge afterwards.
+   *
+   * Absent when the host has no way to dismiss Element Call — standalone, the
+   * user navigates away instead — so its presence is what tells the interface
+   * whether to offer a close affordance.
+   */
+  close?(): Promise<void>;
+
+  // What the host asks of Element Call.
+
+  /** The host has changed the theme Element Call should use. */
+  themeChange$: Observable<HostRequest<{ name?: string }>>;
+  /** The host wants a preloaded Element Call to join the call now. */
+  join$: Observable<HostRequest<JoinCallData>>;
+  /** The host wants Element Call to leave the call. */
+  hangUp$: Observable<HostRequest<Record<string, never>>>;
+  /** The host wants to change, or read back, the device mute state. */
+  deviceMute$: Observable<HostRequest<DeviceMuteRequest, DeviceMuteState>>;
+
+  // What the host is, and is capable of.
+
+  /**
+   * Whether Element Call may offer to change the user's profile — their
+   * display name and avatar. Only when the account is Element Call's own,
+   * which is to say standalone: a widget's host and an application hosting
+   * the component both signed the user in themselves, so the profile is theirs
+   * to manage and Element Call must not offer to edit it.
+   */
+  readonly supportsProfileChanges: boolean;
+  /** Whether the host permits Element Call to send and receive reactions. */
+  readonly supportsReactions: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Whether the user may be put into a call unmuted on the strength of the
+   * intent alone, when the lobby is skipped and so they get no chance to check
+   * their devices first. A host that asked for the call on the user's behalf
+   * has that much of their trust; standalone Element Call does not, and starts
+   * them muted instead.
+   */
+  readonly allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Fetches media on Element Call's behalf, for hosts that do not give it
+   * direct access to the homeserver. Absent when Element Call should fetch
+   * media itself using its own client.
+   */
+  downloadMedia?(mxcUri: string): Promise<Blob>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A bridge to nowhere, for when Element Call has no host — that is, when it is
+ * running as its own page and talks to the homeserver directly.
+ */
+export const nullHostBridge: HostBridge = {
+  setAlwaysOnScreen: async () => {},
+  contentLoaded: async () => {},
+  notifyJoined: async () => {},
+  notifyHungUp: async () => {},
+  notifyDeviceMute: async () => {},
+  themeChange$: NEVER,
+  join$: NEVER,
+  hangUp$: NEVER,
+  deviceMute$: NEVER,
+  // Standalone, the account is Element Call's own: it signed the user in, so
+  // it may offer to change the profile.
+  supportsProfileChanges: true,
+  // Standalone Element Call reaches the homeserver itself, so nothing is
+  // withholding these from it.
+  supportsReactions: true,
+  // Standalone, nobody vouched for the intent: it came from a URL, which is
+  // not enough to switch the user's camera and microphone on unasked.
+  allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent: false,
+};
+
+/** Bridges to a host that Element Call is a widget of. */
+export function createWidgetHostBridge(widget: WidgetHelpers): HostBridge {
+  const requests = <Data, Reply>(
+    action: string,
+  ): Observable<HostRequest<Data, Reply>> =>
+    (
+      fromEvent(widget.lazyActions, action) as Observable<
+        CustomEvent<IWidgetApiRequest>
+      >
+    ).pipe(
+      map((ev) => ({
+        data: ev.detail.data as Data,
+        // The widget API requires a reply for every request, and carries the
+        // payload as a plain object, so an empty reply becomes {}.
+        reply: (reply: Reply): void =>
+          widget.api.transport.reply(ev.detail, reply ?? {}),
+      })),
+    );
+
+  const send = async (
+    action: ElementWidgetActions,
+    data: IWidgetApiRequestData = {},
+  ): Promise<void> => {
+    await widget.api.transport.send(action, data);
+  };
+
+  return {
+    setAlwaysOnScreen: async (alwaysOnScreen) => {
+      await widget.api.setAlwaysOnScreen(alwaysOnScreen);
+    },
+    contentLoaded: async () => widget.api.sendContentLoaded(),
+    notifyJoined: async () => send(ElementWidgetActions.JoinCall),
+    notifyHungUp: async () => send(ElementWidgetActions.HangupCall),
+    notifyDeviceMute: async (state) =>
+      send(ElementWidgetActions.DeviceMute, state),
+    close: async () => {
+      try {
+        await send(ElementWidgetActions.Close);
+      } finally {
+        // Stop regardless of whether the host acknowledged the request. A host
+        // that rejects or never answers would otherwise leave the messaging
+        // live, and the close affordance doing nothing at all.
+        widget.api.transport.stop();
+      }
+    },
+    themeChange$: requests(WidgetApiToWidgetAction.ThemeChange),
+    join$: requests(ElementWidgetActions.JoinCall),
+    hangUp$: requests(ElementWidgetActions.HangupCall),
+    deviceMute$: requests(ElementWidgetActions.DeviceMute),
+    // The client we are a widget of signed the user in, so the profile is its
+    // to manage
+    supportsProfileChanges: false,
+    // The client we are a widget of asked for this call on the user's behalf,
+    // so its intent may be trusted to say whether they start unmuted
+    allowJoinUnmutedViaIntent: true,
+    // Element Call needs the host's permission to send reactions on its behalf.
+    // Read on access rather than up front: the widget API negotiates its
+    // capabilities asynchronously, and the bridge is built before that settles.
+    get supportsReactions(): boolean {
+      return (
+        widget.api.hasCapability("org.matrix.msc2762.send.event:m.reaction") &&
+        widget.api.hasCapability(
+          "org.matrix.msc2762.send.event:m.room.redaction",
+        ) &&
+        widget.api.hasCapability(
+          "org.matrix.msc2762.receive.event:m.reaction",
+        ) &&
+        widget.api.hasCapability(
+          "org.matrix.msc2762.receive.event:m.room.redaction",
+        )
+      );
+    },
+    downloadMedia: async (mxcUri) => {
+      const { file } = await widget.api.downloadFile(mxcUri);
+      if (file instanceof Blob) return file;
+      if (typeof file === "string")
+        // it is a base64 string
+        return new Blob([Uint8Array.from(atob(file), (c) => c.charCodeAt(0))]);
+      throw new Error(
+        `Downloaded file format is not supported: ${typeof file}`,
+      );
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+const HostBridgeContext = createContext<HostBridge | null>(null);
+
+export const HostBridgeProvider = HostBridgeContext.Provider;
+
+/**
+ * The application hosting Element Call.
+ *
+ * Defaults to {@link nullHostBridge}, so that tests and stories, which have no
+ * host, need no provider.
+ */
+export const useHostBridge = (): HostBridge =>
+  use(HostBridgeContext) ?? nullHostBridge;

src/LeaveToHomeContext.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { createContext, use } from "react";
+
+/**
+ * How the user leaves the call for wherever they came from: the standalone
+ * app's home page, with its list of recent calls.
+ *
+ * The call itself has no idea where that is, or whether there is such a place
+ * at all. Standalone there is, and the shell navigates to it; as a component
+ * there is not — the host decides what happens after a call — so nothing is
+ * supplied, and the call offers no way out of its own. This is what lets the
+ * call be rendered without a router.
+ */
+const LeaveToHomeContext = createContext<(() => void) | null>(null);
+
+export const LeaveToHomeProvider = LeaveToHomeContext.Provider;
+
+/**
+ * The way out of the call, or null when there is nowhere to go and the call
+ * should not offer one.
+ */
+export const useLeaveToHome = (): (() => void) | null =>
+  use(LeaveToHomeContext);

src/Modal.module.css

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
   --handle-inset-block-end: var(--cpd-space-4x);
 }
 
-body[data-platform="ios"] .drawer {
+[data-element-call-root][data-platform="ios"] .drawer {
   --border-radius: 10px;
   --handle-block-size: 5px;
   --handle-inline-size: 36px;

src/Modal.tsx

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import { Heading, Glass } from "@vector-im/compound-web";
 import styles from "./Modal.module.css";
 import overlayStyles from "./Overlay.module.css";
 import { useMediaQuery } from "./useMediaQuery";
+import { useRootElement } from "./RootElementContext";
 
 export interface Props {
   title: string;
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ export const Modal: FC<Props> = ({
   ...rest
 }) => {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const rootElement = useRootElement();
   // Empirically, Chrome on Android can end up not matching (hover: none), but
   // still matching (pointer: coarse) :/
   const touchscreen = useMediaQuery("(hover: none) or (pointer: coarse)");
@@ -100,7 +102,7 @@ export const Modal: FC<Props> = ({
         onOpenChange={onOpenChange}
         dismissible={onDismiss !== undefined}
       >
-        <Drawer.Portal>
+        <Drawer.Portal container={rootElement}>
           <Drawer.Overlay className={classNames(overlayStyles.bg)} />
           <Drawer.Content
             className={classNames(
@@ -155,7 +157,7 @@ export const Modal: FC<Props> = ({
 
     return (
       <DialogRoot open={open} onOpenChange={onOpenChange}>
-        <DialogPortal>
+        <DialogPortal container={rootElement}>
           <DialogOverlay
             className={classNames(overlayStyles.bg, overlayStyles.animate)}
           />

src/QrCode.tsx

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
 import { type FC, useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import { toDataURL } from "qrcode";
 import classNames from "classnames";
-import { t } from "i18next";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 
 import styles from "./QrCode.module.css";
 
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ interface Props {
 }
 
 export const QrCode: FC<Props> = ({ data, className }) => {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
   const [url, setUrl] = useState<string | null>(null);
 
   useEffect(() => {

src/RichError.tsx

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import { PopOutIcon } from "@vector-im/compound-design-tokens/assets/web/icons";
 
 import type { FC, ReactNode } from "react";
 import { ErrorView } from "./ErrorView";
-import { widget } from "./widget.ts";
 
 /**
  * An error consisting of a terse message to be logged to the console and a
@@ -32,11 +31,7 @@ const OpenElsewhere: FC = () => {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
 
   return (
-    <ErrorView
-      widget={widget}
-      Icon={PopOutIcon}
-      title={t("error.open_elsewhere")}
-    >
+    <ErrorView Icon={PopOutIcon} title={t("error.open_elsewhere")}>
       <p>
         {t("error.open_elsewhere_description", {
           brand: import.meta.env.VITE_PRODUCT_NAME || "Element Call",

src/RootElementContext.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { createContext, use } from "react";
+
+/**
+ * The element that Element Call treats as the root of its own interface.
+ *
+ * Element Call decorates this element with the theme, layout and background
+ * attributes its stylesheets key off, and portals its modals into it. When
+ * Element Call owns the page this is simply the document body; as a component
+ * it is the container the host mounted it into, so that Element Call does not
+ * reach outside its own subtree.
+ *
+ * The stylesheets find this element by its `data-element-call-root` attribute,
+ * which {@link useTheme} sets along with the platform and theme, so they no
+ * longer depend on it being the body.
+ *
+ * What remains body-specific is the standalone page's own furniture: the
+ * `body` rule in `index.css` still sets the page background and margin, and
+ * `index.html` starts the body hidden with `no-theme` until the theme lands.
+ * Neither applies when a host mounts Element Call into a container of its own.
+ */
+const RootElementContext = createContext<HTMLElement | null>(null);
+
+/**
+ * Supplies the element Element Call should confine itself to. The standalone
+ * and widget builds need no provider, since for them that element is the body.
+ */
+export const RootElementProvider = RootElementContext.Provider;
+
+/**
+ * The element Element Call should decorate and portal into.
+ *
+ * Defaults to the document body, so that the standalone and widget builds work
+ * without a provider.
+ */
+export const useRootElement = (): HTMLElement =>
+  use(RootElementContext) ?? document.body;

src/Slider.tsx

@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ interface Props {
   max: number;
   step: number;
   disabled?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Custom formatter for the tooltip label. If not provided, the value is
+   * displayed as a percentage.
+   */
+  tooltipFormatter?: (value: number) => string;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -46,6 +51,7 @@ export const Slider: FC<Props> = ({
   max,
   step,
   disabled,
+  tooltipFormatter,
 }) => {
   const onValueChange = useCallback(
     ([v]: number[]) => onValueChangeProp(v),
@@ -71,7 +77,14 @@ export const Slider: FC<Props> = ({
         <Range className={styles.highlight} />
       </Track>
       {/* Note: This is expected not to be visible on mobile.*/}
-      <Tooltip placement="top" label={Math.round(value * 100).toString() + "%"}>
+      <Tooltip
+        placement="top"
+        label={
+          tooltipFormatter
+            ? tooltipFormatter(value)
+            : Math.round(value * 100).toString() + "%"
+        }
+      >
         <Thumb className={styles.handle} aria-label={label} />
       </Tooltip>
     </Root>

src/Toast.tsx

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import { Text } from "@vector-im/compound-web";
 
 import styles from "./Toast.module.css";
 import overlayStyles from "./Overlay.module.css";
+import { useRootElement } from "./RootElementContext";
 
 interface Props {
   /**
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ export const Toast: FC<Props> = ({
   Icon,
   modal = true,
 }) => {
+  const rootElement = useRootElement();
   const onOpenChange = useCallback(
     (open: boolean) => {
       if (!open) onDismiss();
@@ -104,7 +106,11 @@ export const Toast: FC<Props> = ({
 
   return (
     <DialogRoot open={open} onOpenChange={onOpenChange} modal={modal}>
-      {modal ? <DialogPortal>{content}</DialogPortal> : content}
+      {modal ? (
+        <DialogPortal container={rootElement}>{content}</DialogPortal>
+      ) : (
+        content
+      )}
     </DialogRoot>
   );
 };

src/UrlParams.test.ts

@@ -11,17 +11,24 @@ import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
 
 import * as PlatformMod from "../src/Platform";
 import {
+  BackgroundStyle,
+  configurationForIntent,
   getRoomIdentifierFromUrl,
   computeUrlParams,
   HeaderStyle,
   getUrlParams,
+  componentProperties,
+  UserIntent,
 } from "../src/UrlParams";
+import { mockConfig } from "./utils/test";
 
 const ROOM_NAME = "roomNameHere";
 const ROOM_ID = "!d45f138fsd";
 const ORIGIN = "https://call.element.io";
 const HOMESERVER = "localhost";
 
+mockConfig();
+
 describe("UrlParams", () => {
   describe("handles URL with /room/", () => {
     it("and nothing else", () => {
@@ -332,6 +339,50 @@ describe("UrlParams", () => {
         callIntent: "audio",
       });
     });
+
+    it("accepts start_call_dm_voice", () => {
+      expect(
+        computeUrlParams(
+          "?intent=start_call_dm_voice&widgetId=1234&parentUrl=parent.org",
+        ),
+      ).toMatchObject({
+        ...startNewCallDefaults("desktop"),
+        // A DM rings the other side and waits for them, whichever platform
+        sendNotificationType: "ring",
+        autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft: true,
+        waitForCallPickup: true,
+        callIntent: "audio",
+      });
+    });
+
+    it("accepts join_existing_dm", () => {
+      expect(
+        computeUrlParams(
+          "?intent=join_existing_dm&widgetId=1234&parentUrl=parent.org",
+        ),
+      ).toMatchObject({
+        ...joinExistingCallDefaults("desktop"),
+        // Straight in: the other side is already waiting
+        skipLobby: true,
+        autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft: true,
+        waitForCallPickup: false,
+        callIntent: "video",
+      });
+    });
+
+    it("accepts join_existing_dm_voice", () => {
+      expect(
+        computeUrlParams(
+          "?intent=join_existing_dm_voice&widgetId=1234&parentUrl=parent.org",
+        ),
+      ).toMatchObject({
+        ...joinExistingCallDefaults("desktop"),
+        skipLobby: true,
+        autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft: true,
+        waitForCallPickup: false,
+        callIntent: "audio",
+      });
+    });
   });
 
   describe("skipLobby", () => {
@@ -421,4 +472,48 @@ describe("UrlParams", () => {
       );
     });
   });
+
+  // What Element Call runs with when a host embeds it as a component, which
+  // has no URL of its own for any of this to come from
+  describe("hosted defaults", () => {
+    it("assume nothing about a session or a page", () => {
+      expect(componentProperties).toMatchObject({
+        // The host is not a widget host, and supplies the client itself, so
+        // none of the widget or session plumbing applies
+        isWidget: false,
+        widgetId: null,
+        parentUrl: null,
+        userId: null,
+        deviceId: null,
+        baseUrl: null,
+        homeserver: null,
+        // The gradient is drawn by a `position: fixed` pseudo-element, which
+        // would escape the container and cover the host's own interface
+        background: BackgroundStyle.Solid,
+      });
+    });
+
+    it("keep a hosted call inside its room", () => {
+      const hosted = configurationForIntent(UserIntent.JoinExistingCall);
+      expect(hosted).toMatchObject({
+        // A host owns navigation, so Element Call must not offer a way out of
+        // the room
+        confineToRoom: true,
+        perParticipantE2EE: true,
+        // The lobby first, so that the user picks their devices rather than
+        // being thrown into the call by the act of being rendered
+        skipLobby: false,
+      });
+      // No Element Call branding inside someone else's application
+      expect(hosted.header).not.toBe(HeaderStyle.Standard);
+    });
+
+    it("fall back to the standalone app's when no intent is stated", () => {
+      expect(configurationForIntent(UserIntent.Unknown)).toMatchObject({
+        confineToRoom: false,
+        header: HeaderStyle.Standard,
+        perParticipantE2EE: false,
+      });
+    });
+  });
 });

src/UrlParams.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
 Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
 */
 
-import { useMemo } from "react";
+import { createContext, use, useMemo } from "react";
 import { useLocation } from "react-router-dom";
 import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
 import {
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ export enum HeaderStyle {
   AppBar = "app_bar",
 }
 
+export enum BackgroundStyle {
+  Solid = "solid",
+  Gradient = "gradient",
+}
+
 /**
  * The UrlProperties are used to pass required data to the widget.
  * Those are different in different rooms, users, devices. They do not configure the behavior of the
@@ -54,6 +59,17 @@ export interface UrlProperties {
   // Widget api related params
   widgetId: string | null;
   parentUrl: string | null;
+  /**
+   * Whether Element Call was started as a widget of a Matrix client, which is
+   * to say whether it was given a widget ID and a parent to talk to.
+   *
+   * Only meaningful to the standalone and widget builds, which own the URL —
+   * so use it for decisions that belong to the app shell, such as whether
+   * Element Call is responsible for authenticating the user. Anything the call
+   * interface itself needs to know about its host should come from the host
+   * bridge instead.
+   */
+  isWidget: boolean;
   /**
    * Anything about what room we're pointed to should be from useRoomIdentifier which
    * parses the path and resolves alias with respect to the default server name, however
@@ -145,6 +161,10 @@ export interface UrlProperties {
    * can be "light", "dark", "light-high-contrast" or "dark-high-contrast".
    */
   theme: string | null;
+  /**
+   * The visual style of the page background.
+   */
+  background: BackgroundStyle;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -334,6 +354,136 @@ export const getUrlParams = (
   return params;
 };
 
+/**
+ * The configuration implied by what the user meant to do — if they pressed a
+ * Start Call button this would be `start_call`, and if they pressed Join Call,
+ * `join_existing`.
+ *
+ * These are platform-specific defaults, so that a host can start a call by
+ * saying what the user asked for rather than by setting every parameter itself,
+ * and so that what each intent means is Element Call's decision, made in one
+ * place. A host that wants something else states it alongside the intent.
+ *
+ * {@link UserIntent.Unknown} means no intent was stated, and gives the
+ * standalone app's defaults: Element Call owns the whole page, so it offers the
+ * way out of the room that a hosted call must not.
+ */
+export function configurationForIntent(intent: UserIntent): UrlConfiguration {
+  // Only constants and `platform` here, so that this depends on nothing but
+  // the intent.
+  let preset: UrlConfiguration = {
+    confineToRoom: true,
+    preload: false,
+    header: platform === "desktop" ? HeaderStyle.None : HeaderStyle.AppBar,
+    showControls: true,
+    hideScreensharing: false,
+    allowIceFallback: true,
+    perParticipantE2EE: true,
+    controlledAudioDevices: platform === "desktop" ? false : true,
+    skipLobby: true,
+    returnToLobby: false,
+    sendNotificationType: "notification",
+    autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft: false,
+    waitForCallPickup: false,
+  };
+  switch (intent) {
+    case UserIntent.StartNewCall:
+      preset.skipLobby = false;
+      preset.callIntent = "video";
+      break;
+    case UserIntent.JoinExistingCall:
+      // On desktop this will be overridden based on which button was used to join the call
+      preset.skipLobby = false;
+      preset.callIntent = "video";
+      break;
+    case UserIntent.StartNewCallVoice:
+      preset.skipLobby = false;
+      preset.callIntent = "audio";
+      break;
+    case UserIntent.JoinExistingCallVoice:
+      // On desktop this will be overridden based on which button was used to join the call
+      preset.skipLobby = false;
+      preset.callIntent = "audio";
+      break;
+    case UserIntent.StartNewCallDMVoice:
+      preset.callIntent = "audio";
+    // Fall through
+    case UserIntent.StartNewCallDM:
+      preset.skipLobby = true;
+      preset.sendNotificationType = "ring";
+      preset.autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft = true;
+      preset.waitForCallPickup = true;
+      preset.callIntent = preset.callIntent ?? "video";
+      break;
+    case UserIntent.JoinExistingCallDMVoice:
+      preset.callIntent = "audio";
+    // Fall through
+    case UserIntent.JoinExistingCallDM:
+      // On desktop this will be overridden based on which button was used to join the call
+      preset.skipLobby = true;
+      preset.autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft = true;
+      preset.callIntent = preset.callIntent ?? "video";
+      break;
+    // Non widget usecase defaults
+    default:
+      preset = {
+        confineToRoom: false,
+        preload: false,
+        header: HeaderStyle.Standard,
+        showControls: true,
+        hideScreensharing: false,
+        allowIceFallback: false,
+        perParticipantE2EE: false,
+        controlledAudioDevices: false,
+        skipLobby: false,
+        returnToLobby: false,
+        sendNotificationType: undefined,
+        autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft: false,
+        waitForCallPickup: false,
+      };
+  }
+  return preset;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The {@link UrlProperties} for Element Call running as a component inside a
+ * host application.
+ *
+ * It has no URL of its own to read these from, and it does not need most of
+ * them: the widget plumbing does not apply, the Matrix client and the analytics
+ * configuration come from the host by other routes, and what is left is either
+ * the host's to state through the component's props or Element Call's own
+ * default.
+ */
+export const componentProperties: UrlProperties = {
+  widgetId: null,
+  parentUrl: null,
+  isWidget: false,
+  roomId: null,
+  userId: null,
+  displayName: null,
+  deviceId: null,
+  baseUrl: null,
+  lang: null,
+  fonts: [],
+  fontScale: null,
+  posthogUserId: null,
+  posthogApiHost: null,
+  posthogApiKey: null,
+  e2eEnabled: true,
+  password: null,
+  viaServers: null,
+  homeserver: null,
+  rageshakeSubmitUrl: null,
+  sentryDsn: null,
+  sentryEnvironment: null,
+  theme: null,
+  // Solid rather than the gradient the standalone app defaults to: the gradient
+  // is drawn by a `position: fixed` pseudo-element, which would escape the
+  // container Element Call was given and cover the host's own interface.
+  background: BackgroundStyle.Solid,
+};
+
 /**
  * Gets the app parameters for the current URL.
  * @param search The URL search string
@@ -363,82 +513,12 @@ export const computeUrlParams = (search = "", hash = ""): UrlParams => {
   const intent = !isWidget
     ? UserIntent.Unknown
     : (parser.getEnumParam("intent", UserIntent) ?? UserIntent.Unknown);
-  // Here we only use constants and `platform` to determine the intent preset.
-  let intentPreset: UrlConfiguration = {
-    confineToRoom: true,
-    preload: false,
-    header: platform === "desktop" ? HeaderStyle.None : HeaderStyle.AppBar,
-    showControls: true,
-    hideScreensharing: false,
-    allowIceFallback: true,
-    perParticipantE2EE: true,
-    controlledAudioDevices: platform === "desktop" ? false : true,
-    skipLobby: true,
-    returnToLobby: false,
-    sendNotificationType: "notification",
-    autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft: false,
-    waitForCallPickup: false,
-  };
-  switch (intent) {
-    case UserIntent.StartNewCall:
-      intentPreset.skipLobby = false;
-      intentPreset.callIntent = "video";
-      break;
-    case UserIntent.JoinExistingCall:
-      // On desktop this will be overridden based on which button was used to join the call
-      intentPreset.skipLobby = false;
-      intentPreset.callIntent = "video";
-      break;
-    case UserIntent.StartNewCallVoice:
-      intentPreset.skipLobby = false;
-      intentPreset.callIntent = "audio";
-      break;
-    case UserIntent.JoinExistingCallVoice:
-      // On desktop this will be overridden based on which button was used to join the call
-      intentPreset.skipLobby = false;
-      intentPreset.callIntent = "audio";
-      break;
-    case UserIntent.StartNewCallDMVoice:
-      intentPreset.callIntent = "audio";
-    // Fall through
-    case UserIntent.StartNewCallDM:
-      intentPreset.skipLobby = true;
-      intentPreset.sendNotificationType = "ring";
-      intentPreset.autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft = true;
-      intentPreset.waitForCallPickup = true;
-      intentPreset.callIntent = intentPreset.callIntent ?? "video";
-      break;
-    case UserIntent.JoinExistingCallDMVoice:
-      intentPreset.callIntent = "audio";
-    // Fall through
-    case UserIntent.JoinExistingCallDM:
-      // On desktop this will be overridden based on which button was used to join the call
-      intentPreset.skipLobby = true;
-      intentPreset.autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft = true;
-      intentPreset.callIntent = intentPreset.callIntent ?? "video";
-      break;
-    // Non widget usecase defaults
-    default:
-      intentPreset = {
-        confineToRoom: false,
-        preload: false,
-        header: HeaderStyle.Standard,
-        showControls: true,
-        hideScreensharing: false,
-        allowIceFallback: false,
-        perParticipantE2EE: false,
-        controlledAudioDevices: false,
-        skipLobby: false,
-        returnToLobby: false,
-        sendNotificationType: undefined,
-        autoLeaveWhenOthersLeft: false,
-        waitForCallPickup: false,
-      };
-  }
+  const intentPreset = configurationForIntent(intent);
 
   const properties: UrlProperties = {
     widgetId,
     parentUrl,
+    isWidget,
     // NB. we don't validate roomId here as we do in getRoomIdentifierFromUrl:
     // what would we do if it were invalid? If the widget API says that's what
     // the room ID is, then that's what it is.
@@ -452,6 +532,9 @@ export const computeUrlParams = (search = "", hash = ""): UrlParams => {
     fonts: parser.getAllParams("font"),
     fontScale: Number.isNaN(fontScale) ? null : fontScale,
     theme: parser.getParam("theme"),
+    background:
+      parser.getEnumParam("background", BackgroundStyle) ??
+      BackgroundStyle.Gradient,
     viaServers: !isWidget ? parser.getParam("viaServers") : null,
     homeserver: !isWidget ? parser.getParam("homeserver") : null,
     posthogApiHost: parser.getParam("posthogApiHost"),
@@ -507,11 +590,37 @@ export const computeUrlParams = (search = "", hash = ""): UrlParams => {
   };
 };
 
+const UrlParamsContext = createContext<UrlParams | null>(null);
+
 /**
- * Hook to simplify use of getUrlParams.
- * @returns The app parameters for the current URL
+ * Supplies the parameters Element Call should run with.
+ *
+ * The standalone and widget builds derive these from the URL, but the
+ * component has no URL of its own to read them from, so its host provides them
+ * directly instead.
+ *
+ * TODO: `UrlParams` is no longer an accurate name now that these need not come
+ * from a URL. Renaming it touches every consumer, so it is left until the rest
+ * of the de-globalisation work has settled.
  */
-export const useUrlParams = (): UrlParams => {
+export const UrlParamsProvider = UrlParamsContext.Provider;
+
+/**
+ * The parameters Element Call is running with.
+ *
+ * Falls back to parsing `window.location` when no provider is present, so that
+ * tests and stories keep working without one.
+ */
+export const useUrlParams = (): UrlParams =>
+  use(UrlParamsContext) ?? getUrlParams();
+
+/**
+ * Derives {@link UrlParams} from the current router location.
+ *
+ * Only meaningful when Element Call owns the URL; the component is given its
+ * params directly through {@link UrlParamsProvider}.
+ */
+export const useUrlParamsFromLocation = (): UrlParams => {
   const { search, hash } = useLocation();
   return useMemo(() => getUrlParams(search, hash), [search, hash]);
 };