fix(web): highlight the centered settings section

[maria-rcks]

Settings navigation highlighted every visible section, including one-pixel slivers. Only the section at the scroll panel's center now highlights; the other labels stay faded, and gaps select the nearest section.

Verified center selection while scrolling, sidebar jumps, route changes, and resizing in the real web client at 1280×800 dark and 1024×600 light. All 7 existing visibility tests, web typecheck, and targeted lint passed; the observer measures only on scroll, resize, or target changes and emits React updates only when selection changes. Web and desktop share this navigation; native mobile is unaffected. Interaction recording upload remains unavailable because preview recordings are saved on the desktop client rather than the agent environment.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved section visibility detection while scrolling by selecting the section closest to the scroll area’s center.
  • Updated visibility calculations when sections or the scroll area resize.
  • Improved visibility updates during scrolling and resizing for more consistent active-section highlighting.

Note

Replace IntersectionObserver with custom centered-visibility observer in settings

• Replaces the native IntersectionObserver in createBrowserEnvironment().createIntersectionObserver with a custom observer that reports at most one target as intersecting: the target closest to the scroll root's vertical center gets ratio 1, all others get 0.
• Measurements are triggered on scroll, root/target resize, and observe/unobserve lifecycle changes, coalesced to requestAnimationFrame.
• Cleanup via disconnect cancels pending frames, removes the scroll listener, disconnects the ResizeObserver, and clears the target set.
• Risk: only the nearest-to-center target is reported as visible, so any consumer relying on multiple simultaneous intersecting entries from the settings observer will now see a single entry.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR replaces the native settings visibility observer with a custom scroll, resize, animation-frame, and geometry implementation that changes highlighting semantics across existing settings pages. The browser-specific logic is not directly exercised by the existing tests, and an unresolved Medium finding reports that some slivers may still be treated as fully visible.

No code changes detected at 5cb700f. Prior analysis still applies.

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Walkthrough

The settings visibility observer now tracks targets in a set. It selects the target nearest the visible scroll root center and schedules measurements with requestAnimationFrame after scroll, resize, and observation changes.

Changes

Section visibility tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Center-based visibility observer apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSectionVisibility.ts	The observer replaces per-target threshold observers with center-based selection. It reports all targets with intersectionRatio values of 1 or 0 and marks only the active target as intersecting. observe, unobserve, and disconnect manage targets, scheduled frames, and event observers.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cfcad

Settings navigation can highlight a section that is only barely visible, contradicting the intended behavior. The visibility threshold should be enforced before merge.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: highlighting the centered settings section.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSectionVisibility.ts`:
- Line 74: Update the target-selection logic around the bounds overlap check to
calculate each section’s intersection area and skip it when below min(targetArea
/ 2, scrollViewportArea / 4) before comparing distance. Preserve the existing
exclusion of zero-area or collapsed targets, and apply the threshold before the
active target is selected.

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[juliusmarminge]

Superseded by #10705 — settings section submenu/highlighting was removed. Closing in favor of that.