Exolve now might scale up grids

[Viresh Ratnakar]

With v1.72, Exolve might scale up grids to better fill available width. In case this looks weird for your grids, there's a way to turn it off (but I would appreciate learning about such problems to see if I can do something better).

Here's the full CHANGELOG entry:

Version: Exolve v1.72: August 9, 2026

• Scale up the grid to fill available width. The need for this became clearer to me (sadly) only after I switched my laptop to one with a wider screen.
• We try to use 2/5th of the available width for the grid and the remaining for two clue columns.
• We now always respond to window-resizing (previously we only acted if a big enough change happened). But we throttle the response, waiting 300ms to accumulate any ongoing resizing.
• The scaling up is done upto a limit (max cell width 64).
• The scaling up is not done in the following cases:
  • It's a "temp" puzzle (which stops this behaviour in Exet too).
  • The user has passed a customizer function.
  • The user has specified offsetLeft/grid-bounds.
  • There ae shaped cells.
  • It's a 3d grid.
• Add exolve-options scale-up-grid:always and scale-up-grid:never to override the above resttrictions (with always) or to simply avoid scaling up (never).
• Some other minor tweaks: numberSize is not limited to a max font size, we assume all of the window width is available if the parentElement is root (or its parent is root), not worrying about a scrollbar (i.e., we use window.innerWidth rather than document.documentElement.clientWidth). This avoids the otherwise inconsistent behaviour between the first load and subsequent resizing arriving at the same size.

- Viresh