The drawer used onClick={onClose} on the backdrop + onClick={e =>
e.stopPropagation()} on the panel to stop inside-clicks from closing
the drawer. That pattern is fine for most React trees, but React's
stopPropagation() also aborts the NATIVE DOM event — and asciinema-
player wires its click-to-play handler via document-level event
delegation. So every click inside the drawer (including the big
play button) died at the panel boundary and never reached the
player's dispatcher. Confirmed end-to-end by calling window.__ap.
play() directly from DevTools: playback started, cast rendered in
full, ended event fired.
Swap to the idiomatic target===currentTarget guard on the backdrop
so only genuine backdrop clicks close the drawer; everything inside
(including native-delegated handlers) gets its events untouched.
All the debug instrumentation from b5c6b8a, 4424138, 6d031ae, and
f032ece (cast logging, lifecycle listeners, window.__ap) is
reverted here — symptom root-cause is known, it was event delegation
not the parser or the cast.