Timeline marks carry labels; a tap by a tick goes to its mark

A layer's world clock coverage may now give each mark as an object,
{ time, label?, id?, kind? }, as well as a bare epoch ms number, and the
two may be mixed. worldClock.coverage() keeps marks as the sorted list of
distinct times, so existing readers are unchanged, and adds markDetails:
the merged marks in time order (then kind, label and id), each frozen and
holding only the fields given. Marks given alike by several sources appear
once, a bare time is dropped where a labelled mark shares it, and a mark
with no finite time is ignored. The contract is documented in the
worldClock JSDoc and docs/APPLICATION.md.

Launches label their marks with the mission's name (the launch's where it
has none), cut to 27 characters in capitals as the mission index shows
names. Earthquakes of magnitude 6 and up label theirs with the magnitude
as the map shows it and the feed's place cut to 40 characters, such as
"M6.4 · 113 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands"; the layer now tells the clock
when the labels change as well as the times.

On the timeline, a pointer within 6 px of a tick shows its label over the
track (nothing for an unlabelled mark), and a tap there goes exactly to
the mark's time instead of the point tapped. A tap elsewhere and a drag
work as before, and ticks stay ticks. The arrow keys still step from mark
to mark; with the handle on a mark, its labels follow the time in the
handle's aria-valuetext, and show over the track while it has focus.
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- Timeline marks have labels. Hovering a tick shows its label (a launch's
mission name, or an earthquake's magnitude and place, such as
`M6.4 · 113 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands`), and a tap on or within 6 px
of a tick goes exactly to its mark rather than to the point tapped; a tap
elsewhere and a drag work as before. The arrow keys still step from mark to
mark, and the handle then tells the mark's label with the time to screen
readers and shows it over the track while focused. A layer's world clock
coverage may give each mark as `{ time, label, id, kind }` as well as a
bare time; `worldClock.coverage()` keeps `marks` as the sorted times and
adds `markDetails`, the merged marks themselves (samehkhamis, #0000).
- The timeline marks only events: launches, and earthquakes of magnitude 6
and up while the Earthquakes layer is on (about one every two days
worldwide). It no longer draws a tick for every weather frame, which came