This change — part of the HTML constraint-validation API (aka
“client-side form validation”) — implements the willValidate IDL/DOM
attribute/property for all form controls that support it.
Many times, attribute mutation doesn't necessitate a full style
invalidation on the element. However, the conditions are pretty
elaborate, so this first version has a lot of false positives.
We only need to invalidate style when any of these things apply:
1. The change may affect the match state of a selector somewhere.
2. The change may affect presentational hints applied to the element.
For (1) in this first version, we have a fixed list of attribute names
that may affect selectors. We also collect all names referenced by
attribute selectors anywhere in the document.
For (2), we add a new Element::is_presentational_hint() virtual that
tells us whether a given attribute name is a presentational hint.
This drastically reduces style work on many websites. As an example,
https://cnn.com/ is once again browseable.
Before this change, StyleComputer would essentially take a DOM element,
find all the CSS rules that apply to it, and resolve the computed value
for each CSS property for that element.
This worked great, but it meant we had to do all the work of selector
matching and cascading every time.
To enable new optimizations, this change introduces a break in the
middle of this process where we've produced a "CascadedProperties".
This object contains the result of the cascade, before we've begun
turning cascaded values into computed values.
The cascaded properties are now stored with each element, which will
later allow us to do partial updates without re-running the full
StyleComputer machine. This will be particularly valuable for
re-implementing CSS inheritance, which is extremely heavy today.
Note that CSS animations and CSS transitions operate entirely on the
computed values, even though the cascade order would have you believe
they happen earlier. I'm not confident we have the right architecture
for this, but that's a separate issue.
Currently, the following JS snippet will hang indefinitely:
new DOMParser().parseFromString("<object>", "text/html");
Because the document into which the object is inserted is not active. So
the task queued to run the representation steps will never run.
This patch implements the spec steps to rerun the representation steps
when the active state changes, and avoid the hang when the object is
created in an inactive document.
This eliminates the use of ResourceLoader in HTMLObjectElement. The spec
steps around fetching have been slightly updated since we've last looked
at this, so those are updated here.
Regarding the text test change: we cannot rely on the data: URL being
fetched synchronously. It will occur on a deferred task now. This does
match the behavior of other browsers, as they also will not have run the
fallback representation steps as of DOMContentLoaded.
Resulting in a massive rename across almost everywhere! Alongside the
namespace change, we now have the following names:
* JS::NonnullGCPtr -> GC::Ref
* JS::GCPtr -> GC::Ptr
* JS::HeapFunction -> GC::Function
* JS::CellImpl -> GC::Cell
* JS::Handle -> GC::Root
The StyleResolver can find the specified CSS values for the parent
element via the DOM. Forcing everyone to locate specified values for
their parent was completely unnecessary.
Now that we have RTTI in userspace, we can do away with all this manual
hackery and use dynamic_cast.
We keep the is<T> and downcast<T> helpers since they still provide good
readability improvements. Note that unlike dynamic_cast<T>, downcast<T>
does not fail in a recoverable way, but will assert if the object being
casted is not a T.
Bring the names of various boxes closer to spec language. This should
hopefully make things easier to understand and hack on. :^)
Some notable changes:
- LayoutNode -> Layout::Node
- LayoutBox -> Layout::Box
- LayoutBlock -> Layout::BlockBox
- LayoutReplaced -> Layout::ReplacedBox
- LayoutDocument -> Layout::InitialContainingBlockBox
- LayoutText -> Layout::TextNode
- LayoutInline -> Layout::InlineNode
Note that this is not strictly a "box tree" as we also hang inline/text
nodes in the same tree, and they don't generate boxes. (Instead, they
contribute line box fragments to their containing block!)
Note that these aren't full implementations of the bindings. This
mostly implements the low hanging fruit (namely, basic reflections)
There are some attributes that should be USVString instead of
DOMString. However, USVString is a slightly different definition
of DOMString, so it should suffice for now.
LibWeb keeps growing and the Web namespace is filling up fast.
Let's put DOM stuff into Web::DOM, just like we already started doing
with SVG stuff in Web::SVG.
