When setting `font-family: monospace;` in CSS, we have to interpret
the keyword font sizes (small, medium, large, etc) as slightly smaller
for historical reasons. Normally the medium font size is 16px, but
for monospace it's 13px.
The way this needs to behave is extremely strange:
When encountering `font-family: monospace`, we have to go back and
replay the CSS cascade as if the medium font size had been 13px all
along. Otherwise relative values like 2em/200%/etc could have gotten
lost in the inheritance chain.
We implement this in a fairly naive way by explicitly checking for
`font-family: monospace` (note: it has to be *exactly* like that,
it can't be `font-family: monospace, Courier` or similar.)
When encountered, we simply walk the element ancestors and re-run the
cascade for the font-size property. This is clumsy and inefficient,
but it does work for the common cases.
Other browsers do more elaborate things that we should eventually care
about as well, such as user-configurable font settings, per-language
behavior, etc. For now, this is just something that allows us to handle
more WPT tests where things fall apart due to unexpected font sizes.
To learn more about the wonders of font-size, see this blog post:
https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/08/10/font-size-an-unexpectedly-complex-css-property/
For example, in the following abbreviated test HTML:
<span>some text</span>
<script>println("whf")</script>
We would have to craft the expectation file to include the "some text"
segment, usually with some leading whitespace. This is a bit annoying,
and makes it difficult to manually craft expectation files.
So instead of comparing the expectation against the entire DOM inner
text, we now send the inner text of just the <pre> element containing
the test output when we invoke `internals.signalTextTestIsDone`.
We now follow the rules from the spec more closely, along with an
unspecified quirk for when the offsetParent is a non-positioned body
element. (Spec bug linked in a comment.)
This fixes a whole bunch of css-flexbox tests on WPT, which already had
correct layout, but the reported metrics from JS API were wrong.
