This input event handling change is intended to address the following
design issues:
- Having `DOM::Position` is unnecessary complexity when `Selection`
exists because caret position could be described by the selection
object with a collapsed state. Before this change, we had to
synchronize those whenever one of them was modified, and there were
already bugs caused by that, i.e., caret position was not changed when
selection offset was modified from the JS side.
- Selection API exposes selection offset within `<textarea>` and
`<input>`, which is not supposed to happen. These objects should
manage their selection state by themselves and have selection offset
even when they are not displayed.
- `EventHandler` looks only at `DOM::Text` owned by `DOM::Position`
while doing text manipulations. It works fine for `<input>` and
`<textarea>`, but `contenteditable` needs to consider all text
descendant text nodes; i.e., if the cursor is moved outside of
`DOM::Text`, we need to look for an adjacent text node to move the
cursor there.
With this change, `EventHandler` no longer does direct manipulations on
caret position or text content, but instead delegates them to the active
`InputEventsTarget`, which could be either
`FormAssociatedTextControlElement` (for `<input>` and `<textarea>`) or
`EditingHostManager` (for `contenteditable`). The `Selection` object is
used to manage both selection and caret position for `contenteditable`,
and text control elements manage their own selection state that is not
exposed by Selection API.
This change improves text editing on Discord, as now we don't have to
refocus the `contenteditable` element after character input. The problem
was that selection manipulations from the JS side were not propagated
to `DOM::Position`.
I expect this change to make future correctness improvements for
`contenteditable` (and `designMode`) easier, as now it's decoupled from
`<input>` and `<textarea>` and separated from `EventHandler`, which is
quite a busy file.
This patch implements `Range::getClientRects` and
`Range::getBoundingClientRect`. Since the rects returned by invoking
getClientRects can be accessed without adding them to the Selection,
`ViewportPaintable::recompute_selection_states` has been updated to
accept a Range as a parameter, rather than acquiring it through the
Document's Selection.
With this change, the following tests now pass:
- wpt[css/cssom-view/range-bounding-client-rect-with-nested-text.html]
- wpt[css/cssom-view/DOMRectList.html]
Note: The test
"css/cssom-view/range-bounding-client-rect-with-display-contents.html"
still fails due to an issue with Element::getClientRects, which will
be addressed in a future commit.
Instead of TextPaintable fragments being an offset+length view into the
layout node, they are now a view into the paintable instead.
This removes an awkward time window where we'd have bogus state in text
fragments after layout invalidation but before relayout. It also makes
the code slightly nicer in general, since there's less mixing of layout
and painting concepts.
Every single client of this function was immediately calling paintable()
on the result anyway, so there was no need to return a layout node!
This automatically leverages the cached containing block pointer we
already have in Paintable, which melts away a bunch of unnecessary
traversal in hit testing and painting. :^)
This is a part of refactoring towards making the paintable tree
independent of the layout tree. Now, instead of transferring text
fragments from the layout tree to the paintable tree during the layout
commit phase, we allocate separate PaintableFragments that contain only
the information necessary for painting. Doing this also allows us to
get rid LineBoxes, as they are used only during layout.
