Before this patch, we were expressing the current selection as a range
between two points in the layout tree. This was a made-up concept I
called LayoutRange (2x LayoutPosition) and as it turns out, we don't
actually need it!
Instead, we can just use the Selection API from the Selection API spec.
This API expresses selection in terms of the DOM, and we already had
many of the building blocks implemented.
To ensure that selections get visually updated when the underlying Range
of an active Selection is programmatically manipulated, Range now has
an "associated Selection". If a range is updated while associated with
a selection, we recompute layout tree selection states and repaint the
page to make it user-visible.
This fixes a few sizing issues too. The page size is now correct in most
cases! \o/
We get to remove some of the `to_type<>()` shenanigans, though it
reappears in some other places.
There's no actual need to build the stacking context tree before
performing layout. Instead, make it lazy and build the tree when it's
actually needed for something.
This avoids a bunch of work in situations where multiple synchronous
layouts are forced (typically by JavaScript) without painting or hit
testing taking place in between.
It also opens up for style invalidations that only target the stacking
context tree.
Instead of calling quick_sort() every time a StackingContext child
is added to a parent, we now do a single pass of sorting work after the
full StackingContext tree has been built.
Before this change, the quick_sort() was ~13.5% of the profile while
hovering links on GitHub in the Browser. After the change, it's down to
~0.6%. Pretty good! :^)
The "paintable" state in Layout::Box was actually not safe to access
until after layout had been performed.
As a first step towards making this harder to mess up accidentally,
this patch moves painting information from Layout::Box to a new class:
Painting::Box. Every layout can have a corresponding paint box, and
it holds the final used metrics determined by layout.
The paint box is created and populated by FormattingState::commit().
I've also added DOM::Node::paint_box() as a convenient way to access
the paint box (if available) of a given DOM node.
Going forward, I believe this will allow us to better separate data
that belongs to layout vs painting, and also open up opportunities
for naturally invalidating caches in the paint box (since it's
reconstituted by every layout.)
We sometimes had a stale stacking context tree sitting around, causing
incorrect paints until the next full layout invalidation.
Fix this by simply rebuilding the stacking context tree when asked to.
There's a subtle difference here. A "block box" in the spec is a
block-level box, while a "block container" is a box whose children are
either all inline-level boxes in an IFC, or all block-level boxes
participating in a BFC.
Notably, an "inline-block" box is a "block container" but not a "block
box" since it is itself inline-level.
