The stacking context tree doesn't affect layout at all, so let's move
it into the Painting/ directory. I'm not sure yet if it's worth going
for a fullly separate painting tree. So far I'm thinking a stacking
context tree with pointers into the layout tree might be enough.
"Paint" matches what we call this in the rest of the system. Let's not
confuse things by mixing paint/render/draw all the time. I'm guilty of
this in more places..
Also rename RenderingContext => PaintContext.
The shrink-to-fit width algorithm actually works a little bit different
in the absolute positioning context, so it can't share all of its code
with non-absolute positioning.
Also, inline-block elements were always inserting unnecessary line
breaks when splitting, which caused the preferred width to be smaller
than it should be. This patch fixes that as well, by just not breaking
after inline-block elements in LayoutMode::OnlyRequiredLineBreaks.
CSS defines a very specific paint order. This patch starts steering us
towards respecting that by introducing the PaintPhase enum with values:
- Background
- Border
- Foreground
- Overlay (internal overlays used by inspector)
Basically, to get the right visual result, we have to render the page
multiple times, going one phase at a time.
The more generic virtual variant is renamed to node_name() and now only
Element has tag_name(). This removes a huge amount of String ctor/dtor
churn in selector matching.
Hey, why not. We did all the hard work for display:inline-block already
and now we can just allow this.
This makes <a><h1>Hello friends!</h1></a> work :^)
To support z-ordering when painting, the layout tree now has a parallel
sparse tree of stacking contexts. The rules for which layout boxes
establish a stacking context are a bit complex, but the intent is to
encapsulate the decision making into establishes_stacking_context().
When we paint, we start from the ICB (LayoutDocument) who always has a
StackingContext and then paint the tree of StackingContexts where each
node has its children sorted by z-index.
This is pretty crude, but gets the basic job done. Note that this does
not yet support hit testing; hit testing is still done using a naive
treewalk from the root.
The only layout nodes that don't have their own style are LayoutText
(they inherit the style from their parent element since text cannot
be styled by CSS.)
However, it never makes sense for text nodes to have absolute position
so don't claim it.
Previously, layout recursively performed these steps (roughly):
1. Compute own width
2. Compute own position
3. Layout in-flow children
4. Compute own height
5. Layout absolutely positioned descendants
However, step (2) was pretty inconsistent. Some things computed their
own position, others had their parent do it for them, etc.
To get closer to CSS spec language, and make things easier in general,
this patch reorganizes the algorithm into:
1. Compute own width & height
2. Compute width & height of in-flow managed descendants
3. Move in-flow managed descendants to their final position
4. Layout absolutely positioned descendants
Block layout is now driven by the containing block, which will iterate
the descendants it's responsible for. There are a lot of inefficient
patterns in this logic right now, but they can easily be replaced with
better iteration functions once we settle on a long-term architecture.
Since the ICB (LayoutDocument) is at (0, 0), it doesn't rely on a
containing block to move it into place.
This code is still evolving along with my understanding of CSS layout,
so it's likely that we'll reorganize this again sooner or later. :^)
Since more DOM nodes are going to want to load images (<object>, ...)
this patch splits out the image loading logic into an ImageLoader class
and then HTMLImageElement simply has an ImageLoader.
LayoutImage is then given a const ImageLoader& at construction and can
then provide layout and rendering for many kinds of DOM nodes.
This kind of HTML now produces a single piece of whitespace:
<span> </span> <span> </span> <span> </span>
We achieve this by checking if the last fragment on the last line ends
in whitespace. If so, we either don't add a fragment at all (for the
current chunk) or we simply skip over all whitespace at the head of
the current chunk (instead of collapsing it to a single ' '.)
To get the expected behavior for <center>, we needed a special text
alignment mode that centers block-level elements (and not just line
box fragments.)
Table row layout is now split into two phases:
1. Compute all the column widths (even taking colspan into account!)
2. Place all cells at the correct x,y offsets based on column widths.
Both phases visit all rows and all cells.
Get rid of the weird old signature:
- int StringType::to_int(bool& ok) const
And replace it with sensible new signature:
- Optional<int> StringType::to_int() const
Skip over absolutely positioned children when laying out the inline
children of a block. This takes them out of the flow and allows them
to be positioned correctly relative to the (absolute) containing block.
Absolutely positioned elements are placed by their containing block.
Instead of trying to compute its own position, LayoutReplaced will
now simply add itself as an absolutely positioned descendant of its
containing block.
Fixed position elements have the ICB as their containing block.
The magic of fixed positioning is implemented at the rendering stage,
where we temporarily translate painting by the current scroll offset.
Note that "absolutely positioned" includes both position:absolute
and position:fixed.
Absolutely positioned blocks now register themselves with their
containing block (and note that the containing block of an absolutely
positioned box is the nearest non-statically positioned block ancestor
or the ICB as fallback.)
Containing blocks then drive the layout of their tracked absolutely
positioned descendants as a separate layout pass.
This is very far from perfect but the general direction seems good.
The box tree and line boxes now all store a relative offset from their
containing block, instead of an absolute (document-relative) position.
This removes a huge pain point from the layout system which was having
to adjust offsets recursively when something moved. It also makes some
layout logic significantly simpler.
Every box can still find its absolute position by walking its chain
of containing blocks and accumulating the translation from the root.
This is currently what we do both for rendering and hit testing.
* A PageView is a view onto a Page object.
* A Page always has a main Frame (root of Frame tree.)
* Page has a PageClient. PageView is a PageClient.
The goal here is to allow building another kind of view onto
a Page while keeping the rest of LibWeb intact.
This patch introduces support for more than just "absolute px" units in
our Length class. It now also supports "em" and "rem", which are units
relative to the font-size of the current layout node and the <html>
element's layout node respectively.
We don't support incremental relayout of subtrees (only single nodes)
but let's not crash the browser just because this happens. We can keep
the browser up and just complain in the debug log instead.
This patch introduces a bunch of things:
- Subframes (Web::Frame::create_subframe())
- HTMLIFrameElement (loads and owns the hosted Web::Frame)
- LayoutFrame (layout and rendering of the hosted frame)
There's still a huge number of things missing, like scrolling, overflow
handling, event handling, scripting, etc. But we can make a little
iframe in a document and it actually renders another document there.
I think that's pretty cool! :^)
LayoutReplaced now has intrinsic width, height and ratio. Only some of
the values may be present. The layout algorithm takes the various
configurations into account per the CSS specification.
This is still pretty immature but at least we're moving forward. :^)
This patch adds ImageResource as a subclass of Resource. This new class
also keeps a Gfx::ImageDecoder so that we can share decoded bitmaps
between all clients of an image resource inside LibWeb.
With this, we now share both encoded and decoded data for images. :^)
I had to change how the purgeable-volatile flag is updated to keep the
volatile-images-outside-the-visible-viewport optimization working.
HTMLImageElement now inherits from ImageResourceClient (a subclass of
ResourceClient with additional image-specific stuff) and informs its
ImageResource about whether it's inside the viewport or outside.
This is pretty awesome! :^)