gecko-dev/editor
Masayuki Nakano e51cdb3ca3 Bug 1642594 - part 5: Implement first version of new white-space normalizer which simulates Blink's one r=m_kato
This patch tries to implement Blink-compat white-space normalizer for
`HTMLEditor`.

It's difficult to list up our traditional white-space normalization rules
because `WSRunObject` touches white space sequence only when there is not
acceptable case, e.g., an ASCII white-spaces will be adjacent to another
one, and replaces only unacceptable white-space only.  Therefore, whether
white-space sequence may start with either an ASCII white-space or an NBSP.
On the other hand, Blink and WebKit makes white-space sequence always
starts with an NBSP or an ASCII white-space (unfortunately, they behave
differently!).  So, for web-compat, we should simulate Blink's behavior
because either behavior is reasonable but Blink have more market share.

This patch simply adds new white-space normalization path for the new one,
and it's switchable with a pref, and still disabled by default.

The other reason why we should do this is, our traditional white-space
normalizer touches the DOM a lot of times per edit action, and the timing
is both before and after touches the DOM tree.  Therefore, it's difficult
to compute actual deleting range for `InputEvent.getTargetRanges()` and
touching a lot of times causes running mutation event listeners a lot and
creates a lot of transaction class instances.  So, new one have a lot of
merits:

1. Improve web-compat
2. Improve the peformance
3. Improve the security
4. Improve the footprint (but this is now worse then traditional one)
5. Simplify the implementation

The new normalizer is mostly implemented with only 3 `HTMLEditor` methods.

One is `HTMLEditor::DeleteTextAndNormalizeSurroundingWhiteSpaces()`.  This is
semi-public method for the edit action handlers.  This takes a range with
2 `EditorDOMPoinInText` to delete the range simply.  This also replaces
surrounding white-space sequence if necessary.  For inserting text case,
this method also handles only white-space normalization when it's called
with collapsed range, i.e., same `EditorDOMPointInText`.  This tries to use
`RepaceTextWithTransaction()` as far as possible to reduce creation cost of
transaction classes and the footprint.

Another one is `HTMLEditor::ExtendRangeToDeleteWithNormalizingWhiteSpaces()`.
This tries to extend the given range to normalize surrounding white-spaces.
This is currently not optimized for footprint because this may include
white-spaces which do not need to be replaced.  This optimization should be
done before shipping, but for now, enabling `InputEvent.getTargetRanges()` in
Nightly channel is more important.  So that it should be done in a follow-up
bug.

The other is `HTMLEditor::GenerateWhitepaceSequence()`.  This creates
normalized white-space sequence with surrounding character information.
For keeping this method simple as far as possible, we shouldn't optimize
the range of generation even in follow-ups.

Finally, the white-space sequence is not tested in mochitests, so that we
can enable this new normalizer when we run mochitests under
`editor/libeditor/tests`.  However, WPT has some tests.  We should keep
them running with current normalizer for checking regression.  Instead,
we should enable the pref only for the new WPT added by the previous patch.

Depends on D78655

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D78656
2020-06-15 07:37:56 +00:00
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composer Bug 1623562 - Refactor allowPlugins to use BrowsingContext. r=nika 2020-03-20 04:53:43 +00:00
libeditor Bug 1642594 - part 5: Implement first version of new white-space normalizer which simulates Blink's one r=m_kato 2020-06-15 07:37:56 +00:00
reftests Bug 312971 - Unprefix -moz-read-write / -moz-read-only. r=edgar 2020-05-14 16:46:08 +00:00
spellchecker Backed out 3 changesets (bug 1638153) for perma failures on cross-origin-objects.html. CLOSED TREE 2020-06-01 23:51:35 +03:00
txmgr Bug 1633014 - Fix non-unified build errors in editor/. r=m_kato 2020-04-27 03:36:57 +00:00
AsyncSpellCheckTestHelper.jsm
moz.build Bug 1449522 - Remove nsIEditorStyleSheets. r=masayuki,m_kato 2020-04-17 22:54:48 +00:00
nsIDocumentStateListener.idl
nsIEditActionListener.idl Bug 1639161 - part 3: Get rid of `nsIEditActionListener::DidDeleteText()` r=m_kato 2020-05-21 08:23:04 +00:00
nsIEditor.idl Bug 1619914 - part 2: Mark transaction class methods and their caller methods as `MOZ_CAN_RUN_SCRIPT r=m_kato 2020-04-03 08:32:01 +00:00
nsIEditorMailSupport.idl
nsIEditorObserver.idl
nsIEditorSpellCheck.idl
nsIHTMLAbsPosEditor.idl
nsIHTMLEditor.idl Bug 1624007 - Don't check `IsSelectionRangeContainerNotContent()` for/in `GetElementOrParentElement*()` r=m_kato 2020-04-09 10:10:36 +00:00
nsIHTMLInlineTableEditor.idl
nsIHTMLObjectResizer.idl
nsITableEditor.idl Bug 1635709: part 17) Annotate `CellIndexes`'s methods with `MOZ_CAN_RUN_SCRIPT`. r=masayuki 2020-05-14 10:08:44 +00:00