Track every non-none transform as a containing-block trigger, including
unsupported visual transforms. Keep separate nearest-ancestor maps so
positioned boxes capture absolute descendants while only transforms capture
fixed descendants.
Reparent inset-positioned absolute boxes to the nearest non-static ancestor
and fixed boxes to the initial containing block. Keep auto-axis boxes on the
existing static-position path, distinguish fixed from absolute, and blockify
positioned inline boxes and floats.
percentage padding/margin: top/bottom percentages resolve against the
containing-block width (the responsive aspect-ratio-box trick, e.g.
padding-top:56.25%), resolved to px in the top-down layout pass so card
media boxes reserve space instead of collapsing.
box-shadow: parse and paint an outset shadow (rounded, offset, spread,
soft-edge approximation) so cards/buttons/menus have depth.
external-sprite svg: resolve <use href="url#id"> to an external sprite
file, inject the referenced symbol so inline-svg icon systems rasterize.
background-clip:text: paint transparent-with-gradient text (the common
gradient hero/button label) instead of leaving it invisible.
Colors: oklch()/oklab() and color-mix(); linear-gradient backgrounds.
Grid: named-line placement, repeat() expansion, drop whitespace-only
grid items; upgrade taffy 0.7 -> 0.12 so aspect-ratio images in
auto-height rows no longer collapse to slivers.
CSS: @layer, nesting, @property, :is()/:where(), clamp(), @media not all;
source/track/param/area and svg desc/metadata as display:none.
Images: webp + intrinsic sizing, srcset/picture, browser UA + Accept for
CDN fetches, grey placeholder on failure; width/height HTML attributes
rank below author CSS with aspect-ratio preserved for auto axes.
A whole DOM text node was one indivisible taffy leaf. Flex-wrap only
breaks between items, never inside one, so a long run of plain text
with no inline element breaking it up (an ordinary sentence with no
link in it) either fit on one line or ran straight past the
container's edge instead of wrapping. Short runs interrupted by links
every few words (extremely common in Wikipedia's markup) happened to
be narrow enough to wrap on their own, which is why paragraphs looked
fine but any long plain-text stretch overflowed straight over the
infobox and the History-section image.
Text nodes now split into one taffy leaf per word, flattened into the
same child list as sibling elements so words from different text nodes
and inline elements interleave and wrap together like real inline
flow. This changes the geometry data model: a text node's content is
now a list of (box, word) pairs (DomLayout::text_runs) instead of a
single box, since it can span several lines. Updated painting to draw
each word at its own position, and fixed a bold-text measurement
mismatch (layout width and drawn width disagreed by 1px/char, invisible
before as one blob, visible as gaps between every word once each word
is independently positioned).
Added a regression test that fails against the old single-leaf
behavior.
The render layer had no CSS Grid support, so Vector 2022's page layout
(three nested grids) collapsed to a vertical stack with the article
landing tens of thousands of pixels down the page. Wikipedia rendered
as a near-blank page and Hacker News only worked through per-site
hardcoded CSS overrides.
Removed the HN-specific hardcoding and fixed the general engine instead:
- CSS Grid layout (grid-template-areas/columns/rows via taffy's grid mode)
- Indexed, specificity-correct cascade in a new css.rs, replacing the
old test-every-selector-against-every-node scan. Cascade time on
Wikipedia went from 9.5s to under 200ms.
- Ancestor bloom-filter fast-rejection for selector matching in
obscura-dom, needed to make the indexed cascade actually fast on
descendant combinators.
- :link/:visited pseudo-classes were previously unparseable, so any
rule using them (a:link{color:...}, extremely common) silently
dropped the whole rule from the cascade.
- overflow:hidden clipping, fixing the pervasive visually-hidden-but-
accessible pattern used for skip links and screen-reader-only labels.
- @media parser robustness: it did a literal substring search for
max-width: and silently dropped the constraint on max-width : 750px
(space before colon) or max-width:calc(750px - 1px), treating
mobile-only or narrow-viewport rules as always active. The calc()
case was hiding Wikipedia's TOC sidebar via a rule meant only for
narrow screens.
- Table auto-layout approximation: the trailing auto-width td in a row
absorbs leftover space, so a width:100% table's unsized last column
reaches the right edge instead of shrinking to content.
- Inline formatting context approximation: a block holding inline-level
children (a paragraph or list item with links) is promoted to a
wrapping flex row so text and links read as continuous prose instead
of one fragment per line.
- Whitespace-only text nodes no longer get a full line-height box. They
used to stack up as blank rows, turning Wikipedia's collapsed TOC
subsections and the page header into hundreds of pixels of dead space.
- SVG rendering via resvg/usvg, plus resolving relative image URLs
against the page's base URL.
- background-image support including background-size/background-position
for correctly sized and positioned icons.
- Per-screenshot image fetch cache.
- Fixed the layout-only (no paint feature) build, which didn't compile
due to an unconditional call into paint-gated code.
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