After reading Dimitri's analysis and talking to him on IRC, I'm convinced that we don't have to call setInnerTextValue in updateFromElement. I've uploaded a work-in-progress patch to the bug 66241<http://webkit.org/b/66241> that realizes this idea.
- Ryosuke On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> I just realized what's going on here. The lifetime of the shadow DOM >> _used_ to be tied to the HTMLTextAreaElement's RenderObjects. Kent-san >> changed that and now the shadow DOM's lifecycle matches that of the >> rest of the DOM. > > > Yes! > > >> However, the update cycle still assumes that the >> shadow DOM lives on the RenderObjects, and does this really freaky >> thing with shuttling updated value via an extra style recalc (see >> >> http://codesearch.google.com/codesearch#OAMlx_jo-ck/src/third_party/WebKit/Source/WebCore/html/HTMLTextAreaElement.cpp&l=349 >> ). >> We should just fix that and move updating code out of >> updateFromElement. >> > > Right. I think making updateFromElement not call setInnerTextValue will > fix this bug for good. > > - Ryosuke > >
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