Made text inside <input> elements scrollable using touch gestures

Source/core/rendering/RenderLayer.cpp

 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Portions are Copyright (C) 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation.
  *
  * Other contributors:
  *   Robert O'Callahan <roc+@cs.cmu.edu>
  *   David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
  *   Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de>
  *   Randall Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
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 IntRect RenderLayer::scrollableAreaBoundingBox() const
 {
     return renderer()->absoluteBoundingBoxRect();
 }
 
 bool RenderLayer::userInputScrollable(ScrollbarOrientation orientation) const
 {
     RenderBox* box = renderBox();
     ASSERT(box);
 
+    if (box->isTextField())
+        return orientation == HorizontalScrollbar;

[esprehn, 2013/08/12 23:38:06]

This doesn't seem writing mode aware.

[bokan, 2013/08/13 01:13:48]

I've changed this to defer the decision to the control itself so the issue is
now in RenderTextControlSingleLine, but I couldn't force an <input> box to use a
vertical writing mode, does Chrome support vertical input boxes?

+
     EOverflow overflowStyle = (orientation == HorizontalScrollbar) ?
         renderer()->style()->overflowX() : renderer()->style()->overflowY();
     return (overflowStyle == OSCROLL || overflowStyle == OAUTO || overflowStyle == OOVERLAY);
 }
 
 int RenderLayer::pageStep(ScrollbarOrientation orientation) const
 {
     RenderBox* box = renderBox();
     ASSERT(box);
 
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 void RenderLayer::convertToLayerCoords(const RenderLayer* ancestorLayer, LayoutRect& rect) const
 {
     LayoutPoint delta;
     convertToLayerCoords(ancestorLayer, delta);
     rect.move(-delta.x(), -delta.y());
 }
 
 bool RenderLayer::usesCompositedScrolling() const
 {
+    // Scroll textfields on the main thread so we get appropriate touch gesture propagation.
+    if (renderBox() && renderBox()->isTextField())
+        return false;
+
     return isComposited() && backing()->scrollingLayer();
 }
 
 bool RenderLayer::needsCompositedScrolling() const
 {
     switch (m_forceNeedsCompositedScrolling) {
     case DoNotForceCompositedScrolling:
         return m_needsCompositedScrolling;
     case CompositedScrollingAlwaysOn:
         return true;
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     }
 }
 
 void showLayerTree(const WebCore::RenderObject* renderer)
 {
     if (!renderer)
         return;
     showLayerTree(renderer->enclosingLayer());
 }
 #endif