refactor dialog-helper to use toggle events #3332
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In #3144 we managed to reduce the cost of an expensive recalc by using
@property --dialog-scrollgutter { inherits: false }
. This dramatically reduced the recalc cost of this particular bit of code.However one thing we wanted to do - but failed to achieve in that PR - was to perform this calc as late as possible. Right now every page load (or thereabouts) that features a dialog causes this recalc. In #3144 we first tried to override the invoker function to do this during the click of the opener button, however there are callsites in the monolith that don't use the opener button, and instead call
showModal
directly. We could have overridden that but it was deemed a risky change. This was discussed here: #3144 (comment). In this discussion I pointed out that once whatwg/html#9733 lands then we could usebeforetoggle
to reliably find a point in time just before the dialog opens, but this is a more complex fix.So, fast forward to today;
beforetoggle
andtoggle
exist in Chrome & Firefox, and have recently been merged in Safari. I have a polyfill available to support browsers which don't support these events, which works reliably.So this PR refactors the dialog helper to use
beforetoggle
to set the--dialog-scrollgutter
. It brings in the polyfill to ensure cross-browser-compat.Additionally, our dialog-helper code uses a MutationObserver to force dialogs to be shown as modal, not as non-modal. This takes the opportunity to use the
toggle
event to do this instead. This will have a far smaller impact on performance than the change usingbeforetoggle
, but it certainly helps and makes the code cleaner & more readable.Screenshots
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