Correctly handle different javascript realms/documents #4330
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In JavaScript, multiple different global contexts (realms) can exist with their own classes and document (https://tc39.es/ecma262/#realm) and they can access each others objects.
These realms are created by calls to
window.open
or when using<iframe>
s. An application I am working on enables multi-monitor support by opening multiple browser windows that are all controlled from the primary tab. And Quill does not function correctly when initialized in one of these external windows.This can lead to very unintuitive behavior, since using the global
document
can lead to incorrect results andinstanceof
unexpectedly returningfalse
. And because of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470017 in FireFox, we cannot even control what realm our initial objects are part of.Luckily,
nodes
own references to theirownerDocument
, which has a reference to theirdefaultView
, making it possible to write code that survives these conditions.This PR removes the expectation that
document
is the only document that can exist and fixesinstanceof
checks.This requires slab/parchment#147 to work properly.
After this is merged, I will try to expand it to supporting shadowDOM as well, most of the basics are there, but it needs some bigger Emitter changes and don't really fit here. But this does already lay some groundwork and can clarify what tests will be needed for testing Quill in non-standard contexts.