Use viewport instead of initial viewport in screenshot algorithms#1951
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I think we can ignore the IPR for this PR so don't worry about it for now.
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| <p>Screenshots are a mechanism for providing | ||
| additional visual diagnostic information. | ||
| They work by dumping a snapshot of the <a>initial viewport</a>'s | ||
| They work by dumping a snapshot of the <a>viewport</a>'s |
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In WebDriver BiDi we explicitly use the visual viewport, see this line in the get the origin rectangle algorithm. We should do the same for classic including the addition of the reference to the cssom-view specification.
I think that should apply to all the entries in this file.
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I have changed it to visual viewport
The screenshot algorithms reference the initial viewport when computing framebuffer bounds. If the browser window is resized after the document loads, this can lead to incorrect clipping. Update the algorithms to reference the visual viewport instead. Fixes w3c#1947
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The screenshot algorithms currently reference the initial viewport.
If the browser window is resized after the document loads,
this can lead to incorrect clipping calculations.
This change updates the algorithms to reference the viewport instead.
Fixes #1947
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