WebKit2 View Gestures: Swipe gesture can track vertical movement instead of horizontal movement

• Component: WebKit2
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Tim Horton]

ViewGestureController::handleScrollWheelEvent properly bails in a wide variety of cases, but wheelEventWasNotHandledByWebCore does not, so we can pick up a wheel event that was rejected by the web process (and would have been rejected by the checks in handleScrollWheelEvent) and use it to start tracking a swipe.

One of the cases we check in handleScrollWheelEvent is that the horizontal delta is bigger; since we don't check this in wheelEventWasNotHandledByWebCore, we can start tracking a swipe from an event with a predominantly vertical delta, which results in the swipe tracking vertical movement instead of horizontal movement.

We should factor out all of the cases and check in both places.

<rdar://problem/16337279>

[Tim Horton]

Created attachment 227147 [details]
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[Tim Horton]

Created attachment 227152 [details]
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[Simon Fraser (smfr)]

Comment on attachment 227152 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=227152&action=review

> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/mac/ViewGestureControllerMac.mm:267
>      if (!event.hasPreciseScrollingDeltas)
>          return false;
>  
>      if (![NSEvent isSwipeTrackingFromScrollEventsEnabled])
>          return false;

Would be cheaper to do these early returns sooner.

> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/mac/ViewGestureControllerMac.mm:279
> +    m_hasPendingSwipe = false;

Does this need to be cleared before the previous return?

[Tim Horton]

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/165903