LibWeb: Materialize input shadow trees on demand

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Creating an input or changing its type eagerly built its rendering-only user-agent shadow tree. HTML fragment parsing consequently created full internal trees for controls in detached, short-lived subtrees.

Let computed properties materialize a never-rendered tree before layout needs it. Rebuild the tree immediately when a styled control changes type. Allow Internals to force materialization when inspecting a control. Keep input state independent from rendering nodes, including selection and :placeholder-shown.

Add coverage for typed inputs and selector matching before style computation. Update style transaction expectations for deferred work.

Benchmark     Old Score        New Score    Score Improvement  Old Total Time (ms)      New Total Time (ms)    Speedup
------------  -------------  -----------  -------------------  ---------------------  ---------------------  ---------
Speedometer2  49.58 ± 16.76        48.81                0.985  10.57 ± 5.99                            9.94      1.064
Speedometer3  2.83 ± 0.98           2.93                1.039  10.10 ± 2.08                            9.43      1.071

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• Libraries/LibWeb/CSS/StyleComputer.cpp
• Libraries/LibWeb/CSS/StyleComputer.h
• Libraries/LibWeb/CSS/StyleEngineBridge.cpp
• Libraries/LibWeb/CSS/StyleEngineBridge.h
• Libraries/LibWeb/CSS/UpdateStyle.cpp
• Libraries/LibWeb/DOM/Element.h
• Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLInputElement.cpp
• Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLInputElement.h

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• Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLInputElement.cpp
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Walkthrough

Input :placeholder-shown matching now uses placeholder and relevant value state. Input user-agent shadow trees defer creation until style processing or explicit Internals access. Style processing prepares connected deferred inputs. Type changes recreate materialized trees when required. Selection, number-stepper, and image-button updates guard against unsupported or absent internal state. Tests cover placeholder matching, shadow-tree materialization, and style mutations.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Document
  participant UpdateStyle
  participant StyleComputer
  participant HTMLInputElement
  participant Internals
  Document->>UpdateStyle: update style
  UpdateStyle->>StyleComputer: prepare deferred elements
  StyleComputer->>HTMLInputElement: materialize connected input shadow tree
  Internals->>HTMLInputElement: ensure shadow tree on request
  HTMLInputElement-->>Internals: return shadow-root state

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This PR defers input shadow-tree creation while preserving required styling and input-state behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains deferred input shadow-tree materialization, related state handling, tests, and benchmark changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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In `@Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/css/style-engine/has-mutations.html`:
- Around line 127-128: Rewrite the comment near the pre-required control setup
to be grammatical and state directly that the control is already required and
therefore no indexed attribute mutation occurs. Preserve the explanation that
rendering-only user-agent descendants remain unmaterialized until style
computation and that the mutation publishes only author nodes.

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• Libraries/LibWeb/DOM/Element.cpp
• Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLInputElement.cpp
• Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLInputElement.h
• Libraries/LibWeb/Internals/Internals.cpp
• Libraries/LibWeb/Internals/Internals.h
• Libraries/LibWeb/Internals/Internals.idl
• Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/DOM/input-shadow-tree-materialization.txt
• Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/css/style-engine/has-mutations.txt
• Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/css/style-invalidation/structural-child-stress.txt
• Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/css/style-invalidation/structural-descendant-mutations.txt
• Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/css/style-invalidation/structural-descendant-state-stress.txt
• Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/input-placeholder-shown-before-style.txt
• Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/DOM/input-shadow-tree-materialization.html
• Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/css/style-engine/has-mutations.html
• Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/input-placeholder-shown-before-style.html

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