[web] Avoid absolute positioning for base CanvasKit canvas (#188337) fix for #176327 Partial fix for #181511 **Problem** With CanvasKit and semantics enabled, scrolling regular Flutter Web content on iPhone WebKit browsers can be very janky. The base CanvasKit canvas was always styled with `position:absolute`, which is expensive for WebKit to scroll together with the semantics DOM. **Fix** Only platform-view overlay canvases keep `position:absolute`. The normal base CanvasKit canvas now uses regular positioning, which fixes the plain Flutter scroll case while preserving `HtmlElementView` stacking. One limitation: mixed Flutter and `HtmlElementView` scenes may still show iOS WebKit scroll jank because platform-view overlays still require `position:absolute`. **Demo** | Before | After | |---|---| | https://flutter-demo-09-before.web.app | https://flutter-demo-09-after.web.app | Steps: open the page on iPhone Chrome or Safari, keep semantics enabled, then scroll the page continuously. Before: the on-screen jank log shows severe scroll jank, including runs over 100 janky frames per 5 seconds. After: the same regular Flutter content stays smooth, with low jank summaries around 1 to 10 janky frames per 5 seconds in validation runs.
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