Cancel stale async rendering tasks in the Styles pane using AbortSignal

When a user action triggers a new Styles pane update before a previous asynchronous rendering operation finishes (e.g., resolving `color-mix()` values), the old operation's callbacks can still execute. This can lead to race conditions or attempts to mutate detached DOM nodes.

This CL introduces cancellation handling to prevent this. The base `Widget` class now manages an `AbortController` for its update cycle. When a new update is requested, it aborts the signal for any pending update.

The `AbortSignal` is passed down through performUpdate in `StylesSidebarPane` and `StandaloneStylesContainer`. These components, and the rendering helpers they call, now check `signal.aborted` or call `signal.throwIfAborted()` after asynchronous operations. This ensures that stale rendering tasks are cleanly halted before they can incorrectly manipulate the DOM.

Bug: 487901682
Change-Id: Ib7f6549812877ee0e4055ab32737c86842fe9719
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/devtools/devtools-frontend/+/7658088
Reviewed-by: Philip Pfaffe <[email protected]>
Commit-Queue: Danil Somsikov <[email protected]>
6 files changed
tree: 4c8f6bfad6a9cddba9aa6274ef60f3d42d672032
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