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feat(dropdowns): adds support for fixed positioning strategy

Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt requested to merge dropdowns-positioning-strategy into main

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feat(dropdowns): adds support for fixed positioning strategy

This adds support for the fixed positioning strategy, which can be useful when a dropdown is contained within a short element that might cause it to be cut off. Applying this positioning strategy would let the dropdown position itself above the container, ignorning its size constraints.

This is done primarily to migrate gitlab!120393 (merged) to Floating UI. In that MR, the popper-options prop was used to set a custom positioning strategy, which was not taken into account when we upgraded to Floating UI. This restores the ability to set the strategy via a new positioningStrategy.

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