[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 270513] New: Move User Agent Quirks to a Config File

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270513

            Bug ID: 270513
           Summary: Move User Agent Quirks to a Config File
           Product: WebKit
           Version: Other
          Hardware: Unspecified
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKitGTK
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: dennis.camera+webkit at riiengineering.ch
                CC: bugs-noreply at webkitgtk.org

Instead of managing a list of domains requiring User Agent quirks hard-coded in C++, I think it would be better to move the list of domains requiring quirks to a config file.

Websites can change quickly while updating the hard-coded list requires a bug report, somebody write a patch, merge the patch, have the commit be included in a release, distros picking up the release, users installing the update.
This process can take days to weeks or possibly even longer which IMO is bad user experience.

If instead the list was in a config file, distros or even users could include new domains much quicker or also remove them after they fixed their sites.

I would suggest a plain text file, one domain per line (possibly allow /regular expressions/, ignore lines starting with [#;]).
This would make it easy also for system administrators to deploy new domains using a shell script when they need to.

What do you think?

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