Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hey, On Sex, 9 Mai, 2014 at 1:49 , Martin Robinson wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote: I don't understand this, if sites are working with the current UA, we just need to make sure we keep using that UA for those specific sites that break. It's a matter of

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-09 Thread Martin Robinson
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote: > I don't understand this, if sites are working with the current UA, we > just need to make sure we keep using that UA for those specific sites > that break. It's a matter of filing bugs when we detect something is > broken because of th

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-08 Thread Carlos Garcia Campos
El jue, 08-05-2014 a las 12:08 -0700, Martin Robinson escribió: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > No worries, I kinda thought I had moved that to WebCore so it could be > > shared, but I just dreamed of it, I guess =P > > I think this is the way it went down: > >

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-08 Thread Martin Robinson
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > No worries, I kinda thought I had moved that to WebCore so it could be > shared, but I just dreamed of it, I guess =P I think this is the way it went down: 1. In the beginning, we had our own custom user agent. 2. Gustavo added code

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-08 Thread Carlos Garcia Campos
El jue, 08-05-2014 a las 16:15 -0003, Gustavo Noronha Silva escribió: > Hey, > > On Qui, 8 Mai, 2014 at 11:07 , Carlos Garcia Campos > wrote: > > I wrote something exactly like this a while ago, > > specifically so that Google would stop misbehaving, so we > > did have som

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hey, On Qui, 8 Mai, 2014 at 11:07 , Carlos Garcia Campos wrote: I wrote something exactly like this a while ago, specifically so that Google would stop misbehaving, so we did have something like this, but I think it was never ported to WebKit2 I didn't know it :-P No worries, I kinda

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-08 Thread Carlos Garcia Campos
El mié, 07-05-2014 a las 18:27 -0003, Gustavo Noronha Silva escribió: > Hey, > > On Ter, 6 Mai, 2014 at 7:54 , Carlos Garcia Campos > wrote: > > My first idea was to keep them static in the source code, similar to > > plugin quirks, but I agree that information might become obsolete > > soon. >

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-07 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hey, On Ter, 6 Mai, 2014 at 7:54 , Carlos Garcia Campos wrote: My first idea was to keep them static in the source code, similar to plugin quirks, but I agree that information might become obsolete soon. I wrote something exactly like this a while ago, specifically so that Google would sto

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-07 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
[Sorry, I misreplied privately, resending] Hey, On Seg, 5 Mai, 2014 at 4:43 , Egor Egorov wrote: Please forgive me for being naive, but if we can identify those sites in particular, then we might just as well get in touch with their administrators and ask then to fix it, right? I guess th

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-06 Thread Carlos Garcia Campos
El lun, 05-05-2014 a las 11:32 -0700, Niranjan Rao escribió: > I like this idea. Right now we pretend we are chromium. Some questions > do pop in mind. > > 1. Not sure what definition of broken is - rendering problems or > script problems? Other functionality -e.g. local storage/html5 > quirks/dif

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-05 Thread Niranjan Rao
I like this idea. Right now we pretend we are chromium. Some questions do pop in mind. 1. Not sure what definition of broken is - rendering problems or script problems? Other functionality -e.g. local storage/html5 quirks/differences etc. 2. Where/how will lists be maintained? Given dynamic na

Re: [webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-05 Thread Egor Egorov
Please forgive me for being naive, but if we can identify those sites in particular, then we might just as well get in touch with their administrators and ask then to fix it, right? I guess the problem lies with sites not known beforehand for user-agent header sniffing. -- Egor Egorov http:

[webkit-gtk] Dynamic user agent

2014-05-05 Thread Carlos Garcia Campos
The user agent string is still causing problems in different web sites. No matter how we change it, there's always a web site broken after the change. So, I think it's impossible to have a static user agent string that works for us everywhere. What do you think about having different user agent s