NEW 157778
Remove WikiMedia site-specific hack 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157778
Summary Remove WikiMedia site-specific hack
Alex Christensen
Reported 2016-05-16 18:05:14 PDT
Remove WikiMedia site-specific hack
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Patch (5.12 KB, patch)
2016-05-16 18:08 PDT, Alex Christensen 		rniwa: review-
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Alex Christensen
Comment 1 2016-05-16 18:08:15 PDT
Created attachment 279078 [details] Patch
Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 2 2016-05-16 21:00:00 PDT
Comment on attachment 279078 [details] Patch View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=279078&action=review This would break old websites with an old version of Mediawikis. In 2012, 47 out of 200 top WikiMedia users are still using the version 1.5 or older according to http://s23.org/wikistats/largest_html.php. We should gather usage data about this before we should remove this site-specific hack. > Source/WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp:-272 > - , needsSiteSpecificQuirks(document.settings() ? document.settings()->needsSiteSpecificQuirks() : false) This settings is true on Mac Safari.
Alex Christensen
Comment 3 2016-05-16 21:33:49 PDT
(In reply to comment #2) > Comment on attachment 279078 [details] > Patch > > View in context: > https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=279078&action=review > > This would break old websites with an old version of Mediawikis. > > In 2012, 47 out of 200 top WikiMedia users are still using the version 1.5 > or older according to http://s23.org/wikistats/largest_html.php. > We should gather usage data about this before we should remove this > site-specific hack. Chromium seems to have removed this. > > > Source/WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp:-272 > > - , needsSiteSpecificQuirks(document.settings() ? document.settings()->needsSiteSpecificQuirks() : false) > > This settings is true on Mac Safari. Aha! That makes sense.
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