Document the list of supported readers about chromeos_smart_card_connector HOT 3 CLOSED

Implementation-wise, the information about all supported readers is already present in a machine-readable format in the "//third_party/ccid/src/readers/supported_readers.txt" file.
And we already have existing code that does a slightly similar thing - parses this file and generates a list of {"vendorId": <...>, "productId": <...>} entries for every supported reader for the manifest.json file. We could generalize this code in order to generate an HTML page for UI as well.

UI-wise, it's TBD what would be the best option to display this information. One idea was that the "Help" button should be changed to open a window displaying a new HTML page that is bundled into the app (and put the "https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7014689" link into the new HTML page). Inside that help window, we could display the list of reader names with, for instance, an input field to perform a quick search.
Perhaps there are other UI solutions that would be reasonable as well.

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As per offline discussion, repurposing this task to instead host the data at https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7014689 . We'll update the data there with every release of the Smart Card Connector app. The app itself won't contain this data, and only refer to that page from the "Help" button.

The task is still relevant in the sense that we want to have a script that would autogenerate the list of readers for pasting into that article.

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• a small addition: Let's also change "//prepare-binaries-for-github-release.py" to include the output file of the new script.

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