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[Aaron Wells <1214124@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This goes for all the static assets, actually: CSS, Javascript, pictures

** Summary changed:

- Improve stylesheet catching
+ Improve stylesheet cacheing

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: mahara
    Milestone: None => 1.8.0rc1

** Changed in: mahara
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Robert Lyon (robertl-9)

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Title:
  Improve stylesheet cacheing

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  There is no "purge the stylesheet cache" functionality in Mahara. This
  lack of functionality prevents stylesheet changes to be seen directly
  and generally, users will need to clear their browser cache.

  Suggestion from Pace University:

  Add a URL parameter for the version of Mahara in which the stylesheet
  changes.

  So for example, instead of calling

       <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
  href="/theme/raw/static/style/style.css">

  consider calling the 1.7.1 stylesheet:

       <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
  href="/theme/raw/static/style/style.css?v=1_7_1">

  and in version 1.8.1 call:

       <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
  href="/theme/raw/static/style/style.css?v=1_8_1">

  So the stylesheet would be still be named style.css, but the URL
  parameter will prevent the browser from using a locally cached
  version.

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