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Reviewed:  https://reviews.mahara.org/2431
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/6764ecbfe85a6f87f73e0c2319d6ae57dc485930
Submitter: Robert Lyon (robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Branch:    master

commit 6764ecbfe85a6f87f73e0c2319d6ae57dc485930
Author: Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Aug 23 13:23:23 2013 +1200

Improving stylesheet + javascript file cache handling (bug #1214124)

- appending the release number to the url so that browsers will
fetch new version on update/upgrade

- urls for external js/css are now of the form [url]?v=[releasenumber]
- eg http://mahara.org/theme/views.css?v=1.7.2

Change-Id: I409746e8c60240c4da5db96fe16c93e8a2bd3dac
Signed-off-by: Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1214124

Title:
  Improve stylesheet cacheing

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Fix Committed

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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