Phil Wareham

I'm not usually keen on changing the default behaviour of browsers - however I can see some value to this suggestion (although I use spaces for tabs myself). If a...

> I surely hope it would be out of the tab chain Of course (otherwise it gives keyboard-only users a method to break their UX).

In terms of auto update. We could either use the curated JSON repo for the data required, or the plugins website (each plugin page has JSON-LD content which gives the...

Basically I want to avoid linking directly to GitHub. The curated JSON list is (will be anyway) pulled into our plugins website at regular intervals.

I wonder if the [Cache API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache) has any potential here? Not sure.

Cache API and Service Worker API seem to be able to manipulate the browser cache: https://developers.google.com/web/ilt/pwa/lab-caching-files-with-service-worker ...but the documentation is almost impenetrable for me, so who knows?! Anyway, if `ctrl...

> Cache API is flagged "experimental" and not universally supported True, but Edge, Chrome and Firefox support it and other browsers (i.e. Safari) can be bypassed using code like this:...

The last time we discussed this, the query string approach was unfavourable due to performance impact (Robert surmised around 2-3 milliseconds slower pagevrendering time). Not sure that has changed in...

Inclined to agree with Pete on this. It's valid enough to be needing a 4.8.0 (major release) fix.

> We could actually do this in 4.8.8 if we can come up with a sort of convention Well, we have have the following text string in 4.8.8 now... ```...