1.3.15: Optimizations and bug fixes

[AlexJSully]

UI/UX:

• Added toast notifications for error messages
• Centered the loading indicator

Optimization:

• Made SEO improvements
• Made more accessibility adjustments
• Optimized images
• Preload styles
• Reduced complexity of some functions
• Refactored some code
• Removed unused CSS
• Set loading from lazy to auto for largest LCP
• Update cookies SameSite to Lax and Secure

Security:

• Update CSP with base-uri
• Update Permissions-Policy
• Update htaccess

Update:

• Migrate to new Google Identity Services library
• No longer supporting Internet Explorer
• Update Python 2 to 3
• Update packages
• Updated workbox settings

Documentation:

• Added CHANGELOG markdown file
• Improved readability of some code
• Sorted uncategorized CSS styles to make them more readable
• Updated README

Bug fix:

• Fixed "Duplicate without user-selected canonical"
• Fixed compatibility with Pillow (PIL) 9.5
• Fixed deprecated btoa functions
• Fixed eFP-Seq Browser web manifest trying to overwrite BAR's web manifest name - now both use same web manifest
• Fixed issue where if code is run on a non-BAR server, was still trying to access the BAR's GAPI/Google OAuth
• Fixed issue where loading indicator was not green
• Fixed issue where submission page was broken on local instances of the eFP-Seq Browser
• Fixed issue where the title of the uploaded file to a user from an XML was not reachable
• Fixed issue where variables were not initialized in loops
• Fixed issue with service worker not working with Python/CGI scripts
• Fixed missing Apple metadata
• Fixed missing Math.js source map
• Fixed service workers trying to register when is not supported for some users
• Fixed typos

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