Friday, September 24, 2021
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Assorted Drupal core security issues:
- render() being replaced with a service
- permissions will be able to be viewed and edited for individual modules
- adding CKEditor 5 to Drupal core
- Drupal community update for September 2021
- Drupal associations elections open
- official election announcement
- 50 Drupal modules everyone should know about
- managing dates and times in Drupal as easy as possible
- an extensive study on COPE with Drupal
- usage statistics for Drupal 5
Next, we went into general web notes:
- Firefox 92 - new features, updates and fixes
- a review of what's in Firefox 92
- jQuery UI 1.13.0-rc2 released
- intent to ship: auto-expand details elements
- defining "toast" messages
- in quest of search
- the future of CSS: Cascade Layers (@layer)
- W3C's new design system heavily influenced by "Every Layout"
- W3C design system announcement
- W3C design system details
- CUBE CSS
- original announcement for CUBE CSS
- improving the New York Times' line wrap balancer
- Firefox's "bolder" default is a problem for variable fonts
- "just in time" CSS
- designing beautiful shadows in CSS
- check marks aren't always "OK"
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Semantics and the Web: An Awkward History", originally created for the Balisage conference.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings happen once every 3 weeks. The next one will be on Friday, October 15th at 11:00am.