Friday, August 12, 2022
We started with Drupal-related notes; since we ended up cancelling the previous Web Dev Rev session, there were a lot of Drupal releases:
Drupal 9.4.5 and 9.3.21 released- timestamp column updated for Y2K38 bug
- RDF module no longer enabled by default, and on the way out
- local PHP security checker for Drupal applications
- York University's Drupal-based website rebuild to attract new students
- potential opportunities for collaboration between Drupal and Backdrop
- running PHPStan on Drupal custom modules
- challenges migrating Drupal 8 to Drupal 9
- Dries shares his deployment workflow
- resizing fields in Drupal without losing data
- defining the goals of the Schema.org Blueprints module
- Views Responsive Grid added to Drupal 10 core
- Maxlength 2.0 out now
- keeping track of upstream security issues
- the dangers of inline editing structured content
Next, we went into general web notes:
- new WebKit features in Safari 15.6
- Xdebug 3.2.0alpha1 is out
- where the default body margin came from
- start your project with a remedy for the technical debt of CSS
- alt text the unexpected star of NASA's Webb images
- start audits with Norm Kerth's prime directive
- 20 websites "it feels illegal to know" (a thread)
- finer grained control over CSS transforms with individual properties
- San Francisco typeface is actually a variable font
- on the CSS Tricks acquisition
- on @container and :has(), landing in Chromium 105
- font subsetting strategies
- introducing Emoji Kitchen
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch Eric Meyer's video, "Understanding CSS :has()".
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next one will be on Friday, September 2nd at 11:00 am.