Friday, August 7, 2020
This week's Web Dev Rev notes started with Drupal:
Drupal 8.9.3 released- fully virtual DrupalCon Global connects six continents
- women of the Drupal community: Katherine Baima
- Drupal 9 configuration management workflow
- absolute beginner's guide to dependency management and Composer
- tips & tricks when upgrading to the latest Drupal 8 before going for Drupal 9
- adding non-PHP dependencies to a Composer-based project
Next we had the more general web notes:
- Firefox 79 includes protections against redirect tracking
- a call to action for web developers - changes to SameSite cookie behaviour
- Firefox again postpones removal of DTLS 1.0, matching Chrome
- HTML5 accessibility report
- ARIA is spackle, not rebar
- new native lazy-loading for iframes
- better PhpStorm - getting rid of the distractions
- better PhpStorm - making it look pretty
- using AVIF, the next-gen image compression format
- "one line" dark mode using CSS
- drop-shadow, the underrated CSS filter
- how not to turn your website into a pile of poo
- virtual tours of the Museum of the Fossilized Internet
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "HTML: How to Make Loveliness" from Goto Chicago 2020.
Web Dev Rev will be back next week, on Friday, August 14th at 11:00am.