Web Dev Rev wrap-up for December 7, 2018

This week's Web Dev Rev notes began with some Drupal notes:

• Drupal's commitment to accessibility
• creating Tome, a static site generator for Drupal 8
• designs for a new admin theme
• the road to 200 issue credits
• Drupal/GitLab integration update
• Drupal admin UX study
• values & principles committee update

We then moved on to the notes about "everything else":

• it's advent calendar season:
  • the original web design and development advent calendar
  • Adrian Roselli's list of web development advent calendars
  • Smashing Magazine's advent roundup
  • CSS-Tricks notes 2 calendars
• Microsoft is switching Edge to Chromium:
  • the original rumour
  • Microsoft's announcement
  • Edge team's intent statement
  • Mozilla's farewell to EdgeHTML
  • browser diversity commentary
  • the state of web browsers
  • browser diversity starts with us
• a look at CSS resets in 2018
• everything about CSS environment variables
• DRY switching with CSS variables
• sites running unauthenticated JavaScript
• Firefox Listen is coming
• 3 word mapping
• WordPress 5.0: a Gutenberg FAQ
• what can be learned from the Gutenberg accessibility situation?
• PHP 7.3.0 released (link no longer available)
  • for a total of 5 PHP releases
  • Drupal 8.7.0 will be compatible with PHP 7.3.0
  • migrating from PHP 7.2.x to 7.3.x (link no longer available)
• Government of Canada officially endorses open source

We then moved on to watch the first 21:15 of a video about Drupal's proposed new design system.

We hope you'll join us for the next Web Dev Rev on Friday, December 14th, in EC2 1021 (Millennium) at 11:00am.