Friday, January 15, 2021
As is often the case after a few week's break, we had a lot of notes for this week's Web Dev Rev. They started with Drupal:
Drupal celebrates 20 years- 20 years of Drupal history
- it is Drupal's 20th birthday
- on its 20th burthday, Drupal poised to capture the next generation of the digital experience market
- celebrate 20 years of Drupal
- state of Drupal presentation (December 2020)
- DrupalCon North America 2021 update
- MidCamp announces plans to come back in March
- Acquia retrospective 2020
- Ozzy the puppy vs. Drupal the open-source project
- the PHPUnit initiative is complete
- Drupal community survey: 2021 browser and device support
- Drupal 10 is coming in 2022: are you ready?
- introducing the Template Diff module
- making the most of Drupal 9: enhanced performance and UX
- removing a hook from an installed contrib module without patching it
- defending the open web
Finally, we had several more general web notes:
- jQuery was released 15 years ago
- Firefox 84.0 features, updates, and fixes
- CKEditor 5 v24.0.0 released
- release notes for Safari Technology Preview 118
- MDN Web Docs has a new platform
- 12 common web design mistakes to avoid in 2021
- top Pens of 2020 on CodePen
- Google Design's best of 2020
- Lea Verou elected to W3C technical architecture group
- all W3C technical architecture group elections
- time to say goodbye to Google Fonts
- the fastest Google Fonts
- Chrome is bad
- is Google Chrome slowing down your Mac performance?
- it's not legacy code - it's PHP
- CKEditor 5: the best open source Markdown editor
- make it personal
- one invalid pseudo selector equals an entire ignored selector
- Hell Yes! CSS!
- how GitHub removed their cookie consent banner
- styling console.log() output formatting with CSS
- native CSS masonry layout in CSS grid
- creating randomness in pure CSS
- using display:block on summary elements can lose the triangle
- be careful when changing the display of "summary"
- guide to advanced CSS selectors
- native aspect ratio boxes in CSS thanks to aspect-ratio
- aspect-ratio is going to deprecate FitVids
- don't lazy-load things you want people to see quickly
- don't attach unwanted screenshots with Chrome bug reports
- PhpStorm has a built in geo viewer
- take the no-mouse challenge
- seven ways to test for accessibility of your web page with browser developer tools
- generative fonts and scripts
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the video, "Is progressive enhancement dead yet?" from Webbed Briefs (the video does not support embedding, so click through the link to watch).
Web Dev Rev will return, possibly on Friday, January 22nd at 11:00am (we are debating cancelling that and having the next one on the 29th, so that people can attend the Staff Conference Speaker Series event in the same timeslot).