Friday, January 29, 2021
We took a week off, but now we're back with a new Web Dev Rev. This week's notes started, as always, with Drupal:
Drupal security advisory- Drupal releases 7.78; 8.9.13; 9.0.11; 9.1.3
- proposal to rename "webmasters" to "site moderators"
- new hook_entity_form_mode_alter()
- streamining field widget hooks
- all databases supported by Drupal will have to support JSON functionality
- change of behaviour for file uploads involving insecure file formats
- adding a "General" project type to Drupal.org
- off-canvas style resets overriding styles leading to display issues
- looking for "Drupal Doodles"
- encouraging health conversations in the Drupal community
- what front-end developers can expect from Drupal's Olivero theme
- introducing the decorative image widget Drupal module
- the women of the Drupal community: makennenelielaura
- Pantheon releases Localdev 1.0 for Macs
- smart strategies for content sharing
- ask a core maintainer anything
Finally, we had several more general web notes:
- a usability checklist for everyone
- WCAG 3 working draft ready for input
- what to expect from the first public working draft of WCAG 3.0
- Microsoft Edge 88 privacy and security updates
- January brings us Firefox 85
- porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
- 8 lesser known features of Chrome DevTools
- support for Microsoft Edge Legacy ends on March 9
- analyzing Bugzilla testcases with Bugmon
- Chrome/Edge have a command palette that you can access
- proposal for a element
- CKEDitor 4.16 released
- YouTube testing new clips functionality
- GitHub now supports renaming a branch and redirecting the old one
- the new White House site has a hidden message in the source code; is accessible again; features a high-contrast mode, a large text mode, and an accessibility statement; has another hidden message in the headers
- how to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts
- as Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads
- South African government releases its own browser just to re-enable Flash support
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the video, "Design Principles for the Web" from An Event Apart Online Together: Front-End Focus.
Web Dev Rev will return on Friday, February 5th at 11:00am.