Friday, June 11, 2021
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal core security issue with CKEditor- off cycle Drupal core security release
- security team post-mortem for security release
- Drupal community update for June 2021
- next Drupal 7 release to block FLoC
- DrupalCon North America videos now public
- new options for testing in Drupal 7
- Drupal now correctly adds missing closing tags when filtering HTML
- Drupal.org was affected by the Fastly incident
- showing what's deprecated as of Drupal 9.3.x (and other releases)
- Acquia Drupal Certification Registry
- Drupal 9.2 will support WebP images out of the box
- Drupal 10 readiness
- how the Webform module's Open Collective funds are being spent
- Drupal Camp Asheville 2021 tickets now available
- Understanding create once publish everywhere (COPE)
Next, we went into general web notes:
- Composer 2.1.0-RC1 released
- Firefox 89 new features, updates, and fixes
- Safari 15 beta release notes
- introducing MDN plus
- SASS introduces breaking change for behaviour of slashes
- WCAG 2.2 nears completion
- an insider look at the first public working draft of WCAG 3.0
- Mozilla (Firefox) turns 19
- 25 years of CSS
- forming the WebExtensions community group
- web accessibility for newbies
- CSS font descriptors: a new way to reduce font loading impact
- CSS size-adjust for @font-face
- CSS defines colour values that follow system preferences
- hexagons and beyond with CSS grid
- new website compresses and resizes videos in-browser
- proposal for CSS anchored positioning
- tabs markup research
- Chrome intends to ship new alignment keywords for CSS flexbox
- Google Docs switches to Canvas rendering
- during the Fastly outage, website The Verge replaced their homepage with a Google doc, but forgot to restrict edits
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Who cares about Drupal 7?", from DrupalCon North America 2021.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings haved moved to a "once every 3 weeks" schedule. However, because of the Canada Day long weekend, the next one will be on Friday, July 9th. For this term, the meetings will be at 1:00pm.