Web Dev Rev wrap-up for March 15, 2019

This week saw the return of copious notes. First up, what's happening in the Drupal world:

• Drupal releases 8.6.11, 8.6.12, and 8.7.0-alpha1
• Drupal 8 support for automatic entity updates removed
• Drupal 8.6.4 now supports PHP 7.3
• phase one of GitLab migration scheduled
• Drupal.org sprint: March 10 - 23
• looking for coding standards feedback for deprecation notices
• stopping Drupal's SA-CORE-2019-003 vulnerability at the server
• 15 things your AEM team says Drupal can't do, but can
• Drupal 8 paragraphs + layout discovery
• Mediacurrent's DrupalCon arcade game
• the big, bad layout builder explainer

Then, there were a bunch of things to cover in "everything else":

• new PHP security releases
• Firefox's new large file transfer tool, Send
• a collection of web-related podcasts
• writing articles as one learns
• Microsoft's Skype only supporting Chrome-based browsers
• BEM hang-ups and how it will help
• the dark side of the grid
• CSS nesting module draft spec
• designing an aspect ratio unit for CSS
• downsides of smooth scrolling
• handling prefers-reduced-motion
• what's new in Chrome 74's DevTools
• later this year, screen readers will be able to get automatic descriptions of images
• new in Firefox Nightly - find where values came from in the box-model widget (link no longer available)
• what's next for the web?
• cookie warning shenanigans
• cache-control for civilians
• accessibility report for managers
• colour contrast grid
• see the "old web", today
• 8 videos about the Firefox shape path editor

We watched the first couple of videos about the Firefox shape path editor, but found them hard to follow without narration and context, so we moved on to watch "The State of CSS" from Google's "The State of the Web" video series.

The next Web Dev Rev is on Friday, March 22th, in EC2 1021 (Millennium) at 11:00am and will have a special guest host - WCMS developer Eric Bremner. Hope to see you there!