Friday, March 18, 2022
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal 10.0.0-alpha2 released; also Drupal 9.3.8- over half of the Drupal 8/9 deprecated APIs have been removed from Drupal 10
- leadership changes in the Drupal Association
- farewell and thanks from Audra Martin Merrick
- Drupal 6 vendor support ending
- what's new on Drupal.org for Q4 2021
- Community Elections Task Force request for volunteers
- Drupal 10 updated to depend on Symfony 6.0
- jQuery UI "unforked" from Drupal core
- new API for adding custom styles in CKEditor 5
- spotlight on Baddy Sonja Breidert
- guide to auditing, reviewing, and improving a Drupal module
- The case for ">=" versioning in Composer
- enhance your Drupal website's authoring experience: accessibility tools and conclusion
- Drall - a tool to run Drush on multi-site Drupal installations
- Dries says low code no code adoption is good for Drupal
- improving team efficiency with architecture decision records
Next, we went into general web notes:
- Symfony 6.1 will require PHP 8.1
- new WebKit features in Safari 15.4
- what's new in Chrome 100's DevTools
- Interop 2022: browsers working together to improve the web for developers
- announcing the new Edge DevTools feedback repository
- CSS potentially renaming @when to @if, and the concern from the lead designer of Sass
- cascade layers are coming to your browser
- a complete guide to CSS cascade layers
- when it comes to complaining about web browsers
- "evergreen" does not mean "immediately available"
- Google Universal Analytics will be going away
- benefits of updating to PHP 8
- Twitter improving their alt text experience
- CSS-Tricks joining DigitalOcean
- WordPress sites get forced update to patch flaw in 3rd-party plugin
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the video from axe-con 2021 for the session "Don't Believe the Type!", a look at "accessible" fonts.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next one will be on April 8th at 11:00 am.