Wednesday, November 24, 2021
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal core security alert- Drupal releases 8.9.20 and 9.2.9
- announcement of CKEditor 5 experimental module for Drupal 9.3
- change record for adding CKEditor 5 module
- Drupal Association announces newly appointed board members
- new provisional Drupal core committers facilitator
- meet a 2021 "Discover Drupal" student
- Drupal 7 core release due December 1st
- Drupal 8 community support ending
- Drupal 8 end of life and future Drupal 10 release
- good Drupal leadership (part 1)
- design and philosophy of Drupal's new front-end theme
- why you should avoid custom code in your Drupal website
- the year of Acquia certification
- Evolving Web's work with McGill University
- essential CMS features for higher education websites
- how to become a Drupal developer
Next, we went into general web notes:
- what's new in Chrome 96
- CKEditor 4.17 released
- Firefox turns 17
- web app to create SVGs from bitmaps
- 2021 scroll survey report
- coming soon: permit blocking of view-source
- gaining security and privacy by partitioning the cache
- using bottom tab bars on Safari iOS 15
- native HTML tabs discussion
- attribute to provide an "enter key hint" for forms
- better form inputs for better mobile user experiences
- on CSS generated text
- container query solutions with CSS grid and flexbox
- a guide to modern CSS colours
- the endless search for "here" in the unhelpful "click here" button
- user research: don't ignore your internal users
- the ethics of tracking users
- the new life of PHP
- Dries on the launch of the PHP Foundation
- extension to get rid of unhelpful accessibility toolbars
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the "The State of the Web", from An Event Apart Spring Summit 2021.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings happen once every 3 weeks. The next one will be on December 17th at 11:00am.