Friday, November 4, 2022
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal 9.4.8 released- Drupal core default linking experience changing
- Drupal core allowing text fields to enforce text formats
- required flag on file fields breaks on validation
- permissions added for per-block-type edit access to block content
- new "in_preview" variable coming for block and layout templates
- third-party modules will be able to alter the requirements entries
- single directory components coming to core
- more on the new linking experience
- two months until Drupal 10 is expected to be released
- Drupal Association executive search process
- Drupal Association hires new CEO
- content sharing between Drupal sites using oEmbed
- debugging inconsistent return values from the Drupal migration_lookup plugin
- a look at Bootstrap Layout Builder
- why Stanford moved two websites to Backdrop
Next, we went into general web notes:
- WebKit features in Safari 16.1
- easier online privacy with the new Firefox release
- Firefox responsiveness in MacOS improved
- new to the web platform in October
- CKEditor 5 v35.2.0 released
- more on CKEditor's new import from Word premium feature
- browser vendors aim to heal developer pain with Interop 2022
- web-platform-tests dashboard
- State of CSS 2022 now open
- why we need CSS speech
- Tailwind CSS v3.2 and feature creep
- breaking up with CSS-in-JS
- is there too much CSS now?
- 100 days of more or less modern CSS
- creative list styling
- early days of container style queries
- OKLCH colours in CSS
- the backdrop-filter property
- fancy image decorations - outlines and complex animations
- a "dashing" navbar solution
- revisiting the details and summary elements
- about QR codes
- how sign language evolves as our world does
- how we think about browsers
- Can I DevTools?
- accessibility checkers - a good start, not a solution
- writing better error messages
- optimizing vs writing new web content
- Adobe users will have to pay to use Pantone colours
- tech experts give some sympathy to feds over $54M ArriveCAN price tag
- importing websites into Figma
- AI Tweet generator
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "The University of Colorado chose Drupal over Backdrop. Why I'm glad we were wrong." from BADCamp 2022.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next one will be on a special day and time - Thursday, November 24th at 2:30pm.