Friday, October 25, 2019
This week's Web Dev Rev started with Drupal notes:
Drupal Help Topics will be part of Drupal 8.8 starting with the beta- automatic updating is an experimental feature of Drupal 8.8 starting with alpha2
- contribution credit tune-up
- what's new on Drupal.org for September 2019
- proposed design for new default front-end theme for Drupal 9.1
- designing Claro, Drupal's new admin theme
- Drupal 8 basic Media and Media Browser setup for beginners
- how to create a custom Layout builder in Drupal 8
- new Drupal 7 core committer
Then, there were several "general" notes:
- Firefox 70 - a bountiful release for all
- Firefox 70 new features, updates and fixes
- Firefox 70 shows inactive CSS and how to fix it
- dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS
- new accessibility audits in Firefox 70, including keyboard usability
- changes to "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff" in Firefox
- Chrome to automatically lazy-load offscreen images and iframes for Lite mode users
- CKEditor 5 v15.0.0 released
- the two-value syntax of the CSS "display" property
- how to build a documentation culture
- style hover, focus, and active states differently
- IE11 end of support countdown
Following the notes, we watched "The Accessible Canada Act is the Law of the Land - What does this mean for Drupal?" from DrupalCamp Ottawa 2019.
The video mentioned that Shopify had done testing with drunk users. While some quick Googling couldn't turn that up, we did find the following links that offer testing services from a very specific outlook:
The next Web Dev Rev session will be on Friday, November 1st, in EC2 1112 at 11:00am.