Friday, September 2, 2022
We started with Drupal-related notes; since we ended up cancelling the previous Web Dev Rev session, there were a lot of Drupal releases:
Drupal 10.0.0-beta1 and 9.5.0-beta1 will be released the week of September 12th- Seven theme is deprecated
- Bartik theme is deprecated
- Aggregator module is removed from core
- plugin settings for disabled CKEditor 4 plugins are no longer saved to the editor configuration
- successive slashes in incoming URL paths will be ignored
- complete list of deprecated and obsolete modules and themes
- contrib module mentions core issues with multiple modals
- improved dumping of Twig variables coming soon
- refactored off-canvas dialog CSS coming soon
- how Tokens work
- the accessibility and usability journey of Drupal's primary navigation
- creating a menu using derivers
- overcoming gaming of the issue credit system
- overview of the Taxonomy Views Integrator contrib module
- determining if Backdrop is welcome at DrupalCons
- open source community participation at DrupalCons
- basics of Drupal revisions and content moderation
- how Drupal can be a force for diversity and inclusion
- Drupal maintainer release notes tool now available
- off-canvas / settings tray CSS refactored to use modern CSS
Next, we went into general web notes:
- new in Chrome 105
- Composer 2.4 released
- JSON API 1.4 on track for release
- CKEditor 5 v35.0.0 released
- Codeception 5 release
- CHIPS intent to extend experiment
- 7 facts about WCAG 2.2
- SVG security
- future CSS: variable units, powered by custom properties
- Git tip to avoid extra steps when pushing new branches
- demonstrate and observe slow-loading resources
- how and why jQuery was removed from gov.uk
- the impact on web performance of removing jQuery from gov.uk
- Heroku eliminating free plans
- using UX techniques to solve information architecture challenges
- practical guide to everyday Git commands
- things not available when someone blocks all cookies
- using :has() as a CSS parent selector and much more
- about overflow:clip
- CSS container queries are finally here
- container queries lab
- behind the scenes at CSS-Tricks
- personal user manuals
- Webchick's personal user manual
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Everything You Wanted to Know about CKEditor 5 and Drupal, But Were Afraid to Ask" from Drupal Camp Ashville.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next one will be on Friday, September 23rd at 11:00 am.