Friday, February 2, 2024
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 10.2.2 released; also 10.1.8
- node views argument being made available when previewing content
- new hook_ENTITY_TYPE_view_mode_alter hook coming
- core plans for layout builder editorial improvements
- introducing the Drupal bounty program
- Drupal Association secures $300,000 in funding
- Drupal contribution health dashboards
- credit for events sponsored and reducing redundancy in contribution credit
- DrupalCon Portland 2024: convince your boss
- DrupalCon Portland 2024 nonprofit summit breakout leaders wanted
- enter the DrupalCon Portland 2024 t-shirt design contest
- Drupal trends to look for in 2024
- multimedia accessibility in Drupal
- Content Planner's data-rich dashboard
- Drupal Droid - the custom Drupal GPT
- getting the most from your Drupal site's AI integration
- understanding Drupal configuration synchronization
- creating a custom Drupal service
- tips for upgrading a Drupal site to CKEditor 5
- Drupal caching tips for faster website performance
- how Drupal helps implement great features for library websites
- Drupal usage in top universities worldwide
Next, we moved on to the handful of general web (and other) notes:
- Pantheon release notes
- Mozilla says Apple's new browser rules are painful
- a better web with Interop 2024
- call for consensus on HTML semantics
- Readymag's websites of the year 2023
- lossy CSS compression
- the complex but awesome CSS border-image property
- big, beautiful, beefy focus states
- CSS relative length units based on font
- building out a layered hero grid layout from Dribbble
- positioning text along a path using CSS
- the upcoming "field-sizing" CSS property
- 12 modern CSS one-line upgrades
- fading content using transparent gradients in CSS
- pure CSS/HTML "loaders"
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Gander: Performance Testing Made Easy" from Tag 1 Team Talks.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; the next session is currently scheduled for February 23rd.