Friday, June 7, 2024
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 10.2.7 released
- Drupal 7.101(!) released
- Drupal 11 requires the zlib extension
- Claro page-specific header moved to main landmark
- use replaceWith, not replace, in #ajax form settings
- update.php rendering changes
- coding standards proposals for final discussion
- Experience Builder week 1 recap (week 2)
- announcing Drupal Starshot leadership team
- announcing Drupal Starshot sessions
- schedule for Starshot sessions
- first Drupal Starshot session had over 200 participants
- introducing the local associations initiative
- Drupal GAAD pledge 2024 update
- recap of DrupalCon Portland 2024
- the four big Drupal themes of DrupalCon Portland 2024
- latest updates and future vision for the API client initiative
- introducing DrupalX, a powerful starter for enterprise developers
- Drupal release planning in the enterprise
- Drupal needs new, young developers
- making Drupal faster: how it was done
- bulk-updating Drupal content with the field defaults module
- transitioning deprecated modules to contributed alternatives
- sponsored Drupal contribution
- managing configuration in Drupal upstreams
Next, we moved on to general web (and other) notes:
- what's new on the web
- see the web platform status for features
- why GitLab access tokens now have lifetime limits
- the screen wake lock API is now supported in all browsers
- Firefox Nightly experimenting with local alt text generation
- a modern approach to browser support
- the meaning of "baseline" for web platform features
- GAAD 2024: new AI accessibility updates
- State of Frontend 2024 survey
- generating text colours with CSS
- beyond CSS media queries
- old dogs, new CSS tricks
- what we learned from the first state of HTML survey
- manifesto for a humane web
- anchor position tool
- usage of container queries
- rethinking text resizing on the web
- the invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
- the HTML switch control
- proposal explainer for a stylable select element
- accessibility analysis of the top million home pages
- progressively enhancing popover toggletips
- anchor positioning and the popover API for a JavaScript-free site menu
- responsive videos work now; features that could make it better
- new magic for CSS animations
- recordings on the "web" topic from Google I/O 2024
- CSS length units
- design system retrospective
- fine-tuning text inputs
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "The Latest in Web UI " from Google I/O 2024.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks, though they may get rescheduled or canceled over the summer months; the next session is scheduled for July 2nd.