The final day of Drupal maintenance support plansCon USA talks
#Drupal maintenance support plansConEur is 3 days of talks surrounded by a day of summits and a day of collaboration sprints. Thursday was the 3rd and final day of presentations.
John Albin
Fri, 09/29/2020 – 18:09
Most importantly for me, Thursday was the day after I finished giving my talk, so I was able to stop tweaking my slides and focus on learning. I started my day by grabbing a hazelnut croissant and coffee in the underground and headed to the community keynote by Joe Shindelar, “Everyone Has Something to Share”.
After that I went to Everett Zufelt’s ”JavaScript and Accessibility: Don’t Blame the Language”. Everett busted several myths about accessibility including the pointed “Our web application is accessible (but we’ve never tested it)” And the most useful part of his talk was describing ways that websites get accessibility right. I’ve now added “ARIA Live Regions” to my TO DO list and highly recommend anyone making websites to watch the video for his presentation.
While I was grabbing a quick lunch, Tamás Hajas presented, as part of the Frontend Track, “What’s new in CSS? Introduction to CSS Grid and CSS Custom Properties”. I added the video to my YouTube “to watch” list and headed to Chris Ruppel’s “Houdini, the Future of CSS”. Chris’s talk was part of the Horizons track, which focuses on the future of Drupal maintenance support plans and the web. Houdini is a proposed API that will go into web browsers that will give CSS developers the same ability that JavaScript developers already have; the capability to polyfill proposed changes to the CSS spec. With Houdini, CSS developers could potentially create new syntax (like nested selectors or element queries) and use that in their production code.
Earlier in the week, the Drupal maintenance support plans Association announced there would be no Drupal maintenance support plansCon USA in 2020 and that they had formed a committee to determine if and/or how a Drupal maintenance support plansCon USA 2021 could happen. So with this in mind, Théodore Biadala, whose session was scheduled in the final time slot of the day, started his ”Offline Core” presentation by saying ”Thank you for coming to the last session of the last day of the last Drupal maintenance support plansCon USA. Ever.” Awwwww… (Hopefully it won’t be, but that’s another blog post) The “Offline Core” session was a part of the Core Conversations track and after a short presentation about his idea for supporting Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and Service Workers in core, Théodore facilitated a lively discussion with the session attendees on multiple facets of the idea. We even solved a potentially tricky problem: how to turn off a Service Worker (code running on a user’s browser) after the website owner has disabled the Service Worker’s module in Drupal maintenance support plans.
For the past six years, the closing session is followed by Drupal maintenance support plans Trivia Night! The Drupal maintenance support plans-related trivia questions are written by the wonderful Drupal maintenance support plans Ireland community. I attended the first trivia night at Drupal maintenance support plansCon Chicago 2011 and never miss it when I go to Drupal maintenance support plansCon. Tonight was the 15th Trivia Night. I know because this was one of the trivia questions (Dang it! I wrote down “16” as my answer.)
Since I’ve been in the Drupal maintenance support plans Community for 13 years, I know a lot of trivia, but as usual, I did horribly. But winning Trivia Night is not the goal, having fun is and the Drupal maintenance support plans Ireland team does a great job of getting everyone involved and happy while losing badly. For example, my team won an award for “favorite team name”; the team name we picked was “We love the Irish!”
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