Bleeding Edge Web: August 2016

Announcements

News from the Bleeding Edge

— Brian Moeskau (@bmoeskau)

Test Automation Best Practices
Begin with the End in Mind (slides)

— Leo Laskin (@leolaskin)

Thanks to our venue sponsor:

Thanks to our food sponsor:

Browser Pop Quiz

Last version check — July 20, 2016:

52	47	14 14372	39	9.1

Browser Pop Quiz

As of August 24, 2016:

52	47 48	14 14372 14393	39 X	9.1

Chrome 52

• See last month's slides for details
• Chrome 53 currently slated for first week of September
• Coming: Shadow DOM v1, PaymentRequest API and more...

Firefox 48

Released August 2 — Release Notes

• Improved CSS grid support, now works in fieldset
• New ES2015 methods: Array.prototype.values, String.prototype.padStart / padEnd and more
• String.prototype.contains replaced with String.prototype.includes
• Minor improvements to Web Workers, WebRTC, Dev Tools
• Lots more minor HTML, CSS and JS improvements

Firefox 48

Last but not least... multi-process support!

• Phase 1: split between UI process and content process
• Add-on support slated for versions 49 & 50
• Touchscreen, accessibility and RTL support in 51

Firefox 48

Last but not least... multi-process support!

• Phase 2: support multiple content processes
• Targeting "first half of 2017"
• Out of process add-ons to follow after that

Edge 14 (14393)

Release Notes

• EdgeHTML 14 released with Windows 10 Anniversary Update
• 95% ES2015 compatibility
• 100% HTML5 accessibility support
• Rollout to 350 million Win 10 devices began Aug 2

Edge 14 (14393)

This is a definitive nail in IE's coffin.

ES2015 compatibility:

Edge 14 (14393)

Opera

• Opera 39 (Chromium 52) was released August 2nd
• Based on Chromium since Opera 15 (July 2013)
• < 2% global usage, even less in N. America

Opera

• Most interesting releases are user-facing UI features
• Dev features simply track Chromium

So... I think it's time we make it official...

Browser Pop Quiz

As of August 24, 2016:

52	48	14 14393	39	9.1

Browser Pop Quiz

As of August 24, 2016:

52	48	14 14393	9.1

Farewell Opera!

Bonus: Safari Technology Preview 11

Released August 17 — Release Notes

• 11th preview release since March
• Minor fixes and improvements (polishing stage)
• Already at 100% ES2015 compatibility!
• Download to preview Safari 10

Aurelia 1.0

• Aurelia is a JS framework on par with Angular, Ember, etc.
• All the stuff you expect (data binding, routing, components, etc.)
• 1.0 released July 27th after years in development
• Supported by Durandal, large dedicated team

Bootstrap 4 alpha 3

• Released July 27th — over 1,200 commits
• Alpha 2 was released December 8th, 2015. Hmmm.
• Overhauled grid system and flexbox support
• Lots of form improvements

Docker 1.12

• Released July 28th
• Docker for Mac & Windows are officially production-ready
• "The easiest way to use Docker on your dev machine"
• Download now and try it out

webpack-dashboard

Webpack by default:

webpack-dashboard

After running npm install webpack-dashboard:

ChakraCore on Linux & OSX

• The core of the Chakra JS engine in Edge
• Linux / OSX support announced at NodeSummit on July 27th
• Why is this awesome? Choice of Node VMs (in theory)

Laravel + Vue.js

• Vue.js was the topic of our June meetup
• Laravel is a popular PHP framework
• Laravel 5.3 now bundles Vue.js by default as of July 27th

Fuchsia

• A new open source OS by Google
• Runs on Magenta instead of Linux kernel
• Targeted at high end mobile and IoT devices (?)

Fuchsia

• Built on Dart language
• Uses Flutter for the UI

Wait, Dart is Still a Thing?

Apparently so!

Adult Swim's CodePen

Learn to code from juvenile web experiments

1μm Solar Panels

These tiny solar cells won’t produce much power individually, but what they lack in energy density, they will make up for in ubiquity. They will be everywhere.

• Photovoltaic cells 1 micrometre thick
• Created by scientists in South Korea
• Can wrap around a 1.4 millimeter radius

Thanks!

http://www.meetup.com/bleeding-edge-web/

http://edgeATX.github.io/slides

Brian Moeskau — @bmoeskau