Bleeding Edge Web: October 2018

News From the Bleeding Edge

— Corey Butler (@goldglovecb)

Lightning Talks

— new Set([1,2,3]); Ted Patrick (@__ted__)

State of Enjoyment

— Charles Lowell (@cowboyd)

Housekeeping

Announcements

• Last event of 2018?
• Speakers and sponsors always wanted (edgeatx.org)
• $7 Parking validation
• Omni hotel bar (downstairs) after meetup
• Anyone hiring / looking?

Browser Pop Quiz

Last check — Sep 20, 2018:

69	62	17	12

Browser Pop Quiz

As of Oct 17, 2018:

69 70	62	17 18	12

Chrome 70

Released Oct 16

AV1 Support (H.264/VP8)

Custom Elements v0 & HTML Imports Deprecated

Intervention Reports (Draft)

AppCache no longer works w/o TLS

Chrome 70: TLS 1.3

Drops SHA1 & MD5

Decreased Latency/Load Times

Chrome 70: Shape Detection API

Faces, Barcodes, Text

let faceDetector = new FaceDetector()
faceDetector.detect(image)
  .then(faces => faces.forEach(face => console.log(face)))
  .catch(e => {
    console.error("Boo, Face Detection failed: " + e)
  })

Edge 18

Released Oct 2

Unprefixed WebAuthN

Service Worker Catch Up

XSS Filter Retired

Element.getAttributeNames()

Custom Elements now in Development

npm

• tink: The install-less installer.
• npm audit
• Now has 2FA
• 97% of modern web app code lives on npm
• Used by the entire Fortune 500

Solid

• Decentralized Identify Platform
• Created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• "Balance of Power"
• Selective Data Sharing

Releases

Node.js 10.12.0

React 16.5.2

Angular 7.0.0

Industry News

Github Actions

Github Security Alerts

Github Learning Lab

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JAMstack_conf

Mithril Capital

Amazon HQ2 Speculation

Number 6?! C'mon Austin.

Thanks!

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Corey Butler (@goldglovecb)