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Bleeding Edge Web: October 2017

News From the Bleeding Edge

— Brian Moeskau (@bmoeskau)

An Introduction To Alexa and Alexa Skills

— John Kelvie (@jpkbst)

Housekeeping

Parking Validation ($5 instead of $30)

Buffalo Billiards after-meetup

Announcements

Thanks to our venue:

Capital Factory

Thanks to our sponsor:

InMotion Software

News from the
Bleeding Edge

Browser
Update

Browser Pop Quiz

Last check — September 26, 2017:

Chrome Firefox Edge Safari
61 56 15
16275
11

Browser Pop Quiz

As of October 25, 2017:

Chrome Firefox Edge Safari
61
62
56 15
16
11

Chrome 61

Released Oct 17 — Release Notes

Network Quality Indicator

Improved on the existing Network Information API

var conn = navigator.connection
console.log('effective type:  ' + conn.effectiveType)
console.log('avg bandwidth:   ' + conn.downlink + ' Mb/s')
console.log('round-trip time: ' + conn.rtt + ' ms')
Chrome

Chrome 61

OpenType Variable Fonts

Suport for font-variation-settings (overview)

.heading {
  font-family: "Avenir Next Variable";
  font-size: 48px;
  font-variation-settings: 'wght' 700, 'wdth' 75;
}
Chrome

Chrome 61

Enhanced HTTP Security

Chrome

Chrome 61

Other Enhancements

More details

Chrome

Firefox 57 "Quantum" (beta)

Launches Nov 14 — More info

Read the blog post

Firefox Nightly

Firefox 57 "Quantum" (beta)

Firefox Nightly

Edge 16

Released Oct 17 — More info

Included in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

MS Edge

Edge for iOS + Android (preview)

Announced Oct 5 — More info

Still in beta (request access)

Safari 11

Safari 11 shipped last month, but they are still busy.

Technology Preview 42 shipped Oct 18

Mostly minor, but lots of stuff!

Safari

Languages, Libraries &
Frameworks

Interesting Releases

In Case You
Missed It

The Great VS Code Icon Controversy

Upcoming
Events

DeveloperWeek Austin 2017

Join 3,000+ developers, tech executives, and entrepreneurs. Discover the latest in App Development, VR Dev, FinTech Dev, and Machine Learning.
DeveloperWeek

DevOps & Jenkins Summit

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) as the fundamental best practice for enterprise software delivery.
Docker + Jenkins

Thanks!

http://edgeATX.github.io/slides

Brian Moeskau — @bmoeskau


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