Bleeding Edge Web: June 2019

News From the Bleeding Edge

— Corey Butler (@goldglovecb)

Real User Measurements and the Development Lifecycle

— Ken Harker

Housekeeping

• Speakers and sponsors always wanted (edgeATX.org for details)
• Don't forget your parking validation
• Omni hotel bar (downstairs) after meetup

Browser Pop Quiz

Last check: April 18, 2019:

74	66	18	12.1

Browser Pop Quiz

As of May 16, 2019:

74 75	66 67	18*	12.1

Chrome 75

• stale-while-revalidate - Removes stale assets from critical path.
• Scroll Snap Stop

Firefox 67

• Suspends "unused" tabs
• Lowered priority of setTimeout
• Block known cryptominers
• Supports dynamic module imports import()
• String.matchAll() support
• Desktop notifications now restricted to TLS

Edge (Dev Channel)

• First to use Chromium

npm

• CLI 6.9.1 - no commits in 3mos (job cuts)
• npm token support w/ Github (like Checksum)

Releases

• HAProxy 2.0
• WSL 2 (Docker for Windows): Full Linux Kernel
• PIKA CDN
• Node 12.4.0 (w/ JSON Module support)

Industry

• Github/Microsoft acquires Pull Panda (Reminders, Analytics, & Assigners)
• Facebook launches Libra Cryptocurrency
• Mozilla Launching Paid Firefox (w/ VPN)
• Entropic: Decentralized Package Registry

State of CSS 2019

.io & .sh in jeopardy?

• UN Ruling May Put .io Domains at Risk
• Dispute over the Chagos Archipelago (British or Mauritius)
• Illegal decolonialization
• Would make the registrar no longer part of the UK
• Old news: but will the British accept the court ruling? Not yet.

<clippy>

I've spoken to several people in Microsoft, and we all agree it is a good idea. We looked through a number of great software projects (mostly from Microsoft) and found lots of inconsistencies in the way Clippy is presented and invoked. ... Because users keep buying and using our products, I'm going to assume they all love Clippy as much as I do.

Google.oops

Thanks!

https://edgeATX.org/slides

Corey Butler (@goldglovecb)