cxe-red - 9/13/2021

--- robots: noindex, nofollow tags: cxe-red, meeting-notes --- # cxe-red - 9/13/2021 ## Status * (Mak) MenuButton Convergence [#18135](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18135) * No updates this week * (Mak) SplitButton Convergence [#18136](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18136) * Cleaning up PR - https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/pull/18290 * (Mak) Integrating vNext button with office-online-ui * Had more conversations about theming: how to ship old and new components side-by-side with two separate theme providers * Working with Levi * (Mak) Beta release * Working on PR to update link to use root as a slot and simplified prop merging * Working on Button and Divider as well  * (Ben) IntrinsicShorthandProps * Added a new helper type that's intended to make it easier to author slot props: * `root: IntrinsicShorthandProps<'label', 'span' | 'div'>` * Does props type checking based on the 'as' prop * Working on fixing an issue when the root slot has more than one type * (Ben) Driving [Beta release](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/projects/50) * Working on a beta ETA. We're going to re-evaluate the remaining work next Thursday and come up with an estimated release date. * Work is tracked on the beta board: https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/projects/50 * (Elizabeth) Attending TSConf * Starting a brown bag series for the team, covering TypeScript, web development, etc. (learning from community outside of Microsoft about best practices for the tools we're using, and new developments) * (Elizabeth) Versioning * Helping Ling with reviews and some work on beachball to unblock versioning strategy changes * (Elizabeth) Website: tracking down ownership of fabric-core so design team can make some fixes * (Elizabeth) Input convergence [#18131](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18131) * Working on Input spec * Figuring out field patterns (especially for labels) to ensure we're consistent across input components https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19627 * (Elizabeth, Ben) RFC: Customizing application of native element props and ref [#18983](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18983) * Updating RFC to include option D [Ben] * (Elizabeth) Checkbox Convergence [#18454](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18454) * No updates this week. * (Elizabeth, Tomi) react-icons bundle size * Elizabeth wrote a script for generating .d.ts rollup for icons * Tomi incorporated into react-icons package * Trimmed from ~60k to ~17.5k files in package * (Geoff/Elizabeth) API review / props comparison [#19115](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19115) * RFC in PR review detailing possible inconsistencies * Plan to have work items this week and start fixing them w/component owners * (Sarah) Select: basic form element wrapper for `<select>` * Will add spec for the Select component </Select> * (Sarah) RFC: update slots API to allow arrays [#19266](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19266) * Add research on Reach UI's descendants API, and Adobe Spectrum's approach * (Sarah) RFC: conventions for internationalization/localization in converged components [#19258](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19258) * Add list of all global default strings * (Sarah) vNext a11y review * https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19779 * (Sarah) A11y controls club review of auto-fixing input values on blur * Needed to determine the best fix for the Fluent v8 ColorPicker behavior in this bug: https://dev.azure.com/microsoftdesign/fluent-ui/_workitems/edit/11964 * Created a SR-only live region example to compare to the current behavior * (Sarah/Geoff) Accessibility bugs - [#18466](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18466) * [ADO board: a11y - triageed](https://dev.azure.com/microsoftdesign/fluent-ui/_queries/query/c605af37-0d59-436c-9399-ab2fb0869332) * * (Tomi) Icon Convergence [#16745](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/16745) * Work on resizable icons blocked on issue with configuring SVGR * Need to figure out release plan for resizable icons * Need to use a new package name so as not to disrupt people using react-icons * Upcoming RFC to determine how to name icon package * (Tristan) Transitioning build pipeline to 1ES * Created PR to ImageFactory repo to support creating managed image * Created managed image for our pool * Perf not as big an issue - comparable to previous perf * PR out to switch to 1ES managed pools * (Caleb) Slider Convergence [#18886](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/18886) * Finishing up checklist * root-as-slot implementation * migration guide * package now public * Wrote spec for range slider * Draft implementation created locally * (Caleb) Switch Convergence [#19409](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/issues/19409) * Basic implementation done and merged * Added spec, VR tests, etc. * (Caleb) Add RTL screener test for all converged components * Applies to all converged components * Caught an issue in Menu