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What to Expect From Drupal 8?
Ever since the word “Drupal 8” spread on the streets, tech
bloggers have been updating their posts as soon as they
learn about the new release date or the features of this
much-awaited open source CMS. With the project now in its
API completion phase, the next step for Drupal 8 is a beta
version release.
Although Drupal 8 is yet to make its way, it has already
grabbed a lot of attention over the past year. Post a detailed
discussion with TechnoScore’s Drupal Web Development
Experts, I shed some light on the so far known key features of
Drupal 8, touted as the most futuristic version of Drupal.
1 Enhanced Content Administration
Drupal 8 features a WYSIWYG editor at the core which makes
content administration easier for not so tech-savvy
administrators. Site owners will now not only be able to edit
the content of their website from the front-end itself, but
they will be able to do it from their Smartphones and Tablets.
2 Encourages Global Web Presence through
Multilingual Capabilities
Drupal 8 is all about flexibility and versatility. Users can build
pages with view language filtering and block visibility,
translate anything in the system with the inbuilt user
interface, and get translation updates from the Drupal
community, automatically.
3 Responsive to the word E
The new Drupal 8 is responsive all through and features
responsive inbuilt templates, making it easier for the owners
to have a single website which is accessible on a variety of
devices. They can also provide a better mobile-browsing
experience to their customers with the efficient caching of
entities and smarter JavaScript loading of Drupal 8.
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Ever since the word
“Drupal 8” spread on the
streets, tech bloggers
have been updating their
posts as soon as they
learn about the new
release date or the
features of this m ch-u
awaited open source
CMS. With the project
now in its API completion
phase, the next step for
Drupal 8 is a beta version
release.
News/Insight
4 HTML5 for Improved Markup
As Drupal 8 uses HTML5, it has proper native input tools on
mobile for different fields like e-mail, date, etc., in comparison
to Drupal 7 which uses XHTML.
5 Enhanced ‘Views’, the add-on module
‘Views’ has been integrated deep into Drupal 8’s system.
Along with the front page, several other administration pages
are also a part of ‘Views’. Users can now customize the front
page, listing blocks, create custom filters and actions, and
custom admin pages.
6 Lesser Dependency on Modules
Drupal 8 is an all-inclusive platform which reduces the
dependency on additional Modules to enhance the
functionality of a website. It gets rid of all the convoluted
modules and refines the operational ease, efficiency and
user-experience by only loading modules that are relevant to
a particular page.
7 Drupal 8 has got ‘Twig’
The ‘Twig’ template engine brings greater security, a number
of simplifications and makes it easy to design beautiful and
functional Drupal sites, more than ever.
8 Transport Configuration Changes Easily
Keeping track of all the important details when the content is
configured and revised is extremely easy with Drupal 8’s file
system-based configuration management system. Users can
keep their files with configuration data separate from the
production data in the database and transport configuration
changes like new content types, fields, etc.
9 Centralized Control for RIA
Drupal 8 provides extensive support for standard
accessibility technologies like WAI-ARIA. The new Drupal 8
system will make use of jQuery UI’s modal dialogs and
autocomplete. Also, several improvements have been made
in the font sizes and colour contrast.
10 Endless Possibilities with Integrated
Hypertext Application Language (HAL)
Drupal 8 site owners will be able to build cross-platform and
native mobile apps using Drupal as the data source. As
Drupal 8 implements Hypertext Application Language (HAL),
users can showcase their website’s content as JSON or XML
and ensure high-level of security with HTTP authentication.
Drupal 6 or 7 site owners who are eagerly waiting for the release
of Drupal 8 will have to make tough decisions about upgrading
their sites on Drupal 8. Read our next blog to determine your
future course of action. We’ll be back soon!
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