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.

ww

w.t

ech

no

sco

re.c

om

| A

ll R

igh

ts R

ese

rve

d ©

20

15

Su

nTe

c W

eb

Se

rvic

es

Pvt.

Ltd

.

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!

For a free quote on our  or on Drupal Development Services

Hire Drupal Developers, kindly write to us

at  .info@technoscore.com