Users
of Drupal 8 platform will get capability to easily customize data
structures, pages, listings and advantages of new abilities for
showing data on mobile devices, adapting to multilingual needs and
building APIs.
The
best thing about this platform is that there is something for
everyone to love in Drupal 8 as it will come with a leaner and meaner
core, in-place content editing tools, simpler migration process from
earlier versions and more.
Let's have a look on Drupal 8 features that you can enjoy:
Mobile
is in its DNA
The
upcoming Drupal 8 is not only mobile friendly, but its mobile first.
In this new platform, all the built-in themes are fully-responsive.
However, administration pages are even a snap to use on mobile
devices. Tables shrink completely, and the new admin toolbar is
mobile from the start. Moreover, the new administration experience
featuring mobile-first back to site button, lightweight and more.
Accessibility Integration
Drupal
8 has also added large support for accessibility technologies like
semantic HTML5 and WAI-ARIA. The platform will also offer centralized
control for rich Internet apps with the ARIA Live Announcements API
and TabManager. A lot of small enhancements have been made in color
contrast, front sizes and the system will purchase jQuery
UI's autocomplete and modal dialogs.
Fun
& Instant Theming
When
it comes to theming of Drupal 8, the platform comes with the fast,
flexible and completely secure template engine for PHP that is known
as Twig. With it, templates can be written in a simple to learn
syntax that brings a lot of simplifications and greater security.
Moreover, it will also make designing excellent and functional Drupal
websites will be easier than ever before.
A
Great User Experience
Drupal
8 also leverages jQuery UI's autocomplete and modal dialogs in order
to sere your visitors with a great experience that they will never
forget.
Multilingual
Capabilities
Drupal
8 has a capability to speak your language when it comes to deploying
a web presence. Using this high-end platform, you can translate
anything in the system with the built-in user interface. You can also
get software translation updates automatically from the Drupal
community.
Users
are also capable of building pages with views language filtering and
block visibility. No matter whether you are looking for the first
installation screen all the way or want to translating views and
image fields, the whole experience is made a lot easier.
Industry-Standard
Approach
The
all new launched Drupal 8 features a lot of modern, object-oriented
code and embraced the latest PHP standards. It also leverages various
best of breed external libraries, including composer, PHPUnit, Zend
Feed Component, Guzzle, Assetic and many more. Drupal is no longer on
an island.
More
Field Power
By including various
field types in core, Drupal 8 widens the signature content
structuring system and allows people to attach fields to more types
of content. Some new types include date, link, telephone, entity
reference, email and more. Now, comments are a field and for
instance, you can take comments on products and also attach fields to
forms in order to develop custom contact forms.
Better Markup with
HTML5
As we all know that HTML5 plays a very crucial role in making websites fully-functional and compatible with mobile screens. This industry standard is included in Drupal 8 and now it has more proper native input tools on mobile for fields like email, date and phone.
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