what’s new on drupal 8 for end users & clients
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Something for Everyone to Love
Hello!I am Mahesh Nattanmai
Regional Director - Drupal Geeks
You can find me at:@njmahesh
What is Drupal 8?
Drupal 8 is the latest release on the Drupal journey, and one that is substantially more powerful than previous versions.
Drupal 8 provides new ways to tailor and deploy content that looks great on any device. However you work with Drupal, there is something in Drupal 8 for you to love.
More than 2,200
people have
contributed to Drupal
8 so far!
What’s New on Drupal 8 for end-users & clients
Authoring improvement: WYSIWYG in Core
Authoring experience
Authoring improvement: In-place editing
Authoring improvement: In-place editing
Authoring improvement:New content creation page
Authoring improvement:Preview on the frontend
It’s mobile-first
Responsive themes, images, breakpoints
Mobile-friendly administration
Represent this with a video. Maybe from Dries’ Prague slides? :)
AB: Submitted to the DA via their webform, since unfortunately it has to be on YouTube in order to reference from here. Bleh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOc1km2uEc
Improved accessibility
Mobile-first “overlay”
Improved Data Modeling Tools: New field types like Entity Reference
…plus, Link, Phone, Email, Comments!
Improved Data Modeling Tools: New field types
Date/Datetime
Restyled administration interface
Multilingual improvements in Drupal 8
HTML5 Form Elements
Killed support for IE 6 & 7 (and most of 8)
Configuration management
dev stage production
https://drupal.org/contribute
Where do we need help?
● Finding and fixing bugs ● Performance ● Migration path ● Port contributed projects● DOCUMENTATION! ● EXAMPLES! ● TOOLS! ● TESTING, TESTING, TESTING!
Thanks!Any questions?
You can find me at:@[email protected]➜Visit website at,
http://www.drupalgeeks.com/