Drupal 8 introduces significant enhancements, including an easier WYSIWYG editor, robust multilingual capabilities, and improved responsiveness for mobile devices. It reduces module dependency, integrates the Twig template engine for better security and design, and features a streamlined configuration management system. Additionally, Drupal 8 supports advanced accessibility technologies and enables cross-platform app development with integrated HAL.

1. The Top 10 Features to
Watch Out for in Drupal 8

2. 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.
SunTecOSS’ Drupal Web Development Experts shed
some light on the so far known key features of Drupal
8, touted as the most futuristic version of Drupal.

3. #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.

4. #2 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.

5. #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.

6. #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.

7. #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.

8. #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.

9. #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.

10. #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.

11. #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.

12. #10 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.

13. 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.

14. For expert guidance on what you should
do with your Drupal 6 or 7 site and for full-
cycle Drupal Development Services,
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info@suntecoss.com.