In adddition to the changes made to the D8 version, this version will also include the following features:
HTML5 markup
WAI-ARIA accessibility roles added to primary elements
Html5shiv, Respond.js, Selectivizr.js for IE versions 7 & 8
Acquia, a Burlington-based provider of services for users of open-source Drupal web content management, on Tuesday announced that it's grown its ranks with the acquisition of spam-blocking company Mollom. Like Acquia, Mollom was co-founded by Dries Buytaert (pictured) who continues to be Acquia's CTO. Company CEO Tom Erickson told me earlier this year that Acquia has strong prospects for an IPO when the timing is right. On Wednesday, the new Inc. 500 list showed Acquia as ranking No. 8 among the country's fastest-growing companies, with $21.8 million in revenue last year.
I've put together this 15 minute video that summarizes the problems that need to be solved and paints a picture of what an Outside-In UI could look like and what you could do with it.
There are lots of details I couldn't go into within the limited time span of this video. The intent was not to present a finished design. Rather, my hope is that the video can help the community find new answers to difficult problems by introducing new questions to ask. It's an attempt to break out of some old assumptions about how things are done in Drupal.
I'm going to spend some time seeing if I can put together a Seed Accelerator for Drupal. Thus - step 2 in my personal plan for Drupal world domination.
What would this look like? I'm not completely sure yet. I suspect it would work a great deal like the TechStars program (see also the FAQ):
Sandbox project for exploring using the Migrate module for migrating data between different versions of Drupal.
Provides ajax comments to Drupal sites. Features:
- Makes AJAX submits
- Allows replies to comments on the actual thread page
- AJAX comments deleting
- Works with CAPTCHA
The Setup module adds the ability to have scripted, setup wizards which are run automatically on the first access of a completed or upgraded site.
...such as their Google Analytics tracking code or Twitter account.
This module is intended for use by Developers as the creation of your setup script is done in a profile/module/theme .info file, however the syntax is not complex and could be attempted by an adventurous site builder.
I see three initiatives (official or not) important for D8 which desperately need help:
1. The mobile initiative (official) led by John Albin.
2. The project browser to solve / help a critical task: New users universally did NOT understand that you can extend Drupal. This would allow to browse modules and themes on drupal.org and install them on a site all from the Drupal UI.
3. Use Twig as our default theme engine. Most work is in this sandbox.
All CSS in Drupal core should be defined by the theme.
This will help in a number of ways:
- Prevent the need for css overrides
- Stop all drupal sites looking drupally
- Allow full control to the themer
(me) - does not affect contrib.
Slowly, and subconsciously, my mind shifted from asking “Why doesn’t this work like Photoshop?” to “Why does Photoshop work like that?” For so long, I had accepted Photoshop as the standard because I thought it was my only option for design. But, being good at creating websites in Photoshop means knowing useful but convoluted workarounds for simple tasks that it just isn’t built to do natively. Which of the numerous unintuitive methods do you use to wrap text around an image?
