What is new in Drupal 8 as compare to Drupal 7



Whether you’re a site builder, module or theme developer, or simply an end user of a Drupal website,
Drupal 8 has tons in store for you. This this blog will enumerate the major changes in Drupal 8 for end
users, for site builders, for designers and front-end developers, and for back-end developers.

                                         Major Improvement in Drupal 8


1. Effortless Authoring
2. Mobile in its DNA
3. New configuration Management 
4. Views in Core- Out of the box
5. Better Markup with HTML5
6. Multilingual capabilities 
7. Built- In Web Services - HAL, ,
8. Fun & Fast Theming - Symfony2 and Twig-Template Engine
9.Industry Standard Approach  
10. Strong accessibility  (WCAG & ADA) Features
11. Follow Object oriented approach & Instead of Procedural Approach
 

In Drupal 8 as compare to drupal 7 user experience improved in terms of better UI/UX and Authoring 


1. Authoring Experience

WYSIWYG Editor:

Drupal 8 also sports a drag-The Acquia development  and-drop admin interface forteam for Drupal core adding and removing buttons performed analysis of in the WYSIWYG toolbar, whichboth proprietary and open automatically syncs the allowedsource competitors to HTML tags for a given text format,
Drupal and worked hard vastly improving usability. Buttonsover the course of the release in collaboration with other Drupal core contributors. are contained in “button groups”They helped make enhancements to Drupal core, all the while creating back ports with labels that are invisible toof key Drupal 8 UX improvements for Drupal 7 that can be used today. the naked eye, but that can beread by screen readers, providingan amazing, accessible editingexperience for website visitors.Drupal 8’s Editor module wraps the WYSIWYG integration, so other libraries can betightly integrated as well in contribute.


 In Fly editing:


 In Drupal 7, if you need to make a correction on a website—for example,
a typo, or a missing in a image—you must use a back-end form, visually separated from the front-end website where the content will appear. the Preview button doesn’t help, because the results.

of preview are shown in the administrative theme (twice, in case you missed it the first time).

Drupal 8’s new in-place editing feature allows editors to click into any field within a piece of content and edit it right on the front-end of the site, without ever visiting the back-end form. Full node content, user profiles, custom blocks, and more are all in-place editable as well.

This in-place editing feature has been backported to Drupal 7 as the Quick Edit module (formally Edit module).


Redesigned Content Creation Page


A community -led effort from Drupal's Usability team resulted
 in a redesigned content creation page in Drupal 8. It contains two columns:  One for the main fields and another for te extras-optional settings that are used less often. The hope is that the new design will create a leass overwhelming experience for content authors and allow them to focus more on the task at hand.
Refreshed Admin Theme




Although still going under development, You will find the administration theme in Drupal 8 a refresh of Drupal 7 with a new style guide for the Seven admin theme.

 Draft support in Core API support was added as an under-the-hood change in core to support contentd raft revisions. This change should make publishing workflow modules, such asWorkbench, much easier in Drupal 8 and beyond.


                                    Mobile is in its DNA

 Drupal 8 isn't just mobile friendly , It's mobile first. In Drupal 8, all built-in themes are resopnsive .and even administration pages are a snap to use on mobile devices, and new admin tool bar is mobile from the start.

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