Drupal 8 Mobile readiness in 2012!

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Posted by shyamala on December 20, 2012 at 11:55am
Last updated by tvn on Sat, 2013-01-26 11:21

Three Cheers to John and team for making tremendous progress on the mobile initiative in the year 2012. Special mention to work done by SebCorbin, nod_ , attiks, JesseBeach & mcjim.

The initiative is towards making Drupal 8 provide out of the box capabilities for mobile solutions. Yes HTML5, responsive design, device capability detection, mobile/desktop switching, front-end performance are already in core Drupal 8. The below details provide an overview of the features already in Drupal 8. The pending features have been listed alongside each of 8 sub item. There is a lot for work happening against items marked as Feature Complete to move them before February 18, 2013 (to hit DrupalCon Sydney).

  1. Drupal 8 admin pages - Review for mobile friendliness
    FEATURE COMPLETE: #1870944: [meta]Drupal 8 admin pages - Review for mobile friendliness
  2. Make CSS in core smaller & easier to maintain
    @John is writing a draft of the proposed rules for organizing and writing core CSS. Watch out for more details.
  3. Modenizer
    #1787222:[meta]Strategy for updating vendor JS libraries within a major stable version
    CLOSED:#1252178: Add Modernizr to core
  4. Assetic
    FEATURE COMPLETE: #1751602: Use Assetic to package JS and CSS files to help with front end performance and JS/css improvements
  5. Admin Navigation/Toolbar
    Follow-up tasks are categorised as Feature Freeze and Feature complete and listed at: #1846970: [meta] Responsive Toolbar follow-ups
    FEATURE COMPLETE:The most critical item being #1847198: Refactor toolbar_view and the definition of the array returned by hook_toolbar
    Key Feature that needs to be closed by FEATURE FREEZE:
    CLOSED: #1137920: Fix toolbar on small screen sizes and redesign toolbar for desktop
  6. Breakpoints & Responsive Images
    1775302: Do a UX review of Breakpoint module
    CLOSED: Solve responsive images issue #1734642: Move breakpoint module into core, or attack others, #1775530: Move picture into core, #1170478: Responsive Images
  7. Make this happen: #1696280: Support individual feature tests within the module
  8. CLOSED: Help improve/add to our Drupal 7 Mobile Guide http://drupal.org/documentation/mobile

Working on issue queues, the tags you need to look for are:

Watch Out for announcements on more events. Starting 2013, John will be conducting 2 world-wide meetings (1 for US/Europe/Africa and 1 for India/Asia/Pacific).