Drupal 8 will be packed with HTML5 goodness
One of the primary building blocks of yesterday's web is limbering up to become a mover and shaker in mobile – but it might just spend longer in training than you'd like.
Dries Buytaert, the Linus Torvalds of open-source content management systems (CMS), has told The Reg that websites built on Drupal 8 will default to being created in HTML5.
Drupal 8 is the next planned version of the CMS Buytaert pioneered at university, now a project that he leads and which he claims today runs 2 per cent of sites on the internet. That's up from 1 per cent when I last spoke to him in April last year in San Francisco, California. Users of Drupal today include the US White House, MTV, Sony, Warner Music, the BBC and The Economist, while the core Drupal CMS Buytaert pioneered serves as a platform for 10,000 plug-in modules from individuals and companies that add functionality to sites.
