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Drupal Multimedia

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Drupal Multimedia

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we have taken a close look at Drupal in the months ahead, and a far look at the future of multimedia and what it means for Drupal developers, editors, and administrators.

File handling and multimedia APIs are right on the horizon, and will spur module development, paving the way for multimedia handling in the core. As Drupal is becoming more user-centric, developers are listening to the gripes of editors and administrators, making the system easier for everyone to use. Embeddable widgets will revolutionize Drupal, and combined with RDF and Microformat support, Drupal will continue to be King (and Queen!) of Content Management on the Web.

In the years or decades following, we'll continue to see advances on media on the Internet such as 3D display and navigation and tactile feedback. Although these may seem far-fetched to many readers, innovation is being realized daily on all those fronts, and it may here be sooner than many of us realize. By that time Drupal may well...