I'm really looking forward to this development. Do you have an eta?

To answer your question. For the backend I think supporting the only latest browser versions at time of release would be ok.

We dropped support for IE8 before XP reached it's extended EOL. We're still paying attention to IE9 for now, but mostly IE10 and 11. Honestly, everyone in our office hates "Internet Exploder". We push our clients towards using better browsers like FF and Chrome. Most go for it, but there's always some stubborn ones :) but there are also companies limited by company platforms/IT dept.

- Steve

How will you handle the sidebar responsive nav? Just curious...

I' am very happy about this back-end upgrade not only for the responsive design but for the bootstrap framework. This will unlock many possibilities i think.

Some feature recommendations:

- ability to add custom html help (with images) for each fields within popover (that will helps on the cms design to the end users)- sidebar counter badges for multi-sections (with on/off feature)
- after-login back-end customizable modal for announcements, feature upgrades, news (admin privileged)
- true multi-language support for plugins that have front-end messages (newsletterBuilder, membership)
- please don't drop the sidebar menu designs (its really unique and very clean for end-users)
- ability to add custom placeholders (or php code) in the content of block fields (exmaple: add images or retrieve content from another section)

Thank you for hearing me,  :-)
Karls

I'd like to see AJAX features for editing data tables instead of having to click modify and going into each record's details on a different screen and saving.  I think all the reloading of pages and submitting is what makes CMSB feel old school to me. If you could expand a record right on one page, fetching the details data with ajax only when needed, searches wouldn't slow down. You wouldn't lose your place while editing long lists of records. Currently,  even just saving a record bumps me back to the top of the list. I have a db of 3k records and daily, maybe 20 of  them simply need to be checked or unchecked. This is quite a task in CMSB. 

Nothing new to you I'm sure, but actual inline updating:

http://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/server_side/editable.html

pop-ups version:

https://editor.datatables.net/release/DataTables/extras/Editor/examples/inlineControls.html

Bootstrap example:

http://vitalets.github.io/x-editable/

My favorite responsive example of what it might look like even though it's not loading details with ajax in this example ("buy now" could be "save"):

http://quanticalabs.com/script/responsive-css3-data-grids/2581249 

So just as you do now, whatever you list in ListPage Fields would be the initial data on the grid. The current "Modify" would be "Expand" or "Details" and would fetch data with a preloader.   Expanding for details would be faster for the user and so much more efficient than having to scroll around after modifying and find your place again. A save button for each record would allow inline editing of even the initial data without much extra load. (I actually paid for a custom plug to do inline editing but it initially loads everything with drop menus and checkboxes. It's very slow and even crashes the browser.)

~ Deborah

We've found Bootstrap 3 to play nicely with the mobile agents we test on iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8.

Suspect that if you stick to Bootstrap standards you should be in very good shape for the most part. Customizations would be the real question-mark here.

J.

We have still several users with IE8.

We have several plugins which intervene on the tables (tr, td...).
Do you think that will oblige us to take again our plugins ?

Thanks!

Djulia

In the next few releases, we're looking looking to update the template of the backend with a new template the supports/implements:

• Responsive Design (scales to smaller mobile devices and screens)
• HTML 5
• CSS 3
• Flat Design
• Bootstrap 3

Question: What's the minimum browser versions you still support (or you've been asked to support)?  

Thanks!