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Kookaburra Roadmap
Kookaburra is new in Backlight 5, and a work-in-progress. Milestone priorities may change, and I will do my best to keep this page up-to-date. Your feedback will also help to guide this process.
Before commenting, please understand Kookaburra’s guiding principles.
Also, understand that Kookaburra is not meant to be a one-to-one feature map of Pangolin. Some things will be jettisoned, either because they conflict with our guiding principles, or because they create another type of conflict. For example, Kookaburra will not include jQuery; because of this, Kookaburra will not support the Galleria or Theater add-ons, which are heavily jQuery dependent. If you need those add-ons, stick to Pangolin.
Milestone 1
in Backlight 5.0
- basic page layout + album thumbnail grid
- basic slideshow functionality
- excellent Lighthouse scores for Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO
- hero images in albums
- image presentation: single column
- image presentation: thumbnail grid
- image support in the header
- image support in the running head
- keyboard accessible, responsive navigation menu
- keyboard accessible Tab/Shift-Tab support for page and slideshow
- multi-outlet, two-line captions in the slideshow
- password protection
- protected photos support
- single-image HTML pages
- smart albums compatibility
- structured data support
- styling for breadcrumbs
- styling for forms
- styling for typography, suitable for essay writing
Milestone 2
in Backlight 5.0.2
- album pagination
- improved page titles
- read more …
in Backlight 5.0.3
- “Backsplash Exposure” slider
- cookies/GDPR notice
- Google Analytics 4 (for Kookaburra and Pangolin both)
- navigation on single-image HTML pages
- read more …
in Backlight 5.0.4
- custom CSS
- opt-in grid framework
- preliminary PHPlugins support
- read more …
in Backlight 5.1.0
- slideshow customizations, customization options, and improvements
- read more …
in Backlight 5.2.0
- upgraded slideshow
- read more …
Milestone 3
in Backlight 5.3.0
- essay features and module in Kookaburra
- further slideshow improvements
- multi-language support
in Backlight 5.3.4
- initial implementation of Kookaburra carousel
in Backlight 5.4.0
- layout improvements for grids and grid metadata
- masonry grid support
- minor carousel improvements
Milestone 4
in Backlight 6.0.1
- Header, Secondary
- header taglines
in Backlight 6.1.0
- Image comparison in Kookaburra
- Carousel improvements
in Backlight 6.2.0
- 404 error support for Kookaburra Page
- Big CSS refactor
- Carousel improvements, and release from beta
- Image comparison improvements, additional customization features
- New
collapsable-sectioncomponent - New options to hide breadcrumbs in Kookaburra Blog templates
- Overhauled buttons for opening the essay presentation composer
- Spacing improvements for all presentation types
- Template copy for Kookaburra Album, and copy placement implementation
- Updates to some dependencies
- UI updates in the designer, including many new controls, some removals and simplifications
in Backlight 6.2.1
- additional aspect ratio controls for headers
- backlight + theturninggate logomarks in footer
- hr “sandwiches”
- footer additions and improvements
- image comparison additions
- navigation chevrons
- scroll-to-top button
- provisional audio/video essay support
Coming soon
- code block styling
- extra metadata support for images
- image watermarks
- maps support
- photo download
- table styling
- audio/video essay improvements
Coming later
- album set enhancements + masonry
- icon updates
- search
Milestone TBD
- add-on support, Cart
- add-on support, Client Response
- feature, Fotomoto integration
- new module, Kookaburra Journal (maybe renamed to “Zine” … ?)
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