Dear colleagues,
as promised, we delivered on the 16.02 sneak preview just before yearend 2015. In the meantime, the first two customers provided feedback and we continue our journey.
Please find enclosed the link to the 16.05 sneak preview YouTube video: ByD HTML5 UI 16.05 .
You may note, that we have chosen to apply the FIORI 2.0 style sheet.
In the last 3 month, we applied changes to the initially published plan. We decided to ...
- first transition the UI of Financials to a very large degree. This gave us a better opportunity to assess the consistency of the UI
- re-sequence the development plan and continue with SRM (purchasing) and CRM (customer relationship management)
With the upcoming 16.05 release, all customers can try out the new user interface as a BETA shipment in their TEST tenants (not production tenants). Based on that feedback, we will decide on when to make the HTML5 UI generally available as an alternative UI to the existing SILVERLIGHT UI.
I do mention in the video, that I could have recorded the demo also on my iphone. As much as I did so 
, this is not our answer to mobility of ByDesign in an HTML5 world (and not a statement about early availablity of Safari support). Probably at Sapphire in May, we will disclose our plans. Currently, we focus on getting the UI available on Chrome and Edge. Support for other browsers like IE11 and Safari will follow later.
Please enjoy the sneak preview and looking forward to your feedback.