Adam Silver In defence of graceful degradation and where progressive enhancement comes in
Interesting explanation about graceful degradation not being the opposite of progressive enhancement.
Graceful degradation is an integral part of designing resilient, fault-tolerant systems.
Despite the common narrative, graceful degradation is not in competition with progressive enhancement—it’s simply an approach that makes JavaScript degrade gracefully, like HTML and CSS do by default.
Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement have the same objective—to create robust, accessible and broad-reaching solutions that work for everyone no matter their choice of browser.
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older link:
The CSS Cascade, or how browsers resolve competing CSS styles -
newer link:
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