Contents tagged “progressive enhancement”
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as the device landscape continues to converge, the categorizations will continue to blur. And as you introduce more interactivity and complex features to your site, the singular approach starts to break down.
Great article where Hugo shows how React helps providing N26 clients the features they're looking for even if they unfortunately have JavaScript issues.
The layered approach of progressive enhancement echoes the separation of concerns in the front-end stack: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—each layer expressing more power. But while these concepts are related, they’re not interchangable. Separating out the layers of your tech stack isn’t necessarily progressive enhancement. If you have some HTML that relies on JavaScript to be useful, then there’s no benefit in separating that HTML into a separate payload. The HTML that you initially send down the wire needs to be functional (at least at a basic level) before the JavaScript arrives.
In defence of graceful degradation and where progressive enhancement comes in
Interesting explanation about graceful degradation not being the opposite of progressive enhancement.
If you don't understand why CSS is one of the great strengths of the Web, even if you've been using it for a while, you really have to spend these 15 minutes to watch Miriam Suzanne explain how it came to be, and why it is what it is.
The power of progressive enhancement
Here's another nice take about progressive enhancement, where Andy Bell explains how he developed My Browser, a nice tool for support.
Publishing a draft originally written in 2015, Remy shows Progressive Enhancement is still a strong topic all developers should understand and work on:
On the importance of testing with content blockers
To build good websites, I think we should prioritise working websites above gathering potentially useful data (if doing that at all). As developers, we should keep in mind trackers could get blocked and, consequently, never rely on their availability.
If you’re going to build an image loader that hides the whole page until all images are ready, you must also ask yourself what if the images don’t arrive?
Awesome post about progressive enhancement:
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