Don’t judge a book by its cover
Some neat CSS from Tess that’s a great example of progressive enhancement; these book covers look good in all browsers, but they look even better in some.
Stop Breaking the Web
Angry, but true.
Don’t lock yourself into a comprehensive technology that may just die within the next few months and leave you stranded. With progressive enhancement you’ll never go wrong. Progressive enhancement means your code will always work, because you’ll always focus on providing a minimal experience first, and then adding features, functionality, and behavior on top of the content.
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Software can be finished - Ross Wintle
There’s quite a crossover between resilience and longevity:
- Understand the requirements
- Keep scope small and fixed
- Reduce dependencies
- Produce static output
- Increase Quality Assurance
Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes — Smashing Magazine
There’s really good browser support for display-mode media queries and this article does a really good job of running through some of the use cases for your progressive web app.
Request for developer feedback: customizable select | Blog | Chrome for Developers
I’m very glad to see that work has moved away from a separate selectmenu element to instead enhancing the existing select element—I could never see an upgrade path for selectmenu, but now there are plenty of opportunities for progressive enhancement.
Futuristic Progressive Enhancement - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
We’re all tired of: write some code, come back to it in six months, try to make it do more, and find the whole project is broken until you upgrade everything.
Progressive enhancement allows you to do the opposite: write some code, come back to it in six months, and it’s doing more than the day you wrote it!
Related posts
Aleth Gueguen is speaking at Web Day Out
Progressive web apps from the trenches.
Going Offline is online …for free
Read the book I wrote about service workers. It’s all yours.
Applying the four principles of accessibility
Here’s how I interpret the top-level guidance in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Hanging punctuation in CSS
A little fix for Safari.
Web notifications on iOS
The number one feature request I have for mobile Safari is web notifications (even if I won’t personally use them).