Dispatches From The Internets

Progressive enhancement and team memberships

Iris Faraway discusses progressively enhancing a feature for the University of Bath. It’s a simple, straightforward example of how to create a universal baseline and improve (dramatically) on the experience using JavaScript.

Resilient Web Design

Jeremy Keith’s latest book. Free to read on any device you own. Installable as a progressive web app too (naturally).

[Insert Clickbait Headline About Progressive Enhancement Here]

Late last week, Josh Korr, a project manager at Viget, posted at length about what he sees as a fundamental flaw with the argument for progressive enhancement. In reading the post, it became clear to me that Josh really doesn’t have a good grasp on progressive enhancement or the reasons its proponents think it’s a good philosophy to follow. Despite claiming to be “an expert at spotting fuzzy rhetoric and teasing out what’s really being said”, Josh makes a lot of false assumptions and inferences. My response would not have fit in a comment, so here it is…

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Les défis du “progressive enhancement”

This is a nice overview (in French) of how Hopwork handles progressive enhancement in their SaaS product. Their back-end is Java too. It’s nice to see folks talking about how to progressively enhance products in that language; we don’t hear about that often enough.