The responsive images problem
A run-down of the various approaches to the responsive images problem, concluding that this is something that needs to be solved in the image format.
Tags: progressive
Responsive image format - blog
An idea for handling responsive images not with a new format, but with an existing one: progressive JPGs.
Nicholas Zakas: Progressive Enhancement 2.0 - YouTube
A great talk by Nicholas on what progressive enhancement means today. There’s some good ammunition in here.
Content Parity | Brad Frost Web
Yet another great post from Brad:
Whenever I think of the concept of “One Web” and providing universal access to information on the web, I tend to break it down into something much simpler: give people what they ask for.
Excessive Enhancement - SXSW2012 // Speaker Deck
The slides from Phil’s excellent South by Southwest presentation on URLs, JavaScript, and progressive enhancement.
Browser Support? Forget It! – David Bushell – Web Design
A great post that discusses exactly what we mean when we talk about “supporting” different browsers.
deCSS3 - a bookmarklet for graceful degradation.
This is really handy: a bookmarklet that will disable any CSS3 on a page so you can check that your fallbacks look okay.
A plea for progressive enhancement | Stephanie Rieger
Yes! Yes! Yes!!!
Progressive enhancement is the only sane approach to today’s massively divergent landscape of devices. It can’t be repeated often enough.
The Mobile Case for Progressive Enhancement | Brad Frost Web
A great, great reminder from Brad on the importance of progressive enhancement especially on mobile. There seems to be a real mindset amongst developers working on mobile sites that JavaScript is a requirement for building anything (and there’s a corresponding frustration with the wildly-varying levels of JavaScript support). It ain’t necessarily so!
Full Fucking Service, Reckless web development practices are encouraging idiots
I wholeheartedly agree with this summation of what professional web design and development entails.
Bagchecking in the Command Line | Bagcheck
This is a fascinating take on progressive enhancement from Luke: for a service-based site, the equivalent of Content First is API first …literally a command line interface as a baseline.
LONDON WEB - Sept 2010 - The Progressive Web - Andy Hume on Vimeo
A great presentation by Andy on the use of progressive enhancement at Clearleft.
Stop! You are doing mobile wrong! | Metal Toad Media
An excellent summation of the responsive enhancement approach to web development.
Unobtrusify.com - Unobtrusive Javascript for Progressive Enhancement
A simple and powerful message, beautifully delivered (itself an example of unobtrusive JavaScript). Bravo, Phil Hawksworth!
Five CSS design browser differences I can live with | For A Beautiful Web
A great article by Malarkey wherein he lists five examples of progressive enrichment (as Dan is wont to call it) complete with side-by-side comparisons. Useful ammo, this.
Progressive Layout
Using JavaScript to serve up fixed or liquid layout based on browser width.