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May 7, 2008
The seven rules of pragmatic progressive enhancement - a brown bag presentation
Last week I went to AKQA in London to give a brown-bag presentation on progressive enhancement.
I took this chance to vent some of my ideas on the subject and counteract some of the criticisms I heard about the need for enhancing web solutions progressively.
I've come up with the following "Seven rules of progressive enhancement":
- Separate as much as possible
- Build on things that work
- Generate dependent markup
- Test for everything before you apply it
- Explore the environment
- Load on demand
- Modularize code
I've explained them in further detail in the slides available on slideshare:
Furthermore I put some more information in an article on the subject: Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement.
The article is licensed with creative commons, so you are very much invited to use and remix it to your needs.
Chris Heilmann
Yahoo Developer Network
Posted at May 7, 2008 1:19 PM
Comments
Thanks again for coming in to deliver this presentation, Chris. You've set a lot of brains whirring around the office...
Den (AKQA)
Posted by: Den Odell at May 8, 2008 1:41 AM
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