Progressive Enhancement - Entwicklung des Designs in Schichten, ausgehend vom Inhalt. "Oberhalb" des Inhalts gibt es ein Präsentationslayer (CSS), darüber ein Layer mit Client-seitigem Scripting (JavaScript). Gegenbegrif zu "graceful degradation". Beginn einer dreiteiligen Serie in A List Apart
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"Are other popular sites reducing the amount of design and clutter in their user interaces, allowing the user to focus on the story? Are they using well-placed calls to action in their user interfaces that encourage engagement without causing distraction?"
"I wrote some time back about progressive enhancement with Ajax. It’s a very simple idea: 1. First, build an old-fashioned website that uses hyperlinks and forms to pass information to the server. The server returns whole new pages with each request. 2. Now, use JavaScript to intercept those links and form submissions and pass the information via XMLHttpRequest instead. You can then select which parts of the page need to be updated instead of updating the whole page." I’ve even got a nice shiny buzzword for this technique: Hijax.
Was ist "progressive enhancement" ? - Links zu relevanten Hacks und Ressourcen "Rather than hoping for graceful degradation, PE builds documents for the least capable or differently capable devices first, then moves on to enhance those documents with separate logic for presentation, in ways that don't place an undue burden on baseline devices but which allow a richer experience for those users with modern graphical browser software."
"Anne Balsamo's work focuses on the relationship between the culture and technology. This focus informs her practice as a scholar, researcher, new media designer, and entrepreneur"
"IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany. ... New: We have added an Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Rendering Engine."
"On article pages the sidecolumn is nothing but noise that makes it hard to focus on the text. On overview pages of course a coulumn layout can make sense."
"Enabling people to find the specific information they require amongst the hundreds and thousands of other pieces of content available on a site can be a difficult task."
"Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field. Indeed the renowned typographer Hermann Zapf proclaims the book to be "a must for everybody in the graphic arts, and especially for our new friends entering the field." In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, I have structured this website to step through Bringhurst’s working principles, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in HTML and CSS. The future is considered with coverage of CSS3, and practicality is ever present with workarounds, alternatives and compromises for less able browsers. At the time of writing, this is a work in progress. I am adding to the site in the order presented in Bringhurst’s book, one principle at a time. You can subscribe to an RSS feed for notification of new additions."
"Of course, having only a single column is nothing new, but this time, single-column designs are created by people that care about design (i.e. people whose jeans have the current holes/rips/bleaching/coffee stains/whatever.)"
"Graceful degradation prioritizes presentation, and permits less widely-used browsers to receive less (and give less to the user). Progressive enhancement puts content at the center, and allows most browsers to receive more (and show more to the user). While close in meaning, progressive enhancement is a healthier and more forward-looking approach. Progressive enhancement is a core concept of Graded Browser Support."
"In the desktop space we’ve had decades of evolving user interface best practices that work reasonably well across platforms and browsers. In the device space, many of those bets are off due to their drastically different nature."