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."
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"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."