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Controlling Your Design on the Web, Part 2: Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation

By kzurawel | Published: November 15, 2009
To continue yesterday’s talk about graded browser support, let’s take a look at the techniques that make the “A-grade” / “C-grade” distinction possible: progressive enhancement (PE) and graceful degradation (GD). These two work at the same problem – the fact that different browsers and devices have different levels of support for web technologies – from [...]
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Controlling Your Design on the Web, Part 1: Browser Grading

By kzurawel | Published: November 13, 2009
Designers generally like to have control over all aspects of a design – colors, layout, imagery, fonts, the list goes on and on. Part of what makes designing for the Web so frustrating, then, is that there is so little that the designer can directly control. There are an endless combination of browsers, browser versions, [...]
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