Progressive Enhancement is dead

It means developing websites for the lowest common denominator and then adding bells and whistles. This often means designing for IE7 (or IE6 in the worst case). That is neither efficient nor what anyone who likes modern web design likes. Design for the best browser available, use the latest and greatest techniques and degrade gracefully from there on. Don’t be shy and add JavaScript workarounds for bad browsers.

Progressive enhancement was right when the minority of browsers was not good in new techniques (and it may be still the right thing to do in particular contexts), but it should be the second option, graceful degradation should always be the first principle.

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  1. yatil posted this