Graceful Degradation vs. Progressive Enhancement
Browsers or Content
I’ll admit it: I came from a world and a time where some of my first experiences designing for the web were soured by having to tweak my oh-so-perfect layout to “dumb it down” for older browsers. I’d get so frustrated that those using said browsers wouldn’t get a chance to behold my amazing layout skillz and lament the various made-up reasons why everyone couldn’t just use insert latest browser magic here.
So what is the solution to this seemingly intuitive but ultimately mistaken approach to building sites?
Content-first
Our sites, designs, apps, whatever, are nothing if not content-based, or content-driven. These are sites that move, change, or display content. This is the fundamental reason for the site’s existence and should be at the core of how a site is built.
Solving the dilemma of broswer-issues doesn’t start with worrying about browsers. It starts...