Articles Tagged progressive enhancement

It's cool to see progressive enhancement being done even while using the fanciest of the fancy front-end technologies.

This is a button in a JSX React component that has a click handler applied directly to it that fires a data mutation Ajax request through Apollo GraphQL. That is about the least friendly environment for progressive enhancement I can imagine.

Hugo Giraudel writes that they do server-side rendering already, so the next tricky part is the click handler. Without JavaScript, the … Read article

I'm very excited this feature is ready for y'all. You can take any <pre></pre> block of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (or any combination of them) and enhance it into an embed, meaning you can see the rendered output. Very progressive enhancement friendly! It also lets you pass in stuff like external resources, making it a great choice for, say, documentation sites or the like. … Read article

Sally Jenkinson:

Progressive Web Apps (sometimes referred to as PWAs, because everything in tech needs an acronym) is the encapsulating term for websites following a certain approach, that meet particular technical criteria. The "app" involvement in the name isn’t an accident – these creations share much of the functionality that you’ll find in native experiences – but really, they're just websites.

It's like if you build a website that is so damn good, you get to have a home … Read article

Nice tutorial from Michael Scharnagl in which he takes a perfectly-functional comment form and progressively enhances it with very nice features. Things like custom error messaging, auto-expanding height, and even really fancy stuff like ajax and offline submission. … Read article

Nolan Lawson:

I had a slide in my talk that read:

In 2016, it’s okay to build a website that doesn’t work without JavaScript.

The condemnation was as swift as it was vocal.

Response by Jeremy Keith:

That framing makes it sound like it’s a binary choice: either the website works or it doesn’t. That’s not what I’m suggesting. I’m advocating that the core functionality of a website (which can be as simple as reading some text) should be available

CSS Shapes is like the perfect example for progressive enhancement these days. Kinda like border-radius was. Older browsers have square corners! Who cares! CSS Shapes allow you to wrap text irregularly - like along the path of a circle().

Eric Meyer uses it on a production page and shows how it works. Here's some code I snagged from the CSS on the site itself showing it only being applied on large screens with support:

@media only screen and (min-width: