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Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement, Second Edition
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Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement, Second Edition

by Aaron Gustafson
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
264 pages
5h 49m
English
New Riders
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Chapter 5. Interaction Is an Enhancement

“The Web is the most hostile software engineering environment imaginable.”

—DOUGLAS CROCKFORD

In February 2011, shortly after Gawker Media launched a unified redesign of its various properties (Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Jezebel, etc.), users visiting those sites were greeted by a blank stare (Figure 5.1). Not a single one displayed any content. What happened? JavaScript happened. Or, more accurately, JavaScript didn’t happen.1

1 http://perma.cc/B7KR-HWLM

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Figure 5.1 Lifehacker during the JavaScript incident of 2011.

In architecting its new platform, Gawker Media had embraced JavaScript as the delivery mechanism ...

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