Chapter 6. Crafting a Continuum
“The web’s greatest strength, I believe, is often seen as a limitation, as a defect. It is the nature of the web to be flexible, and it should be our role as designers and developers to embrace this flexibility, and produce pages which, by being flexible, are accessible to all.”
—JOHN ALLSOPP
As you’ve seen over the course of the previous chapters, not only does progressive enhancement enable more users to access your website, it can also make the development process much easier on you. It all starts by shifting the way you view experience.
When you see experience as a single thing, you devote all your effort toward realizing that one single experience. With such laser-focus on that one goal, it’s easy to lose ...
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