Chapter 2. Progressive Enhancement with HTML5 and CSS3

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When we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.

—Goethe

Progressive Enhancement with HTML5 and CSS3

Back in the 1990s, it was common for the front page of a website to inform visitors that it was “best viewed” in a particular browser. Designers often gave up trying to reconcile incompatible differences between Internet Explorer (IE) and Netscape. If you weren’t using the recommended browser, that was just your hard luck. When IE eventually emerged as the victor in the browser wars, many designers breathed a sigh of relief and designed ...

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